European Film Award for Best Composer

The European Film Award for Best Composer is one of the awards presented by the European Film Academy. It was first presented as a Special Jury Award in 1998 received by Yuri Khanon for the music of Days of Eclipse. A set of nominees was presented from 1989 to 1990 and from 2004 and 2012. Since 2013, only one winner is presented without nominees.

European Film Award for Best Composer
Country	Europe
Presented by	European Film Academy
First award	1988
Currently held by	Frederikke Hoffmeier – The Girl with the Needle (2024)
Website	europeanfilmawards.eu

Winners and nominees

1980s

Year	Composer(s)	Film	Original title	Ref.
1988 (1st)	Special Jury Award for Best Music			[1]
	Yuri Khanon	Days of Eclipse	Дни затмения
	Nomination for Special Aspect Award
	Terence Davies	Distant Voices, Still Lives
1989 (2nd)	Andrew Dickson	High Hopes
	Goran Bregovic	Kuduz
	Ferenc Darvas	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó
	Michał Lorenc	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba
	Maggie Parke Gast Waltzing	A Wopbopaloobop A Lopbamboom

1990s

Year	Composer(s)	Film	Original title	Ref.
1990 (3rd)	No awards given
	Jean-Luc Godard	New Wave	Nouvelle Vague
	Jean-Claude Petit	Cyrano de Bergerac
	Jürgen Knieper	December Bride	Dezemberbraut
1991 (4th)	Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson	Children of Nature	Börn náttúrunnar
1992 (5th)	Vincent van Warmerdam	The Northerners	De Noorderlingen	[2]

2000s

Year	Composer(s)	Film	Original title	Ref.
2004 (17th)	Bruno Coulais	The Chorus	Les Choristes	[3]
	Alexandre Desplat	Girl with a Pearl Earring
	The Free Association	Code 46
	Alberto Iglesias	Bad Education Take My Eyes	La Mala Educación Te doy mis ojos
	Eleni Karaindrou	Trilogy: The Weaping Meadow	Trilogia: To livadi pou dakrizei
	Stephen Warbeck	The Alzheimer Case	De Zaak Alzheimer
2005 (18th)	Rupert Gregson-Williams Andrea Guerra	Hotel Rwanda		[4]
	Joachim Holbek	Manderlay
	Cyril Morin	The Syrian Bride	הכלה הסורית / Ha-Kala Ha-Surit
	Ennio Morricone	Fateless	Sorstanság
	Stefan Nilsson	As It Is in Heaven	Så som i himmelen
	Johan Söderqvist	Brothers	Brødre
2006 (19th)	Alberto Iglesias	Volver		[5]
	Tuomas Kantelinen	Mother of Mine	Äideistä parhain
	Dario Marianelli	Pride & Prejudice
	Gabriel Yared Stéphane Moucha	The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen
2007 (20th)	Alexandre Desplat	The Queen		[6]
	Alex Heffes	The Last King of Scotland
	Dejan Pejović	Gucha	Гуча!
	Tom Tykwer Johnny Klimek Reinhold Heil	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	Das Parfum – Die Geschichte eines Mörders
2008 (21st)	Max Richter	Waltz with Bashir	ואלס עם באשיר	[7]
	Tuur Florizoone	Moscow, Belgium	Aanrijding in Moscou
	Dario Marianelli	Atonement
	Fernando Velázquez	The Orphanage	El orfanato
2009 (22nd)	Alberto Iglesias	Broken Embraces	Los abrazos rotos	[8]
	Alexandre Desplat	Coco avant Chanel	Coco avant Chanel
	Jacob Groth	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Män som hatar kvinnor
	Johan Söderqvist	Let the Right One In	Låt den rätte komma in

2010s

Year	Composer(s)	Film	Original title	Ref.
2010 (23rd)	Alexandre Desplat	The Ghost Writer		[9] [10]
	Ales Brezina	Kawasaki's Rose	Kawasakiho růže
	Pasquale Catalano	Loose Cannons	Mine vaganti
	Gary Yershon	Another Year
2011 (24th)	Ludovic Bource	The Artist		[11] [12]
	Alexandre Desplat	The King's Speech
	Alberto Iglesias	The Skin I Live In	La piel que habito
	Mihály Vig	The Turin Horse	A torinói ló
2012 (25th)	Alberto Iglesias	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy		[13]
	George Fenton	The Angels' Share
	François Couturier	Shun Li and the Poet	Io sono Li
	Cyrille Aufort Gabriel Yared	A Royal Affair	En kongelig affære
2013 (26th)	Ennio Morricone	The Best Offer	La migliore offerta	[14]
2014 (27th)	Mica Levi	Under the Skin		[15]
2015 (28th)	Faris Badwan Rachel Zeffira	The Duke of Burgundy		[16]
2016 (29th)	Ilya Demutsky	The Student	Ученик	[17]
2017 (30th)	Evgueni and Sacha Galperine	Loveless	Нелюбовь	[18]
2018 (31st)	Christoph M. Kaiser Julian Maas	3 Days in Quiberon	3 Tage in Quiberon	[19]
2019 (32nd)	John Gürtler	System Crasher	Systemsprenger	[20]

2020s

Year	Composer(s)	Film	Original title	Ref.
2020 (33rd)	Dascha Dauenhauer	Berlin Alexanderplatz		[21]
2021 (34th)	Nils Petter Molvær Peter Brötzmann	Great Freedom	Große Freiheit	[22]
2022 (35th)	Paweł Mykietyn	EO	IO	[23]
2023 (36th)	Markus Binder	Club Zero
2024 (37th)	Frederikke Hoffmeier	The Girl with the Needle	Pigen med nålen	[24]

See also

• Academy Award for Best Original Score
• BAFTA Award for Best Original Music
• Cannes Soundtrack Award
• César Award for Best Original Music
• Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
• Goya Award for Best Original Score
• Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media