European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

The following is a list of the European Film Award winners for Lifetime Achievement:

Winners

Year	Lifetime Achievement Award	Award of Merit Special Achievement Award	Honorary Award of the EFA President and Board
1988	♂ Ingmar Bergman	♂ Richard Attenborough
1988	♂ Marcello Mastroianni	♂ Richard Attenborough
1989	♂ Federico Fellini
1990	♂ Andrzej Wajda
1991	♂ / Alexandre Trauner
1992	♂ / Billy Wilder
1993	♂ Michelangelo Antonioni
1994	♂ Robert Bresson
1995	♂ Marcel Carné
1996	♂ Alec Guinness
1997	♀ Jeanne Moreau
1998		♂ Jeremy Irons
1999	♂ Ennio Morricone
2000	♂ Richard Harris
2001	♂ Monty Python
2002	♂ Tonino Guerra
2003	♂ Claude Chabrol
2004	♂ Carlos Saura
2005	♂ Sean Connery
2006	♂ / Roman Polanski
2007	♂ Jean-Luc Godard		♂ Manoel de Oliveira
2008	♀ Judi Dench
2009	♂ Ken Loach
2010	♂ Bruno Ganz
2011	♂ Stephen Frears		♂ Michel Piccoli
2012	♂ Bernardo Bertolucci
2013	♀ Catherine Deneuve^[1]
2014	♀ / Agnès Varda
2015	♀ Charlotte Rampling^[2]		♂ Michael Caine
2016	♂ Jean-Claude Carrière^[3]		♂ Andrzej Wajda
2017	♂ Aleksandr Sokurov
2018	♀ Carmen Maura		♂ / Costa-Gavras
2019	♂ Werner Herzog
2021	♀ Márta Mészáros
2022	♀ Margarethe von Trotta
2023	♀ Vanessa Redgrave		♂ Béla Tarr
2024	♂ Wim Wenders

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Ceremonies	Berlin 1988 Paris 1989 Glasgow 1990 Potsdam 1991 Potsdam 1992 Potsdam 1993 Berlin 1994 Berlin 1995 Berlin 1996 Berlin 1997 London 1998 Berlin 1999 Paris 2000 Berlin 2001 Rome 2002 Berlin 2003 Barcelona 2004 Berlin 2005 Warsaw 2006 Berlin 2007 Copenhagen 2008 Bochum 2009 Tallinn 2010 Berlin 2011 Valletta 2012 Berlin 2013 Riga 2014 Berlin 2015 Wrocław 2016 Berlin 2017 Seville 2018 Berlin 2019 Online 2020 Berlin 2021 Reykjavík 2022 Berlin 2023 Lucerne 2024
Merit awards	Film Director Actor Actress Screenplay Animated Feature Film Documentary Film Short Film Discovery of the Year Achievement in Fiction Series Comedy Cinematography Costume Design Editing Makeup and Hairstyling Original Score Production Design Sound Visual Effects
Special awards	Achievement in World Cinema Award Eurimages Award Lifetime Achievement Award Lux Award Young Audience Award University Film Award
Defunct awards	FIPRESCI Award Outstanding Technical Contribution Non-European Film Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Young Performer People's Choice Award for Best Actor People's Choice Award for Best Actress
Countries of the nominees	Albanian Austrian Belgian Bosnian Croatian Czech Georgian Kazakhstani Luxembourgian Polish Romanian Serbian Slovak Tajikistani Turkish Ukrainian Soviet
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v t e European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
Ingmar Bergman (1988) Marcello Mastroianni (1988) Federico Fellini (1989) Andrzej Wajda (1990) Alexandre Trauner (1991) Billy Wilder (1992) Michelangelo Antonioni (1993) Robert Bresson (1994) Marcel Carné (1995) Alec Guinness (1996) Jeanne Moreau (1997) Ennio Morricone (1999) Richard Harris (2000) Monty Python (2001) Tonino Guerra (2002) Claude Chabrol (2003) Carlos Saura (2004) Sean Connery (2005) Roman Polanski (2006) Jean-Luc Godard (2007) Judi Dench (2008) Ken Loach (2009) Bruno Ganz (2010) Stephen Frears (2011) Bernardo Bertolucci (2012) Catherine Deneuve (2013) Agnès Varda (2014) Charlotte Rampling (2015) Jean-Claude Carrière (2016) Alexander Sokurov (2017) Carmen Maura (2018) Werner Herzog (2019) Márta Mészáros (2021) Margarethe von Trotta (2022) Vanessa Redgrave (2023) Wim Wenders (2024)
Award of Merit (Special Achievement Award)	Richard Attenborough (1988) Jeremy Irons (1998)
Honorary Award	Manoel de Oliveira (2007) Michel Piccoli (2011) Michael Caine (2015) Andrzej Wajda (2016) Costa-Gavras (2018)