Winners and nominees 1988 – 1992

Year	Composer(s)	English title	Original title	Country
Award 1988 European Film Awards 1988 -Best European Film: A Short Film About Killing Goodbye Children The Animated Forest Distant Voices, Still Lives Wings of Desire Jacob Pelle the Conqueror -Best European Director: Wim Wenders - Wings of Desire Terence...	Yuri Khanon Yuri Khanon Yuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov , a Russian composer. Prior to 1993, he wrote under a pen name Yuri Khanin, but later transformed it into Yuri Khanon, spelling it in a pre-1918 Russian style as ХанонЪ. Khanon was born on Juny 16, 1965 in Leningrad...	Days of Eclipse Days of Eclipse Days of Eclipse is a 1988 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. Screenplay written by Yuri Arabov and Pyotr Kadochnikov based on a screenplay by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky and very loosely based on their novel Definitely Maybe...	Dni zatmenia (Special Jury Award for Best Music)	Soviet Union
	Terence Davies	Distant Voices, Still Lives Distant Voices, Still Lives Distant Voices, Still Lives is a 1988 British film directed and written by Terence Davies. It evokes working-class family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and early 1950s, paying particular attention to the role of popular music, Hollywood cinema, light entertainment, and the public house within...	-
Award 1989 European Film Awards 1989 -Best European Actor: Philippe Noiret - Cinema Paradiso and Life and Nothing But Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown Davor Dujmovic - Time of the Gypsies Károly Eperjes - The Midas Touch Jozef Króner - Thou, Which Art in Heaven -Best European...	Andrew Dickson	High Hopes	-
	Goran Bregovic Goran Bregovic Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...	Kuduz Kuduz Kuduz is a 1989 film, set in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina written by Abdullah Sidran and Ademir Kenović, who also directed the film. It was nominated for three European Film Awards in 1989: Best Young Film, Best Actress , and Best Composer...	-	Kingdom of Yugoslavia
	Ferenc Darvas	The Midas Touch The Midas Touch The Midas Touch is a 1940 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Barry K. Barnes, Judy Kelly, Frank Cellier and Bertha Belmore.-Cast:* Barry K...	Eldorádó	Hungary
	Michał Lorenc Michał Lorenc Michał Lorenc is one of Poland's leading film score composers, best known for his work on Bastard . Since his debut in 1979, he has composed music for more than 150 feature films, documentaries, tv-serials and theatre performances. He won five Golden Lions, Polish Film Festival Awards, for best...	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba	Poland
	Maggie Parke & Gast Waltzing Gast Waltzing Gaston Waltzing is a Luxembourg trumpeter and composer. He has created several jazz bands including Largo and the Luxembourg National Jazz Orchestra and has composed music for films and television programmes as well as operas combining classical music with jazz and rock.-Biography:Born in...	A Wopbopaloobop A Lopbamboom	-	West Germany
Award 1990	- no award was given in this category -
	Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....	New Wave Nouvelle Vague (film) Nouvelle Vague is a 1990 film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It follows the story of hitchiker Lennox credited as "Lui" , taken in by a wealthy industrialist, Elena Torlato-Favrini or "Elle" , played by Domiziana Giordano.The film was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film...	Nouvelle Vague	France
	Jean-Claude Petit Jean-Claude Petit Jean-Claude Petit is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint...	Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film) Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French-language film based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand. It was directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean-Paul Rappeneau. The English subtitles use Anthony Burgess's translation of the text, which preserves the...	Cyrano de Bergerac	France
	Jürgen Knieper	December Bride December Bride (film) December Bride is a film produced in Ireland in 1990 and released on 29 November 1991. It stars Saskia Reeves as the title character, with Donal McCann and Ciarán Hinds as the brothers who become her lovers in a conservative rural part of Ulster...	Dezemberbraut	Germany
Award 1991	Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson , also known as HÖH , is a musician, an art director, and allsherjargoði of Ásatrúarfélagið ....	Children of Nature Children of Nature Children of Nature is a 1991 Icelandic film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. A man becomes too old to run his farm and he is made unwelcome in his daughter and son-in-law's urban dwelling. Dumped in a home for the elderly, he meets an old girlfriend from his youth, and they elope to the wilds...	Börn náttúrunnar	Iceland
Award 1992	Vincent van Warmerdam	The Northerners	De Noorderlingen	Denmark
Award 1993 – 2003	- not awarded -

Winners and nominees 2004 – 2010

Year	Composer(s)	English title	Original title	Country
Award 2004	Bruno Coulais Bruno Coulais Bruno Coulais is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. He recently composed the score for the animated film, The Secret of Kells, released 12 March 2010.- Life and career :...	The Chorus The Chorus (2004 film) The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...	Les Choristes	France
	Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer. He has received four Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, winning a Golden Globe for his work on The Painted Veil in 2006, and two Grammy nominations. In 2011, Desplat won his first British...	Girl with a Pearl Earring Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Cillian Murphy. The film is named after a painting of the same...	-	France
	The Free Association	Code 46 Code 46 Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, with screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films. It is a disquieting science fiction love story with themes that explore the moral impacts of advances in biotechnology. The soundtrack was...	-
	Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi is a Spanish composer. He wrote the music for several Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar...	Bad Education Bad Education Bad Education is a 2004 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Lluís Homar. The plot is about two reunited childhood friends in the vein of a murder mystery... & Take My Eyes	La mala educación + Te doy mis ojos	Spain
	Eleni Karaindrou Eleni Karaindrou Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in Teichio. She studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion in Athens. She is best known for scoring the films of Theo Angelopoulos...	-	Trilogia: To livadi pou dakrizei	Greece
	Stephen Warbeck Stephen Warbeck Stephen Warbeck is an English composer, best known for his film and television scores.Warbeck was born in Southampton. He first became known for the music for Prime Suspect and won an Academy Award for his score for Shakespeare in Love...	The Alzheimer Case The Alzheimer Case The Alzheimer Case is a 2003 film directed by Erik Van Looy, based on the novel De Zaak Alzheimer by Jef Geeraerts....	De Zaak Alzheimer	Denmark
Award 2005	Rupert Gregson-Williams Rupert Gregson-Williams Rupert Gregson-Williams is an award winning British film score composer. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge choir school and Lancing College, he is the brother of multi-nominated and awarded film composer Harry Gregson-Williams and former member of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures team of... , Andrea Guerra Andrea Guerra Andrea Guerra is a former Italian footballer.-Biography:Born in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Guerra started his career at Veneto club Hellas Verona. He made his Serie A debut on 15 September 1991, against Internazionale. he substituted Marino Magrin in the 59th minutes...	Hotel Rwanda Hotel Rwanda Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events which took place in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to...	-	Italy
	Joachim Holbek	Manderlay Manderlay Manderlay is the 2005 sequel to the film Dogville. It is the second part of Lars von Trier's projected USA - Land of Opportunities trilogy. Bryce Dallas Howard replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan. The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan...	Manderlay	Denmark  Sweden
	Cyril Morin	The Syrian Bride The Syrian Bride The Syrian Bride is a 2004 film directed by Eran Riklis. The story deals with a Druze wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village...	Ha-Kala Ha-Surit	Israel
	Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...	Fateless Fateless (film) Fateless is a film directed by Lajos Koltai, released in 2005. It was based on the semi-autobiographical novel Fatelessness by the Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertész, who wrote the screenplay. It is the story of a teenage boy who is sent to concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz.Its...	Sorstanság	Germany
	Stefan Nilsson	As It Is in Heaven As It Is in Heaven As It Is in Heaven is a 2004 film directed by Kay Pollak and starring Michael Nyqvist and Frida Hallgren. It was a box office hit in Sweden and several other countries...	Så som i himmelen	Sweden
	Johan Söderqvist	Brothers	Brødre	Denmark
Award 2006	Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi is a Spanish composer. He wrote the music for several Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar...	To Return	Volver	Spain
	Tuomas Kantelinen Tuomas Kantelinen Tuomas Kantelinen is a Finnish composer. He studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Eero Hämeenniemi. He is best known for his scores for films such as Rukajärven tie, Äideistä parhain, Mindhunters and Mongol...	Mother of Mine Mother of Mine "Mother of Mine" is a song written by Bill Parkinson and made famous by a Scottish former child singing star Neil Reid who sang it on ITV's Opportunity Knocks and won the competition on 13 December 1971, singing his version of the song...	Äideistä parhain	Sweden  Finland
	Dario Marianelli Dario Marianelli Dario Marianelli is a composer of piano, orchestral, and film music. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm , Pride & Prejudice , and Atonement , the last two for which he received Oscar nominations for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score...	Pride & Prejudice Pride & Prejudice (2005 film) Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 British romance film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 1813 novel of the same name by Jane Austen and the second adaption produced by Working Title Films. It was released on September 16, 2005, in the UK and on November 11, 2005, in the...	Orgueil et Préjugés	Italy  France
	Gabriel Yared Gabriel Yared Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella...  & Stéphane Moucha	The Lives of Others The Lives of Others The Lives of Others is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film involves the monitoring of the cultural scene of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police...	Das Leben der Anderen	Germany
Award 2007 European Film Awards 2007 The 20th Annual European Film Awards took place on December 1, 2007 in Berlin, Germany-European Film of the Year: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile by Cristian Mungiu/ Auf Der Anderen Seite by Fatih Akin The Last King of Scotland by Kevin Macdonald La Môme by Olivier Dahan Persepolis by Marjane...	Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer. He has received four Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, winning a Golden Globe for his work on The Painted Veil in 2006, and two Grammy nominations. In 2011, Desplat won his first British...	The Queen The Queen (film) The Queen is a 2006 British drama film directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Helen Mirren as the title role, HM Queen Elizabeth II...	-	France
	Alex Heffes Alex Heffes Alex Heffes is a British film composer . His film scores include the BAFTA-winning Touching the Void, and Oscar-winning movies One Day in September and The Last King of Scotland....	The Last King of Scotland The Last King of Scotland (film) The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 British drama film based on Giles Foden's novel of the same name, adapted by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, and directed by Kevin Macdonald...	-
	Dejan Pejović	Guča! Guca Guča is a small town in Serbia. It is situated in the Lučani municipality, Moravica District. The population of the town is 2,022 people. Guča is a three-hour bus journey from Belgrade...	Гуча!	Serbia
	Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International .... , Johnny Klimek Johnny Klimek Johnny Klimek is an Australian film and television composer, currently based in Los Angeles. He is known by association with German filmmaker Tom Tykwer, with whom he and longtime partner Reinhold Heil have collaborated on seven films, including Run, Lola, Run and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer...  & Reinhold Heil Reinhold Heil Reinhold Heil is a composer and former member of Spliff and the Nina Hagen Band who has largely worked on film music but has produced pop music for Kim Wilde, Rosemarie Precht , and Nena...	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 German thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and written by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer. It is based on the 1985 novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille , an olfactory...	Das Parfum – Die Geschichte eines Mörders	Germany
Award 2008 European Film Awards 2008 The 21st Annual European Film Awards took place on December 6, 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark.-Best European Actor: Toni Servillo - Gomorrah and Il Divo Michael Fassbender - Hunger Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen - Flame & Citron James McAvoy - Atonement Jürgen Vogel - The Wave Elmar Wepper -...	Max Richter Max Richter Max Richter is a German-born British composer.-Biography:Richter studied composition and piano at University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music and with Luciano Berio in Florence. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus...	Waltz with Bashir Waltz with Bashir Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....	ואלס עם באשיר	Israel
	Tuur Florizoone	Moscow, Belgium Moscow, Belgium Moscow, Belgium is a 2008 Belgian film directed by Christophe Van Rompaey and written by Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem and Pat van Beirs.Moscou is the name of a neighbourhood of the Flemish city of Ghent.-Plot:...	Aanrijding in Moscou	Denmark  Belgium
	Dario Marianelli Dario Marianelli Dario Marianelli is a composer of piano, orchestral, and film music. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm , Pride & Prejudice , and Atonement , the last two for which he received Oscar nominations for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score...	Atonement Atonement (film) Atonement is a 2007 British romantic suspense war film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan. The film stars James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Saoirse Ronan. It was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006...	-	Italy  France
	Fernando Velázquez	The Orphanage The Orphanage (2007 film) The Orphanage is a 2007 Spanish-Mexican horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona. The film stars Belén Rueda as Laura, Fernando Cayo as her husband, Carlos, and Roger Príncep as their adopted son Simón. The plot centers on Laura, who returns to her childhood home, an...	El orfanato	Spain
Award 2009 European Film Awards 2009 -Best Actor: Tahar Rahim – A Prophet *Moritz Bleibtreu – The Baader Meinhof Complex *Steve Evets – Looking for Eric*David Kross – The Reader*Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire...	Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi is a Spanish composer. He wrote the music for several Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar...	Broken Embraces	Los abrazos rotos	Spain
	Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer. He has received four Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, winning a Golden Globe for his work on The Painted Veil in 2006, and two Grammy nominations. In 2011, Desplat won his first British...	Coco avant Chanel Coco avant Chanel Coco Before Chanel is a 2009 French film directed by Anne Fontaine, about the early life of the famed French fashion designer Coco Chanel....	Coco avant Chanel	France
	Jacob Groth Jacob Groth Jacob Groth is a Danish film composer. He is noted for his work with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. He composed the music for the Millennium Trilogy films...	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Män som hatar kvinnor	Sweden
	Johan Söderqvist	Let the Right One In	Låt den rätte komma in	Sweden
Award 2010 European Film Awards 2010 -Winners and nominees:The nominations for the 23rd European Film Awards were announced on 6 November at the Seville European Film Festival.-Best Film: The Ghost Writer – Roman Polanski • France/Germany/United Kingdom ...	Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer. He has received four Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, winning a Golden Globe for his work on The Painted Veil in 2006, and two Grammy nominations. In 2011, Desplat won his first British...	The Ghost Writer	Der Ghostwriter	France  Germany
	Ales Brezina	Kawasaki's Rose Kawasaki's Rose Kawasaki's Rose is a 2009 Czech drama film directed by Jan Hřebejk. The film was selected in the Czech Republic as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist...	Kawasakiho růže
	Pasquale Catalano	Loose Cannons Loose Cannons (film) Loose Cannons is a 2010 Italian film directed by Turkish-Italian film director Ferzan Özpetek.-Plot:The Cantones are a bourgeois family who own a pasta factory in Lecce in the conservative southern Italy. One of the two sons, Tommaso, returns from his studies in Rome and hopes to make the most of...	Mine vaganti	Italy
	Gary Yershon Gary Yershon Gary Yershon is an English composer.Yershon was born in London. He is one of a group of composers who have little or no concert or commercial recording career, but whose nevertheless prolific output is evidenced for the most part in UK theatre souvenir programs. Others in this group include Paddy...	Another Year	-

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