César Award for Best Film from the European Union
# César Award for Best Film from the European Union

This is a list of the winners of and nominees for the César Award for Best Film from the European Union (Meilleur film de l'Union Européenne). The prize was awarded three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and was subsequently discontinued. In 2005, two films were honoured.

A film qualified for the prize if it was shown at least seven days in a public cinema in the region of Paris between 1 January and 31 December of the previous year.

## Winners and nominees

### 2000s

2003 Talk to Her (Hable con ella), Spain, directed by Pedro Almodóvar

    11'9"01 September 11, inter alia UK/France/USA/Iran, directed by inter alia Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, and Alejandro González Iñárritu
    Gosford Park, UK, directed by Robert Altman
    The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä), Finland, directed by Aki Kaurismäki
    Sweet Sixteen, UK, directed by Ken Loach

2004 Good Bye, Lenin!, Germany, directed by Wolfgang Becker

    Dogville, Denmark, directed by Lars von Trier
    The Magdalene Sisters, UK/Ireland, directed by Peter Mullan
    The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù), Italy, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
    Respiro, Italy/France, directed by Emanuele Crialese

2005 Ae Fond Kiss..., UK/Belgium/Germany/Italy/Spain, directed by Ken Loach Life Is a Miracle (Život je čudo), Serbia/France, directed by Emir Kusturica

    Bad Education (La mala educación), Spain, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
    Mondovino, Argentina/France/Italy/USA, directed by Jonathan Nossiter
    Saraband, Sweden, directed by Ingmar Bergman
