title: César Award for Best Film from the European Union
text: # 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
  