title: European Film Academy Special Awards
text: # European Film Academy Special Awards
  
  The following is a list of the European Film Award winners of various special awards:
  
  ## Winners
  
  | Year | Award | Recipient | Work | Comments |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1988 | Special Jury Award | Bernardo Bertolucci | for The Last Emperor | — |
  | 1988 | Special Jury Award | Jurij Chanin | for music in The Days of Eclipse | — |
  | 1989 | Special Jury Award | Bertrand Tavernier | for Life and Nothing But | — |
  | 1989 | Special Jury Award | Giuseppe Tornatore | for Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | — |
  | 1989 | Special Mention | to the creative spirit of the new films coming from Sarajevo | — | — |
  | 1989 | European Cinema Society Special Award | Anatole Dauman | — | — |
  | 1990 | Special Jury Award I | Gian Maria Volonté | for Open Doors | The Jury wishes to express its gratitude to Gian Maria Volonté for his genius and generosity |
  | 1990 | Special Jury Award II | Thaddeus O'Sullivan (director) Jonathan Cavendish (producer) | for December Bride | — |
  | 1990 | European Cinema Society Special Award | Association of Filmmakers of the USSR | — | — |
  | 1991 | European Cinema Society Special Award | La Quinzaine Des Realisateurs | — | — |
  | 1992 | European Film Academy Award of Merit | Museum of the Moving Image (London) | — | — |
  | 1993 | European Film Academy Award of Merit | Erika and Ulrich Gregor, Naum Kleiman The Berlin-Moscow-Connection | — | — |
  | 2020 | Innovative Storytelling | Mark Cousins | Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | the European Film Academy wishes to pay tribute to a ground-breaking documentary produced by Hopscotch Films, a 14-hour odyssey introducing the viewer to many amazing but often overlooked female auteurs of cinema |
  