27th European Film Awards
The 27th European Film Awards were presented on 13 December 2014 in Riga, Latvia. The winners were selected by more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. Nominations for the People's Choice Award category were announced on 1 September 2014.On 16 September 2014, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced a list of 50 films which qualified for nominations. All nominations were announced on 8 November 2014 at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain. British director Steve McQueen was presented with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award and filmmaker Agnès Varda was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Winners and nominees
Best Film
Best Director
Best Screenwriter
Best European Actor
Best European Actress
Best Comedy
People's Choice Award for Best European Film
Discovery of the Year
Best Animated Feature Film
The nominees were announced on 22 September 2014.| English title | Original title | Director | Animation | Production country |
| The Art of Happiness | L'arte della felicità | Alessandro Rak | Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Dario Sansone, Marino Guarnieri, Annarita Calligaris, Ivana Verze, Laura Sammati, Antonia Emanuela Angrisani, Corrado Piscitelli, Flavio Di Biase, Giorgio Siravo, Sergio Chimenti, Ilaria Jones, Antonio Funaro, Danilo Florio, Mirko Prota, Alberto Panico, Paolo Acampora, Marco Iannaccone |  |
| Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart | Jack et la mécanique du cœur | Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu | Nicolette Ceccoli, Stéphane Martine, Robert Cepo |   |
| Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues | Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo | |
Best Documentary
Best Cinematographer
Best Editor
Best Production Designer
Best Costume Designer
Best Composer
Best Sound Designer
European Co-Production Award—Prix Eurimages
European Achievement in World Cinema
Lifetime Achievement Award
Best Short Film
The nominees for Best Short Film were selected by independent juries at a series of film festivals throughout Europe.| English title | Original title | Director | Country | Nominating Festival |
| The Chicken | Una Gunjak |   | Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival | |
| Emergency Calls | Hätäkutsu | Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen |  | Sarajevo Film Festival |
| Shipwreck | Morgan Knibbe |  | Locarno Film Festival | |
| A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log | Panique au Village: La Bûche de Noël | Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier | | Vila do Conde Film Festival |
| Dinola | დინოლა | Mariam Khatchvani |  | Grimstad Film Festival |
| Summer 2014 | Lato 2014 | Wojciech Sobczyk |  | Kraków Film Festival |
| Wall | Fal | Simon Szabó |  | Tampere Film Festival |
| Taprobana | Gabriel Abrantes |    | Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Pride | Pavel Vesnakov |  | Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival | |
| The Chimera of M. | Sebastian Buerkner |  | International Film Festival Rotterdam | |
| Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea | Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar | Jorge Lopez Navarette |  | Cork Film Festival |
| The Missing Scarf | Eoin Duffy |  | Valladolid International Film Festival | |
| Whale Valley | Hvalfjörður | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson |  | Flanders International Film Festival Ghent |
| Daily Bread | פת לחם | Idan Hubel |  | Venice Film Festival |
| Still Got Lives | Ich hab noch Auferstehung | Jan-Gerrit Seyler | | Drama International Short Film Festival |
Young Audience Award
Twelve- to fourteen-year-old audiences from across Europe voted for the winner after watching the three nominated films at special screenings held on "Young Audience Film Day".| English title | Original title | Director | Writers | Production country |
| Regret! | Spijt! | Dave Schram | Maria Peters, Dick van den Heuvel | |
| The Contest: To the Stars and Back | MGP missionen | Martin Miehe-Renard | Gitte Løkkegaard, Martin Miehe-Renard | |
| Windstorm | Ostwind - Zusammen sind wir frei | Katja von Garnier | Kristina Magdalena Henn, Lea Schmidbauer | |