The following is a list of theEuropean Film Award winners for Lifetime Achievement:
| Year | Lifetime Achievement Award | Award of Merit Special Achievement Award | Honorary Award of the EFA President and Board |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | ♂ Ingmar Bergman | ♂ Richard Attenborough | |
♂ Marcello Mastroianni | |||
| 1989 | ♂Federico Fellini | ||
| 1990 | ♂ Andrzej Wajda | ||
| 1991 | ♂ / Alexandre Trauner | ||
| 1992 | ♂/ Billy Wilder | ||
| 1993 | ♂Michelangelo Antonioni | ||
| 1994 | ♂Robert Bresson | ||
| 1995 | ♂Marcel Carné | ||
| 1996 | ♂Alec Guinness | ||
| 1997 | ♀Jeanne Moreau | ||
| 1998 | ♂Jeremy Irons | ||
| 1999 | ♂Ennio Morricone | ||
| 2000 | ♂ Richard Harris | ||
| 2001 | ♂Monty Python | ||
| 2002 | ♂Tonino Guerra | ||
| 2003 | ♂Claude Chabrol | ||
| 2004 | ♂ Carlos Saura | ||
| 2005 | ♂Sean Connery | ||
| 2006 | ♂/Roman Polanski | ||
| 2007 | ♂Jean-Luc Godard | ♂ Manoel de Oliveira | |
| 2008 | ♀Judi Dench | ||
| 2009 | ♂Ken Loach | ||
| 2010 | ♂ Bruno Ganz | ||
| 2011 | ♂Stephen Frears | ♂Michel Piccoli | |
| 2012 | ♂Bernardo Bertolucci | ||
| 2013 | ♀Catherine Deneuve[1] | ||
| 2014 | ♀ /Agnès Varda | ||
| 2015 | ♀Charlotte Rampling[2] | ♂Michael Caine | |
| 2016 | ♂Jean-Claude Carrière[3] | ♂Andrzej Wajda | |
| 2017 | ♂ Aleksandr Sokurov | ||
| 2018 | ♀Carmen Maura | ♂ /Costa-Gavras | |
| 2019 | ♂ Werner Herzog | ||
| 2021 | ♀Márta Mészáros | ||
| 2022 | ♀Margarethe von Trotta | ||
| 2023 | ♀Vanessa Redgrave | ♂Béla Tarr | |
| 2024 | ♂Wim Wenders | ||
| 2025 | ♀ Liv Ullmann |
