The following is a list of the European Film Award winners of various special awards:
| Year | Award | Recipient | Work | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Special Jury Award | for The Last Emperor | — | |
| for music in The Days of Eclipse | — | |||
| 1989 |  Bertrand Tavernier | for Life and Nothing But | — | |
 Giuseppe Tornatore | for Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | — | ||
| Special Mention | to the creative spirit of the new films coming from Sarajevo | — | — | |
| 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 |
| Special Jury Award II |  Thaddeus O'Sullivan (director)  Jonathan Cavendish (producer) | for December Bride | — | |
| European Cinema Society Special Award | Association of Filmmakers of the USSR | — | — | |
| 1991 | La Quinzaine Des Realisateurs | — | — | |
| 1992 | European Film Academy Award of Merit | Museum of the Moving Image (London) | — | — |
| 1993 |  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 |