| European Film Award for Best Production Designer | |
| Presenter: | European Film Academy |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Holder: | Márton Ágh – Natural Light (2021) |
| Website: | europeanfilmawards.eu |
European Film Award for Best Production Designer is an award category in the European Film Awards. The category was first presented in 1990 being award to both art directors and costume designers. At the 1st European Film Awards in 1988, two art directors were nominated Special Aspect Award with Sergej Paradshanow winning the award for Ashik Kerib.
Though the category was not presented from 2006 to 2009, four production designers received nominations for special awards with Pierre Pell and Stéphane Rozenbaum winning the Award for an Artistic Contribution for The Science of Sleep in 2006 and Uli Hanisch receiving the Prix d'Excellence for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer in 2007. A set of nominees was presented in 2005 and from 2010 to 2012, since 2013 only a winner is presented without nominees.
The winners are in a yellow background and in bold.
| Year | Production designer(s) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 (1st) | Special Aspect Award | ||
| Sergej Paradshanow | Ashik Kerib | აშიკ-ქერიბი | |
| Félix Murcia | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | |
| Year | Production designer(s) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 (3rd) [1] |  Ezio Frigerio Franca Squarciapino | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| Yuri Pashigoryev | Don't Move, Die and Rise Again | Zamri, umri, voskresni! | |
| The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | |||
| 1991 (4th) [2] | Miljen Kreka Kljakovic Valerie Pozzo Di Borgo | Delicatessen | |
| 1992 (5th) [3] | Rikke Jelier | The Northerners | De Noorderlingen |
| Year | Production designer(s) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 - 2004 | No award given | ||
| 2005 (18th) [4] [5] | Aline Bonetto | A Very Long Engagement | Un long dimanche de fiançailles |
 Peter Grant | Manderlay | ||
  Jana Karen | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage | |
| 2006 (19th) | No award given | ||
| European Film Academy Award For An Artistic Contribution | |||
| Pierre Pell Stéphane Rozenbaum | The Science of Sleep | La science des rêves | |
| 2007 (20th) | No award given | ||
| Prix d'Excellence | |||
| Uli Hanisch | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | ||
| 2008 (21st) | No award given | ||
| Nomination for Prix d'Excellence | |||
 Márton Ágh | Delta | ||
| 2009 (22nd) | No award given | ||
| Year | Production designer(s) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (23rd) [6] [7] | Albrecht Konrad | The Ghost Writer | |
Paola Bizzarri  Luis Ramirez | I, Don Giovanni | Io, Don Giovanni | |
 Markku Pätilä  Jaagup Roomet | The Temptation of St. Tony | Püha Tõnu kiusamine | |
| 2011 (24th) [8] [9] |  Jette Lehmann | Melancholia | |
| Paola Bizzarri | We Have a Pope | Habemus Papam | |
| Antxón Gómez | The Skin I Live In | La piel que habito | |
| 2012 (25th) [10] [11] |  Maria Djurkovic | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | |
| Niels Sejer | A Royal Affair | En kongelig affære | |
| Elena Zhukova | Faust | Фауст | |
| 2013 (26th)[12] | Sarah Greenwood[13] | Anna Karenina | |
| 2014 (27th) | Claus-Rudolf Amler[14] | The Dark Valley | Das finstere Tal |
| 2015 (28th) | Sylvie Olivé[15] | The Brand New Testament | Le Tout Nouveau Testament |
| 2016 (29th) | Alice Normington[16] | Suffragette | |
| 2017 (30th) |  Josefin Åsberg[17] | The Square | |
| 2018 (31st) | Andrey Ponkratov[18] | Summer | Лето Leto |
| 2019 (32nd) | Antxon Gómez[19] | Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria |
| Year | Production designer(s) | English title | Original title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (33rd) | Cristina Casali[20] | The Personal History of David Copperfield | ||
| 2021 (34th) | Márton Ágh[21] | Natural Light | Természetes fény | |
| 2022 (35th) | Jim Clay | Belfast | ||
| 2023 (36th) | Emita Frigato | La chimera | ||