# Every Czech Lion winner for Best Film (1993–2024)

The Czech Lion is the Czech Republic's most important film award. From Jan Hřebejk's Big Beat through the Oscar-winning Kolya, Divided We Fall and The Painted Bird to Jiří Mádl's Waves: every winner of the top category for the years 1993–2024. Films by Jan Hřebejk and Petr Zelenka have won it most often, three times each.

- 59 votes · 32 items
- Mar 18, 2025 · cutscene80
- https://even.best/en/l/5438/every-czech-lion-winner-for-best-film-1993-2024

## Top 32

1. **Big Beat (Šakalí léta)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 1993. Directed by Jan Hřebejk.
2. **Díky za každé nové ráno** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 1994. Directed by Milan Šteindler.
3. **Kolya (Kolja)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 1996. Directed by Jan Svěrák. Also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
4. **Zahrada** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 1995. Directed by Martin Šulík.
5. **Sekal Has to Die (Je třeba zabít Sekala)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 1998. Directed by Vladimír Michálek.
6. **Year of the Devil (Rok ďábla)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2002. Directed by Petr Zelenka.
7. **Walking Too Fast (Pouta)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2010. Directed by Radim Špaček.
8. **Return of the Idiot (Návrat idiota)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 1999. Directed by Saša Gedeon.
9. **Little Otik (Otesánek)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2001. Directed by Jan Švankmajer.
10. **Boredom in Brno (Nuda v Brně)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2003. Directed by Vladimír Morávek.
11. **Kobry a užovky** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2015. Directed by Jan Prušinovský.
12. **Masaryk** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2016. Directed by Julius Ševčík.
13. **Charlatan (Šarlatán)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2020. Directed by Agnieszka Holland.
14. **Cesta ven** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2014. Directed by Petr Václav.
15. **The Karamazovs (Karamazovi)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2008. Directed by Petr Zelenka.
16. **Poupata** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2011. Directed by Zdeněk Jiráský.
17. **Ve stínu** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2012. Directed by David Ondříček.
18. **Burning Bush (Hořící keř)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2013. Directed by Agnieszka Holland.
19. **Všechno bude** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2018. Directed by Olmo Omerzu.
20. **The Painted Bird (Nabarvené ptáče)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2019. Directed by Václav Marhoul.
21. **Waves (Vlny)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2024. Directed by Jiří Mádl.
22. **Something Like Happiness (Štěstí)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2005. Directed by Bohdan Sláma.
23. **Little Girl Blue (Tajnosti)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2007. Directed by Alice Nellis.
24. **Brothers (Bratři)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2023. Directed by Tomáš Mašín.
25. **Buttoners (Knoflíkáři)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 1997. Directed by Petr Zelenka.
26. **Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2000. Directed by Jan Hřebejk.
27. **Up and Down (Horem pádem)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2004. Directed by Jan Hřebejk.
28. **I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2006. Directed by Jiří Menzel.
29. **Protektor** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2009. Directed by Marek Najbrt.
30. **Bába z ledu** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2017. Directed by Bohdan Sláma.
31. **Zátopek (Zátopek)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2021. Directed by David Ondříček.
32. **Il Boemo (Il Boemo)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Czech Lion for Best Film, 2022. Directed by Petr Václav.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.