[1] The ceremony is one of a number of events to take place in Wrocław as the city is a 2016 European Capital of Culture, along with San Sebastián.

[2] The nominations and winners were selected by more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy.

The European Film Academy also remarked on Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, who is imprisoned in Russia.

A special seven-member jury convened in Berlin and, based on the selection list.

My Life as a Courgette also in official selection for The European Parliament's LUX Prize.

The announcement of the five European University Film Award nominations took place during Filmfest Hamburg on 5 October 2016.

Films were selected by: Feo Aladag (director/Germany), Dagmar Brunow (academic, Linnaeus University/Sweden), Luis Martinez Lopez (journalist, EL MUNDO/Spain), Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (director/Ukraine) and Patrick Sobelman (producer/France).