It won five awards at the 29th European Film Awards : Best Film ( a first for a film directed by a woman ) , Best Director , Best Screenwriter , Best Actor , and Best Actress . It also won the European Parliament LUX Prize . It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards , but lost to Iran 's '' The Salesman ''
29th European Film Awards
29th European Film Awards
Toni Erdmann