As well as best film, best director and best European comedy, the UK-Irish-US co-production also won best actress for Olivia Colman to add to her Oscar for the film.
The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’s scabrous depiction of the power struggle surrounding Queen Anne in the early 18th century, has swept the board at this year’s European film awards.
Neither Colman nor Lanthimos were present to pick up their awards in Berlin, where this year’s ceremony was held.
The European Film Academy was spared potential embarrassment after An Officer and a Spy, Roman Polanski’s period thriller about the Dreyfus affair, went away empty-handed.