The Barbara Dex Award is an annual fan award given out to the worst-dressed artist of that year's Eurovision Song Contest. It was named after Barbara Dex, who competed for Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 wearing a rather unflattering handmade dress.
Many of these were victims of the Curse of Green.
North Macedonia, Portugal and Serbia currently hold the record for the most Barbara Dex Awards won with 2 each.
House of Eurovision, the Dutch fan site that founded the award in 1997, announced after the 2016 contest that they would close their site [1]. Belgian fan site songfestival.be announced soon after that they would take over the handing out of the award from 2017 on [2].
Winners of the Barbara Dex Award
Year | Country | Artist |
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1997 | Malta | Debbie Scerri |
1998 | Germany | Guildo Horn |
1999 | Spain | Lydia |
2000 | Belgium | Nathalie Sorce |
2001 | Poland | Piasek |
2002 | Greece | Michalis Rakintzis |
2003 | Russia | t.A.T.u. |
2004 | Romania | Sanda Ladoși |
2005 | North Macedonia | Martin Vučić |
2006 | Portugal | Nonstop |
2007 | Ukraine | Verka Serduchka |
2008 | Andorra | Gisela |
2009 | Hungary | Zoli Ádok |
2010 | Serbia | Milan Stanković |
2011 | Georgia | Eldrine |
2012 | Albania | Rona Nishliu |
2013 | Serbia | Moje 3 |
2014 | Lithuania | Vilija Matačiūnaitė |
2015 | The Netherlands | Trijntje Oosterhuis |
2016 | Croatia | Nina Kraljić |
2017 | Montenegro | Slavko Kalezić |
2018 | North Macedonia | Eye Cue |
2019 | Portugal | Conan Osíris |
2020 | Contest Cancelled |