Editor

At the 21st European Film Awards on 6 December 208 in Copenhagen the following were honoured:

EUROPEAN FILM 2008
GOMORRA (Gomorrah)
directed by Matteo Garrone
written by Maurizio Bracci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso & Roberto Saviano produced by Fandango, RAI Cinema

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2008
Matteo Garrone for GOMORRA (Gomorrah)

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2008
Toni Servillo in GOMORRA (Gomorrah) and IL DIVO

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2008
Kristin Scott Thomas in IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T'AIME (I've Loved You So
Long)

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2008
Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso & Roberto Saviano for GOMORRA (Gomorrah)

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2008 Marco Onorato for GOMORRA (Gomorrah)

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY PRIX D'EXCELLENCE 2008 Magdalena Biedrzycka for costume design, KATYN

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2008
Max Richter for WALTZ WITH BASHIR

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2008
HUNGER
directed by Steve McQueen
written by Enda Walsh & Steve McQueen

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS' AWARD 2008 - Prix FIPRESCI Abdellatif Kechiche for LA GRAINE ET LE MULET (The Secret of the Grain / Couscous)

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2008 - Pix ARTE RENÉ by Helena Trestikova

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2008 - Prix UIP FRANKIE by Darren Thornton

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Dame Judi Dench

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2008 Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring, Lars von Trier, and Thomas Vinterberg

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD 2008
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX directed by David Yates written by Michael Goldenberg