The 25th European Film Awards Ceremony
THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Marion Döring, Peter Busuttil
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
THE 25th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Wim Wenders
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Anke Engelke, host
picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud
EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2012 -
Prix EURIMAGES:
Helena Danielsson, Sweden
picture: EFA / Rene Rossigna...
The more than 2,700 members of the European Film Academy - filmmakers from across Europe - have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented:
EUROPEAN FILM 2012:
AMOUR
France / Germany / Austria, 127 min
written & directed by Michael Haneke
produced by Margaret Menegoz, Stefan ...
At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions proudly announced the nominations for the European Film Awards 2012.
The more than 2,700 EFA Members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on 1 December in Malta.
Nominated are:
EUROPEAN FILM 2012:
AMOUR (Love)
Austria/France/Germany, 127 min
Written & directed by Mich...
VENEZIA 69 WINNERS
GOLDEN LION for Best Film to PIETA by Kim Ki-duk (Republic of Korea)
SILVER LION for Best Director to THE MASTER by Paul Thomas Anderson (USA)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to Paradies: Glaube by Ulrich Seidl (Austria, Germany, France)
COPPA VOLPI for Best Actor to ...
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, wishing to honor the memory of celebrated Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos, who passed away in January of 2012, organizes a tribute to his work. Angelopoulos was born in Athens in 1935 and studied Law in the University of Athens and the Sorbonne, from which he dropped out to study cinema in the University of Paris IDHEC. He started his career as a film critic and made his first –unfinished– film, Forminx, in 1965. Throughout his life, Angel...
The European Film Academy invites you to vote in the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD 2012 for your favourite European film and win a trip for two people to the European Film Awards in Malta!
NOMINATED ARE:
THE ARTIST
written & directed by Michel Hazanavicius
with Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, James Cromwell, John Goodman
BARBARA
written & directed by Christian Petzold
with Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Christina Hecke
THE BEST E...
Moritz Bleibtreu
actor, Germany
One of the best-known German faces in international cinema,
Moritz Bleibtreu first shot to international attention as Manni in Tom
Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN (1998). He was nominated in 2001 for the EFA
People’s Choice Award for THE EXPERIMENT by Oliver Hirschbiegel and is
now nominated for European Actor for his role as Andreas Baader in THE
BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX by Uli Edel.
...
The President:
Wim Wenders, Director, Germany
Wim Wenders attended the Academy of Film & Television in Munich, worked as a film critic for various German publications, and was a founding member of Filmverlag der Autoren. In 1976 he set up his own production company, Road Movies, and, in 2002, Reverse Angle. Often hailed as one of the most important German directors on the international scene, Wenders has received various international awards, including the Golden Lion (TH...
The more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy - filmmakers from across Europe - have voted for this year's European Film Awards.
Melancholia, The King's Speech, Pina, and Susanne Bier were amongthe majror winners.
European Director for IN A BETTER WORLD | © Franziska Krug / action press
At the awards ceremony in Berlin (Dec 3rd, 2011) the following awards were presented:
EUROPEAN FILM 2011
MELANCHOLIA
by Lars von Trier
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011...
The 24th European Film Awards with the presentation of the winners - streamed live on http://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/ - will take place in Berlin on 3 December.
EFA Nominations 2011
The nominations for the 24th European Film Awards were just announced at the Seville European Film Festival on Saturday, 5 November.
nominated are:
EUROPEAN FILM 2011:
...
FIVE DEBUT FILMS NOMINATED FOR EFA DISCOVERY AWARD
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2011 - Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of observer Yves Marmion (EFA Chairman, France), Board Members Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands) and Cedomir Ko...
25th Braunschweig International Film Festival honours Isabelle Huppert with the European Actors Award ”The Europa“The 25th International Film Festival Braunschweig honours French Actress Isabelle Huppert with its main prize, the European Actors Award ”The Europa“. Huppert receives the award for her outstanding artistic performances and contribution to European film culture. Isabelle Huppert will be presented with the statue ”The Europa“ on November 13 during the award ceremony in Bra...
Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin. Courtesy of IMDb.
It's never too early to begin handicapping the Palme d'Or race. The
film-festival world's most prestigious prize captures the attention of
attendees in Cannes the way the New Hampshire primary mesmerizes
political pundits -- it's hashed out and obsessed over for every
possible shade of meaning -- and provides a film festival with a certain
level of suspense.
With the competition now one-third underwa...
The Serbian film-maker Emir Kusturica will be president of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 64th Festival de Cannes, from 11th to 22nd May 2011.Every year, Un Certain Regard, at the very heart of Official Selection, alongside the Competition, presents around twenty films characterised by the originality of their ideas as well as their aesthetic. Emir Kusturica received the Palme d’Or in 1985 for When Father Was Away on Business. Ten years later, his second Palme d’Or for Underground made hi...
The Serbian film-maker Emir Kusturica will be president of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 64th Festival de Cannes, from 11th to 22nd May 2011.Every year, Un Certain Regard, at the very heart of Official Selection, alongside the Competition, presents around twenty films characterised by the originality of their ideas as well as their aesthetic. Emir Kusturica received the Palme d’Or in 1985 for When Father Was Away on Business. Ten years later, his second Palme d’Or for Underground made hi...
It has been quite a year for director Roman Polanski…..house arrest in Switzerland, Silver Bear at the Berlinale, legal victory and return to his adopted home of Paris, and film adaptation of the international theatre sensation “God Of Carnage”. Now, Polanski caps a year full of ups and downs with a sixtuplet win at the European Film Awards, held this evening in the Nokia Concert Hall in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn.
“The Ghost Writer”, Polanski’s adapta...
The more than 2,300 members of the European Film Academy, filmmakers from across Europe, have voted for this year's Europea Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Tallinn, European Capital of Culture 2011, the following awards were presented:
EUROPEAN FILM 2010
THE GHOST WRITER, France/Germany/UK
directed by Roman Polanski
written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2010
Roman Polanski for THE GHOST WRI...
It has been quite a year for director Roman Polanski…..house arrest in Switzerland, Silver Bear at the Berlinale, legal victory and return to his adopted home of Paris, and film adaptation of the international theatre sensation “God Of Carnage”. Now, Polanski caps a year full of ups and downs with a sixtuplet win at the European Film Awards, held this evening in the Nokia Concert Hall in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn. “The Ghost Writer”, Polanski’s adaptation of the Thomas Ha...
At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFAProductions announced the nominations for the European Film Awards 2010.The more than 2,300 EFA Members will now vote for the winners which will be presented during the Awards Ceremony on 4 December in Tallinn/Estonia.At the Seville European Film Festival, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the 23rd European Film Awards. Leading the field are THE GHOST WRITER, Roman Polanski’s politi...
At the 23rd European Film Awards the European Film Academy will Honour Swiss ActorWhether it is as an angel in WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) by Wim Wenders, in the Italian comedy BREAD & TULIPS (2000) by Silvio Soldini, or impersonating Adolf Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegel's THE DOWNFALL (2004), Bruno Ganz has lent his face to some of cinema's most unforgettable moments. In the 70s and 80s Bruno Ganz has worked with the greats of German auteur cinema like Werner Herzog (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, 1979), Vol...
The People's Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film and win a trip to the European Film Awards Ceremony. Every year, when the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe's greatest film stars, directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, designers, nominees and winners, to attend the European Film Awards, the People's Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for - the audience.
Winners in the past have included films ...
The People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film and win a trip to the European Film Awards Ceremony. Every year, when the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, designers, nominees and winners, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for - the audience.Winners in the past have included films like...
Sunday brought renewed honor to Michael Haneke, Austrian director and winner of last year's Palme d'Or for his film, "White Ribbon." He received what "The Hollywood Reporter: The Daily Cannes," describes as the country's highest arts honor, Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. The ceremony of French Cultural Minister Frederic Mitterrand inducting Haneke into the French legion of honor occurred in Cannes yesterday. Festival de Cannes President Gilles Jacob and t...
THE WHITE RIBBON wins European Film 2009.
Picture: EFA/ActionPress/Guido Ohlenbostel
Founded in 1988, the European Film Academy now unites more than 2,000 European film professionals with the common aim of promoting Europe’s film culture.
Few surprises at the 22nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon), Germany/Austria/France/Italy written and directed by Michael Haneke produced by Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz & Andrea ...
The 22nd European Film Awards: CRITICS' AWARD 2009, Prix FIPRESCI goes to Andrzej Wajda
for TATARAK (Sweet Rush)
As FIPRESCI's General Secretary Klaus Eder explained: "For us critics it is without doubt a big pleasure to honour Wajda, who wrote European film history already with his first films (GENERATION, KANAL, ASHES AND DIAMONDS) and who has influenced generations of filmmakers. We are therefore pleased and honoured to show him all our respect as critics. Our award also honours...
