Polish Pawel Pawlikowski’s black and white drama Ida was the big winner, taking Best Film, Cinematographer, Director and Screenplay, as well as the People’s Choice Award.
Ida
In 2010 Samuel Moaz’s Levanon/Lebanon was a winner at both the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Eurpoean Film Awards. This year, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan (Russia) and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep (France, Germany, Turkey) benefitted from some geography of convenience to achieve nominations at both events. By the end of the event both the APSA champion and Cannes Palme d’Or winner had been shut out in Riga, neither collecting a single gong.
A number of the EFA winners screened here earlier in the year in the NZIFF, including Locke, Two Days One Night and Under the Skin. Editor Justine Wright (Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland) returned to NZ to offer mentoring through a DEGNZ programme. Last week she was a BIFA nominee last week for her work on Locke. At the EFA she went one better by winning the gong for Editing.
The European Film Awards were handed out in Riga on 13 December local time. The winners were (marked ***):
European Film
Force Majeure / Turist, Ruben Östlund
*** Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan / Leviafan (Левиафан), Andrey Zvyagintsev
Nymphomaniac – Director’s Cut, Lars von Trier
Winter Sleep / KIŞ UYKUSU, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
European Comedy
Carmina & Amen / Carmina y amèn, Paco Léon
Le Week-End, Roger Michell
*** The Mafia Only Kills in Summer / La mafia uccide solo d’estate, Pierfrancesco Diliberto
European Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,KIŞ UYKUSU / Winter Sleep
Steven Knight,Locke
*** Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida
Paolo Virzi, Il capitale umano / Human Capital
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Leviafan (Левиафан) / Leviathan
Ruben Östlund, Turist / Force Majeure
European Actress
Marian Alvarez, La herida / Wounded
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Il capitale umano / Human Capital
*** Marion Cotillard, Deux jours, une nuit / Two Days, One Night
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nymphomaniac – Director’s Cut
Agata Kulesza, Ida
Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida
European Actor
Brendan Gleeson, Calgary
Tom Hardy, Locke
Alexey Serebryakov, Leviafan (Левиафан) / Leviathan
Stellan Skarsgård, Nymphomaniac – Director’s Cut
*** Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner
European Screenwriter
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, KIŞ UYKUSU / Winter Sleep
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Deux jours, une nuit / Two Days, One Night
Steven Knight, Locke
*** Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ida
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin, Leviafan (Левиафан) / Leviathan
European Discovery
’71, Yann Demange
10,000 KM, Carlos Marques-Marcet
Party Girl, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis
*** The Tribe / Plemya, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Wounded / La herida, Fernando Franco
European Documentary
Just the Right Amount of Violence, Jon Bang Carlsen
*** Master of the Universe, Marc Bauder
Of Men and War, Laurent Bécue-Renard
Sacro GRA, Gianfranco Rosi
Waiting for August, Teodora Ana Mihai
We Come as Friends, Hubert Sauper
European Animated Feature Film
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart / Jack et la mécanique du cœur, Mathias Malzieu, Stéphane Berla
Minuscule – Valley of the Lost Ants / Minuscule – La vallée des fourmies perdues, Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo
*** The Art of Happiness / L’arte della felicità, Alessandro Rak
European Short Film
*** The Chicken Director, Una Gunjak
Technical Awards
European Cinematography
Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zai,Ida
European Editor
Justine Wright, Locke
European Composer
Miachu, Under The Skin
European Sound Design
Joakim Sundstrom, Starred Up
European Production Design
Claus Rudolf Amler, The Dark Valley
European Costume Design
Natascha Curtius-Noss, The Dark Valley
Non-juried Awards
European Achievement In World Cinema
Director Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Shame, Hunger)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Director and producer Agnès Varda (The Beaches of Agnès, One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, Vagabond)
European Co-Production Award
Producer Ed Guiney (Frank, The Guard and Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters)
European People’s Choice Award
Ida (Poland)
Young Audience Award
Regret! (Netherlands)
