2024 European Film Award Winners List: ‘Emilia Pérez’ Wins Big

Emilia Pérez bought an early increase in its awards marketing campaign on Saturday evening by cleansing up on the thirty seventh European Film Awards, handed out in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language transgender musical received finest movie, finest director and finest screenplay honors for Audiard. Karla Sofía Gascón, who performs the titular character, received finest actress, changing into the primary trans performer to win within the class.

“I didn’t put together something as a result of I used to be positive I wasn’t going to obtain something tonight,” mentioned Gascón, accepting her prize. She thanked Audiard, “the most effective European director for making the most effective European actress.” Gascón devoted right here prize “to my mom and to all moms on this world as a result of their values and their operate are generally undervalued, [and] I want to dedicate this prize to all households and ask all dad and mom to like their youngsters, as a result of, sadly, on this world, there are households that choose their youngsters be criminals than homosexual individuals.”

Audiard devoted his finest screenwriting honor to the late, French-Danish actor Niels Arestrup, who the director labored with on movies corresponding to The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) and A Prophet (2009).

Hoisting his finest movie trophy, Audiard reminded the gang that “all of us right here on this room are so fortunate to be making movies in Europe.” He mentioned he would really like his nation, with its beneficiant authorities assist of cinema, “to serve for example for all different nations in Europe.”

Emilia Pérez is France’s official submission for the Academy Awards in the most effective worldwide function class and a robust contender for a number of classes, together with finest actress for Gascón, supporting honors for co-stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez, and a number of technical classes.

Guinean actor Abou Sangare beat out heavyweights Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig and Germany’s Lars Eidinger to take the most effective actor prize for Boris Lojkine’s Souleymane’s Story, the place he performs an African immigrant in Paris struggling to outlive and get legalization papers so he can keep.

There had been few overtly political statements on the awards, however Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, presenting the most effective movie award, known as on the viewers to consider the youngsters of Gaza. “If they ever dreamt or had something to say or any horizon, dying has vanished all their goals.”

The winners of finest documentary No Other Land, which follows the Israeli authorities’s systematic and violent evictions of Palestinians within the West Bank, used the event to talk out in opposition to the battle in Gaza. Accepting the prize by way of Zoom, Basel Adra, one of many movie’s Palestinian administrators, mentioned it was troublesome to have fun with the continued “genocide in opposition to my individuals. How Israel is systemically attempting to erase us from our houses.” Yuval Abraham, his Israeli co-director, known as for motion from European governments to stress the Israeli authorities to enter a ceasefire by stopping the availability of weapons to Jerusalem. “For the sake of the tons of of 1000’s of Palestinians in Gaza [at] danger of dying, for the sake of the tons of of Israeli hostages, a ceasefire needs to be imposed.”

Flow, Latvia’s Oscar longing for finest worldwide function, in addition to a finest animated function contender, took the European Film Award for finest animated function. The dialog-free drama follows a big-eyed cat caught in an apocalyptic flood who groups up with a geographically various pack of critters to flee.

The prize for finest quick movie went to Croatian director Nebojsa Slijepcevic’s The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, an Oscar frontrunner that received the Palme d’Or earlier this 12 months. The movie dramatizes the Štrpci bloodbath of 1993, when 24 Bosniak Muslims had been pulled off a prepare by a Serbian paramilitary group and just one man, the Croatian Tomo Buzov, stood up in opposition to the attackers.

After the Yugoslav War, mentioned Slijepcevic, Buzov’s story was forgotten “as a result of it didn’t match into any of the narratives, however now it received’t be.”

The European Young Audience Award went to the animated documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, which premiered at Sundance and was snatched up by Netflix.

Armand, a school-set drama from Norwegian director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel and the nation’s finest worldwide function contender for the Oscars, received the European Discovery prize for finest first function.

Winners within the craft classes had been introduced forward of Saturday’s gala, with The Substance selecting up trophies for finest cinematography and finest visible results, The Girl With the Needle taking finest rating and finest manufacturing design, and Emilia Pérez profitable finest enhancing, amongst others.

Iconic German director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Pina, Perfect Days) acquired a European lifetime achievement award. The lengthy checklist of video tributes to Wenders included clips from Martin Scorsese, Willem Dafoe, Nick Cave and, in a showstopper, Japanese actor Kôji Yakusho, star of Wenders’ Perfect Days, who appeared in character from the movie, scrubbing a Toyko public rest room. “Mr. Director! In celebration, I’ll clear your rest room,” Yakusho quipped. “Prost!”

Receiving his trophy from EFA President Juliette Binoche, Wenders made the primary Trump joke of the evening. “Thank you, Madame President. So many people would have favored to name one other girl Madame President, however that didn’t occur. If it had, the world could be a greater place. But whereas that different man pretends to make America nice once more, this president has an opportunity to make European cinema shine once more.”

Closing his speech, Wenders quoted one other U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, calling on the movie professionals within the room to ask not what Europe might do for them however what they might do for Europe. “Europe is in bother proper now,” Wenders mentioned, “and I actually urge you to suppose what you are able to do for Europe as a result of Europe wants you. It wants the movie group to provide a extra optimistic, extra emotional view of the continent [because] too many individuals consider it as an financial group, a monetary group, however it’s an emotional group. It offers us power, and proper now we should always give it power.”

Italian actress Isabella Rossellini was honored with the European Achievement in World Cinema award, offered to her by her Conclave co-star Ralph Fiennes.

“She can declare a reasonably first rate heritage,” mentioned Fiennes, referencing Rossellini’s legendary filmmaking dad and mom, Oscar-winning actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian neo-realist director Roberto Rossellini, earlier than itemizing off the “extraordinary abilities” she has labored with in her profession. “David Lynch, Robert Zemeckis, Peter Weir, Abel Ferrara, Guy Madden, Denis Villeneuve, Alice Rohrwacher and Edward Berger. You would possibly suppose that they selected her, however for probably the most half, she selected them.”

While accepting the award, Rossellini mentioned, “If I needed to outline the engine, the motor of my life, I’d say it has been curiosity and the gasoline for this motor has been laughter.” She thanked the babysitters who cared for her youngsters when she was off working. “If it wasn’t for the great work of different girls who helped me, I couldn’t have the profession I’ve had,” she mentioned. “This is true for all of us girls which have careers. My mom mentioned to me the identical factor: ‘If it wasn’t for our Jenny, our nanny, I couldn’t have had the profession I had. I’m as grateful to her, Jenny, as I’m to a director of the caliber of Alfred Hitchcock.’”

Macedonian producer and actress Labina Mitevska received this 12 months’s Eurimages International Co-production Award, honoring producers for his or her contribution to fostering worldwide movie collaboration.

See the total checklist of 2024 European Film Award winners under.

European Film

Emilia Pérez (France), directed by Jacques Audiard, produced by Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard, Valérie Schermann & Anthony Vaccarello

European Documentary

No Other Land (Palestine, Norway), directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal, produced by Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal

European Director

Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez

European Actress

Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez

European Actor

Abou Sangare in Souleymane’s Story

European Screenwriter

Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

Armand (Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden), directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

European Animated Feature Film

Flow, directed by Gints Zilbalodis

European Short Film

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, directed by Nebojsa Slijepcevic

European Young Audience Award

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Norway), directed by Benjamin Ree, produced by Ingvil Giske

Best Cinematography

The Substance (Benjamin Kračun)

Best Visual Effects

The Substance (Bryan Jones, Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky, Chervin Shafaghi, Guillaume Le Gouez)

Best Production Design

The Girl With the Needle (Jagna Dobesz)

Best Original Score

The Girl With the Needle (Frederikke Hoffmeier)

Best Editing

Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)

Best Costume Design

The Devil’s Bath (Tanja Hausner)

Best Make-Up & Hair

When the Light Breaks (Evalotte Oosterop)

Best Sound

Souleymane’s Story (Marc-Olivier Brullé, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aïchoun, Rodrigo Diaz)

European University Film Award

Three Kilometers to the End of the World (director Emanuel Pârvu)

European Lifetime Achievement

Wim Wenders

European Achievement in World Cinema

Isabella Rossellini

Eurimages International Co-Production

Labina Mitevska