Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” received Best Film on the thirty seventh European Film Awards on Saturday, December 7, claiming probably the most total awards as nicely with 5 wins.
Going into the night, Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” led with nominations, having obtained recognition in a number of classes, together with European Film and European Screenwriter, in addition to will a number of technical awards together with European Cinematography and European Visual Effects.
Held in Lucerne, Switzerland, the European Film Awards kicked off with a celebration of the colourful variety current all through the room, with host Fernando Tiberini commencing the ceremony in all of the languages spoken in Switzerland and inspiring all winners to say a number of phrases of their native tongue upon accepting.
The first winner of the night time was French filmmaker Audiard, who was introduced the award for European Director by “The Apprentice” star Maria Bakalova in honor of his work for “Emilia Pérez.” The movie is an unconventional musical that follows the gender transition of a South American cartel chief and the following fallout among the many different girls in his life. “Emilia Pérez” adopted shut behind “The Substance” when it comes to variety of nominations and ended up taking house European Editing and European Screenwriter for Audiard as nicely.
Picking up steam going into the Oscars, the Latvian animated characteristic “Flow,” which additionally obtained awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review, went on to win for European Animated Feature Film. A fantasy journey, “Flow” has no spoken dialogue, however follows a black cat on an exciting journey as they encounter fellow animal pals and the challenges confronted within the wild.
Presenting European Achievement in World Cinema to his “Conclave” co-star Isabella Rossellini, Ralph Fiennes mentioned Rossellini’s broad influence in movie, from shorts in regards to the sexual conduct of animals (“Green Porn”) to her work with David Lynch and others. He additionally mentioned she’s had a private influence on him after they’ve had the possibility to carry out reverse each other. Rosselini in accepting the award mentioned this second allowed her to rejoice one thing that was all her personal and never tied to anybody else.
“No Other Land” picked up the European Documentary Award, regardless of no U.S. distributor to launch the movie. The Palestinian-Israeli doc follows a devastating five-year account of Israeli army violence within the southern West Bank. The movie has already been acknowledged this week by Gotham, the NYFCC, and the NBR.
Willem Dafoe and Nick Cave appeared by way of video message to honor Wim Wenders, who obtained the European Life Achievement Award, in addition to Martin Scorsese, who described the German filmmaker’s work as “transferring stunning work” that can “burn ceaselessly in my thoughts’s eye.” From a rest room stall in Japan, Wenders’ “Perfect Days” star Kōji Yakusho additionally appeared by way of video in his Tokyo Toilet jumpsuit to rejoice his director. On hand in individual to current Wenders along with his award, Juliette Binoche mentioned of his movies, “You make getting misplaced really feel such a thrill.”
Keep studying under to search out out all of the European Film Awards winners.
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez” (France)
EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Flow” (Latvia)
EUROPEAN SHORT FILM — PRIX VIMEO
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” (Croatia)
EUROPEAN YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD
“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” (Norway)
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Benjamin Kračun, “The Substance” (France)
EUROPEAN EDITING
Juliette Welfling, “Emilia Pérez” (France)
EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGN
Jagna Dobesz, “The Girl with the Needle” (Denmark)
EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGN
Tanja Hausner, “The Devil’s Bath” (Germany)
EUROPEAN MAKE-UP & HAIR
Evalotte Oosterop, “When the Light Breaks” (Iceland)
EUROPEAN ORIGINAL SCORE
Frederikke Hoffmeier, “The Girl with the Needle” (Denmark)
EUROPEAN SOUND
Marc-Olivier Brullé, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aïchoun & Rodrigo Diaz, “Souleymane´s Story” (France)
EUROPEAN VISUAL EFFECTS
Bryan Jones, Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky, Chervin Shafaghi & Guillaume Le Gouez, “The Substance” (France)
EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA
Isabella Rossellini
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD
“No Other Land” (Palestine/Norway)
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez” (France)
EUROPEAN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Wim Wenders
EUROPEAN DISCOVERY — PRIX FIPRESCI
“Armand” (Norway)
EUROPEAN ACTOR
Abou Sangare, “Souleymanes Story” (France)
EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez” (France)
EUROPEAN FILM
“Emilia Pérez”
