Jacques Audiard’s newest Emilia Pérez dominated the European Film Awards this night in Lucerne, Switzerland, taking Best Film and Best Director. Check out the complete winners checklist under.
The Netflix crime drama received all 4 of it’s nominations. Audiard’s pic got here into this night’s tied with Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door for essentially the most noms. The movie’s haul included Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascón and Best Screenplay.
Other huge winners this night in Switzerland included filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis who received Best Animated characteristic for his buzzy pic Flow and the Palestinian-Israeli movie No Other Land took the Best Documentary prize.
Tonight’s dominant show fingers Audiard and his Emilia Pérez collaborators a major vote of confidence as they head into the warmth of awards seasons. The European Film Awards, that are voted on by the Berlin-based European Film Academy’s some 5,000 members primarily based throughout Europe, are additionally seen as a bellwether for which European movies are more likely to decide up steam within the U.S. awards season.
Last yr’s Best European Film winner Anatomy of a Fall garnered 5 Oscar nominations, together with Best Picture and Best Actress (Sandra Hüller), with director Justine Triet and co-writer Arthur Harari successful the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
This yr’s ceremony in Lucerne marked the final time it takes place in December with the dates shifting to mid-January, beginning with the thirty eighth version in 2026, as a part of a technique to place the prizes inside the wider awards season dialog on each side of the Atlantic.
2024 European Film Awards Winners
European Film
EMILIA PÉREZ by Jacques Audiard
European Director
Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ
European Screenwriter
Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ
European Actress
Karla Sofía Gascón in EMILIA PÉREZ
European Actor
Abou Sangare in SOULEYMANE’S STORY
Best Documentary
NO OTHER LAND (Palestine, Norway) – documentary movie, 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 Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
Armand, directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Young Audience Award
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Norway), directed by Benjamin Ree, produced by Ingvil Giske
European Animated Feature Film
FLOW directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium)
European Cinematography
The Substance (Benjamin Kračun)
European Editing
Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
European Production Design
The Girl With the Needle (Jagna Dobesz)
European Costume Design
The Devil’s Bath (Tanja Hausner)
European Make-up & Hair
When the Light Breaks (Evalotte Oosterop)
European Original Score:
The Girl With the Needle (Frederikke Hoffmeier)
European Sound
Souleymane’s Story (Marc-Olivier Brullé, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aïchoun, Rodrigo Diaz)
European Visual Effects
THE SUBSTANCE (Bryan Jones, Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky, Chervin Shafaghi, Guillaume Le Gouez)
European Short Film
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT directed by Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia)
European Achievement in World Cinema
Isabella Rossellini
