European Film Award 2011
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Statistics (without taking into account the audience award and the award for the best debut film) N = nomination; S = victory |
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| Movie | N | S. |
|---|---|---|
| Melancholia | 8th | 3 |
| The Artist | 4th | 1 |
| Le Havre | 4th | 0 |
| In a better world | 4th | 1 |
| The boy with the bike | 4th | 1 |
| The King's Speech | 4th | 2 |
| The Turin horse | 3 | 0 |
| Habemus Papam - A Pope escapes | 2 | 0 |
| The skin that I live in | 2 | 0 |
| Three | 1 | 0 |
| Jelena | 1 | 0 |
| Essential killing | 1 | 0 |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | 1 | 1 |
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The 24th European Film Award ceremony took place on December 3, 2011. After the television gala took place in Tallinn, Estonia the previous year , Berlin followed as the venue in 2011 . This was the eleventh time that the award ceremony was held in the German capital. Lars von Triers Melancholia was honored as the best film and was able to convert three of his eight nominations into victories.
In cooperation with the Federal Government Commissioner for Art and Media , the Film Funding Agency (FFA), the Capital Culture Fund , the MEDIA program of the European Union , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Foundation Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin , the 2011 European Film Prize was awarded in Tempodrom held on the site of the former Anhalter Bahnhof . Around 1000 guests were expected, including the German director Wim Wenders , President of the European Film Academy (EFA), which awards the awards, as well as the German Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and the Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Art and Culture Claudia Schmied .
The German comedian and actress Anke Engelke could be won as a presenter. Engelke had already moderated the two previous awards. Filmmakers Moritz Bleibtreu , August Diehl , Alexander Fehling , Karoline Herfurth , Nina Hoss , Irène Jacob , Sibel Kekilli , Alexandra Maria Lara , Heike Makatsch , Ludivine Sagnier , Sylvie Testud and Ulrich Thomsen were to be the laudators . 150 journalists received accreditations. The German DJ Shantel was hired for the musical program .
The awards ceremony was offered as a live stream over the Internet and can be seen on television in over 100 countries. In Germany, the television broadcast takes place one day later on the Franco-German television broadcaster ARTE , in Austria on ORF 2 .
Award winners and nominations
Best European film
Melancholia - Script and direction: Lars von Trier , Production: Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth
- The Artist - Script and Director: Michel Hazanavicius , Production: Thomas Langmann and Emmanuel Montamat
- In a Better World (Hævnen) - Director: Susanne Bier , Script: Anders Thomas Jensen , Production: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
- The boy with a bicycle (Le Gamin au vélo) - Script and direction: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne , production: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd and Andrea Occhipinti
- The King's Speech - Director: Tom Hooper , Script: David Seidler , Production: Iain Canning , Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin
- Le Havre - Script and Director: Aki Kaurismäki , Production: Aki Kaurismäki and Karl Baumgartner
Best director
Susanne Bier - In a Better World (Hævnen)
- Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - The Boy with a Bicycle (Le Gamin au vélo)
- Aki Kaurismäki - Le Havre
- Béla Tarr - The Turin Horse ( A Torinói ló )
- Lars von Trier - Melancholia
Best Actress
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia
- Cécile de France - The Boy with a Bicycle (Le Gamin au vélo)
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Melancholia
- Nadeschda Markina - Jelena (Елена)
Best Actor
Colin Firth - The King's Speech
- Jean Dujardin - The Artist
- Mikael Persbrandt - In a Better World (Hævnen)
- Michel Piccoli - Habemus Papam - A Pope Büxt (Habemus papam)
- André Wilms - Le Havre
Best script
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne -The Boy with a Bicycle (Le Gamin au vélo)
Best camera ("Carlo Di Palma Prize")
Manuel Alberto Claro - Melancholia
- Fred Kelemen - The Turin Horse ( A Torinói ló )
- Guillaume Schiffman - The Artist
- Adam Sikora - Essential Killing
Best cut
Tariq Anwar - The King's Speech
Best production design
- Paola Bizzarri - Habemus Papam - A Pope Büxt (Habemus papam)
- Antxón Gómez - The skin in which I live (La piel que habito)
Best film score
- Alexandre Desplat - The King's Speech
- Alberto Iglesias - The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito)
- Mihály Vig - The Turin Horse ( A Torinói ló )
Official shortlist - feature films
The 13 nominated film productions - ten fewer than in the previous year - were selected from a shortlist (“longlist”) from the 2500 members of the European Film Academy. 45 film productions from 32 countries competed for nominations. European feature film productions, which as a rule premiered at a film festival between July 1, 2010 and June 15, 2011 or had a theatrical release, were able to qualify. The 20 countries with the most members each directly selected a national film. The further field of participants was supplemented by a committee of EFA board members and the French Pierre-Henri Deleau, the Swede Marit Kapla, the Bulgarian Stefan Kitanov, the British Derek Malcolm and Elma Tataragic from Bosnia and Herzegovina as invited experts.
The films nominated for the regular categories ( The Artist , Drei , Jelena etc.) are highlighted in dark gray. The current Oscar contributions from Belgium ( Rundskop ), Greece ( Attenberg ), Iceland ( Eldfjall ), Ireland ( As If I Am Not There ), Spain ( Pa negre ) and Sweden ( Bessere Zeiten ) were not considered for nominations .
Further prices
European co-producer award - "Prix EURIMAGES"
Mariela Besuievsky ( Tornasol Films , Spain)
Special honorary award
Michel Piccoli , French actor
Best European performance in world cinema
Mads Mikkelsen , Danish actor
Lifetime achievement award
Stephen Frears , British film director and producer
Best debut film
On October 11, 2011, the European Film Academy announced the nominations for the category “Best First Feature”, in which five debut directors compete against each other with their feature film productions. The winner was chosen by the 2500 members of the EFA, who was announced at the award ceremony on December 3rd. The nominated films were selected by a jury consisting of three EFA board chairmen (the Dutchwoman Els Vandevorst, the Frenchman Cedomir Kolar and, as an observer, the Frenchman Yves Marmion), two EFA members (the Frenchman Pierre-Henri Deleau and the Dane Jacob Neiiendam ) as well as three European members of the international film critic association FIPRESCI (the Turkish Alin Taşçıyan, the Portuguese Paulo Portugal and the Hungarian László Kriston).
Adem ( Oxygen ) - Director: Hans Van Nuffel (Belgium, Netherlands)
- Breathing - Director: Karl Markovics (Austria)
- Michael - Director: Markus Schleinzer (Austria)
- Nothing's All Bad - Smukke mennesker ( Smukke mennesker ) - Director: Mikkel Munch-Fals (Denmark)
- Tilva Roš - Director: Nikola Ležaić (Serbia)
Best short film
15 films qualified for the award in the Best European Short Film category , including two documentaries ( I Lupi , Paparazzi ). With Mariejosephin Schneider ( Jessi ) and Josef Dabernig ( Hypercrisis ) two directors from German-speaking countries were represented. In Jessi, Deutsche Schneider tells of an eleven year old who lives in a foster family and tries to repair the broken relationship between her mother and sister, who is in prison. In Hypercrisis , the Austrian Dabernig deals with a poet's creative crisis .
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) | Nomination (Festival) |
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| Berik | Daniel Joseph Borgman | Denmark | 16 ' | Ghent |
| Små barn, stora ord ( Little Children, Big Words ) | Lisa James-Larsson | Sweden | 12 ' | Valladolid |
| Handelse vid bank ( incident by a bank ) | Ruben Östlund | Sweden | 12 ' | Cork |
| Derby | Paul Negoescu | Romania | 15 ' | Bristol |
| Jessi | Mariejosephin Schneider | Germany | 31 ' | Angers |
| I Lupi ( The Wolves ) | Alberto de Michele | Italy, Netherlands | 17 ' | Rotterdam |
| Återfödelsen ( The Unliving ) | Hugo Lilja | Sweden | 28 ' | Berlin |
| Apele Tac ( Silent River ) | Anca Miruna Lăzărescu | Germany, Romania | 30 ' | Tampere |
| Paparazzi | Piotr Bernaś | Poland | 33 ' | Krakow |
| La gran carrera ( The Great Race ) | Kote Camacho | Spain | 7 ' | Grimstad |
| Dimanches | Valery Rosier | Belgium | 16 ' | Vila do Conde |
| Tse ( Out ) | Roee roses | Israel | 35 ' | Sarajevo |
| Opowieści z chłodni ( Frozen Stories ) | Grzegorz Jaroszuk | Poland | 26 ' | Locarno |
| Hypercrisis | Josef Dabernig | Austria | 17 ' | Venice |
| The Wholly Family | Terry Gilliam | Italy | 20 ' | drama |
European Documentary Film Award - "Prix ARTE"
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Since 2010, the EFA members have been called upon to award the “Prix ARTE” documentary film prize , which was awarded jointly with the Franco-German television broadcaster ARTE . The nominations were made by a committee made up of Nik Powell from Britain (head of the British film school NFTS and deputy chairman of the EFA board), Despina Mouzaki from Greece (EFA board member), Francine Brücher from Switzerland (EFA member) and Claas from Germany Danielsen (Director of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film ), Ally Derks from the Netherlands (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), Belgian producer Jacques Laurent and ARTE observer Martin Pieper.
Pina - Director: Wim Wenders (Germany)
- Position Among the Stars (Stand van de Sterren) - Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich (Netherlands)
- ¡Vivan las antipodas! - Director: Victor Kossakovsky (Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Chile)
Best animated film
Three productions were nominated for the European animation film award, which was introduced in 2009. The preselection was made by two EFA board members and three representatives of the European Association for Animated Films CARTOON . The winner was chosen by the 2500 members of the European Film Academy, which was announced at the award ceremony on December 3rd.
Chico & Rita - Direction: Tono Errando , Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba (Spain, Isle of Man)
- Le Chat du Rabbin - Directed by Antoine Delesvaux and Joann Sfar (France)
- The Cat of Paris ( Une Vie de Chat ) - Directors: Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol (France, Belgium)
Chico & Rita and The Cat of Paris are also on the shortlist for the Oscar in the Best Animated Feature Film category .
European audience award
The People's Choice Award gave cinema viewers the opportunity to choose their favorites from a shortlist via the Internet. The candidates were presented on September 1, 2011. Among these were In a Better World and The King's Speech , which were already in the official competition . The election ended on October 31, 2011. And then the rain and little true lies had been on the official EFA shortlist.
The King's Speech - Director: Tom Hooper
- Conference of the Animals - directed by Holger Tappe and Reinhard Klooss
- And then the rain (También la lluvia) - directed by Icíar Bollaín
- In a Better World (Hævnen) - Director: Susanne Bier
- Little True Lies (Les Petits Mouchoirs) - Director: Guillaume Canet
- Das Schmuckstück (Potiche) - Directed by François Ozon
- Unknown Identity - Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
- Welcome to the South (Benvenuti al Sud) - Director: Luca Miniero
Web links
- Official website of the European Film Awards (English)
- Official website of the European Film Academy (EFA) (English, German, French)
Individual evidence
- ^ European Film Awards - Winners 2011 at europeanfilmawards.eu, December 3, 2011 (accessed December 4, 2011).
- ↑ Official press release at europeanfilmacademy.org, November 3, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011).
- ↑ a b Official press release at europeanfilmacademy.org, November 24, 2011 (accessed December 1, 2011).
- ↑ Broadcasters 2011 (accessed December 1, 2011).
- ↑ Regulations for feature films at europeanfilmacademy.org (English; accessed on November 6, 2011).
- ↑ Official press release at europeanfilmacademy.org, September 12, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011)
- ↑ cf. Official press release at oscars.org, October 13, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011).
- ↑ Official press release at europeanfilmacademy.org, October 11, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011)
- ↑ cf. Film description at festivalblog.com, February 17, 2010 (accessed November 5, 2011).
- ↑ cf. Orizzonti award for Michael Glawogger at derstandard.at, September 10, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011).
- ↑ Official press release at europeanfilmacademy.org, October 18, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011)
- ↑ Official press release at europeanfilmacademy.org, September 20, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011).
- ↑ Official press release at oscars.org, November 4, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011)
- ↑ Official press release at europeanfilmacademy.org, September 1, 2011 (accessed November 5, 2011).
- ↑ cf. People's Choice Award at europeanfilmawards.eu (accessed November 5, 2011).