Keira Knightley, Jude Law up for European Film award

BBC NEWS
11 November, 2013



Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Naomi Watts are among those nominated at this year's European Film Awards.

Knightley and Law are both being recognised for their leading roles in the screen adaptation of Anna Karenina.

Watts, who recently played Princess Diana, has been nominated for her role in tsunami film The Impossible.

Belgian film The Broken Circle Breakdown is leading the field with five nominations including best film and best director.

Paolo Sorrentino's La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), which has been selected as the Italian entry for the best foreign language film at the Oscars, has four nominations.

Other best film nominees include The Best Offer, Oh Boy!, Spanish/French fantasy film Blancanieves and French Coming of Age film La Vie D'Adele: Chapitres 1 & 2.


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Helen Mirren to be honored at European Film Awards By Guy Lodge TUESDAY, SEP 25, 2012 1:45 PM (HIT FIX)

Well, it sure is nice to see Helen Mirren win an award for once. It was announced today that the Oscar-winning actress will receive this year's European Achievement in World Cinema Award at December's European Film Awards ceremony -- "a very meaningful honor," she said, while clearing some shelf space. Of course, there's the possibility that this won't be the high point of her awards season, with Fox Searchlight planning a Best Actress Oscar campaign for her turn as Alma Reville opposite Anthony Hopkins's "Hitchcock." In other Mirren news, she's reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth II on the West End in a new Peter Morgan play, to be directed by Stephen Daldry. Seats will no doubt be in high demand, so I'll graciously sit this one out. [European Film Academy]

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Colin Firth just named BEST ACTOR at the 24th European Film Awards

By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com

THE 24th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: WINNERS

Posted Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

 

Press release
THE 24th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: WINNERS

The more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy – filmmakers from across Europe – have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented:

EUROPEAN FILM 2011:
MELANCHOLIA, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Lars von Trier
PRODUCED BY: Meta Louise Foldager & Louise Vesth

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011:
Susanne Bier for HÆVNEN (In a Better World)

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011:
Tilda Swinton in WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011:
Colin Firth in THE KING’S SPEECH

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2011:
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2011: Manuel Alberto Claro for MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2011:
Tariq Anwar for THE KING’S SPEECH

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2011: Jette Lehmann for MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2011: Ludovic Bource for THE ARTIST

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2011:
ADEM (Oxygen) by Hans Van Nuffel, Belgium/theNetherlands

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2011 – Pix ARTE: PINA by Wim Wenders, Germany

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY e.V. * Director: Marion Döring Amtsgericht Charlottenburg 14236 Nz
Press Contact: press@europeanfilmacademy.org

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2011: CHICO & RITA by Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2011: THE WHOLLY FAMILY by Terry Gilliam, Italy

EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2011 – Prix EURIMAGES: Mariela Besuievsky, Spain

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2011: Mads Mikkelsen, Denmark

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Stephen Frears, UK

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SPECIAL HONORARY AWARD: Michel Piccoli, France

THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD 2011: THE KING’S SPEECH by Tom Hooper, UK

The European Film Awards 2011 were presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA Productions gGmbH with the support of the Capital Cultural Fund, FFA German Federal Film Board, the German State Lottery Berlin, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, the MEDIA Programme of the EU, Medienboard Berlin- Brandenburg, CinePostproduction, Hôtel Concorde Berlin, PanAm Lounge, Pinewood Studio Berlin, ŠKODA AUTO Deutschland GmbH, Tempodrom and TNT Express.

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Martin Clunes: Born Free Foundation in TV push

By Daniel Farey-Jones,campaignlive.co.uk, Monday, 21 November 2011 11:10AMBe the first to comment

The Born Free wildlife conservation charity is embarking on a donations drive with a new TV ad starring Martin Clunes.

Born Free: Martin Clunes backs the animal charity

The ad was created and produced by The Clinton Partnership, with media planning and buying handled by John Ayling Associates, and will air later this week.

The opening scenes feature Clunes addressing the audience in front of a dark enclosing wall, to depict the captivity of wild animals in Africa.

The ad was directed by Jeremy Hibert and features Clunes, a long-term supporter of the charity.
Simon Clinton, owner of the Clinton Partnership, said: "We're proud to be supporting the Born Free Foundation.

"It comprises of a great, passionate team who are focused on keeping animals in the wild across the globe, a charity we're delighted to be working with."

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'Melancholia' Dominates European Film Awards Nomination

Reuters

By Steve Pond at TheWrap

Sun Nov 6, 2011 8:06am EST

Controversial director Lars von Trier's apocalyptic drama "Melancholia" leads all films at the 2011 European Film Awards, where it will compete for the top prize with Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white silent film "The Artist," the Dardenne brothers' "The Kid With a Bike," Aki Kaurismaki''s "Le Havre" and two past Oscar winners, Susanne Bier's Best Foreign-Language Film winner "In a Better World" and Tom Hooper's Best Picture champ "The King's Speech."

In nominations announced on Saturday, Bier, the Dardennes, Kaurismaki, von Trier and Bela Tarr ("The Turin Horse") were named contenders in the European Director category, while acting nominees included Kirsten Dunst (left) and Charlotte Gainsbourg for "Melancholia," Tilda Swinton for "We Need to Talk About Kevin," Jean Dujardin for "The Artist" and Colin Firth for "The King's Speech."

Overall, "Melancholia" dominated the nominations, with eight nominations in the nine announced categories. Five films tied for the second-most nods, with four each: "The Artist," "The Kid With a Bike," "In a Better World," "The King's Speech" and "Le Havre."

The 24th European Film Awards will take place in Berlin on December 2, 2011. The awards are chosen by the European Film Academy, which has more than 2,500 members across Europe.

Past winners include Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer," Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon," Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "The Lives of Others" and Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her."

The nominees:

EUROPEAN FILM 2011

THE ARTIST, France

LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike), Belgium/France/Italy

HÆVNEN (In a Better World), Denmark

THE KING’S SPEECH, UK

LE HAVRE, Finland/France/Germany

MELANCHOLIA, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011

Susanne Bier for HÆVNEN (In a Better World)

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)

Aki Kaurismäki for LE HAVRE

Béla Tarr for A TORINOI LO (The Turin Horse)

Lars von Trier for MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011

Kirsten Dunst in MELANCHOLIA

Cécile de France in LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)

Charlotte Gainsbourg in MELANCHOLIA

Nadezhda Markina in ELENA

Tilda Swinton in WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011

Jean Dujardin in THE ARTIST

Colin Firth in THE KING'S SPEECH

Mikael Persbrandt in HÆVNEN (In a Better World)

Michel Piccoli in HABEMUS PAPAM

André Wilms in LE HAVRE

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2011

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)

Anders Thomas Jensen for HÆVNEN (In a Better World)

Aki Kaurismäki for LE HAVRE

Lars von Trier for MELANCHOLIA

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2011

Manuel Alberto Claro for MELANCHOLIA

Fred Kelemen for A TORINOI LO (The Turin Horse)

Guillaume Schiffman for THE ARTIST

Adam Sikora for ESSENTIAL KILLING

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2011

Tariq Anwar for THE KING'S SPEECH

Mathilde Bonnefoy for DREI (Three)

Molly Malene Stensgaard for MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2011

Paola Bizzarri for HABEMUS PAPAM

Antxón Gómez for LA PIEL QUE HABITO (The Skin I Live in)

Jette Lehmann for MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2011

Ludovic Bource for THE ARTIST

Alexandre Desplat for THE KING’S SPEECH

Alberto Iglesias for LA PIEL QUE HABITO (The Skin I Live in)

Mihály Vig for A TORINOI LO (The Turin Horse)
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European Film Awards: Little Oscar Influence

 

Andre Soares | Nov 5, 2011 | Comments

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Helen Mirren, Sylvia Syms in Stephen Frears' The Queen

The European Film Awards usually don't have much of an influence on the Academy Awards. Part of the reason is that many of the European Academy's nominated movies aren't eligible for the Hollywood Academy's awards, whether because they were in the running earlier in the year or because they won't have their qualifying Los Angeles run in time for the following year's Oscars. In fact, some may never even get that chance. Besides, it's unclear how many of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' insular members actually know about the existence of the European Film Academy.

Last year's Best Film and Best Director winner, Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, failed to receive a single Academy Award nomination despite mostly positive reviews from U.S. critics. Of the other five 2010 Best European Film nominees, only Juan José Campanella's The Secret in Their Eyes was shortlisted by the Oscars as well — the mystery drama was the winner in the Best Foreign Language Film category, but earlier in the year. So, if an institution influenced another, it was the Hollywood Academy influencing the European one.

Since the European Film Awards' inception in 1988, only two Best European Film winners have gone on to receive a Best Picture Academy Award nomination: Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty (1997) and Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful (1998).

Including Life Is Beautiful, only six Best European Film winners have received Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominations. The others were Gianni Amelio's Open Doors (1990), Nikita Mikhalkov's Urga (1993; a 1992 Oscar nominee), Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother (1999), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (2006), and Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon (2009). Life Is Beautiful, All About My Mother, and The Lives of Others turned out to be the only three Oscar winners in that category.

Additionally, Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves earned Emily Watson a Best Actress Oscar nod; Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (2001) was shortlisted in several technical categories; and Talk to Her (2002) earned Almodóvar the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Among the Best European Director winners, only Almodóvar received a matching Oscar nomination for Talk to Her.

In the European Film Awards' Best Actor/Best Actress categories (no awards were handed out in 1994/95), besides Emily Watson only the following went on to be shortlisted by the Hollywood Academy: Max von Sydow for Pelle the Conqueror (1988), Robert Benigni for Life Is Beautiful, Ben Kingsley for Sexy Beast (2001, supporting actor), Imelda Staunton for Vera Drake (2004), and Penélope Cruz for Volver (2006). Of those, only Benigni won the Oscar as well.

Juliette Binoche's, Helen Mirren's and Kate Winslet's European Film Award wins for, respectively, The English Patient, The Queen, and The Reader took place after their Oscar victories. Same with Kenneth Branagh, nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for Henry V in early 1990; he won the Best European Actor Award later that year.

And it's surely no coincidence that of the ten actors mentioned above, only three — von Sydow, Benigni, and Cruz — received a corresponding Oscar nomination for a non-English-speaking role.
Curiously, Best Actress Oscar winner Marion Cotillard — speaking French in La Vie en Rose — failed to take home the Best European Actress Award, which went instead to Helen Mirren. That was one relatively rare instance when buzz was defeated by actual personal preference

Colin Firth to challenge for best European actor plaudit in December this year. - Oscar Winner 'The King's Speech' Competes for European Film Academy's Top Award

The Hollywood Reporter

8:38 AM PDT 11/5/2011 by Stuart Kemp         

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LONDON -- The Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech has another chance to add to its burgeoning awards roster with a tilt at this year’s European Film Academy’s best European film award.

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Oscar-Winning 'The King’s Speech' Makes European Film Academy Long List

The film’s Oscar-winning star Colin Firth also finds himself in the running to pick up yet another top notch award for his turn as the stuttering King George VI in the European Academy’s best actor category.

Should The King’s Speech reign on the evening of the awards it will have overcome a list of heavyweight arthouse contenders including The Artist, written and directed by Michel Nazanavicius, Susanne Bier’s Haevnen (In a Better World) and Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre.

Also looking to upset the coronation of The King’s Speech is Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s The Kid With a Bike.

Firth also finds himself with some stiff opposition in the European actor category with several turns from the best film nominations featuring.

Jean Dujardin for his role in The Artist, Mikael Persbrandt in Haevnen and Andre Wilms for his outing in Le Havre find themselves alongside Michel Piccoli in Habemus Papam challenging for Firth’s crown.

The European best actress shortlist includes Kirsten Dunst, an actress who also possesses a German passport alongside her U.S. creditentials, for her turn in Melancholia.

Dunst finds herself up against fellow Melancholia star Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cecile de France for The Kid With a Bike and Nadezhda Markina for her outing in Elena.

But the actress being tipped to beat is Tilda Swinton for her dominating screen presence in We Need To Talk About Kevin.

All eyes and ears will be on the stage should von Trier triumph in the evening’s best European director category for Melancholia.

Challenges come from the Dardenne brothers (Bike), Bier (Haevnen), Kaurismaki (Le Havre) and Bela Tarr for A Torinoi Lo.

Best European screenwriter of 2011 will also come from the Dardenne Brothers (Bike), Kaurismaki (Le Havre), Von Trier (Melancholia) or Anders Thomas Jensen (Haevnen).

The nominations have been narrowed down from a long list made up by the 20 countries with the most EFA members, which have voted one national film directly onto the list, while further films were added by EFA board members and experts.

Leading the way with seven nominations is Melancholia, followed by four nominations each for The Artist, The Kid with a Bike, The King’s Speech, Le Havre and Haevnen.

Films from 32 European countries were repped on this year’s long list.
The more than 2,500 EFA Members will now vote for the winners.
The 24th European Film Awards will be presented in Berlin on Dec. 3 this year.