27th European Film Awards

The 27th European Film Awards were presented on 13 December 2014 in Riga, Latvia.[1][2] The winners were selected by more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. Nominations for the People's Choice Award category were announced on 1 September 2014.[3][4] On 16 September 2014, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced a list of 50 films which qualified for nominations.[5] All nominations were announced on 8 November 2014 at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.[6][7][8] British director Steve McQueen was presented with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award[9] and filmmaker Agnès Varda was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.[10]

27th European Film Awards
Latvian National Opera
Date13 December 2014
SiteLatvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
Hosted byThomas Hermanns
Produced byMarion Döring and Jürgen Biesinger
Organized byEuropean Film Academy
Highlights
Best FilmIda
Best DirectorPaweł Pawlikowski
Best ActorTimothy Spall
Best ActressMarion Cotillard
Most awardsIda (5)
Most nominationsIda (7)
Television coverage
ChannelArte

Winners and nominees

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Best Film

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Ida Paweł Pawlikowski    
Force Majeure Turist Ruben Östlund        
Leviathan Левиафан Andrey Zvyagintsev  
Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut Lars von Trier        
Winter Sleep Kış Uykusu Nuri Bilge Ceylan  

Best Director

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Director(s) English title Original title
  Paweł Pawlikowski Ida
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan Winter Sleep Kış Uykusu
  Steven Knight Locke
  Ruben Östlund Force Majeure Turist
  Paolo Virzì Human Capital Il capitale umano
  Andrey Zvyagintsev Leviathan Левиафан

Best Screenwriter

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Screenwriter(s) Nationality English title Original title
Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz   Poland Ida
Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan   Turkey Winter Sleep Kış Uykusu
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne   Belgium Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit
Steven Knight   United Kingdom Locke
Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev   Russia Leviathan Левиафан

Best European Actor

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Actor English title Original title
  Timothy Spall Mr. Turner
  Brendan Gleeson Calvary
  Tom Hardy Locke
  Aleksei Serebryakov Leviathan Левиафан
  Stellan Skarsgård Nymphomaniac

Best European Actress

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Actress English title Original title
  Marion Cotillard Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit
  Marian Álvarez Wounded La herida
   Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Human Capital Il capitale umano
   Charlotte Gainsbourg Nymphomaniac
  Agata Kulesza Ida
  Agata Trzebuchowska Ida

Best Comedy

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer La mafia uccide solo d'estate Pierfrancesco Diliberto  
Carmina & Amen Carmina y amén Paco León  
Le Week-End Roger Michell    

People's Choice Award for Best European Film

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English title Original title Director(s) Writers(s) Production country
Ida Paweł Pawlikowski Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Paweł Pawlikowski    
Beauty and the Beast La Belle et la Bête Christophe Gans Christophe Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh    
Nymphomaniac Lars von Trier Lars von Trier        
Philomena Stephen Frears Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope  
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann Felix Herngren Felix Herngren, Hans Ingemansson, Jonas Jonasson  
Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne      

Discovery of the Year

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English title Original title Director(s) Writers(s) Production country
The Tribe Плем'я (Plemya) Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy  
10,000 km Carlos Marques-Marcet Carlos Marques-Marcet, Clara Roquet  
'71 Yann Demange Gregory Burke  
Party Girl Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis Samuel Theis, Claire Burger, Marie Amachoukeli  
Wounded La herida Fernando Franco Fernando Franco, Enric Rufas  

Best Animated Feature Film

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The nominees were announced on 22 September 2014.[11]

English title Original title Director(s) Animation Production country
The Art of Happiness L'arte della felicità Alessandro Rak Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Dario Sansone, Marino Guarnieri, Annarita Calligaris, Ivana Verze, Laura Sammati, Antonia Emanuela Angrisani, Corrado Piscitelli, Flavio Di Biase, Giorgio Siravo, Sergio Chimenti, Ilaria Jones, Antonio Funaro, Danilo Florio, Mirko Prota, Alberto Panico, Paolo Acampora, Marco Iannaccone  
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart Jack et la mécanique du cœur Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu Nicolette Ceccoli, Stéphane Martine, Robert Cepo    
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo    

Best Documentary

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Master of the Universe Marc Bauder    
Just the Right Amount of Violence Jon Bang Carlsen  
Of Men and War Des hommes et de la guerre Laurent Bécue-Renard    
Sacro GRA Gianfranco Rosi    
Waiting For August Teodora Ana Mihai    
We Come as Friends Hubert Sauper    

Best Cinematographer

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English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
Ida Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski  

Best Editor

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English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
Locke Justine Wright  

Best Production Designer

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English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
The Dark Valley Das finstere Tal Claus-Rudolf Amler  

Best Costume Designer

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English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
The Dark Valley Das finstere Tal Natascha Curtius-Noss  

Best Composer

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English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
Under the Skin Mica Levi  

Best Sound Designer

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English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
Starred Up Joakim Sundström  

European Co-Production Award—Prix Eurimages

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Recipient Occupation Nationality
Ed Guiney Producer  

European Achievement in World Cinema

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Recipient Occupation Nationality
Steve McQueen Director and screenwriter  

Lifetime Achievement Award

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Recipient Occupation Nationality
Agnès Varda Director and screenwriter  

Best Short Film

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The nominees for Best Short Film were selected by independent juries at a series of film festivals throughout Europe.[12][13]

English title Original title Director(s) Country Nominating Festival
The Chicken Una Gunjak     Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
Emergency Calls Hätäkutsu Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen   Sarajevo Film Festival
Shipwreck Morgan Knibbe   Locarno Film Festival
A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log Panique au Village: La Bûche de Noël Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier     Vila do Conde Film Festival
Dinola დინოლა Mariam Khatchvani   Grimstad Film Festival
Summer 2014 Lato 2014 Wojciech Sobczyk   Kraków Film Festival
Wall Fal Simon Szabó   Tampere Film Festival
Taprobana Gabriel Abrantes       Berlin International Film Festival
Pride Pavel Vesnakov     Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
The Chimera of M. Sebastian Buerkner   International Film Festival Rotterdam
Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar Jorge Lopez Navarette   Cork Film Festival
The Missing Scarf Eoin Duffy   Valladolid International Film Festival
Whale Valley Hvalfjörður Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson     Flanders International Film Festival Ghent
Daily Bread פת לחם Idan Hubel   Venice Film Festival
Still Got Lives Ich hab noch Auferstehung Jan-Gerrit Seyler   Drama International Short Film Festival

Young Audience Award

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Twelve- to fourteen-year-old audiences from across Europe voted for the winner after watching the three nominated films at special screenings held on "Young Audience Film Day".[14][15]

English title Original title Director(s) Writers(s) Production country
Regret! Spijt! Dave Schram Maria Peters, Dick van den Heuvel  
The Contest: To the Stars and Back MGP missionen Martin Miehe-Renard Gitte Løkkegaard, Martin Miehe-Renard  
Windstorm Ostwind - Zusammen sind wir frei Katja von Garnier Kristina Magdalena Henn, Lea Schmidbauer  

References

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  1. ^ European Film Awards 2014 go to Riga
  2. ^ "European Film Awards: 'Ida' Best Picture; Timothy Spall, Marion Cotillard Top Actors". Deadline. 13 December 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  3. ^ "EFA Opens Vote for People's Choice Award". European Film Academy. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  4. ^ "European Film Academy opens vote for People's Choice Award 2014". Cineuropa. September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  5. ^ "THE 27th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: 50 Films in EFA Selection 2014". European Film Academy. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Nominations 2014". European Film Academy. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  7. ^ "NOMINATIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2014". European Film Academy. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  8. ^ "'Ida,' 'Leviathan' Top European Film Awards Nominations". Variety. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  9. ^ "European Film Academy Honours Steve McQueen". European Film Academy. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  10. ^ "EFA Honours Agnès Varda". European Film Academy. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  11. ^ "EFA Nominates Three Animation Films". European Film Academy. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  12. ^ "EFA short film". European Film Academy. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  13. ^ "European film Academy announces short film nominations". Cineuropa. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  14. ^ "EFA Young Audience Award goes to REGRET!". European Film Academy. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  15. ^ "THE CONTEST, REGRET! and WINDSTORM Nominated for EFA Young Audience Award". European Film Academy. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
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