Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez triumphed at this 12 months’s European Movie Awards, taking residence 5 prizes together with greatest movie at tonight’s (December 7) ceremony in Lucerne.
The Mexico-set musical drama, a couple of feared drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgical procedure, clinched the most effective movie, director, screenwriter and actress prizes, along with its beforehand introduced modifying prize.
Receiving the primary prize of the night, for European director, Audiard stated he had ready no fewer than three speeches. “I used to be being very optimistic,” he joked. Accepting the most effective director award he quoted British paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s well-known phrase: “It’s a pleasure to be hidden, and catastrophe to not be discovered,” and thanked the Academy for recognising him. Later within the night, receiving the screenwriting prize, Audiard devoted it to French-Danish actor Niels Arestrup, who he directed in The Beat That My Coronary heart Skipped and A Prophet, and who died final week.
Moreover, Emilia Perez’s breakout star Karla Sofía Gascón gained the most effective actress prize. “Thanks to the most effective European director for making the most effective European actress – thanks Jacques,” stated Gascón.
One of many large surprises of the night was newcomer Abou Sangare’s greatest actor win for his half in Souleymane’s Story in a class that additionally included hotly tipped names equivalent to Ralph Fiennes for Conclave and Daniel Craig for Queer. Sangare performs a Guinean asylum seeker who tries to work the gig financial system on the streets of Paris within the drama which premiered in Cannes’ Sure Regard, successful the jury prize and incomes Sangare a greatest actor award.
Political ceremony
A politically charged awards ceremony started with an introduction by Oscar successful actress Juliette Binoche, the brand new president of the European Movie Academy. She stated that movie is a method to enlighten one another and confide in variations. “The European Movie Academy is a good image to that dream. Our creative reunion consists of Palestine, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Georgia and lots of different international locations. We’re right here to share our work with care and respect.”
The documentary prize was gained by No Different Land, about the Israeli demolition of villages in Masafer Yatta within the West Financial institution. It’s the newest in a string of wins for Berlinale premiere No Different Land, which previously weeks has additionally gained documentary prizes on the New York Movie Critics Circle and the Gothams.
Two of its co-directors – Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and Palestinian activist Basel Adra – accepted the reward remotely by video feed. Adra stated it was very laborious to rejoice the award at a time when “the occupation is committing a genocide towards my folks,” whereas Abraham stated ethnic cleaning was being carried out towards the Palestinian folks in Gaza. Addressing European governments, Abraham stated: “It’s not sufficient to demand a ceasefire. A ceasefire must be imposed.” As they completed their acceptance speech, a shout of “Free Palestine” rang out within the auditorium.
There was an added political dimension to the documentary prize class, which was offered by Belarusian filmmaker and activist Andrei Gnyot. The European Movie Academy campaigned this 12 months to forestall him being extradited again to Belarus. “As a consequence of open letters from European movie neighborhood I used to be freed. You can not think about my gratitude…it’s important to perceive that you simply saved my life, that’s the reason I’m right here now.”
The animation prize was gained by director Gints Zilbalodis’s Circulation. It’s the newest prize for the Latvian movie, which is constructing actual awards momentum. Earlier this week it additionally gained greatest animation on the New York Movie Critics Circle. Circulation debuted in Cannes’ Un Sure Regard and went on to display at Annecy, the place it gained 4 prizes together with the competitors jury and viewers award.
Through the ceremony, Italian actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini acquired the European Achievement In World Cinema award, whereas German filmmaker Wim Wenders was awarded the European Lifetime Achievement prize, and Macedonian producer Labina Mitovska was honoured with the Eurimages Worldwide Co-Manufacturing award.
Kôji Yakusho, who starred as a public rest room cleaner in Wenders’ current hit movie Excellent Days, appeared in a video tribute to the director. Branding a rest room brush, he joked that he would clear Wenders’ rest room to rejoice his victory.
In his acceptance speech, Wenders urged the viewers to serve the European movie neighborhood. “Europe wants you, the movie neighborhood, to provide to a extra constructive and emotional picture of a continent that may be a little bit misplaced in translation, as a result of too many individuals consider it as an financial or monetary neighborhood. However it’s an emotional unity. It provides us energy and we must always give it energy.”
This 12 months’s ceremony occurred on the KKL live performance corridor Lucerne, Switzerland and was hosted by Swiss voiceover actor Fernando Tiberini. Switzerland is a four-language nation and Tiberini billed this 12 months’s EFAs as multilingual awards present. He inspired winners to talk in personal language when accepting awards; their phrases have been interpreted stay in English. “Come up on stage and be yourselves,” he stated.
Winners in daring
European Movie
- Bye Bye Tiberias (Fr-Bel- Pal-Qatar) dir. Lina Soualem
- Dahomey (Fr-Senegal) dir: Mati Diop
- Emilia Pérez (Fr) dir: Jacques Audiard
- Circulation (Lat-Fr- Belg) dir: Gints Zilbalodis
- In Limbo (Pol) dir: Alina Maksimenko
- Dwelling Massive (Cz-Fr-Slov) dir: Kristina Dufková
- No Different Land (Pal-Nor) dir: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal
- Savages (Switz-Fr-Bel) dir: Claude Barras
- Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat (Fr- Bel-Neth) dir: Johan Grimonprez
- Sultana’s Dream (Sp- Ger-India) dir: Isabel Herguera
- The Room Subsequent Door (Sp) dir: Pedro Almodóvar
- The Seed Of The Sacred Fig (Ger-Fr) dir: Mohammad Rasoulof
- The Substance (UK-US- Fr) dir: Coralie Fargeat
- They Shot The Piano Participant (Sp-Fr-Neth- Port-Peru) dir: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal
- Vermiglio (It-Fr-Bel) dir: Maura Delpero
European Actress
- Renate Reinsve in Armand
- Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez
- Trine Dyrholm in The Woman With The Needle
- Vic Carmen Sonne in The Woman With The Needle
- Tilda Swinton in The Room Subsequent Door
European Actor
- Franz Rogowski in Fowl
- Ralph Fiennes in Conclave
- Lars Eidinger in Dying
- Daniel Craig in Queer
- Abou Sangare in Souleymane’s Story
European Screenwriter
- Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
- Magnus von Horn & Line Langebek for The Woman With The Needle
- Pedro Almodóvar for The Room Subsequent Door
- Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
- Coralie Fargeat for The Substance
European Documentary
- Bye Bye Tiberias dir: Lina Soualem
- Dahomey dir: Mati Diop
- In Limbo dir: Alina Maksimenko
- No Different Land dir: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal
- Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat dir: Johan Grimonprez, produced by Daan Milius & Rémi Grellety
European Director
- Andrea Arnold for Fowl
- Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
- Pedro Almodóvar for The Room Subsequent Door
- Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
- Maura Delpero for Vermiglio
European Animation
- Circulation (Lat-Fr- Belg) dir: Gints Zilbalodis
- Savages (Switz-Fr-Bel) dir: Claude Barras
- Sultana’s Dream (Sp- Ger-India) dir: Isabel Herguera
- They Shot The Piano Participant (Sp-Fr-Neth- Port-Peru) dir: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal
- Dwelling Massive (Cz-Fr-Slov) dir: Kristina Dufková
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
- Armand (Nor-Neth-Ger-Swe) dir: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
- Hoard (UK) dir: Luna Carmoon
- Kneecap (Ire-UK) dir: Wealthy Peppiatt
- Santosh (UK-Ger) dir: Sandhya Suri
- The New 12 months That By no means Got here (Anul Nou Care N-A Fost) (Rom-Ser) dir: Bogdan Mureșanu
- Poisonous (Akiplėša) (Lith) dir: Saulė Bliuvaitė
European brief movie
- 2720 (Port-Swit) dir. Basil da Cunha
- Clamor (Fr) dir. Salomé Da Souza
- The Exploding Woman (Fr) dir. Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
- The Man Who May Not Stay Silent (Croatia-Fr-Bulg-Slov) Dir. Nebojša Slijepčević
- Wander To Surprise (Neth- Fr-Bel-UK) dir Nina Gantz
European Younger Viewers Award
- Lars Is Lol (Nor-Den) dir: Eirik Sæter Stordahl
- The Exceptional Life Of Ibelin (Nor) dir: Benjamin Ree
- Winners (Ger) dir: Soleen Yusef
European Movie Awards 2024 craft winners (already introduced)
- Cinematography – Benjamin Kračun for The Substance
- Visible Results Bryan – Jones, Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky, Chervin Shafaghi and Guillaume Le Gouez for The Substance
- Manufacturing Design – Jagna Dobesz for The Woman With The Needle
- Authentic Rating – Frederikke Hoffmeier for The Woman With The Needle
- Enhancing – Juliette Welfling for Emilia Pérez
- Costume Design – Tanja Hausner for The Satan’s Bathtub
- Make-up & Hair – Evalotte Oosterop for When The Mild Breaks
- Sound – Marc-Olivier Brullé, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aïchoun & Rodrigo Diaz for Souleymane’s Story.