2024 European Film Awards winners list: “Emilia Perez” wins big

emilia perez The film received an early boost at the 37th European Film Awards in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Saturday night.

Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language transgender musical won Audiard awards for best picture, best director and best screenplay. Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays the eponymous character, won best actress, becoming the first transgender actor to win the award.

“I didn’t prepare anything because I was sure I wouldn’t receive anything tonight,” Gascón said as he accepted his prize. She thanked Odiad, “Europe’s best directors have produced Europe’s best actresses.” Gascón dedicated the award to “my mother and all mothers in this world, because their values ​​and functions are sometimes underestimate, [and] I would like to dedicate this award to all families and ask all parents to love their children because unfortunately in this world there are families who would rather their children become criminals than their children become homosexuals.

Audia awarded the best screenplay award to the late French-Danish actor Niels Arestrup, with whom he worked on the following films: The beat my heart beats (2005) and prophet (2009).

Holding up the trophy for best film, Audia reminded the audience that “all of us here are very lucky to be able to make films in Europe.” He said he hoped that the government’s generous support for films would “set an example for all other countries in Europe” .

emilia perez The film is France’s official entry for the Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category and is a strong contender in several categories, including Best Actress for “Gascon,” co-starring Zoe Saldani and Selena Gomez for Best Supporting Actor, as well as awards in multiple technical categories.

Guinean actor Abou Sangare beats heavyweights Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig and German actor Lars Eidinger to win Boris Low Boris Lojkine’s film won the Best Actor Award Suleiman’s storyin which he plays an African immigrant struggling to survive in Paris and obtaining legalization papers so he can stay.

There was little overt political rhetoric at the ceremony, but Palestinian actress Hiam Abbas asked viewers to think of the children in Gaza as she presented the award for best picture. “If they ever dreamed, or had anything to say, or had any horizon, death would make all their dreams disappear.”

Best Documentary Winner no other landThe Israeli government used the opportunity to speak out against the war in Gaza, following the systematic and violent expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank. Basel Adra, one of the film’s Palestinian directors, said while accepting the award via Zoom that it was difficult to celebrate the “genocide against my people” that was taking place. How Israel is systematically trying to erase us from our homeland. His Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham called on European governments to take action to force a ceasefire from the Israeli government by halting the supply of weapons to Jerusalem. “For the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza [at] At the risk of death, a ceasefire is necessary for the sake of hundreds of Israeli hostages.

flowLatvia is up for the Academy Award for Best International Film and is a strong contender for Best Animated Feature, having won the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature. This dialogue-free drama tells the story of a big-eyed cat trapped in an apocalyptic flood who teams up with a group of small animals from different regions to escape.

The award for Best Short Film went to Croatian director Nebojsa Slijepcevic A man who cannot remain silentthe Oscar front-runner who won the Palme d’Or earlier this year. The film dramatizes the 1993 Strpč massacre, in which 24 Bosnian Muslims were dragged from a train by Serbian paramilitaries, leaving only one Croat, Tomo Buzov, standing. Rise up against the attackers.

Slijepcevic said that after the Yugoslav wars ended, Buzov’s story was forgotten “because it didn’t fit into any narrative, but not anymore.”

Animated documentary wins European Young Audience Award Ibelin’s extraordinary lifewhich premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by Netflix.

armandA drama set in a campus directed by Norwegian director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, which is also a strong contender for the country’s best international feature film at the Academy Awards, won the European Discovery Award for Best Debut Film. .

The winners of the craft category were announced ahead of Saturday’s gala, with substance Winning trophies for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects, girl holding needle for best results and best production design, and emilia perez Winning awards like Best Editing.

Famous German director Wim WendersParis, Texas, Pina, perfect day) won the European Lifetime Achievement Award. The long list of tributes to Wenders includes clips from Martin Scorsese, Willem Dafoe, Nick Cave, and highlights from “Wenders” star, Japanese actor Koji Yakusho. perfect dayPlaying a character from the movie, scrubbing public toilets in Tokyo. “Mr. Director! To celebrate, I will clean your toilet.” Prost! “

After receiving the trophy from FFA president Juliette Binoche, Wenders cracked the first Trump joke of the night. “Thank you, Madam President. Many of us want to call another woman Madam President, but that doesn’t happen. If anything, the world would be a better place. But when another person pretends to make America once again Great, this president has a chance to make European cinema shine again.

At the end of his speech, Wenders quoted another US president, John F. Kennedy, and called on the film professionals present not to ask what Europe can do for them, but to ask what they can do for Europe. “Europe is in trouble right now,” Wenders said. “I really urge you to think about what you can do for Europe, because Europe needs you. It needs the film industry to have a more positive and emotional view of the continent. [because] Too many people think of it as an economic community and a financial community, but it is an emotional community. It gave us strength, now we should give it strength.

Italian actress Isabella Rossellini receives European World Cinema Achievement Award secret meeting Co-starring Ralph Fiennes.

“She has a pretty good legacy, so to speak,” Fiennes said, citing Rossellini’s legendary filmmaking parents, Oscar-winning actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian neorealist director Roberto Rosselli Ni, then listed the “extraordinary talents” she has worked with during her career. “David Lynch, Robert Zemeckis, Peter Weir, Abel Ferrara, Guy Madden, Denis Villeneuve, Alice Rohrwacher and Edward Berger. You might think they chose She, but mostly, she chose them.

“If I were to define this engine, the motor of my life, I would say it is curiosity, and the fuel of this motor is laughter,” Rossellini said as she accepted the award. She thanked those who drove her away from work. Nanny taking care of children. “I wouldn’t be able to have the career I have without the amazing work of other women helping me,” she said. “This is true for all of us women who have careers. My mother said the same thing to me: ‘I wouldn’t have the career I have without our nanny Jenny. “I’m as grateful to her, Jenny, as I am to directors like Alfred Hitchcock.

Macedonian producer and actress Labina Mitevska has won this year’s European Image International Co-Production Award, recognizing the producer’s contribution to promoting international film collaboration.

See the full list of European Film Awards 2024 winners below.

european movies

emilia perez (France), directed by Jacques Audiard, produced by Pascal Cochet, Jacques Audiard, Valerie Sherman and Anthony Vaccarello

European Documentary

no other land (Palestine, Norway), directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Saul, Basel Adela and Hamdan Baral, with Fabian Greenberg, Bader Kjorg. Produced by Ronin, Yuval Abraham, Basil Adela, Rachel Saul and Hamdan Baral

European Director

Jacques Audiard emilia perez

european actress

Carla Sofia Gascón emilia perez

european actor

Abu Sangare Suleiman’s story

European screenwriter

Jacques Audiard emilia perez

European Exploration – FIPRESCI Prize

armand (Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden), directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

European animated feature films

flowdirected by Kinz Chirbalodis

european short film

A man who cannot remain silentdirected by Nebojsa Slijepcevic

European Young Audience Award

Ibelin’s extraordinary life (Norway), directed by Benjamin Ray and produced by Ingvergijske

Best Photography

substance (Benjamin Craquin)

best visual effects

substance (Brian Jones, Pierre Prokudingorski, Chervin Shafaji, Guillaume Legouz)

Best Production Design

girl holding needle (Jagannath Dobes)

Best Original Score

girl holding needle (Frederick Hoffmyer)

best clip

emilia perez (played by Juliet Wilflin)

Best Costume Design

Devil’s Bath (Tanya Hausner)

Best makeup and hair

when the light breaks (Evalot Ostrop)

best sound effects

Suleiman’s story (Marc-Olivier Brulle, Pierre Balliard, Charlotte Butrac, Samuel Aljun, Rodrigo Diaz)

European College Film Awards

Three kilometers from the end of the world (Director Emmanuel Palu)

European Lifetime Achievement Award

Wim Wenders

Europe’s achievements in world cinema

Isabella Rossellini

european imaging international co-productions

Rabina Mitewska