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

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]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Ida Paweł Pawlikowski Poland Denmark
Force Majeure Turist Ruben Östlund Sweden France Norway Denmark
Leviathan Левиафан Andrey Zvyagintsev Russia
Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut Lars von Trier Denmark Belgium France Germany
Winter Sleep Kış Uykusu Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkey

Best Director

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

Best Screenwriter

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

Actor English title Original title
United Kingdom Timothy Spall Mr. Turner
Republic of Ireland Brendan Gleeson Calvary
United Kingdom Tom Hardy Locke
Russia Aleksei Serebryakov Leviathan Левиафан
Sweden Stellan Skarsgård Nymphomaniac

Best European Actress

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

Best Comedy

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

People's Choice Award for Best European Film

English title Original title Director(s) Writers(s) Production country
Ida Paweł Pawlikowski Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Paweł Pawlikowski Poland Denmark
Beauty and the Beast La Belle et la Bête Christophe Gans Christophe Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh France Germany
Nymphomaniac Lars von Trier Lars von Trier Denmark Belgium France Germany
Philomena Stephen Frears Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope United Kingdom
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 Sweden
Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne Belgium France Italy

Discovery of the Year

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

Best Animated Feature Film

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 Italy
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart Jack et la mécanique du cœur Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu Nicolette Ceccoli, Stéphane Martine, Robert Cepo France Belgium
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo France Belgium

Best Documentary

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

Best Cinematographer

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

Best Editor

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

Best Production Designer

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

Best Costume Designer

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

Best Composer

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

Best Sound Designer

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

European Co-Production Award—Prix Eurimages

Recipient Occupation Nationality
Ed Guiney Producer Republic of Ireland

European Achievement in World Cinema

Recipient Occupation Nationality
Steve McQueen Director and screenwriter United Kingdom

Lifetime Achievement Award

Recipient Occupation Nationality
Agnès Varda Director and screenwriter France

Best Short Film

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 Germany Croatia Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
Emergency Calls Hätäkutsu Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen Finland Sarajevo Film Festival
Shipwreck Morgan Knibbe Netherlands Locarno Film Festival
A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log Panique au Village: La Bûche de Noël Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier Belgium France Vila do Conde Film Festival
Dinola დინოლა Mariam Khatchvani Georgia (country) Grimstad Film Festival
Summer 2014 Lato 2014 Wojciech Sobczyk Poland Kraków Film Festival
Wall Fal Simon Szabó Hungary Tampere Film Festival
Taprobana Gabriel Abrantes Portugal Sri Lanka Denmark Berlin International Film Festival
Pride Pavel Vesnakov Bulgaria Germany Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
The Chimera of M. Sebastian Buerkner United Kingdom 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 Spain Cork Film Festival
The Missing Scarf Eoin Duffy Republic of Ireland Valladolid International Film Festival
Whale Valley Hvalfjörður Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson Denmark Iceland Flanders International Film Festival Ghent
Daily Bread פת לחם Idan Hubel Israel Venice Film Festival
Still Got Lives Ich hab noch Auferstehung Jan-Gerrit Seyler Germany Drama International Short Film Festival

Young Audience Award

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 Netherlands
The Contest: To the Stars and Back MGP missionen Martin Miehe-Renard Gitte Løkkegaard, Martin Miehe-Renard Denmark
Windstorm Ostwind - Zusammen sind wir frei Katja von Garnier Kristina Magdalena Henn, Lea Schmidbauer Germany

References

  1. ^ European Film Awards 2014 go to Riga
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  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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