31st European Film Awards
Teatro de la Maestranza
Date	15 December 2018
Site	Seville, Spain
Organized by	European Film Academy
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The 31st European Film Awards were presented on 15 December 2018 in Seville, Spain.^[1]

Selection

Awards voted by EFA Members

Best Film

The nominees were announced on 10 November 2018.^[2]

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Country	Language
Cold War	Pawel Pawlikowski	Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczynska	Apocalypso Pictures, BFI Film Fund, Film4, MK2 Productions, Opus Film, Protagonist Pictures		Polish
Border	Ali Abbasi	Nina Bisgaard, Peter Gustafsson, Petra Jonsson	META Film, Black Spark Film & TV, Karnfilm, TriArt Film		Swedish
Dogman	Matteo Garrone	Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Jean Labadie, Paolo Del Brocco	Archimede, Le Pacte, 01 Distribution		Italian
Girl	Lukas Dhont	Dirk Impens	Menuet, Frakas Productions, Topkapi Films, Netflix		Dutch, French
Happy as Lazzaro	Alice Rohrwacher	Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber	Tempesta SRL, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora, Filmproduktions		Italian

Best Comedy

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Country	Language
The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci	Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Kevin Loader	eOne Films, IFC, Gaumont		English
C'est la vie!	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache	Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou	Quad Productions, Ten Films		French
Diamantino	Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt	Justin Taurand, Maria João Mayer, Daniel van Hoogstraten	Maria & Mayer, Les Films du Bélier, Syndrome Films		Portuguese

Best Director[edit] Director(s) English title Paweł Pawlikowski Cold War / Ali Abbasi Border Matteo Garrone Dogman Samuel Maoz Foxtrot Alice Rohrwacher Happy as Lazzaro

Best Screenwriter[edit] Screenwriter(s) English title Paweł Pawlikowski Cold War Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf & John Ajvide Lindqvist Border Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti & Massimo Gaudioso Dogman Gustav Möller & Emil Nygaard Albertsen The Guilty Alice Rohrwacher Happy as Lazzaro

Best Actress[edit] Actress English title Role Joanna Kulig Cold War Zuzanna "Zula" Lichoń Marie Bäumer 3 Days in Quiberon Romy Schneider Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir Woman at War Halla Bárbara Lennie Petra Petra Eva Melander Border Tina Alba Rohrwacher Happy as Lazzaro Antonia

Best Actor[edit] Actor English title Role Marcello Fonte Dogman Marcello Jakob Cedergren The Guilty Asger Holm Rupert Everett The Happy Prince Oscar Wilde Sverrir Gudnason Borg vs McEnroe Björn Borg Tomasz Kot Cold War Wiktor Warski Victor Polster Girl Lara

Technical awards

Best Composer[edit] Winner(s) English title Christoph M. Kaiser and Julian Maas 3 Days in Quiberon Best Cinematographer[edit] Winner(s) English title Martin Otterbeck Utøya: July 22 Best Editor[edit] Winner(s) English title Jarosław Kamiński Cold War Best Production Designer[edit] Winner(s) English title Andrey Ponkratov Summer

Best Costume Designer[edit] English title Winner(s) Massimo Cantini Parrini Dogman Best Sound Designer[edit] Winner(s) English title André Bendocchi-Alves and Martin Steyer The Captain Best Makeup and Hairstyling[edit] Winner(s) English title Dalia Colli, Lorenzo Tamburini and Daniela Tartari Dogman Best Visual Effects[edit] Winner(s) English title Peter Hjorth Border

Critics Award

European Discovery

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Country	Language
Girl	Lukas Dhont	Dirk Impens	Menuet, Frakas Productions, Topkapi Films, Netflix		Dutch, French
One Day	Zsófia Szilágyi	Edina Kenesei, Ági Pataki	Filmpartners, Sparks, Vertigo Média Kft., Zeta Filmes		Hungarian, Italian
Scary Mother	Ana Urushadze	Lasha Khalvashi, Tinatin Kajrishvili	Artizm, Gemini, Allfilm, Georgian National Film Centre		Georgian
The Guilty	Gustav Möller	Lina Flint	Nordisk Film Spring, New Danish Screen, Magnolia Pictures		Danish
Those Who Are Fine	Cyril Schäublin	Silvan Hillmann, Cyril Schäublin, Lara Hacisalihzade	Seeland Filmproduktion, Film IGRF		Swiss, German
Touch Me Not	Adina Pintilie	Adina Pintilie, Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril	Manekino Film, 4 Proof Film, Agitprop, Les Films de l'Étranger, Pink Productions, Rohfilm		English, German

Best Animated Feature Film

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Country	Language
Another Day of Life	Raul de la Fuente & Damian Nenow	Jarek Sawko, Amaia Remirez, Ole Østergaard	Platige Image, Kanaki Films		Polish
Early Man	Nick Park	Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Nick Park, Carla Shelley, Richard Beek	Aardman Animations, British Film Institute, StudioCanal		English
The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey	Anthony Leo, Tomm Moore, Andrew Rosen, Paul Young	Cartoon Saloon, Aircraft Pictures, Guru Studio, Jolie Pas, Irish Film Board, Melusine Productions, Telefilm Canada, Elevation Pictures, StudioCanal		English
White Fang	Alexandre Espigares	Clément Calvet, Jérémie Fajner, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, Lilian Eche, Christel Henon	Superprod, Bidibul Productions, Big Beach, Wild Bunch		French

Audience awards

People's Choice Award

English title	Director(s)	Production country
Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino
Borg vs McEnroe	Janus Metz Pedersen
C'est la vie!	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
Darkest Hour	Joe Wright
In the Fade	Fatih Akin
The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Luc Besson
Victoria & Abdul	Stephen Frears

University Award

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Country	Language
Happy as Lazzaro	Alice Rohrwacher	Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber	Tempesta SRL, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora, Filmproduktions		Italian
Foxtrot	Samuel Maoz	Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Eitan Mansuri, Cedomir Kolar, Marc Baschet & Michel Merktri	Bord Cadre Films		Hebrew
Styx	Wolfgang Fischer	Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald	A.S.A.P.,ARTE,Arte France Cinéma		German
Tarzan's Testicles	Alexandru Solomon	Ada Solomon, Cedric Bonin, Pascaline Geoffroy	HI Film Productions,Seppia Production		Russian
Utøya: July 22	Erik Poppe	Stein B. Kvae & Finn Gjerdrum	Paradox Film 7,Paradox,MEDIA Programme of the European Union		Norwegian

Best Documentary

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Country	Language
Bergman - A Year in a Life	Jane Magnusson	Mattias Nohrborg, Cecilia Nessen, Fredrik Heinig	B-Reel Films, Carlotta Films, Filmarti, Imovision		Swedish, English, German
A Woman Captured	Bernadett Tuza-Ritter	Julianna Ugrin, Viki Réka Kiss	Éclipse Film, Corso Film		Hungarian
Of Fathers and Sons	Talal Derki	Eva Kemme, Hans Robert Eisenhauer, Ansgar Frerich, Tobias Siebert	Cinema Group Production, Südwestrundfunk, Impact Partners, Basis Berlin Filmproduktion, Ventana Film- und Fernsehproduktion		Arabic
The Distant Barking of Dogs	Simon Lering Wilmont	Monica Hellström	Final Cut for Real		Russian
The Silence of Others	Almudena Carracedo [es] & Robert Bahar	Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar	Semilla Verde Productions, Lucernam Films, Blue Ice Docs, El Deseo, ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting, P.O.V.		Spanish

Best Short Film

Original title	Director(s)	Minutes	Production country
The Years	Sara Fgaier	20 min.
Aquaparque	Ana Moreira	17 min.
Burkina Brandenburg Komplex	Ulu Braun	19 min.
Graduation '97	Pavlo Ostrikov	19 min.
I Signed The Petition	Mahdi Fleifel	19 min.
Kapitalistis	Pablo Muñoz Gómez	15 min.
Kontener	Sebastian Lang	30 min.
Meryem	Reber Dosky	16 min.
Prisoner of Society	Rati Tsiteladze	15 min.
Release The Dogs	Manue Fleytoux	21 min.
Shame	Petar Krumov	24 min.
The Escape	Laëtitia Martinoni	10 min.
Those Who Desire	Elena López Riera	24 min.
What's The Damage	Heather Phillipson	7 min.
Wildebeest	Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips	19 min.

European Co-Production Award — Prix Eurimages

Recipient	Occupation
Konstantinos Kontovrakis Giorgos Karnavas	Producer

Honorary Awards

European Achievement in World Cinema[edit] Recipient Occupation Ralph Fiennes Actor, film producer and director

Lifetime Achievement Award[edit] Recipient Occupation Carmen Maura Actress