The 36th European Film Awards have kicked off in Berlin with several of this year’s hottest award season contenders vying for the top honors from the European Film Academy.
Justine Triet’s acclaimed French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall, Jonathan Glazer’s harrowing Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest and Aki Kaurismäki dark, droll Finnish love story Fallen Leaves, all of which have received major awards buzz, are multiple nominees and all up for the top prize of best European film. Other best film nominees include Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano from Italy, and Agnieszka Holland’s Polish drama Green Border, both of which look at the refugee crisis on Europe’s borders.
Sandra Hüller is a double nominee in the best actress category, for her starring turns in The Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall, and is going up against Fallen Leaves star Alma Pöysti; Leonie Benesch, nominated for İlker Çatak’s The Teachers’ Lounge; Mia McKenna-Bruce, star of Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex; and Eka Chavleishvili for her starring role in Elene Naveriani’s Georgian drama Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.
Hüller’s Zone co-star Christian Friedel is in the running for the best European actor honor, competing with Mads Mikkelsen for Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land, Josh O’Connor for Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, Fallen Leaves co-star Jussi Vatanen and Thomas Schubert for Christian Petzold’s Afire.
EFA’s Excellence Awards, the craft section of the European Film Awards, were announced ahead of Saturday’s gala. Arcel’s 18th-century Danish Western The Promised Land picked up best cinematography honors for. J.A. Bayona‘s real-life drama Society of the Snow won best visual effects for Félix Bergés and Laura Pedrobest and best hair and make-up for Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé. The Zone of Interest won best sound design for Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers, and Laurent Sénéchal took the best editing prize for his work on Anatomy of a Fall. Emita Frigato won the EFA for best production design for Rohwacher’s Italian drama La Chimera, and Markus Binder took best score for his soundtrack to Jessica Hausner’s health cult satire Club Zero starring Mia Wasikowska.
The European Film Academy also presented several filmmakers with honorary accolades. Spanish director Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, The Bookshop) got the European Achievement in World Cinema Award. Oscar-winning British actress Vanessa Redgrave (Julia, Howards End) received the European Lifetime Achievement honor. Legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr (The Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies) was presented with the Honorary Award of the Academy President and Board, a rare achievement. Tarr is only the sixth filmmaker to be so honored, following directors Manoel de Oliveira, Andrzej Wajda and Costa-Gavras, and actors Michel Piccoli and Michael Caine.
The Euroimages European Co-Production Award, honoring excellence in cross-border film production, went to Lithuanian-based producer Uljana Kim. Through her company, Studio Uljana Kim, she has produced some 34 features and documentaries, almost all co-productions, including The Gambler (2013), Teesklejad (2016) and The Year Before the War (2021).
From outside the film business, Turkish executive Güler Sabancı, chairperson of Sabancı Holding, received the European Sustainability Award, for her philanthropic work to promote sustainability practices across multiple sectors.
Full list of winners for the 2023 European Film Awards
European Film
Anatomy of a Fall, dir. Justine Triet
Fallen Leaves, dir. Aki Kaurismäki
Green Border, dir. Agnieszka Holland
Io Capitano, dir. Matteo Garrone
The Zone of Interest, dir. Jonathan Glazer
European Documentary
Apolonia, Apolonia, dir. Lea Glob
Four Daughters, dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
Motherland, dir. Hanna Badziaka, Alexander Mihalkovich
On the Adamant, dir. Nicolas Philibert
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, dir. Anna Hints
European Director
Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall
Aki Kaurismäki for Fallen Leaves
Agnieszka Holland for Green Border
Matteo Garrone for Io Capitano
Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest
European Actress
Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall
Eka Chavleishvili in Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Alma Pöysti in Fallen Leaves
Mia McKenna-Bruce in How To Have Sex
Leonie Benesch in The Teachers’ Lounge
Sandra Hüller in The Zone of Interest
European Actor
Thomas Schubert in Afire
Jussi Vatanen in Fallen Leaves
Josh O’Connor in La Chimera
Mads Mikkelsen in The Promised Land
Christian Friedel in The Zone of Interest
European Screenwriter
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall
Aki Kaurismäki for Fallen Leaves
Maciej Pisuk, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Agnieszka Holland for Green Border
İlker Çatak and Johannes Duncker for The Teachers’ Lounge
Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
20,000 Species of Bees, dir, Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
How To Have Sex, dir. Molly Manning Walker
La Palisiada, dir. Philip Sotnychenko
Safe Place, dir. Juraj Lerotić
The Quiet Migration, dir. Malene Choi
Vincent Must Die, dir. Stéphan Castang
European Animated Feature Film
A Greyhound of a Girl, dir. Enzo d’Alò
Chicken For Linda!, dir. Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
Robot Dreams, dir. Pablo Berger
The Amazing Maurice, dir. Toby Genkel
White Plastic Sky, dir. Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó
European Short Film
27, dir. Flóra Anna Buda
Aqueronte, dir. Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays, dir. Christian Avilés
Flores Del Otro Patio, dir. Jorge Cadena
Hardly Working, dir. Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
European Cinematography
Rasmus Videbaek for The Promised Land
European Editing
Laurent Sénéchal for Anatomy of a Fall
European Score
Markus Binder for Club Zero
European Production Design
Emita Frigato for La Chimera
European Costume Design
Kicki Ilander for The Promised Land
European Visual Effects
Félix Bergés and Laura Pedrobest for Society of the Snow
European Hair and Make-Up
Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé for Society of the Snow
European Sound Design
Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers for The Zone of Interest
Scott Roxborough
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