23rd European Film Awards Winners

I’m really enjoying the opportunity to watch live the awards ceremonies and EFA’s ceremony best word to describe how it was is “elegant”. Watching clips from films always will be the best part but watching actresses like Juliette Binoche and Alba Rohrwacher is always a big plus. If you followed my tweets you know by now that big winner is The Ghost Writer which I didn’t enjoyed much as to me felt and looked too American to be an European film, but seems that Academy members like the style as much as Americans do.

These are the winners.

Best European Film: The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski, France, Germany and UK
European Director: Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
European Actress: Sylvie Testud in Lourdes
European Actor: Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer

European Cinematogapher: Giora Bejach for Lebanon
European Screenwriter: Robert Harris and Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
European Composer: Alexandre Desplat for The Ghost Writer
European Editor: Luc Barnier and Marion Monnier for Carlos
European Production Designer: Albrecht Konrad for The Ghost Writer

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI: Lebanon, Samuel Maoz, Israel, Germany and UK

European Film Academy Documentary – Prix Arte: Nostalgia de la Luz (Nostalgia for the Light), Patricio Guzmán, France, Germany and Chile

European Film Academy Animated Feature Film: The Illusionist, Sylvain Chomet, UK and France

European Film Academy Short Film: Hanoi-Warszawa (Hanoi-Warsaw), Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, Poland

European Co-Production Award – Prix Eurimages: Zyenep Ozbatur Atakan
European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award: Bruno Ganz
European Achievement in World Cinema: Gabriel Yared

People’s Choice Award for Best European Film: Mr. Nobody, Jaco Van Dormael, Belgium

To check winners and read about each film at awards site go here.  So this is it for this year and hope next year top awards will be given to more interesting and European films. Sigh. Next year awards will be held in Malta.

2010 National Board of Review Awards

Yesterday the organization announced the winners for the current year awards and here they are.

Best Film: The Social Network

Best Director: David Fincher for The Social Network
Best Debut Director: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington for Restrepo

Best Ensemble Cast: The Town
Best Actress: Lesley Manville in Another Year
Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom
Best Actor: Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale in The Fighter

Breakthrough Performance: Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone

Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network
Best Original Screenplay: Chris Sparling for Buried

Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3

Best Foreign Language Film: Of Gods and Men
Top Five Foreign Films (alphabetical order)
I Am Love
Incendies
Life
Above All
Soul Kitchen
White Material

Best Documentary: Waiting for Superman
Top Five Documentaries (alphabetical order)
A Film Unfinished
Inside Job
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Restrepo
The Tillman Story

Top Independent Films (alphabetical order
Animal Kingdom
Buried
Fish Tank
The Ghost Writer
Greenberg
Let Me In
Monsters
Please Give
Somewhere
Youth in Revolt

Spotlight Award: Sylvain Chomet and Jacques Tati for The Ilusionist
Special Filmmaking Achievement: Sofia Coppola for writing, directing and producing Somewhere
Production Design Award: Dante Ferretti for Shuter Island
William K. Everson Award for Film History: Leonard Maltin
Freedom of Expression: Fair Game, Conviction and Howl

To check announcement at official site go here. The Social Network is the film that collected more awards this year and becomes “more” an Oscar contender (of course we already had it in our list) and perhaps opens opportunities for Eisenberg to grab a nod; maybe what calls my attention from the first critics’ awards is the original screenplay award going to Buried.

4th Annual Asia Pacific Screen Award Winners

Yesterday winners were announced in a ceremony that you can watch here if you wish to watch clips from nominated movies. The following are the awards winners.

Best Feature Film: Tangshan dadizhen (Aftershock), Xiaogang Feng, China and Hong Kong

Jury Grand Prize:
Levanon (Lebanon), Samuel Maoz, Israel, France and Germany
Shinobu Terajima in Kyatapirâ (Caterpillar), Kôji Wakamatsu, Japan

Achievement in Directing: Chang-dong Lee for Shi (Poetry), Korea
Best Performance by Actress: Yun Jung-hee in Shi (Poetry), Chang-dong Lee, Korea
Best Performance by Actor: Chen Daoming in Tangshan dadizheng (Aftershock), Xiaogang Feng, China and Hong Kong

Best Children’s Feature Film: Digari (The Other), Mehdi Rahmani, Iran
Best Animated Feature Film: Piercing 1, Liu Jian, China
Best Documentary Feature Film: Last Train Home, Lixin Fan, China and Canada

Best Screenplay: Levanon (Lebanon), Samuel Maoz, Israel, France and Germany
Achievement in Cinematography: Sudheer Palsane for Vihir (The Well), Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni, India

UNESCO Award: Bal (Honey), Semih Kaplanoglu, Turkey and Germany
FIAPF Award: Christine Hakim, Indonesia

To check announcement at official site go here.