European Film Academy Articles

Roman Polanski on screen: European Film Awards 2010 (top); Pierce Brosnan as a Tony Blair-like former British prime minister in The Ghost Writer (bottom) Roman Polanski's THE GHOST WRITER Sweeps European Film Awards 2010 Roman Polanski may be a wanted man in the United States, but as far as the European Film Academy is concerned Polanski is the director of the acclaimed mystery thriller The [...]

Mathias Domahidy in Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme (top); Aaron Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff in Sam Taylor Wood's Nowhere Boy (upper middle); Ewan McGregor in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer (lower middle); Semih Kaplanoglu's Honey (bottom) Jean-Luc Godard's mind-boggling Film Socialisme, Semih Kaplanoglu's Berlin Film Festival winner Bal / Honey, Roman Polanski's thriller The Ghost Writer, Samuel Maoz's 2009 Venice Film Festival winner Lebanon, Ferzan Ozpetek's (gay) [...]

Best actor European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim was present at the Dec. 12 ceremony in Bochum, Germany, to receive his trophy for his performance as a prison inmate at odds with the local Corsican mafia in Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. However, much like last year's best actress winner Helen Mirren (for The Queen), Kate Winslet was nowhere to be found in the auditorium. Winslet [...]

Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda in Swet Rush The European Film Academy, EFA Productions, and the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI have announced that the 2009 Prix FIPRESCI goes to 83-year-old Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (right) for Tatarak / Sweet Rush. Based on Sándor Márai's short story, Sweet Rush — which has some points in common with The Door in the Floor — chronicles the [...]