European Film Awards 2009 Articles

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 [...]

Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon was the big winner at the 2009 European Film Awards, which took place on Sat., Dec. 12, in Bochum, in Germany's Rhein-Ruhr region. A stark drama about mysterious and violent occurrences that take place in a small German town shortly before the outbreak of World War I, The White Ribbon won trophies for best picture, best director, and best screenplay [...]

2009 European Film Awards 2009 European Film Award nominations: Nov. 7, 2009 2009 European Film Award winners: Bochum, Germany, on Dec. 12, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke   BEST EUROPEAN FILM Fish Tank, UK written and directed by Andrea Arnold produced by Kees Kasander & Nick Laws Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right [...]

Scheduled presenters at the 2009 European Film Awards, to be held later this evening in Bochum, Germany, are: Actresses Victoria Abril (Spain), Caterina Murino (Italy), Johanna ter Steege (the Netherlands), María Valverde (Spain), and actors Detlev Buck (Germany), Jesper Christensen (Denmark), Ben Kingsley (UK), Maciej Stuhr (Poland), and Anatole Taubman (Switzerland). Also, documentary director Nino Kirtadzé (France/Georgia), actor/director Aksel Hennie (Norway), and director/actor Branko Djuric [...]