European Film Awards 2009 Articles

Penélope Cruz has already won a best actress European Film Award (for Volver in 2006) and since her role in Broken Embraces is borderline supporting, my guess is that Cannes winner Charlotte Gainsbourg (above, with Willem Dafoe) will be the one taking home the prize for her bereaved sexed-out mother in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. But who knows? Oscar winner Kate Winslet (for The Reader) [...]

What movie is going to dominate the 2009 European Film Awards, to be held tonight in Bochum, in Germany’s Rhein-Ruhr region? Well, three films will be battling it out for both the best picture and the best director awards: Jacques Audiard’s French prison drama A Prophet, Michael Haneke’s Austrian-German psycho-political drama The White Ribbon (above), and Danny Boyle’s Anglo-American-Indian Bollywoodish Slumdog Millionaire. All three have [...]

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 [...]

Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments European Film Awards 2009 – Nominations: Part I Among the eligible films and performers that failed to nab a mention were Giovanna Mezzogiorno for Vincere, Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel, Maren Ade’s Everyone Else, Ulrich Tukur for The White Ribbon, Martina Gedeck for The Baader Meinhof Complex, and Michael Fassbender for Fish Tank. Also, Christian Petzold’s Jerichow, Nina Hoss [...]