European Film Awards Articles

MELANCHOLIA Tops European Film Awards, Lars von Trier Bypassed, Colin Firth Beats Jean Dujardin [Photo: Stephen Frears.] The Artist, a favorite for the 2012 Oscar, won a single EFA Award: Best European Composer, Ludovic Bource, who thanked the film's perky dog, Uggie, for providing the necessary inspiration. Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius wasn't even nominated; star Jean Dujardin lost to Colin Firth. Other EFA 2011 winners include [...]

Alexander Skarsgård, Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melancholia Lars von Trier may have made some new enemies at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but he surely still has a number of friends and admirers at the European Film Academy. Von Trier's apocalyptic family drama Melancholia, starring EFA Best Actress nominees Kirsten Dunst (now also a German citizen) and Charlotte Gainsbourg, was the Best Film winner at [...]

Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melancholia MELANCHOLIA Tops European Film Awards, Lars von Trier Bypassed, Colin Firth Beats Jean Dujardin Lars Von Trier/MELANCHOLIA Dominate European Film Awards EUROPEAN FILM 2011 THE ARTIST, France WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Michel Hazanavicius PRODUCED BY: Thomas Langmann & Emmanuel Montamat LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike), Belgium/France/Italy WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne PRODUCED BY: [...]

Helen Mirren, Sylvia Syms in Stephen Frears' The Queen The European Film Awards usually don't have much of an influence on the Academy Awards. Part of the reason is that many of the European Academy's nominated movies aren't eligible for the Hollywood Academy's awards, whether because they were in the running earlier in the year or because they won't have their qualifying Los Angeles run [...]