European Film Awards Articles

Alexander Skarsgård, Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia A contender for Melancholia this year, Lars von Trier has won a previous European Film Award in the Best Director category: for Dogville in 2003, in addition to a nomination for Antichrist in 2009. (The Best European Director category was eliminated from 1990 to 2000.) Two von Trier movies have won Best Film: Breaking the Waves in 1996 and Dancer [...]

Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is the clear favorite at the 2011 European Film Awards. Nazi joke or no, Cannes Film Festival ban or no, the von Trier-directed apocalyptic drama received eight nominations in seven categories, among them Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay (also von Trier), and Best Actress (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg). Melancholia failed to be shortlisted only for Best [...]

Mads Mikkelsen will receive the European Film Academy’s European Achievement in World Cinema 2011 Honorary Award "in recognition of a unique contribution to the world of film." Previous recipients include Milos Forman, Roman Polanski, Antonio Banderas, Lars von Trier, Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Jarre, Liv Ullmann, Roberto Benigni, Gabriel Yared, and Victoria Abril. Among the Danish-born Mikkelsen’s credits are Nicolas Winding Refn’s crime dramas Pusher (1996) [...]

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Bruno Ganz, European Film Academy president and Ganz’ The American Friend and Wings of Desire director Wim Wenders THE GHOST WRITER’s European Film Awards Victory: A Political Message? Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer took home the bulk of the 2010 European Film Award statuettes — and occupied most of the media space devoted to the awards ceremony held [...]