2015 European Film Awards winners and nominations Best European Film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. En Duva Satt På En Gren Och Funderade På Tillvaron. Sweden,…
Dame Judi Dench. Dame Judi Dench & Scarlett Johansson among British Independent Film Award nominees Since the likes of Judi Dench, Scarlett Johansson, James McAvoy, and Tom Hardy are in…
European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award: Award-less veteran actress Danielle Darrieux. European Film Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Only three female recipients to date As mentioned in the previous post, French…
Michael Haneke at the 2012 European Film Awards. The story of an elderly couple facing illness and death, Amour was the top winner at this year’s European Film Awards, collecting…
Armageddon Film Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst. 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,…
Glenn Close: Palm Springs Film Festival Career Achievement Award Glenn Close’s publicists must have been working round the clock these last few months. A highly likely Best Actress Oscar contender…
The Ghost Writer, with Roman Polanski on the set. Winner of the Best Director Academy Award for the World War II drama The Pianist (2002), the 77-year-old Polanski now also…
British street gangs top San Sebastian Film Festival: Neds directed by Peter Mullan. Peter Mullan’s Glasgow-set drama Neds, about a distraught teenager who joins a street gang in the early…
Michael Haneke at the European Film Awards: The White Ribbon movie manages rare triple win. The Munich-born screenwriter-director (March 24, 1942) was the big winner at this year’s ceremony, as…
The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke. Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are: Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, about a teenager (best…
Toni Servillo, Best Actor at the European Film Awards for his work in the Camorra movie Gomorrah. The Italian performer has been featured in about 15 movies since the early…
Manoel de Oliveira, Jeanne Moreau, and Liv Ullmann at the European Film Awards. Veteran Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, 99 years old next Dec. 11, was the recipient of the…
European Film Awards: Penélope Cruz was the Best Actress winner for Pedro Almodóvar’s unusual family comedy-drama Volver, which had previously earned Cruz – as a 21st century Anna Magnani –…
Hidden movie director-screenwriter Michael Haneke was the European Film Awards’ Best Director for his disturbing psychological-political thriller starring Best European Actor winner Daniel Auteuil as the embodiment of the guilt-ridden…
What’s “European”? The Constant Gardener with Rachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes. Directed by Oscar-nominated Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (City of God, 2003) and mostly set in Kenya, The Constant Gardener…
Sean Connery: Shirtless James Bond. Sean Connery to receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Sean Connery, best known for being the big screen’s first James Bond, will receive the…
Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst. The European Film Academy (EFA) Awards’ Best Film winner, Melancholia tells the story of two sisters (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg) as one of them is about…
Paul Mazursky career highlight: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, with Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp, and Dyan Cannon. Paul Mazursky: Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award…
Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie: European Film Awards honor. Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest actresses of her generation, will be the next recipient of the European Film Academy’s European…
The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen: German Stasi spy drama. Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, about the relationship between two young women and the ghost of their dead mother,…
Culture clash movies have dominated this year’s European Film Awards, while Pedro Almodóvar was the biggest loser and Liv Ullmann got the longest standing ovation.