The winners of the 2023 European Film Awards were announced live from Berlin, Germany on Saturday 9th December, with Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall receiving a number of major accolades, including Best European Film.

The European Film Academy announced 11 different films from as many as 10 different countries as winners across a wide range of categories, whilst also honouring a number of individuals for their contributions to the form. English actress Vanessa Redgrave was honoured with the European Lifetime Achievement award, with Spanish film director Isabel Coixet being rewarded for European Achievement in World Cinema.

Anatomy of a Fall was the most celebrated of the stacked line-up of films, winning the award for Best European Film over fellow nominees Fallen Leaves, Green Border, Me Captain and The Zone of Interest, as well as picking up awards for European Director, European Screenwriter, European Editing, and European Actress, the latter of which was won by Sandra Hüller who was nominated twice in the category for Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest.

The awards ceremony was streamed live and in full via the European Film Awards website, with replays still available.

The winners of the 2023 European Film Awards (EFAs) are as follows:

European Film – Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Green Border
Me Captain
The Zone of Interest

European Young Audience Award – Scrapper
Longing for the World
One in a Million

European Discovery – Prix Fipresci – How to Have Sex
20,000 Species of Bees
La Palisiada
Safe Place
The Quiet Migration
Vincent Must Die

European Documentary – Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Apolonia, Apolonia
Four Daughters
Motherland
On the Adamant

European Animated Feature Film – Robot Dreams
A Greyhound of a Girl
Chicken for Linda!
The Amazing Maurice
White Plastic Sky

European Short Film – Hardly Working
27
Aqueronte
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays
Flores Del Otro Patio

European Director – Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall)
Aki Kaurismäki (Fallen Leaves)
Agnieszka Holland (Green Border)
Matteo Garrone (Me Captain)
Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)

European Actress – Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)
Eka Chavleishvili (Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry)
Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves)
Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex)
Leonie Benesch (The Teachers’ Lounge)
Sandra Hüller (The Zone of Interest)

European Actor – Mads Mikkelsen (The Promised Land)
Thomas Schubert (Afire)
Jussi Vatanen (Fallen Leaves)
Josh O’Connor (La Chimera)
Christian Friedel (The Zone of Interest)

European Screenwriter – Justine Triet, Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall)
Aki Kaurismäki (Fallen Leaves)
Gabriela Lazarkiewicz-Sieczko, Maciej Pisuk Agnieszka Holland (Green Border)
Johannes Duncker, Ilker Çatak (The Teachers’ Lounge)
Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)

European Cinematography – Rasmus Videbæk (The Promised Land)

European Editing – Laurent Sénéchal (Anatomy of a Fall)

European Production Design – Emita Frigato (La Chimera)

European Costume Design – Kicki Ilander (The Promised Land)

European Make-Up & Hair – Society of the Snow

European Original Score – Markus Binder (Club Zero)

European Sound – Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers (The Zone of Interest)

European Visual Effects – Society of the Snow

European Lifetimes Achievement – Vanessa Redgrave

European Achievement in World Cinema – Isabel Coixet

Eurimages Co-Production Award – Uljana Kim

Honorary Award of the EFA President and Board – Béla Tarr

European Sustainability Award (Prix Film4Climate) – Güler Sabancı

The European Film Academy has revealed its nominees for the 36th European Film Awards (EFAs), with Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall being celebrated across most categories.

Justine Triet’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winning thriller, Anatomy of a Fall, is nominated across four categories: European Film, Directing, Lead Actress (Sandra Hüller), Screenwriting. Glazer’s The Zone of Interest has been nominated across the five leading categories: European Film, Directing, Lead Actress (Sandra Hüller), Lead Actor (Christian Friedel), Screenwriting.

British actors Josh O’Connor and Mia McKenna-Bruce were nominated in the acting categories, with the former playing the lead role in Alice Rohrwacher’s drama La Chimera and the latter being the focus of Molly Manning Walker’s acclaimed debut How to Have Sex (itself nominated for 13 British Independent Film Awards).

Aki Kaurismäki’s Finnish drama Fallen Leaves was also nominated across all five eligible categories announced.

The 2023 European Film Awards will take place live from Berlin, Germany on 9th December 2023.

Here is the full list of 2023 European Film Awards nominees:

European Film
Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Green Border
Me Captain
The Zone of Interest

European Young Audience Award
Longing for the World
One in a Million
Scrapper

European Discovery – Prix Fipresci
20,000 Species of Bees
How to Have Sex
La Palisiada
Safe Place
The Quiet Migration
Vincent Must Die

European Documentary
Apolonia, Apolonia
Four Daughters
Motherland
On the Adamant
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

European Animated Feature Film
A Greyhound of a Girl
Chicken for Linda!
Robot Dreams
The Amazing Maurice
White Plastic Sky

European Short Film
27
Aqueronte
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays
Flores Del Otro Patio
Hardly Working

European Director
Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall)
Aki Kaurismäki (Fallen Leaves)
Agnieszka Holland (Green Border)
Matteo Garrone (Me Captain)
Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)

European Actress
Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)
Eka Chavleishvili (Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry)
Alma Pöysti (Fallen Leaves)
Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex)
Leonie Benesch (The Teachers’ Lounge)
Sandra Hüller (The Zone of Interest)

European Actor
Thomas Schubert (Afire)
Jussi Vatanen (Fallen Leaves)
Josh O’Connor (La Chimera)
Mads Mikkelsen (The Promised Land)
Christian Friedel (The Zone of Interest)

European Screenwriter
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall)
Aki Kaurismäki (Fallen Leaves)
Gabriela Lazarkiewicz-Sieczko, Maciej Pisuk Agnieszka Holland (Green Border)
Johannes Duncker, Ilker Çatak (The Teachers’ Lounge)
Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)

The 2020 event was due to take place from Reykjavík, Iceland, but was instead moved to a television studio in Berlin, with the nominees discovering their fates via Zoom call. Heading up the competition for Another Round on the night were the Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi and the critically lauded Martin Eden, with German films Undine and Berlin Alexanderplatz each featuring prominently.

New Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt, 2012) film Another Round was the winner in each of the ceremony’s most celebrated categories, earning wins for European Film, European Director, European Screenwriter and European Actor.

Here is the full list of winners from the 2020 European Film Awards:

EUROPEAN FILM – ANOTHER ROUND (DRUK)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Corpus Christi
Martin Eden
The Painted Bird
Undine

EUROPEAN COMEDY – THE BIG HIT
Advantages of Travelling by Train
Ladies of Steel

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – SOLE
Full Moon
Gagarine
Instinct
Isaac
Jumbo

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY – COLLECTIVE
Acasă, My Home
Gunda
Little Girl
Saudi Runaway
The Cave

EUROPEAN ANIMATED FILM – JOSEP
Calamity
Klaus
The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM – ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK
Genius Loci
Past Perfect
Sun Dog
Uncle Thomas, Accounting for the Days

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR – THOMAS VINTERBERG (ANOTHER ROUND)
Agnieszka Holland (Charlatan)
Jan Komasa (Corpus Christi)
Maria Sødahl (Hope)
Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden)
François Ozon (Summer of 85)

EUROPEAN ACTRESS – PAULA BEER (UNDINE)
Ane Dahl Torp (Charter)
Natasha Berezhnaya (Dau. Natasha)
Andrea Bræin Hovig (Hope)
Marta Nieto (Mother)
Nina Hoss (My Little Sister)

EUROPEAN ACTOR – MADS MIKKELSEN (ANOTHER ROUND)
Bartosz Bielenia (Corpus Christi)
Viggo Mortensen (Falling)
Goran Bogdan (Father)
Elio Germano (Hidden Way)
Luca Marinelli (Martin Eden)

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER – THOMAS VINTERBERG & TOBIAS LINDHOLM (ANOTHER ROUND)
Costa-Gavras (Adults in the Room)
Damiano D’Innocenzo & Fabio D’Innocenzo (Bad Tales)
Martin Behnke & Burhan Qurbani (Berlin Alexanderplatz)
Mateusz Pacewicz (Corpus Christi)
Pietro Marcello & Maurizio Braucci (Martin Eden)

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY FILM AWARD – SAUDI RUNAWAY
Another Round
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Corpus Christi
Slalom

EUROPEAN VISUAL EFFECTS – THE PLATFORM

EUROPEAN SOUND – LITTLE GIRL

EUROPEAN SCORE – DASCHA DAUENHAUER (BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ)

EUROPEAN MAKEUP & HAIR – THE ENDLESS TRENCH

EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGN – HIDDEN AWAY

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGN – THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

EUROPEAN EDITING – ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH

EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHY – MATTEO COCCO (HIDDEN AWAY)

EFA AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE STORYTELLING – MARK COUSINS (WOMEN MAKE FILM: A NEW ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA)

Elsewhere, Yorgos Lanthimos’ UK-set The Favourite is a front-runner in a number of major categories, as is Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory and The Film Magazine’s 24/24 rated Celine Sciamma drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

The following is the full list of nominees for the 2019 European Film Awards:

European Film

An Officer and A Spy
Les Miserables
Pain and Glory
System Crasher
The Favourite
The Traitor

European Comedy

Ditte & Louise
Tel Aviv on Fire
The Favourite

European Discover – Prix Fipresci

Aniara
Atlantics
Blind Spot
Irina
Les Miserables
Ray & Liz

European Documentary

For Sama
Honeyland
Putin’s Witnesses
Selfie
The Disappearance of My Mother

European Animated Film

Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
I Lost My Body
Marona’s Fantastic Tale
The Swallows of Kabul

European Short Film

Dogs Barking At Birds
Reconstruction
The Christmas Gift
The Marvellous Misadventures of the Stone Lady
Watermelon Juice

European Director

Roman Polanski (An Officer and A Spy)
Pedro Almodovar (Pain and Glory)
Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor)

European Actress 

Viktoria Miroshnichenko (Beanpole)
Noemie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Adele Haenel (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Trine Dryholm (Queen of Hearts)
Helena Zengel (System Crasher)
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)

European Actor

Ingvar E. Sigurdsson (A White, White Day)
Jean Dujardin (An Officer and A Spy)
Levan Gelbakhiani (And Then We Danced)
Alexander Scheer (Gundermann)
Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory)
Pierfrancesco Favino (The Traitor)

European Screenwriter

Roman Polanski/Robert Harris (An Officer and A Spy)
Giordano Gederlini/Ladj Ly/Alexis Manenti (Les Miserables)
Pedro Almodovar (Pain and Glory)
Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Francesco Piccolo/Marco Bellocchio/Ludovica Rampoldi/Valia Santella (The Traitor)

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Juliette Binoche was previously reported to be the recipient of the 2019 European Achievement in World Cinema Award.

Here are the winners of the 2018 European Film Awards: 

European Film – Cold War (Zimna Wojna)
Border (Gräns)
Dogman
Girl
Happy As Lazaro (Lazzaro Felice)

European Comedy -The Death of Stalin (La Mort De Staline)
C’est La Vie (Le Sens De La Fete)
Diamantino

European Discovery (Prix Fipresci) – Girl
One Day (Egy Nap)
Scary Mother (Sashishi Deda)
The Guilty (Den Skyldige)
Those Who Are Fine (Dene Wos Guet Geit)
Touch Me Not

European Documentary – Bergman – A Year in the Life (Bergman – ett år, ett liv)
A Woman Captured
Of Fathers and Sons
The Distant Barking of Dogs
The Silence of Others

European Animated Feature Film – Another Day of Life
Early Man
The Breadwinner
White Fang (Croc-Blanc)

European Short Film – The Years (Gli Anni)
Aquaparque
Burkina Brandenburg Komplex
Graduation ’97 (Vypusk ’97)
I Signed the Petition
Kapitalistis
Kontener
Meryem
Prisoner of Society
Release the Dogs (LÂchez Les Chiens)
Shame (Cpam)
The Escape (L’Échappée)
Those Who Desire (Los Que Desean)
What’s the Damage
Wildebeest

European Director – Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
Ali Abbasi (Border)
Matteo Garrone (Dogman)
Samuel Maoz (Foxtrot)
Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro)

European Actress – Joanna Kulig (Cold War)
Marie Bäumer (3 Days in Quiberon)
Eva Melander (Border)
Alba Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazaro)
Bárbara Lennie (Petra)
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir (Woman at War)

European Actor – Marcello Fonte (Dogman)
Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe)
Tomasz Kot (Cold War)
Victor Polster (Girl)
Jakob Cedergren (The Guilty)
Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince)

European Screenwriter – Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
Ali Abbasi; Isabella Eklöf; John Ajvide Lindqvist (Border)
Matteo Garrone; Ugo Chiti; Massimo Gaudioso (Dogman)
Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro)
Gustav Möller; Emil Nygaard Albertsen (The Guilty)

European Cinematographer (Prix Carlo Di Palma) – Martin Otterbeck (UTØYA 22. JULI/U – July 22)

European Editor – Jarosław Kamiński (Cold War)

European Production Designer – Andrey Ponkratov (The Summer/Leto)

European Costume Designer – Massimo Cantini Parrini (Dogman)

European Hair & Make-Up Artist – Dalia Colli, Lorenzo Tamburini, Daniela Tartari (Dogman)

European Composer – Christoph M. Kaiser, Julian Maas (3 Days in Quiberon/3 Tage in Quiberon)

European Sound Designer – Andre Bendocchi-Alves, Martin Steyer (The Captain/Der Hauptmann)

European Visual Effects Supervisor – Peter Hjorth (Border/Gräns)

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award – Carmen Maura

European Achievement in World Cinema – Ralph Fiennes

People’s Choice Award – Call Me By Your Name

Eurimages Co-Production Award – Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Giorgos Karnavas

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British actor Rupert Everett is represented in the Actor category for his work on The Happy Prince while The Breadwinner is represented in the European Animated Feature Film category.

The 2018 European Film Awards will take place on Saturday 15th December from Seville, Spain, with Ralph Fiennes due to receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award at the event. Here is the full list of nominees:

European Film

Border (Gräns)
Cold War (Zimna Wojna)
Dogman
Girl
Happy As Lazaro (Lazzaro Felice)

European Comedy

C’est La Vie (Le Sens De La Fete)
Diamantino
The Death of Stalin (La Mort De Staline)

European Discovery – Prix Fipresci

Girl
One Day (Egy Nap)
Scary Mother (Sashishi Deda)
The Guilty (Den Skyldige)
Those Who Are Fine (Dene Wos Guet Geit)
Touch Me Not

European Documentary

A Woman Captured
Bergman – A Year in the Life (Bergman – ett år, ett liv)
Of Fathers and Sons
The Distant Barking of Dogs
The Silence of Others

European Animated Feature Film

Another Day of Life
Early Man
The Breadwinner
White Fang (Croc-Blanc)

European Short Film

Aquaparque
Burkina Brandenburg Komplex
Graduation ’97 (Vypusk ’97)
I Signed the Petition
Kapitalistis
Kontener
Meryem
Prisoner of Society
Release the Dogs (LÂchez Les Chiens)
Shame (Cpam)
The Escape (L’Échappée)
The Years (Gli Anni)
Those Who Desire (Los Que Desean)
What’s the Damage
Wildebeest

European Director

Ali Abbasi (Border)
Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
Matteo Garrone (Dogman)
Samuel Maoz (Foxtrot)
Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro)

European Actress

Marie Bäumer (3 Days in Quiberon)
Eva Melander (Border)
Joanna Kulig (Cold War)
Alba Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazaro)
Bárbara Lennie (Petra)
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir (Woman at War)

European Actor

Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe)
Tomasz Kot (Cold War)
Marcello Fonte (Dogman)
Victor Polster (Girl)
Jakob Cedergren (The Guilty)
Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince)

European Screenwriter

Ali Abbasi; Isabella Eklöf; John Ajvide Lindqvist (Border)
Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
Matteo Garrone; Ugo Chiti; Massimo Gaudioso (Dogman)
Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro)
Gustav Möller; Emil Nygaard Albertsen (The Guilty)

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Image: European Film Awards

The director, producer and actor, famous for performances in successful international hits such as Schindler’s List, The English Patient, the Harry Potter series, In Bruges and the most recent 007 movies, will receive the award in person on the 15th December ceremony.

The European Film Awards, which last year honoured Before Sunrise star Julie Delpy with the Achievement in World Cinema award, were founded in 1988 and have since been established as a noteworthy brand in European cinema.

Fiennes joins a list of previous winners of the award that includes Pierce Brosnan, Christoph Waltz, Antonio Banderas and Miloš Forman.

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Palme d’Or-winner The Square, starring Claes Bang and Elisabeth Moss, took home many of the big awards at the ceremony (6 overall), including European Director for Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure) at the director’s second time of asking (the first being for Turist in 2014).

Iconic French actress Julie Delpy, known for Three Colours: White and Before Sunrise, was also honoured at the 2017 ceremony, receiving the trophy for European Achievement in World Cinema. Delpy joins the likes of Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Liv Ullman and Isabelle Huppert, on the list of iconic recipients.

British independent film Lady Macbeth, from feature debut director William Oldroyd and starring up-and-coming actress Florence Pugh, also made a splash, collecting the Prix Fipresci European Discovery European Film Award.

Here is the full list of 2017 European Film Awards winners: 

European Film 2017 – The Square

European Comedy 2017 – The Square

European Discovery 2017: Prix Fipresci – Lady Macbeth

European Documentary 2017 – Communion

European Animated Feature Film 2017 – Loving Vincent

European Short Film 2017 – Timecode

European Director 2017 – Ruben Östlund (The Square)

European Actress 2017 – Alexandra Borbély (On Body and Soul)

European Actor 2017 – Claes Bang (The Square)

European Screenwriter 2017 – Ruben Östlund (The Square)

European Cinematographer 2017: Prix Carlo Di Palma – Michail Krichman (Loveless)

European Editor 2017 – Robin Campillo (Beats Per Minute)

European Production Designer 2017 – Josefin Åsberg (The Square)

European Costume Designer 2017 – Katarzyna Lewińska (Spoor)

European Hair & Make-Up Artist 2017 – Leendert van Nimwegen (Brimstone)

European Composer 2017 – Evgueni & Sacha Galperine (Loveless)

European Sound Designer 2017 – Oriol Tarragó (A Monster Calls)

European Film Academy Life Achievement Award – Aleksandr Sokurov

European Achievement in World Cinema – Julie Delpy

European Co-Production Award 2017: Prix Eurimages – Cedomir Kolar

People’s Choice Award 2017 for Best European Film – Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

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The film’s success corresponded with how identifiable the story of the picture’s central protagonist, Daniel Blake, was to so many who viewed it, and the choice of the filmmakers to cast unknowns in every role throughout the film only helped in this respect. In Daniel Blake and his friend Katie, large percentages of the audience saw themselves or someone they knew, and this attachment helped to make the story resonate in the public conscious as a noteworthy (if not vitally important) moment in 2016 film and culture. In this respect, I, Daniel Blake transcended the cinema screen and became so much more than a simple ‘movie’; it became a must-see, challenging and moving piece of art. Yet still it fought from underneath, with suggestions of political bias or the want to avoid political discussion being theorised as reasons that famous and respectable organisations would overlook the film at awards shows despite its obvious credentials as an all-time classic of the art form. But, perhaps it wasn’t as sinister or neutral as this; perhaps it was as simple as the message of the film seeming ‘too local’ to the UK, or specifically Northern England, to be universally accepted as the film so many saw it as, or perhaps it was the picture’s complete lack of star power. Maybe it was as simple as the film being so subtle in its poetics that it became overlooked as a ‘well-made gritty Northern movie’ – think This is England (2006) – or that the reception of British film critics at the Cannes Film Festival was so overwhelmingly negative that the picture never truly recovered from its tag as ‘the worst Palme d’Or winner ever’.

The European Film Awards nominated I, Daniel Blake 5 times, with the film winning once, while stars Dave Johns and Hayley Squires were the only winners from 7 nominations at the British Independent Film Awards. The Golden Globes completely rejected the film, offering zero nominations, and the same seems likely for The Oscars. With regards to the larger American film awards, it can be assumed that I, Daniel Blake falls mostly under the ‘not universal enough’ tag courtesy of it being centred around the class system North America is much-less in-tune with than their neighbours in Europe, and it’s hard to deny that the number of nominations in Europe and at the BIFAs were certainly indicative of the film being one of the very best each region has to offer. But the picture remains largely without awards show recognition, the very best of which affords independents like I, Daniel Blake the ability to cash-in on a cinematic re-release and an increase to DVD sales, on-demand streaming prices, and so on. Despite the support of the film transcending usual film-watching trends and the influence of the picture being as high reaching as parliament, I, Daniel Blake seems unable to smash through the glass ceiling at awards shows and gain the same universal appraisal that many lesser films have managed to achieve throughout the years.

The BAFTA nominations announcement brought about a great wave of enthusiasm to supporters of this Ken Loach movie however, with 5 nominations in key categories including Best Picture and Best Director being awarded to the film. Having won less awards throughout the entirety of awards season than I, Daniel Blake has nominations at the BAFTAs, it seems highly unlikely that the picture will receive a full-sweep of its five categories, yet there remains a distinct possibility that the British Academy of Film and Television Arts could be considerably more favourable to one of their own films than some of the above mentioned organisations have been. Come the 12th of February, the United Kingdom’s representatives of the arts could universally declare I, Daniel Blake as the classic it will undoubtedly go down in history as, but they could also totally neglect the film and leave Loach’s film to acquire the same cult status of some of his earlier releases, including another of his working class dramas Kes (1969). Either way, Ken Loach’s screen-transcending film remains an ultimate underdog that will have to fight from below at the upcoming awards shows just as its central character had to fight against his government within the narrative of the film.

Whether I, Daniel Blake takes home all 5 BAFTAs or none, the story of the movie has already largely been told, with the unusually high amount of interactivity with its story being of testament to the quality of the work and the peoples’ want for change. I stated in my review of the film that “this is our quiet rage”, and to so many it is. The awarding of a few BAFTAs would be a nationalised recognition of that thought and would be a delightful cherry atop of an important cake made of delicious social change.

Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan also made headlines after becoming the first person born in the Republic of Ireland to win the ceremony’s coveted European Achievement in World Cinema award, while tributes were paid to the recently deceased Andrzej Wajda through the announcement that he was the recipient of an honourary award.

The Full List of Winners

European Film: Toni Erdmann (Germany/Austria)
Nominees – Elle (Fra); I, Daniel Blake (UK/Fra); Julieta (Spa); Room (ROI/Can).

European Comedy: A Man Called Ove (Sweden/Norway)
Nominees – Look Who’s Back (Ger); La Vache (Fra).

European Discovery – Prix FRIPESCI: The Happiest Day in the life of Olli Mäki (Finland)
Nominees – Dogs (Rom/Bul/Qat); Liebmann (Ger); Sand Storm (Isr); Thirst (Bul).

European Documentary: Fire At Sea (Italy/France)
Nominees – The Land of the Enlightened (Bel/ROI/Ned); 21 X New York (Pol); Mr. Gaga (Isr/Swe/Ger/Ned); S is for Stanley – 30 Years At the Wheel for Stanley Kubrick (Ita); A Family Affair (Bel/Ned).

European Animated Feature Film: My Life As Zucchini (France/Switzerland)
Nominees – Psiconautas, the Forgotten Children (Spa); The Red Turtle (Jap/Fra/Ger).

European Short Film: 9 Days – From My Window In Aleppo (Netherlands/Syria)
Nominees – The Wall; Edmond; The Goodbye; 90 Degrees North; We All Love the Sea Shore; In the Distance; A Man Returned; Small Talk; I’m Not From Here; Home; The Fullness of Time (Romance); Limbo; Amalimbo.

European Director: Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)
Nominees – Paul Verhoeven (Elle); Cristian Mungiu (Graduation); Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake); Pedro Almodóvar (Julieta).

European Actress: Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann)
Nominees – Isabelle Huppert (Elle); Emma Suárez & Adriana Ugarte (Julieta); Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Like Crazy); Trine Dryholm (The Commune).

European Actor: Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
Nominees – Rolf Lassgård (A Man Called Ove); Hugh Grant (Florence Foster Jenkins); Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake); Burghart Klaußner (The People vs. Fritz Bauer); Javier Cámara (Truman).

European Screenwriter: Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)
Nominees – Cristian Mungiu (Graduation); Paul Laverty (I, Daniel Blake); Emma Donoghue (Room); Tomasz Wasilewski (United States of Love).

European Cinematographer – Prix Carlo Di Palma: Camilla Hjelm Knudsen (Land of Mine)

European Editor: Anne Østerud & Janus Billeskov Jansen (The Commune)

European Production Designer: Alice Normington (Suffragette)

European Costume Designer: Stefanie Bieker (Land of Mine)

European Hair & Make-Up Artist: Barbara Kreuzer (Land of Mine)

European Composer: Ilya Demutsky (The Student)

European Sound Designer: Radoslaw Ochnio (11 Minutes)

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award: Jean-Claude Carrière

European Achievement in World Cinema: Pierce Brosnan

Honourary Award: Andrzej Wajda

European Co-Production Award – Prix Eurimages: Leontine Petit

People’s Choice Award for Best European Film: Body (Pol/Spa)

The Awards Totals

5 – Toni Erdmann
3 – Land of Mine
1 – A Man Called Ove
1 – The Happiest Day in the life of Olli Mäki
1 – Fire At Sea
1 – My Life As Zucchini
1 – 9 Days – From My Window In Aleppo
1 – The Commune
1 – Suffragette
1 – The Student
1 – Body
1 – 11 Minutes