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
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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)

IndieWire – 6th Dec 2019

Stephen Graham, the British star of the likes of This Is England and Walk Like a Panther who recently played a memorable role in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, is set to join the cast of Venom 2. The film, which will be Sony’s follow up to the 2017 billion dollar hit starring Tom Hardy, is currently keeping details of its plot close to its chest, with Graham’s role yet to be revealed.

Deadline – 5th Dec 2019

New Terrence Malick film A Hidden Life received a rare screening at the Vatican on Wednesday 4th Dec ahead of its North American release on the 13th.

THR – 5th Dec 2019

New DC/Warner Bros project The Batman, from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes screenwriter-director Matt Reeves, has cast Garden State, Green Lantern and An Education character actor Peter Sarsgaard. Though the role Sarsgaard has been given is currently under wraps, suggestions are being made that the actor could be set to play the role of Harvey “Two Face” Dent.

THR – 6th Dec 2019

A new Planet of the Apes movie is being developed at Disney, who now own the rights to the property following their purchase of 20th Century Fox earlier this year. The film, which will be overseen by the director of The Maze Runner 1, 2 & 3 Wes Ball, is suspected to be a franchise reboot, though details are currently unclear in this regard.

THR – 3rd Dec 2019

A Honey, I Shrunk the Kids sequel is in the works at Disney, with the director of the franchise’s original film from 1989, Joe Johnston, being lined up to direct. The project was apparently pitched to Disney by Beauty and the Beast and Frozen star Josh Gad earlier this year, and will reportedly see the actor fill the role of Wayne Szalinksi’s (Rick Moranis’) son.

Variety – 5th Dec 2019

Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning will co-star as sisters in an adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s “The Nightingale” set to be directed by Inglourious Basterds actress Melanie Laurent.

THR – 4th Dec 2019

Sony’s musical Cinderella, set to star Camila Cabello, has cast ‘Chambers’ actor Nicholas Galitzine as its Prince Charming. Kay Cannon (Blockers) is set to direct.

THR – 5th Dec 2019

The first ever spin-off to one of Disney’s live-action remakes has been given the go-ahead, with Aladdin’s Prince Anders set to get his own standalone film. The film, which will be distributed exclusively by Disney+, will see original actor Billy Magnussen reprise his role.

THR – 6th Dec 2019

Mena Massoud, the lead actor and titular character in Disney’s 2019 live-action remake Aladdin, has said in an interview: “I haven’t had a single audition since Aladdin came out.” Revealing that was tired of keeping quiet about it.

THR – 3rd Dec 2019

Oscar-winning writer of The Big Short, Charles Randolph, is teaming with Blumhouse head Jason Blum to bring a real-to-life story of notorious start-up We Work to the big screen. The film, which is yet to be given a title, will be an adaptation of the reports of Katrina Booker, as well as her upcoming novel.

THR – 2nd Dec 2019

A sequel to 2018 Christmas movie The Christmas Chronicles starring Kurt Russell is heading to Netflix in 2020, with the first movie’s producer, Home Alone and Harry Potter 1 & 2 director Chris Columbus stepping into the director’s chair. Hollywood star Goldie Hawn, the real-life wife of star Kurt Russell, has also been confirmed to be playing the role of Mrs. Claus.

The Christmas Chronicles 2, coming next holiday season pic.twitter.com/zYVPwxKdbk

— See What’s Next (@seewhatsnext) December 6, 2019

The new Ghostbusters film, set to be directed by the son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, has been given a full title ahead of its Summer 2020 release date: Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

Empire – 6th Dec 2019

Disney have sent out recommendations to movie theaters/cinemas asking them to warn viewers of prolonged flashing light sequences in their upcoming Lucasfilm release Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The note, put together in conjunction with the Epilepsy Foundation, is something of a rarity in the industry.

THR – 6th Dec 2019

Kathleen Kennedy, the head of Disney subsidiary studio Lucasfilm and the overseer of Star Wars, is set to receive the British Film and Television Academy’s highest accolade, the BAFTA Fellowship award, in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film.

BAFTA – 6th Dec 2019

Helen Mirren, the British actress who won an Oscar for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, will be honoured by the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020 with an iconic Golden Bear for the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

4th Dec 2019

Joker actor Joaquin Phoenix has been named the PETA Person of the Year 2019 for promoting welfare rights to animals in trouble. The veteran actor and multi-time Oscar nominee, recently appeared on People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal’s “we are all animals” billboard campaign that looked to raise awareness of the group’s hope to ban travelling animal circuses worldwide.

THR – 2nd Dec 2019

Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite won big at the 2019 European Film Awards this weekend, taking home 8 awards including European Film, European Comedy, Best Director and Best Actress.

TFM – 8th Dec 2019

And finally…

Studio Ghibli films will be available for digital purchase for the first time ever from 17th Dec, following a deal made with GKIDS to make all 21 of the studio’s releases available for purchase through their platform (set to hit HBO Max in 2020).

THR – 2nd Dec 2019

Georgian director Zaza Urushadze, best known for directing 2013 film Tangerines, has passed away aged 53 from a reported heart attack.

Vestink Kavkaza – 7th Dec 2019

The period dramady won both the European Film and European Comedy awards, while also winning big in a number of individual categories to top the list of most wins with an unforeseen eight awards overall.

Spanish actor Antonio Banderas was also honoured during the event with the award for European Actor for his performance in Dolor y Gloria (Pain and Glory), in a ceremony headlined by Werner Herzog and Juliette Binoche who earned the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award and the European Achievement in World Cinema award respectively.

Here is the full list of 2019 European Film Awards Winners:

European Film
The Favourite

European Comedy
The Favourite

European Discovery (Prix Fipresci)
Les Miserables

European Documentary
For Sama

European Animated Feature Film
Bunuel en El Laberinto De Las Tortugas (Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles)

European Short Film
Cadoul De Craciun (The Christmas Gift)

European Director
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)

European Actress
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)

European Actor
Antonio Banderas (Dolor y Gloria/Pain and Glory)

European Screenwriter
Celine Sciamma (Portrait de la Jeune Fille En Feu/Portrait of a Lady on Fire)

European Cinematography
Robbie Ryan (The Favourite)

European Editing
Yorgos Mavropsaridis (The Favourite)

European Production Design
Antxon Gomez (Dolor y Gloria/Pain and Glory)

European Costume Design
Sandy Powell (The Favourite)

European Hair & Make-Up
Nadia Stacey (The Favourite)

European Original Score
John Gurtler (Systemsprenger/System Crasher)

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
Werner Herzog

European Achievement in World Cinema
Juliette Binoche

European Achievement in Fiction Series Award
Babylon Berlin

European Co-Production Award (Prix Eurimages)
Ankica Juric Tilic

People’s Choice Awards
Zimna Wojna (Cold War)

Click here for the full list of nominated films.

You can read The Film Magazine’s reviews of the European Film Awards winners at the following links…

• The Favourite – “terrifically constructed from top to bottom.”
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire – “Timeless and incomparable, it has to be seen to be believed.”
• Cold War – “phenomenal modern masterpiece by one of the great auteurs of our age.”

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The Wrap – 5th Nov 2019

Warner Bros. are in talks to sign up In Bruges, The Lobster and Dumbo actor Colin Farrell to play iconic Batman villain The Penguin in their upcoming Matt Reeves directed feature The Batman.

Deadline – 5th Nov 2019

Former Batman Ben Affleck has joined new Robert Rodriguez directed action-thriller Hypnotic as the star, signing on to play a detective searching for his missing daughter and discovering a secret government program.

Variety – 6th Nov 2019

Michael Keaton (Birdman; Spider-Man: Homecoming), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction; Spider-Man: Far from Home) and Maggie Q (Divergent) are set to star in a new A-List action-thriller from 007: Casino Royale director Martin Campbell titled The Asset. Millennium Films, the production company behind The Expendables, are reportedly in charge of the project.

THR – 5th Nov 2019

Iconic actor James Dean is to be resurrected via CGI to star in an upcoming war film from directors Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh titled Finding Jack. The production will use old footage and photography to create a full body render of the famed star of Rebel Without A Cause who died in a car accident in 1955.

Empire – 6th Nov 2019

Ken Watanabe (Inception; Godzilla) is set to star in a new film from Philomena producer Gabrielle Tana and debut feature screenwriter-director Patrick Dickinson. Wild Rose star Jessie Buckley has been lined up to support Watanabe in what is being described as “a universal portrait of love, acceptance and family loss”.

THR – 6th Nov 2019

The Scream franchise is being resurrected by Spyglass Entertainment. According to sources at Bloody Disgusting, Gary Barber’s Spyglass Media Group is developing a new film without Scream 1, 2 & 4 screenwriter Kevin Williamson, the rumoured screenwriter for the new project being Blade, Batman Begins and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice screenwriter David S. Goyer. It is unknown whether the new film will be a reboot or a new entry into the pre-existing film canon (of which every entry has thus far been directed by the since deceased Wes Craven).

Bloody Disgusting – 6th Nov 2019

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has signed on to direct Newsflash, a biographical drama about legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite that is set to star Star Trek and Wonder Woman actor Chris Pine. The film is to be set on the day Cronkite must report the assassination of President Kennedy.

THR – 7th Nov 2019

Anchorman, The Big Short and Vice director Adam McKay has signed a first-look film deal with Paramount Pictures. The screenwriter-director-producer and his production company Hyperobject Industries will, at least for the foreseeable future, give Paramount first-refusal rights to any feature project they put together. McKay has a similar deal for TV, streaming and podcasts with Warner Bros. owned HBO.

THR – 8th Nov 2019

Jon Spaihts, the showrunner for the upcoming HBO ‘Dune’ series, has exited his role with the TV show to focus on writing the sequel for Denis Villeneuve’s 2020 Dune movie.

THR – 5th Nov 2019

Yesterday screenwriter and Love Actually director Richard Curtis is set to adapt his own children’s book “The Empty Stocking” for an animated feature from London-based animation house Locksmith Animation. The film will reportedly be made for streaming platforms.

THR – 6th Nov 2019

The third Fantastic Beasts movie will begin filming in Spring 2020, with Brazil the apparent destination for the cast and crew including Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston and Jude Law.

Deadline – 4th Nov 2019

Carrie Fisher’s brother Todd Fisher has revealed in an interview with Yahoo! that the original plan for upcoming release Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was to see Fisher’s Princess Leia character become a powerful force-wielding jedi, developing the building blocks put in place in The Last Jedi (2017).

Yahoo! – 6th Nov 2019

The 2019 European Film Awards nominees list was revealed this weekend – here.

The Film Magazine – 10th Nov 2019

And finally… (CW: Sexual Abuse)

Jurassic Park and Thor: Ragnarok star Jeff Goldblum this week moved to defend Woody Allen against decades old allegations of sexual assault against a minor, stating in an interview with i that there “is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty” and that he “would consider working with” the director again following a minor role in Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall.

i – 6th Nov 2019

French director Christophe Ruggia, who was recently accused of the sexual assault of Portrait of a Lady on Fire star Adele Haenel when she was just a minor, has released a statement to the same publication the actress first went on record with her experience, stating: “The adulation and hope that I placed in her may have seemed, given her young age, troublesome at certain moments. If that is the case and if she is willing, then I ask her to accept my apology.” He also affirmed to have “never engaged in the physical gestures and sexual harassment”.

Mediapart via THR – 6th Nov 2019

French-Polish director Roman Polanski has been accused of rape by French actress Valentine Monnier, who claims the filmmaker behind Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist assaulted her in a ski chalet in Switzerland in 1975 when she was 18 years old. The director won’t be charged as France has a 20-year statute of limitations, but this latest accusation fuels the backlash the filmmaker continues to face for his suspected rape of a 13 year old girl in 1975; the trial for which his refusal to attend still makes him a wanted criminal in the United States.

Le Parisien via Variety – 8th Nov 2019

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.

Disney and Sony have reached an agreement to see Tom Holland’s Spider-Man return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a new deal jointly announced Friday (27th Sept), it was revealed that Kevin Feige will produce the 3rd Spidey instalment in exchange for 25% of profits and a retention of total merchandising rights for Disney, while Holland will also be able to appear in Disney-Marvel central universe films.

Variety – 27th Sept 2019

Jonah Hill and Jeffrey Wright are reportedly in advanced negotiations to join Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves’ upcoming DC/Warner Bros. project The Batman. If rumours are to be believed, Hill will take on the role of either Riddler or Penguin, while Wright will fill the role of Commissioner Gordon.

THR – 24th Sept 2019

Sam Neil, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum will reprise their roles from Jurassic Park (1993) for the upcoming sequel to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World 3, which is set to be directed by Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow.

THR – 24th Sept 2019

Sony are reportedly in advanced negotiations with Kubo and the Two Strings, Bumblebee and Missing Link director Travis Knight to helm their big screen adaptation of the famous video game ‘Uncharted’, set to star Spider-Man star Tom Holland.

Deadline – 27th Sept 2019

Juliette Binoche, the French star of The English Patient, Chocolat and High Life, is to receive the European Film Awards’ European Achievement in World Cinema honour at their ceremony from Berlin on 7th November 2019.

EFA – 24th Sept 2019

The European Audiovisual Observatory have revealed that Amazon are the biggest purveyors of European cinema outside of Europe. The study, conducted by Ampere Analysis, indicates that the brand currently offers twice as many European titles as its closest competitor Netflix at 3,281 in total.

Variety – 27th Sept 2019

The Hollywood Reporter have learned that the head of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, is developing a Star Wars movie. The man who oversaw the development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe under the Disney banner is being moved across to the Disney-owned Lucasfilm for an unknown project while Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy focuses on the ever-growing franchise’s most forthcoming releases.

THR – 25th Sept 2019

Disney head Bob Iger has revealed in his new book “The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company” that Star Wars creator George Lucas “felt betrayed” by The Force Awakens as he had expected Disney to use the story ideas he had sold to them as part of their purchase of Star Wars production company Lucasfilm. Iger recalls that Lucas exclaimed “there’s nothing new” upon hearing of the distributor’s new plans.

THR – 24th Sept 2019

Joker director Todd Phillips has rebuffed criticism of his new movie, starring Joaquin Phoenix, as one that glorifies violence in an interview with The Wrap, saying ““what’s outstanding to me in this discourse in this movie is how easily the far left can sound like the far right when it suits their agenda. It’s really been eye opening for me.”

The Wrap – 25th Sept 2019

Aidan Turner, star of ‘Poldark’ and The Hobbit, is the latest name to join upcoming Terrence Malick movie The Last Planet. The “life of Christ” movie will star Son of Saul actor Geza Rohrig as Jesus, Matthias Schoenaerts as Peter and Mark Rylance as Satan. Turner will play Andrew.

Deadline – 27th Sept 2019

‘Killing Eve’ star and 2019 Emmy Award winning actress Jodie Comer is in talks to star alongside Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in the upcoming Ridley Scott movie The Last Duel.

Variety – 27th Sept 2019

Upcoming Paul Greengrass directorial project News of the World, based on the novel by Paulette Jiles and set to star Tom Hanks, has been given a 25th December 2020 release date by Universal. The film will follow Hanks’ character, a three-war veteran, as he spreads the news of the day from town to town and meets a remarkable young girl.

THR – 25th Sept 2019

David Strathairn, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Good Night, and Good Luck and was a prominent figure in the Bourne franchise, has joined the cast of Guillermo Del Toro’s noir-thriller Nightmare Alley. The actor joins Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchette on the cast of the Fox Searchlight project.

THR – 27th Sept 2019

Sony are developing a further Spider-Man spin-off, this time based around the comic book character Madame Web. The co-writers behind upcoming Spidey spin-off Morbius (starring Jared Leto), Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, will write the project, with Palek Patel to oversee the project. A director has yet to be revealed.

THR – 26th Sept 2019

2019 Emmy Award winning director Jason Bateman is reportedly in talks with Hasbro to direct their upcoming big screen board game adaptation Clue. The movie, which is set to star and be produced by Deadpool & Detective Pikachu lead Ryan Reynolds, will be distributed by Disney.

THR – 25th Sept 2019

How to Train Your Dragon franchise director Dean DeBlois will make his live-action screenwriting and directorial debut with Hasbro’s Micronauts. The project, currently housed at Paramount, will be the creator’s first job following the completion of his Dragon trilogy.

THR – 23rd Sept 2019

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Rob Cohen, the director of the likes of The Fast and the Furious (2001), xXx (2002) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) has been accused of sexual assault by a woman of the pseudonym Jane in an article published by The Huffington Post. Jane claims that the filmmaker sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in an act that started while she was unconscious. This allegation follows a similar report from the director’s own daughter, Valkyrie Weather, which claims Cohen sexually assaulted her as a child.

Huffington Post – 28th Sept 2019

And finally…

Robert Garrison, the actor who played Tommy in Karate Kid (1984), has passed away aged 59. The actor, who was also a part of the Karate Kid sequel Karate Kid: Part II (1986) and the 2019 YouTube return series ‘Cobra Kai’ (2019) is survived by his brother and sister-in-law.

THR – 27th Sept 2019

Sid Haig has passed away aged 80. The icon of cult horror cinema and the star of such Rob Zombie hits as House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects was announced to have passed away by his wife Suzie Haig on Monday 23rd September. His career spanned 3 decades and earned the actor over 140 working credits.

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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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