The thirty seventh European Film Awards are underway within the Swiss lakeside metropolis of Lucerne.
Main noms this yr are French Oscar entry Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard and The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodovar with 4 nods every. Each movies had been nominated for finest European movie, director, and screenplay in addition to actress, for Karla Sofia Gascón in Emilia Pérez and Tilda Swinton in The Room Subsequent Door.
Different frontrunners included Germany’s Oscar entry The Seed of the Sacred Fig by exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, which was nominated for finest movie, director, and screenplay.
A slew of movies clinched two nominations together with Maura Delpero’s Italian Oscar entry Vermiglio, Halfdan Ullmann Tondel’s Norwegian Oscar entry Armand in addition to Andrea Arnold’s Bird and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance.
For the primary time this yr, underneath new guidelines introduced final summer season, movies nominated for Finest European Documentary and Finest Animated Characteristic Movie are additionally eligible within the Finest European Movie class.
This has led to an expanded Finest European Movie nominations listing this yr with Bye Bye Tiberias by Lina Soualem, Mati Diop’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey, and Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat choosing up noms for finest doc and movie.
Animated movies within the working in each classes embody Latvian Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow and Spanish director Isabel Herguera’s Sultan’s Dream.
The awards, that are voted on by the Berlin-based European Movie Academy’s some 5,000 members primarily based throughout Europe, are additionally seen as a bellwether for which European movies are more likely to choose up steam within the U.S. awards season.
Final yr’s Best European Film winner Anatomy of a Fall garnered 5 Oscar nominations, together with Finest Image and Finest Actress (Sandra Hüller), with director Justine Triet and co-writer Arthur Harari profitable the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
This yr’s ceremony in Lucerne will mark the final time it takes place in December with the dates shifting to mid-January, beginning with the thirty eighth version in 2026, as a part of a strategy to position the prizes inside the wider awards season dialog on each side of the Atlantic.
Observe alongside as we replace the winners listing beneath.
2024 European Movie Awards Winners
European Director
Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ
European Movie
European Screenwriter
Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ
European Actress
European Actor
Finest Documentary
NO OTHER LAND (Palestine, Norway) – documentary movie, directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal, produced by Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
Younger Viewers Award
The Outstanding Lifetime of Ibelin (Norway), directed by Benjamin Ree, produced by Ingvil Giske
European Animated Characteristic Movie
FLOW directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium)
European Cinematography
European Modifying
Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
European Manufacturing Design
The Woman With the Needle (Jagna Dobesz)
European Costume Design
The Satan’s Tub (Tanja Hausner)
European Make-up & Hair
When the Gentle Breaks (Evalotte Oosterop)
European Unique Rating:
The Woman With the Needle (Frederikke Hoffmeier)
European Sound
Souleymane’s Story (Marc-Olivier Brullé, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aïchoun, Rodrigo Diaz)
European Visible Results
THE SUBSTANCE (Bryan Jones, Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky, Chervin Shafaghi, Guillaume Le Gouez)
European Brief Movie
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT directed by Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia)
European Achievement in World Cinema
Isabella Rossellini
