27th European Film Awards

27th European Film Awards
Latvian National Opera
Date13 December 2014
SiteLatvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
Hosted byThomas Hermanns
Produced byMarion Döring and Jürgen Biesinger
Organized byEuropean Film Academy
Highlights
Best FilmIda
Best DirectorPaweł Pawlikowski
Best ActorTimothy Spall
Best ActressMarion Cotillard
Most awardsIda (5)
Most nominationsIda (7)
Television coverage
ChannelArte

The 27th European Film Awards were presented on 13 December 2014 in Riga, Latvia.[1][2] The winners were selected by more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. Nominations for the People's Choice Award category were announced on 1 September 2014.[3][4] On 16 September 2014, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced a list of 50 films which qualified for nominations.[5] All nominations were announced on 8 November 2014 at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.[6][7][8] British director Steve McQueen was presented with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award[9] and filmmaker Agnès Varda was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.[10]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Ida Paweł Pawlikowski
Force Majeure Turist Ruben Östlund
Leviathan Левиафан Andrey Zvyagintsev
Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut Lars von Trier
Winter Sleep Kış Uykusu Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Best Director

Director(s) English title Original title
Paweł Pawlikowski Ida
Nuri Bilge Ceylan Winter Sleep Kış Uykusu
Steven Knight Locke
Ruben Östlund Force Majeure Turist
Paolo Virzì Human Capital Il capitale umano
Andrey Zvyagintsev Leviathan Левиафан

Best Screenwriter

Screenwriter(s) Nationality English title Original title
Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz  Poland Ida
Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan  Turkey Winter Sleep Kış Uykusu
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne  Belgium Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit
Steven Knight  United Kingdom Locke
Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev  Russia Leviathan Левиафан

Best European Actor

Actor English title Original title
Timothy Spall Mr. Turner
Brendan Gleeson Calvary
Tom Hardy Locke
Aleksei Serebryakov Leviathan Левиафан
Stellan Skarsgård Nymphomaniac

Best European Actress

Actress English title Original title
Marion Cotillard Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit
Marian Álvarez Wounded La herida
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Human Capital Il capitale umano
Charlotte Gainsbourg Nymphomaniac
Agata Kulesza Ida
Agata Trzebuchowska Ida

Best Comedy

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer La mafia uccide solo d'estate Pierfrancesco Diliberto
Carmina & Amen Carmina y amén Paco León
Le Week-End Roger Michell

People's Choice Award for Best European Film

English title Original title Director(s) Writers(s) Production country
Ida Paweł Pawlikowski Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Paweł Pawlikowski
Beauty and the Beast La Belle et la Bête Christophe Gans Christophe Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh
Nymphomaniac Lars von Trier Lars von Trier
Philomena Stephen Frears Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann Felix Herngren Felix Herngren, Hans Ingemansson, Jonas Jonasson
Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Discovery of the Year

English title Original title Director(s) Writers(s) Production country
The Tribe Плем'я (Plemya) Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
10,000 km Carlos Marques-Marcet Carlos Marques-Marcet, Clara Roquet
'71 Yann Demange Gregory Burke
Party Girl Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis Samuel Theis, Claire Burger, Marie Amachoukeli
Wounded La herida Fernando Franco Fernando Franco, Enric Rufas

Best Animated Feature Film

The nominees were announced on 22 September 2014.[11]

English title Original title Director(s) Animation Production country
The Art of Happiness L'arte della felicità Alessandro Rak Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Dario Sansone, Marino Guarnieri, Annarita Calligaris, Ivana Verze, Laura Sammati, Antonia Emanuela Angrisani, Corrado Piscitelli, Flavio Di Biase, Giorgio Siravo, Sergio Chimenti, Ilaria Jones, Antonio Funaro, Danilo Florio, Mirko Prota, Alberto Panico, Paolo Acampora, Marco Iannaccone
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart Jack et la mécanique du cœur Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu Nicolette Ceccoli, Stéphane Martine, Robert Cepo
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo

Best Documentary

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Master of the Universe Marc Bauder
Just the Right Amount of Violence Jon Bang Carlsen
Of Men and War Des hommes et de la guerre Laurent Bécue-Renard
Sacro GRA Gianfranco Rosi
Waiting For August Teodora Ana Mihai
We Come as Friends Hubert Sauper

Best Cinematographer

English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
Ida Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski

Best Editor

English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
Locke Justine Wright

Best Production Designer

English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
The Dark Valley Das finstere Tal Claus-Rudolf Amler

Best Costume Designer

English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
The Dark Valley Das finstere Tal Natascha Curtius-Noss

Best Composer

English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
Under the Skin Mica Levi

Best Sound Designer

English title Original title Winner(s) Nationality
Starred Up Joakim Sundström

European Co-Production Award—Prix Eurimages

Recipient Occupation Nationality
Ed Guiney Producer

European Achievement in World Cinema

Recipient Occupation Nationality
Steve McQueen Director and screenwriter

Lifetime Achievement Award

Recipient Occupation Nationality
Agnès Varda Director and screenwriter

Best Short Film

The nominees for Best Short Film were selected by independent juries at a series of film festivals throughout Europe.[12][13]

English title Original title Director(s) Country Nominating Festival
The Chicken Una Gunjak Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
Emergency Calls Hätäkutsu Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen Sarajevo Film Festival
Shipwreck Morgan Knibbe Locarno Film Festival
A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log Panique au Village: La Bûche de Noël Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier Vila do Conde Film Festival
Dinola დინოლა Mariam Khatchvani Grimstad Film Festival
Summer 2014 Lato 2014 Wojciech Sobczyk Kraków Film Festival
Wall Fal Simon Szabó Tampere Film Festival
Taprobana Gabriel Abrantes Berlin International Film Festival
Pride Pavel Vesnakov Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
The Chimera of M. Sebastian Buerkner International Film Festival Rotterdam
Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar Jorge Lopez Navarette Cork Film Festival
The Missing Scarf Eoin Duffy Valladolid International Film Festival
Whale Valley Hvalfjörður Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson Flanders International Film Festival Ghent
Daily Bread פת לחם Idan Hubel Venice Film Festival
Still Got Lives Ich hab noch Auferstehung Jan-Gerrit Seyler Drama International Short Film Festival

Young Audience Award

Twelve- to fourteen-year-old audiences from across Europe voted for the winner after watching the three nominated films at special screenings held on "Young Audience Film Day".[14][15]

English title Original title Director(s) Writers(s) Production country
Regret! Spijt! Dave Schram Maria Peters, Dick van den Heuvel
The Contest: To the Stars and Back MGP missionen Martin Miehe-Renard Gitte Løkkegaard, Martin Miehe-Renard
Windstorm Ostwind - Zusammen sind wir frei Katja von Garnier Kristina Magdalena Henn, Lea Schmidbauer

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  14. ^ "EFA Young Audience Award goes to REGRET!". European Film Academy. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  15. ^ "THE CONTEST, REGRET! and WINDSTORM Nominated for EFA Young Audience Award". European Film Academy. Retrieved 4 September 2014.