What else is new? Slumdog Millionaire picks up another award! Danny Boyle’s
What else is new? Slumdog Millionaire picks up another award!
Danny Boyle’s multi Oscar winner “Slumdog Millionaire” won People’s Choice award for Best European Film at the 22nd European Film Awards.
The European Film Awards, now in its 22nd year, took place this year in Essen and Bochum, both in the Ruhr area which, with Essen at its heart, is one of the three European Capitals of Culture in 2010. After Friday night’s gala in honour of Ken Loach in Essen, the awards ceremony took place on Saturday night in Bochum.
The list of winners:
EUROPEAN FILM
The White Ribbon
directed by Michael Haneke
produced by Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz, Margaret Menegoz & Andrea Occhipinti
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon
EUROPEAN ACTOR
Tahar Rahim in A Prophet
EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Kate Winslet in The Reader
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon
CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD
Anthony Dod Mantle for Antichrist and Slumdog Millionaire
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY PRIX D’EXCELLENCE
Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier & Marc Doisne for the Sound Design, A Prophet
EUROPEAN COMPOSER
Alberto Iglesias for Broken Embraces
DISCOVERY AWARD
Katalin Varga
directed by Peter Strickland
produced by Tudor Giurgiu, Oana Giurgiu and Peter Strickland
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Mia et le Migou
directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd, co-directed by Nora Twomey
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM
Poste Restante by Marcel Lozinski
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Ken Loach
EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA
Isabelle Huppert
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY – Prix ARTE
The Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy
directed by Peter Liechti
EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD – Prix EURIMAGES
Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS AWARD – Prix FIPRESCI
Andrzej Wajda for Sweet Rush
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD for Best European Film
Slumdog Millionaire
directed by Danny Boyle