The European Film Awards 2014 goes to Poland. The black-and-white drama “Ida” Pawel Pawlikowski was voted in by the Latvian capital Riga on
Saturday night for best feature film. The Germans did not go empty-handed
home. The Stuttgart Marc Bauder is for “Master of the Universe” with the European Film Award in the category Best Documentary was awarded.
It portrays the director a former investment banker who takes a critical look at the world of finance. As the winners were chosen in the technical categories prior to the Gala, it was already clear that Natascha Curtius-Noss and Claus-Rudolf Amler prices for costume and scene image of the Alps drama “The Dark Valley” get – so that Germany three trophies won ..
Best actress Frenchwoman Marion Cotillard was in absentia for their role in the social drama “Two days, one night”
by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne honored. The British actor Timothy Spall took the Film Award for Best Actor statue
contrary. He was known for the title role in the artist’s biography “Mr. Turner – Masters of Light “. Award
The Polish winning film” Ida “, who had it in the spring, although placed in Germany, only 18,000 viewers internationally, however, was an art-house hit, got out of the main prize, four more Awards for directing, cinematography and screenplay. The strictly stylized, impressive, based in the ’60s drama about a novice in a Catholic convent, experienced in the order of their Jewish origins shortly before her final admission, saw in France a half million viewers in Italy and Spain around 100,000 each Visitors. Even in the US brought Pawlikowski film it on over 400,000 spectators. Together with her single, a loose way of life leading aunt, the young woman goes on the trail of her Jewish family who died in the Holocaust. Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac”, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Turkish drama “hibernation” and the Russian film “Leviathan” were left empty. Under among the productions nominated in the supreme discipline “Best Feature Film” they were traded as favorites.
More than 1000 filmmakers gathered in Riga for film awards gala, including the actors Liv Ullmann and Tobias Moretti
. About the nominations in 21 categories and the winners decide the good 3000 members of the European Film Academy, based in Berlin. The prize for the European contribution for world cinema received this time the British filmmaker Steve McQueen, Academy President Wim Wenders handed it perönlich. McQueen had won for his slaves drama “12 Years a Slave” this year and an Academy Award.
For the best animated film Academy members voted “The Art of Happiness” by Italian Alessandro Rak. dpa / Tsp
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