Euro Film Awards!!! Yes...they DO exist!

Yay! And the awards keep coming!!! This time its for the underrated European Film Awards...so under the radar that I didn't even know that they were happening today until I read IMDB. 


Guess who won Best Feature?!!!





EUROPEAN FILM 2011

THE ARTIST, France
LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike), Belgium/France/Italy
HÆVNEN (In a Better World), Denmark
THE KING’S SPEECH, UK
LE HAVRE, Finland/France/Germany
* MELANCHOLIA, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany

The party for this one just isn't going to stop...until the Oscar nominations, that is...

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011

* Susanne Bier for HÆVNEN (In a Better World)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)
Aki Kaurismäki for LE HAVRE
Béla Tarr for A TORINOI LO (The Turin Horse)
Lars von Trier for MELANCHOLIA

Totally disagree with this one. Split vote, I think. Any of the other nominees would have better.

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011:
Kirsten Dunst in MELANCHOLIA
Cécile de France in LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)
Charlotte Gainsbourg in MELANCHOLIA
Nadezhda Markina in ELENA
* Tilda Swinton in WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Arguably agree. Really like Kirsten & Charlotte...but they aren't Tilda.

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011:
Jean Dujardin in THE ARTIST
* Colin Firth in THE KING’S SPEECH
Mikael Persbrandt in HÆVNEN (In a Better World)
Michel Piccoli in HABEMUS PAPAM
André Wilms in LE HAVRE

No surprise here.

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2011:
* Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)
Anders Thomas Jensen for HÆVNEN (In a Better World)
Aki Kaurismäki for LE HAVRE
Lars von Trier for MELANCHOLIA

Good choice.

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2011:
* Manuel Alberto Claro for MELANCHOLIA
Fred Kelemen for A TORINOI LO (The Turin Horse)
Guillaume Schiffman for THE ARTIST
Adam Sikora for ESSENTIAL KILLING

No one may dare argue with this. It is FACT.

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2011:
* Tariq Anwar for THE KING’S SPEECH
Mathilde Bonnefoy for DREI (Three)
Molly Malene Stensgaard for MELANCHOLIA

Agree.

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2011:
Paola Bizzarri for HABEMUS PAPAM
Antxón Gómez for LA PIEL QUE HABITO (The Skin I Live in)
* Jette Lehmann for MELANCHOLIA

Hmmm. I really liked both Melancholia and Skin I Live In for this. A real surprise here.

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2011:
* Ludovic Bource for THE ARTIST
Alexandre Desplat for THE KING’S SPEECH
Alberto Iglesias for LA PIEL QUE HABITO (The Skin I Live in)
Mihály Vig for A TORINOI LO (The Turin Horse)

Damn. I really want to see The Artist.

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
Pina

Seeing it real soon.

BEST ANIMATED FILM:
Chico & Rita

Youtube, maybe?