24th European Film Awards

The 24th ceremony of the European Film Awards took place on 3 December 2011. After last year, the TV gala in Tallinn, Estonia had taken place, followed in 2011 Berlin as the venue. Thus, the award ceremony was held for the eleventh time in the German capital. As best film Lars von Trier's Melancholia was awarded, which could implement three of its eight nominations in victories.

In collaboration with others, the Federal Government Commissioner for Art and Media, the Film Board ( FFA), the Capital Cultural Fund, the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Media Board Berlin- Brandenburg and the German Lottery Foundation Berlin was the presentation of the European Film Awards 2011 Tempodrom held at the site of the former railway station pickup. Approximately 1,000 guests were expected, including the German director Wim Wenders, president of the European Film Academy (EFA ), which awards the awards, as well as the German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann and the Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Arts and Culture Claudia Schmied.

As a presenter, the German comedian and actress Anke Engelke was won. Engelke had already hosted the previous two ceremonies. As presenters, the filmmakers Moritz Bleibtreu, August Diehl, Alexander Fehling, Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Irène Jacob, Sibel Kekilli, Alexandra Maria Lara, Heike Makatsch, Ludivine Sagnier, Sylvie Testud and Ulrich Thomsen were provided, among other things. 150 journalists received accreditation. The musical program of the German DJ Shantel has been committed.

The award ceremony was offered as a live stream on the Internet and be seen on TV in over 100 countries. In Germany the television broadcasting takes place a day later by the German - French TV channel ARTE, in Austria by ORF 2

• 3.1 European Koproduzentenpreis - "Prix Eurimages "
• 3.2 Special Prize
• 3.3 Best European power in world cinema
• 3.4 Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 3.5 Best First Feature
• 3.6 Best Short Film
• 3.7 European Documentary Film Award - "Prix ARTE "
• 3.8 Best Animated Feature
• 3.9 European Audience Award

Favorite Movies

The nominations were announced by the European Film Academy (EFA ) on November 5, 2011 at the European Film Festival in Seville. Was considered the favorite European co-production Melancholia by Lars von Trier, who had received eight nominations and thus the record of Suzanne East The Guardian Angel (1990 ) and Michael Haneke's Caché (2005) hired who had come to the same number of nominations. Von Trier's drama tells of a doomsday scenario from the perspectives of two very different sisters (played by Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg ) who meet at a wedding reception.

Melancholia had its premiere celebrated in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where Kirsten Dunst was honored for her performance as melancholic depressive Bride with the Best Actor Award. At the same time had made at the press conference of his film caused a scandal when he had expressed sympathy for Adolf Hitler and finally said that he was a " Nazi" Von Trier. Then, the Danish director was excluded despite an apology from the festival. Melancholia was his favorite status to help with the presentation of the European Film Awards and won the awards in the categories of Best European Film, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. The award for the best film in Von Trier's wife Bente accepted froge who posted that your husband no message for the audience without further he had decided not to issue more statements. "But he has asked me to wave at friendly. " Said froge.

Nominated were beyond Von Trier as best director, Kirsten Dunst ( the U.S. citizen has since September 2011, the German nationality ) and Charlotte Gainsbourg as best actress, the script and the cut. Von Trier the European Film Awards Dancer in the Dark ( Best European film 2000) and Dogville ( Director's Prize 2003) had already in the past for Breaking the Waves ( Best European film 1996), won. Only the films of the Italian Gianni Amelio had been between 1990 and 1994 also elected three times to the best European film.

Also in the category Best European film competed Michel Hazanavicius ' The Artist, The Kid with a Bike by Jean -Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Susanne Bier's In a Better World, The King's Speech by Tom Hooper and Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, all on each four nominations had come. The Danish contribution In a Better World is about an idealistic doctor (played by Mikael Persbrandt ) who commutes between Africa and Europe back and forth while the fateful friendship of his son to a violent classmates do not pay enough attention. Beer was awarded the Best Director Award for her film as the first woman. The historical drama The King's Speech dramatizes the true story of stuttering British King George VI. and received the awards for Best Actor ( Colin Firth ) and Best Editing ( Tariq Anwar ). Both films were released in 2010 and 2011 with the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and the categories Best Film was awarded.

The remaining films The Artist, The Kid with a Bike and Le Havre ( Finland current candidate for the Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film ) had as Melancholia celebrated its premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The drama The Artist is a silent movie star not succeed in the transition to talkies had lead actor Jean Dujardin introduced the Best Actor Award at Cannes and won the European Film Award for Best Film Music ( Ludovic Bource ). The boy with the bike had won the second most important price, the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and was awarded the European Film Award for Best Screenplay. In the film, a twelve- year-old boy (played by Thomas Doret ) at the center, leaving the children's home to search for his father, while a hairdresser ( Cécile de France) is supported. Unprämiert, however, remained in the Le Havre André Wilms plays a former Parisian literati and bohemian, which is in voluntary exile - living as a shoeshine boy and takes an illegal refugee child from Africa - the titular French port city. Also no price Béla Tarr's got three times nominated film The Turin Horse. In this, the story is retold by a tortured horse that is supposed to have in 1889 initiated the intellectual collapse of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Turin. The film had its premiere celebrated as part of this year's Berlinale, where Tarr had been honored with the second most important price. It should be about the last movie of the director, who is also Hungary's candidate for the foreign Oscar in 2012.

German -language film production and film-makers had remained largely ignored in the announcement of the nominations. Tom Tykwer's Three was nominated in the category Best Editing, but The King's Speech was beaten - film editor Mathilde Bonnefoy had already received the German Film Award in 2011 for their work. The German -Hungarian cinematographer Fred Kelemen was nominated for The Turin Horse. No nomination for the European Film Award had that are on the list Almanya - Welcome to Germany by Yasemin Samdereli and stop get on the open road by Andreas Dresen. Similarly, the Austrian contribution The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott were (Austrian Film Award 2011 as the best feature film ) does not pass and the Swiss Film Prize - winner The small room on the short list. The Austrian contributions breathing Karl Markovic, Austria's candidate for the foreign Oscar in 2012, and Michael Markus Schleinzer competed for the prize for the best first film, but had opposite the Dutch-Belgian contribution Adem left behind. Germany's contribution for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film, Wim Wenders' documentary Pina, was awarded the "Prix ARTE ", the European Documentary Award.

The winners of each category voted to award from the 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. In the run as winners were determined by the British film director and producer Stephen Frears and Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Frears was nominated in 2007 for The Queen for the European Director and Audience Award. He received the European Film Award for Lifetime Achievement ( Speedwell ). Mikkelsen was in 2006 for After the wedding, and was nominated in 2008 for the day of wrath twice in vain for the Best Actor Award. He received an award in the category Best European power in world cinema. At a special ceremony, there was spontaneous for Michel Piccoli. The French actor 2011 for the title role in Nanni Moretti's Habemus Papam - ​​We Have a Pope unsuccessfully competed for the third time to the Best Actor Award, was honored with a special award for his life's work.

During the award ceremony was the fifth time the "Prix Eurimages ", will be honored with the European co-producers, forgive. Winner of 2011 was the Spaniard Mariela Besuievsky, ownership stakes in the production company Tornasol film. Besuievsky had worked in the past at over 40 film productions, including the Oscar-winning Argentine film in her eyes, Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro (both 2009) and Álex de la Iglesias this year not Come shortlisted Mad Circus - A Ballad of Love and death (2010).

Award winners and nominees

Best European film

Melancholia - Written and directed by Lars von Trier, Producer: Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth

Best Director

Susanne Bier - In a Better World ( Hævnen )

Best Actress

Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Actor

Colin Firth - The King's Speech

Best Screenplay

Jean -Pierre and Luc Dardenne - The Kid with a Bike (Le Gamin au vélo )

Best Cinematography ( " Carlo Di Palma - Prize" )

Manuel Alberto Claro - Melancholia

Best Editing

Tariq Anwar - The King's Speech

Best Art

Jette Lehmann - Melancholia

Best Original Score

Ludovic Bource - The Artist

Official Selection List - movies

The 13 nominated film productions - ten less than last year - were ( " Long List " ) has been determined by the 2500 members of the European Film Academy from a selection list. 45 films from 32 countries competed for nominations. Could Qualify European feature film productions that usually between 1 July 2010 and 15 June 2011, publicly premiered at a film festival or had experienced a theatrical release. The 20 countries with the most members given a national film each directly. The other participants were supplemented by a committee of EFA Board members and the Frenchman Pierre -Henri Deleau, the Swede Marit Kapla, the Bulgarians Stefan Kitanov, the Briton Derek Malcolm and Elma Tataragic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as invited experts.

The nominees for the regular categories movies ( The Artist, Three, Jelena, etc.) are highlighted in dark gray. Disregarded for nominations remained among others, the current foreign Oscar contributions from Belgium ( Rundskop ), Greece ( Attenberg ), Iceland ( Eldfjall ), Ireland ( As If I Am Not There ), Spain ( Pa negre ) and Sweden ( Better days ).

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European Koproduzentenpreis - "Prix Eurimages "

Mariela Besuievsky ( Tornasol Films, Spain)

Special Prize

Michel Piccoli, French actor

Best European power in world cinema

Mads Mikkelsen, the Danish actor

Price for a life's work

Stephen Frears, British film director and producer

Best First Feature

On 11 October 2011, the European Film Academy announced the nominations for the category "Best First Feature " known to compete in the five directors with their debut feature film productions against each other. The winner voted the 2500 members of the EFA, which was announced at the award ceremony on December 3. Selected were the nominees by a panel consisting of three EFA- Chief Executive Officer ( the Dutch Els Vandevorst, the Frenchman Cedomir Kolar as well as observers from the Frenchman Yves Marmion ), two EFA members ( the Frenchman Pierre -Henri Deleau and the Dane Jacob Neiiendam ) and three European members of the international film critics association FIPRESCI ( the Turkish girl Alin Taşçıyan, the Portuguese Paulo Portugal and the Hungarian László Kriston ).

Adem (Oxygen ) - Director: Hans Van Nuffel (Belgium, The Netherlands)

Best Short Film

15 films qualified for the award in the category Best European short film, including two documentaries (I Lupi, Paparazzi ). With Mariejosephin Schneider ( Jessi ) and Josef Dabernig ( Hypercrisis ) were represented two directors from German speaking countries. The German Schneider told in Jessi of a eleven year old who lives in a foster family and tries to repair the dysfunctional relationship of her sitting in prison mother and her sister. The Austrian Dabernig deals in Hypercrisis with the creative crisis of a poet.

European Documentary Film Award - "Prix ARTE "

Since 2010, the EFA members are called to forgive the ausgelobten together with the Franco - German TV channel ARTE documentary award "Prix ARTE ". The nominations were determined by a committee that from the British Nik Powell (Director of the British Film School NFTS and deputy EFA Board Chairman), the Greek Despina Mouzaki ( EFA Board Member ), the Swiss Francine Brücher (EFA member ), the German Claas Danielsen ( Director of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film ), the Dutch Ally Derks ( International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), the Belgian producer Jacques Laurent and the ARTE - observer Martin Pieper was.

Pina - Directed by Wim Wenders ( Germany )

Best Animated film

For the adoption in 2009 of European animation film award three productions were nominated. The pre-selection was responsible for two EFA Board members and three representatives from the European Association of Animation Film CARTOON. The winner voted the 2,500 members of the European Film Academy, which was announced at the award ceremony on December 3.

Chico & Rita - Director: Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba (Spain, Isle of Man)

Chico & Rita and Cat in Paris are also on the shortlist for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

European Audience Award

Through the Audience Award ( People's Choice Award) had moviegoers the opportunity to their favorites via the Internet from a selection list to crown. The candidates were introduced on 1 September 2011. Among these, the set already in the official competition In a Better World and The King's Speech were. The choice ended on 31 October 2011. And then the rain and Little White Lies had stood on the official EFA- selection list.

The King's Speech - Director: Tom Hooper