Semenjak tahun 19888 European Film Academy telah melaksanakan sebuah ajang festival yang bertujuan untuk memberi penghargaan pada raihan sinematis insan perfilman Eropa yang kemudian dikenal sebagai European Film Awards. Penghargaan diberikan dalam lebih dari 10 kategori dengan yang paling utama adalah Film of the year. Para nominasi di anugerah yang awalnya bernama Felix Awards ini terbatas hanya pada film-film Eropa dan juga produser, sutradara dan aktor asal Eropa. .
Tahun ini European Film Awards akan memasuki tahun ke-27nya dan akan berlangsung pada 13 December 2014 di kota Riga, Latvia. Pada tanggal 8 November 2014 kemarin, tepatnya di acara Seville European Film Festival, telah diumumkan daftar nominasi European Film Awards 2014.
Drama Polandia karya Paweł Pawlikowski, Ida, mendominasi dengan 5 nominasi, termasuk untuk kategori utama, Best Film, dan juga dua nominasi untuk para aktrisnya, Agata Trzebuchowska dan Agata Kulesza.
Menyusul kemudian film asal Rusia pemenang Cannes, Leviathan, karya Andrey Zvyagintsev, yang meraih 4 nominasi, termasuk untuk Best Film dan juga Best Director. Film pemenang Cannes lainnya, Winter Sleep, karya auteur Turki kenamaan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, juga terdapat dalam daftar nominasi Best Film. Baik Leviathan dan Winter Sleep mewakili negara masing-masing untuk bersaing merebutkan Oscar Best Foreign Languange di tahun depan.
Dua film lain yang bersaing dalam memperebutkan gelar Best Film adalah epik seks Lars Von Trier, Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut dan Force Majeure dari Swedia, karya Ruben Östlund yang mendapat pujian di mana-mana.
Sementara itu para aktris film Ida, Agata Trzebuchowska dan Agata Kulesza, harus bersaing dengan nama-nama besar dalam seksi Best European Actress, seperti Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) dan Charlotte Gainsbourg (Nymphomaniac). Cotillard dipercaya akan menyabet gelar ini.
Di seksi Best European Actor, aktor Inggris beken, Tom Hardy, mendapat nominasi berkat akting gemilangnya dalam Locke. Ia akan bersaing antaranya dengan Brendan Gleeson (Calvary) dan Stellan Skarsgård (Nymphomaniac).
Sutradara asal Prancis, Agnes Varda, akan menerima European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award dan Steve McQueen (Shame, 12 Years a Slave), akan menerima European Achievement in World Cinema.
Berikut daftar nominasinya:
EUROPEAN FILM 2014
- “Force Majeure”: Sweden, Denmark, France, Norway, directed by Ruben Ostlund, produced by Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson & Philippe Bober
- “Ida”; Poland/Denmark; directed by Pawel Pawlikowski; produced by Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska, Christian Husum
- “Leviathan”; Russia; directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev; produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov
- “Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut – Volume I & II” Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium; directed by Lars von Trier, produced by Louise Vesth
- “Winter Sleep”; Turkey/France/Germany; directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan; produced by Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan
EUROPEAN COMEDY 2014
- “Carmina & Amen”; Spain; directed by Paco Leon, produced by Paco Leon, Ghislain Barrois and Álvaro Augustin
- “Le Week-End”; U.K.; directed by Roger Michel; produced by Kevin Loader
- “The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer”; Italy; directed by Pierfrancesco Diliberto; produced by Mario Gianani & Lorenzo Mieli
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2014
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan,” “Winter Sleep”
- Steven Knight, “Locke”
- Ruben Ostlund, “Force Majeure”
- Paweł Pawlikowski, “Ida”
- Paolo Virzì, Human Capital”
- Andrey Zvyagintsev, “Leviathan”
EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2014
- Marian Alvarez, “Wounded”
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, “Human capital”
- Marion Cotillard, “Two Days, One Night”
- Charlotte Gainsbourg, “Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut -Volume I & II”
- Agata Kulesza, “Ida”
- Agata Trzebuchowska, “Ida”
EUROPEAN ACTOR 2014
- Brendan Gleeson, “Calvary”
- Tom Hardy, “Locke”
- Alexey Serebryakov, “Leviathan”
- Stellan Skarsgard, “Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut -Volume I & II”
- Timothy Spall, “Mr. Turner”
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2014
- Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, “Winter Sleep”
- Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne for Two Days, One Night”
- Steven Knight, “Locke”
- Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev, “Leviathan”
- Pawel Pawikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, “Ida”
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARIES
- “Just the Right Amount of Violence”; Denmark; directed by Jon Bang Carlsen; produced by Helle Ulsten & Jon Bang
- “Master of the Universe”; Germany/Austria; directed by Marc Bauder; produced by Marc Bauder & Markus Glaser
- “Of Men and War”; France Switzerland; directed and produced by Laurent Becue-Renard
- “Sacro Gra”; Italy/France; directed by Gianfranco Rosi; produced by Marco Visalberghi & Carole Solive
- “Waiting For August”; Belgium; directed by Teodora Ana Mihai; produced by Hanne Phlypo & Antoine Vermeesch
- “We Come As Friends”; Austria; directed and produced by Hubert Sauper
EUROPEAN DISCOVERIES 2014
- “10,000 KM”; Spain; directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet; produced by Marques-Marcet & Clara Roquet
- “71”; UK; directed by Yann Demange; produced by Angus Lamont
- “Party Girl”; France; directed by Marie Amachoukeli; produced by Marie Masmonteli & Denis Carot
- “The Tribe”; Ukraine; directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy; produced by Valentyn Vasyanovych, Iya Myslytska
- “Wounded”; Spain; directed by Fernando Franco; produced by Koldo Zuaza
EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
- “Jack and the Cuckoo-clock Heart”; France, Belgium; directed by Mathias Malzieu, Stephane Berla
- “Minuscule – Valley of the Lost Ants”; France, Belgium; directed by Thomas Szabo, Helene Giraud
- “The Art of Happiness”; Italy; directed by Alessandro Rak
AWARDS
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER – Prix CARLO DI PALMA 2014
- Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski, “Ida”
EUROPEAN EDITOR 2014
- Justine Wright for “Locke”
EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2014
- Claus-Rudolf Amler, “The Dark Valley”
EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER 2014
- Natascha Curtius-Noss, “The Dark Valley”
EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2014
- Mica Levi, “Under the Skin”
EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER 2014
- Joakim Sundstrom, “Starred Up”
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA