The 27th European Film Awards ceremony was held on December 13 in Riga, the 2014 European Capital of Culture. The awards ceremony was attended by Poland’s Minister of Culture and National Heritage Małgorzata Omilanowska and the General Director of the Polish Film Institute Agnieszka Odorowicz.
The Best European Film Award was presented to Ida director Paweł Pawlikowski and producers Ewa Puszczyńska, Piotr Dzięcioł and Eric Abraham. Ida competed in the awards race against Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep. Ida also received the EFA People’s Choice Award, selected by European viewers in an online vote. Ida competed in this prestigious category against such films as Stephen Frears’ Philomena and Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.
The Best European Director award went to Paweł Pawlikowski, Members of the European Film Academy selected also Paweł Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz as Best European Screenwriters of 2014.
At the awards ceremony, Łukasz Żal accepted the Carlo Di Palma Award for Best European Cinematographer for his and Ryszard Lenczewski’s work on Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida.
Agata Kulesza and Agata Trzebuchowska were both nominated in the Best European Actress category for their performances in Ida. The winner of the Best European Actress Award was Marion Cotillard for her performane in Two Days, One Night.
One of the films nominated in the European Short Film category was Lato 2014 (Summer 2014), a film by Wojciech Sobczak. This animated short, co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, is a raw and poetic greyscale treatise on the desire to dominate an on violence as the driving force of history.
Photo © „Ida” directed by Paweł Pawlikowski/ Opus Film.
Source: The Polish Film Institute