31st European Film Awards

31st European Film Awards
31st European Film Awards
	Teatro de la Maestranza
Date	15 December 2018
Site	Seville, Spain
Organized by	European Film Academy
	← 2017; European Film Awards; 2019 →;

The 31st European Film Awards were presented on 15 December 2018 in Seville, Spain.^[1]

Selection

Awards voted by EFA Members

Best Film

The nominees were announced on 10 November 2018.^[2]

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Language
Cold War	Pawel Pawlikowski	Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczynska	Apocalypso Pictures, BFI Film Fund, Film4, MK2 Productions, Opus Film, Protagonist Pictures	Polish
Border	Ali Abbasi	Nina Bisgaard, Peter Gustafsson, Petra Jonsson	META Film, Black Spark Film & TV, Karnfilm, TriArt Film	Swedish
Dogman	Matteo Garrone	Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Jean Labadie, Paolo Del Brocco	Archimede, Le Pacte, 01 Distribution	Italian
Girl	Lukas Dhont	Dirk Impens	Menuet, Frakas Productions, Topkapi Films, Netflix	Dutch, French
Happy as Lazzaro	Alice Rohrwacher	Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber	Tempesta SRL, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora, Filmproduktions	Italian

Best Comedy

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Language
The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci	Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Kevin Loader	eOne Films, IFC, Gaumont	English
C'est la vie!	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache	Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou	Quad Productions, Ten Films	French
Diamantino	Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt	Justin Taurand, Maria João Mayer, Daniel van Hoogstraten	Maria & Mayer, Les Films du Bélier, Syndrome Films	Portuguese

Best Director

Director(s)	English title
Paweł Pawlikowski	Cold War
/ Ali Abbasi	Border
Matteo Garrone	Dogman
Samuel Maoz	Foxtrot
Alice Rohrwacher	Happy as Lazzaro

Best Screenwriter

Screenwriter(s)	English title
Paweł Pawlikowski	Cold War
Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf & John Ajvide Lindqvist	Border
Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti & Massimo Gaudioso	Dogman
Gustav Möller & Emil Nygaard Albertsen	The Guilty
Alice Rohrwacher	Happy as Lazzaro

Best Actress

Actress	English title	Role
Joanna Kulig	Cold War	Zuzanna "Zula" Lichoń
Marie Bäumer	3 Days in Quiberon	Romy Schneider
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir	Woman at War	Halla
Bárbara Lennie	Petra	Petra
Eva Melander	Border	Tina
Alba Rohrwacher	Happy as Lazzaro	Antonia

Best Actor

Actor	English title	Role
Marcello Fonte	Dogman	Marcello
Jakob Cedergren	The Guilty	Asger Holm
Rupert Everett	The Happy Prince	Oscar Wilde
Sverrir Gudnason	Borg vs McEnroe	Björn Borg
Tomasz Kot	Cold War	Wiktor Warski
Victor Polster	Girl	Lara

Technical awards

Best Composer

Winner(s)	English title
Christoph M. Kaiser and Julian Maas	3 Days in Quiberon

Best Cinematographer

Winner(s)	English title
Martin Otterbeck	Utøya: July 22

Best Editor

Winner(s)	English title
Jarosław Kamiński	Cold War

Best Production Designer

Winner(s)	English title
Andrey Ponkratov	Summer

Best Costume Designer

English title	Winner(s)
Massimo Cantini Parrini	Dogman

Best Sound Designer

Winner(s)	English title
André Bendocchi-Alves and Martin Steyer	The Captain

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Winner(s)	English title
Dalia Colli, Lorenzo Tamburini and Daniela Tartari	Dogman

Best Visual Effects

Winner(s)	English title
Peter Hjorth	Border

Critics Award

European Discovery

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Language
Girl	Lukas Dhont	Dirk Impens	Menuet, Frakas Productions, Topkapi Films, Netflix	Dutch, French
One Day	Zsófia Szilágyi	Edina Kenesei, Ági Pataki	Filmpartners, Sparks, Vertigo Média Kft., Zeta Filmes	Hungarian, Italian
Scary Mother	Ana Urushadze	Lasha Khalvashi, Tinatin Kajrishvili	Artizm, Gemini, Allfilm, Georgian National Film Centre	Georgian
The Guilty	Gustav Möller	Lina Flint	Nordisk Film Spring, New Danish Screen, Magnolia Pictures	Danish
Those Who Are Fine	Cyril Schäublin	Silvan Hillmann, Cyril Schäublin, Lara Hacisalihzade	Seeland Filmproduktion, Film IGRF	Swiss, German
Touch Me Not	Adina Pintilie	Adina Pintilie, Bianca Oana, Philippe Avril	Manekino Film, 4 Proof Film, Agitprop, Les Films de l'Étranger, Pink Productions, Rohfilm	English, German

Best Animated Feature Film

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Language
Another Day of Life	Raul de la Fuente & Damian Nenow	Jarek Sawko, Amaia Remirez, Ole Østergaard	Platige Image, Kanaki Films	Polish
Early Man	Nick Park	Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Nick Park, Carla Shelley, Richard Beek	Aardman Animations, British Film Institute, StudioCanal	English
The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey	Anthony Leo, Tomm Moore, Andrew Rosen, Paul Young	Cartoon Saloon, Aircraft Pictures, Guru Studio, Jolie Pas, Irish Film Board, Melusine Productions, Telefilm Canada, Elevation Pictures, StudioCanal	English
White Fang	Alexandre Espigares	Clément Calvet, Jérémie Fajner, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, Lilian Eche, Christel Henon	Superprod, Bidibul Productions, Big Beach, Wild Bunch	French

Audience awards

People's Choice Award

English title	Director(s)	Production country
Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino
Borg vs McEnroe	Janus Metz Pedersen
C'est la vie!	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
Darkest Hour	Joe Wright
In the Fade	Fatih Akin
The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Luc Besson
Victoria & Abdul	Stephen Frears

University Award

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Language
Happy as Lazzaro	Alice Rohrwacher	Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber	Tempesta SRL, Amka Films Productions, Ad Vitam Production, Pola Pandora, Filmproduktions	Italian
Foxtrot	Samuel Maoz	Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Eitan Mansuri, Cedomir Kolar, Marc Baschet & Michel Merktri	Bord Cadre Films	Hebrew
Styx	Wolfgang Fischer	Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald	A.S.A.P.,ARTE,Arte France Cinéma	German
Tarzan's Testicles	Alexandru Solomon	Ada Solomon, Cedric Bonin, Pascaline Geoffroy	HI Film Productions,Seppia Production	Russian
Utøya: July 22	Erik Poppe	Stein B. Kvae & Finn Gjerdrum	Paradox Film 7,Paradox,MEDIA Programme of the European Union	Norwegian

Best Documentary

English title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Production companies	Language
Bergman - A Year in a Life	Jane Magnusson	Mattias Nohrborg, Cecilia Nessen, Fredrik Heinig	B-Reel Films, Carlotta Films, Filmarti, Imovision	Swedish, English, German
A Woman Captured	Bernadett Tuza-Ritter	Julianna Ugrin, Viki Réka Kiss	Éclipse Film, Corso Film	Hungarian
Of Fathers and Sons	Talal Derki	Eva Kemme, Hans Robert Eisenhauer, Ansgar Frerich, Tobias Siebert	Cinema Group Production, Südwestrundfunk, Impact Partners, Basis Berlin Filmproduktion, Ventana Film- und Fernsehproduktion	Arabic
The Distant Barking of Dogs	Simon Lering Wilmont	Monica Hellström	Final Cut for Real	Russian
The Silence of Others	Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar	Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar	Semilla Verde Productions, Lucernam Films, Blue Ice Docs, El Deseo, ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting, P.O.V.	Spanish

Best Short Film

Original title	Director(s)	Minutes
The Years	Sara Fgaier	20 min.
Aquaparque	Ana Moreira	17 min.
Burkina Brandenburg Komplex	Ulu Braun	19 min.
Graduation '97	Pavlo Ostrikov	19 min.
I Signed the Petition	Mahdi Fleifel	19 min.
Kapitalistis	Pablo Muñoz Gómez	15 min.
Kontener	Sebastian Lang	30 min.
Meryem	Reber Dosky	16 min.
Prisoner of Society	Rati Tsiteladze	15 min.
Release The Dogs	Manue Fleytoux	21 min.
Shame	Petar Krumov	24 min.
The Escape	Laëtitia Martinoni	10 min.
Those Who Desire	Elena López Riera	24 min.
What's The Damage	Heather Phillipson	7 min.
Wildebeest	Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips	19 min.

European Co-Production Award — Prix Eurimages

Recipient	Occupation
Konstantinos Kontovrakis Giorgos Karnavas	Producer

Honorary Awards

European Achievement in World Cinema

Recipient	Occupation
Ralph Fiennes	Actor, film producer and director

Lifetime Achievement Award

Recipient	Occupation
Carmen Maura	Actress

References

^ "European Film Awards". European Film Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ "European Film Awards Nominations: 'Cold War', 'Dogman', 'Border' Lead – Full List". Retrieved 10 November 2018.

External links

Official website

[europeanfilmawards-1] "European Film Awards". European Film Awards. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

[nominations-2] "European Film Awards Nominations: 'Cold War', 'Dogman', 'Border' Lead – Full List". Retrieved 10 November 2018.

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