The Shooting Stars Awards are presented annually by the pan-European network organization European Film Promotion (EFP) to emerging actors from Europe. "Shooting Stars" is an initiative of the EFP for the international promotion and networking of promising up-and-coming actors from the 37 EFP member countries. Since 1998, ten talents selected from all over Europe have been presented each year during the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) to the international press, the general public, and the film industry. The four-day programme culminates with the presentation of the European Shooting Stars Awards.[1]
The EFP member organisations from a total of 37 European countries can each nominate one actor/actress aged between 18 and 32, who has been successful and already won awards in their native country.
An independent international expert jury selects the 10 best and internationally most promising talents to then be presented at the Berlinale to international casting directors, agencies, directors, producers as well as the international press and the general public and to also receive the European Shooting Star Award at the end of the programme.[2][3]
Up until 2018, a total of 170 actresses and 133 actors had been presented at the Berlinale and received awards as European Shooting Stars, including the now internationally known actors Rachel Weisz (UK 1998), Franka Potente (Germany 1998), Daniel Craig (UK 2000), August Diehl (Germany 2000), Nina Hoss (Germany 2000), Thure Lindhardt (Denmark 2000), Heike Makatsch (Germany 2001), Ludivine Sagnier (France 2001), Jérémie Renier (Belgium 2002), Daniel Brühl (Germany 2003), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Denmark 2003), Matthias Schoenaerts (Belgium 2003), Andrew Scott (Ireland 2004), Ruth Negga (Ireland 2006), Mélanie Laurent (France 2007), Carey Mulligan (UK 2009), Pilou Asbaek (Denmark 2011), Alicia Vikander (Sweden 2011), Riz Ahmed (UK 2012), Carla Juri (Switzerland 2013), George MacKay (UK 2014) and Maisie Williams (UK 2015).
Year | Actor | Actresses | Jury |
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1998 | Juan Diego Botto (Spain) Fritz Karl (Austria) Victor Löw (The Netherlands) Michaël Pas (Belgium) Melvil Poupaud (France) Lars Simonsen (Denmark) Jürgen Vogel (Germany) |
Beatriz Batarda (Portugal) Clotilde Courau (France) Sabriana Leurquin (Belgium) Labina Mitevska (United Kingdom) Franka Potente (Germany) Ingrid Rubio (Spain) Anneke von der Lippe (Norway) Vicky Volioti (Greece) Rachel Weisz (United Kingdom) |
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1999 | Moritz Bleibtreu (Germany) Mathieu Demy (France) Renos Haralambidis (Greece) Diogo Infante (Portugal) Eduardo Noriega (Spain) Paul Ronan (Ireland) Christian Schmidt (Austria) Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson (Iceland) Johan Widerberg (Sweden) |
Soraya Gomaa (Switzerland) Iben Hjejle (Denmark) Kelly Macdonald (United Kingdom) Ana Moreira (Portugal) Maria Schrader (Germany) Rachael Stirling (United Kingdom) Alexia Stresi (France) Tamar van den Dop (The Netherlands) Leonor Watling (Spain) |
Year | Actor | Actresses | Jury |
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2020 | Pääru Oja (Estonia) Levan Gelbakhiani (Georgia) Jonas Dassler (Germany) Bilal Wahib (The Netherlands) Bartosz Bielenia (Poland) |
Martina Apostolova (Bulgaria) Victoria Carmen Sonne (Denmark) Zita Hanrot (France) Joana Ribeiro (Portugal) Ella Rumpf (Switzerland) |
Dome Karukoski (Finland) Katarína Krnáčová (Slovak Republic) Luvy Bevan (UK) Rüdiger Sturm (Germany) Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria) |
2021 | Nicolas Maury (France)
Albrecht Schuch (Germany) Fionn O’Shea (Ireland) Martijn Lakemeier (The Netherlands) Gustav Lindh (Sweden) |
Seidi Haarla (Finland)
Natasa Stork (Hungary) Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė (Lithuania) Sara Klimoska (North Macedonia) Alba Baptista (Portugal) |
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2022 | Emilio Sakraya (Germany)
João Nunes Monteiro (Portugal) Timon Sturbej (Slovenia) |
Gracija Filipović (Croatia)
Marie Reuther (Denmark) Anamaria Vartolomei (France) Clare Dunne (Ireland) Hanna van Vliet (The Netherlands) Evin Ahmad (Sweden) Souheila Yacoub (Switzerland) |
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2023 | Thorvaldur Kristjansson (Iceland)
Yannick Jozefzoon (The Netherlands) |
Joely Mbundu (Belgium)
Alina Tomnikov (Finland) Leonie Benesch (Germany) Benedetta Porcaroli (Italy) Kristine Kujath Thorp (Norway) Judith State (Romania) Gizem Erdogan (Sweden) Kayije Kagame (Switzerland) |
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2024 | Thibaud Dooms (Belgium)
Éanna Hardwicke (Ireland) Džiugas Grinys (Lithuania) |
Margarita Stoykova (Bulgaria)
Suzy Bemba (France) Salome Demuria (Georgia) Katharina Stark (Germany) Valentina Bellè (Italy) Kamila Urzędowska (Poland) Asta Kamma August (Sweden) |
The European Shooting Stars is supported by the participating EFP member organisations, the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union as well as by other cooperation partners and sponsors.