Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning Anatomy of a Fall swept the 2023 European Film Awards, winning all four of its main field nominations – European Film, European Director, European Actress for Sanda Hüller and European Screenwriter for Triet and Arthur Harari, as well as the award for European Editing (Laurent Sénéchal).
Last year’s Palme winner, Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, also ruled the European Film Awards on its way to Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Both Triangle and Anatomy are distributed in the U.S. by NEON. This year, France opted to send The Taste of Things over Anatomy of a Fall for the International Feature Film Oscar.
Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land was next with three wins; Mads Mikkelsen for European Actor, Rasmus Videbæ for European Cinematography and Kicki Ilander for European Costume Design. Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interestand Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves led the nominations with five apiece but only Zone was able to muster a win, in Sound for Johnnie Burn & Tarn Willers.
The Honorary Award of the Academy President and Board went to Béla Tarr. Vanessa Redgrave received the European Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of her contribution to European cinema throughout her career. In other special honors and awards, Isabel Coixet received the award for European Achievement in World Cinema for her impressive contribution to filmmaking. Güler Sabancı, Chair of Sabancı Holding and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Sabancı Foundation, was awarded with the European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4climate 2023. Uljana Kim received the Eurimages International Co-production Award 2023 to mark her outstanding commitment to co-production and the strong co-producing partnerships she has built up over the years.
The nominations were based on the votes of the 4,600 members of the European Film Academy, and a special eight-member jury decided on the winners.
Here is the complete list of 2023 European Film Awards winners.
European Film
Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie D’une Chute), directed by Justine Triet, produced by Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion (France) – WINNER
Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet Lehdet), directed by Aki Kaurismäki, produced by Aki Kaurismäki, Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff and Reinhard Brundig (Finland, Germany)
Green Border (Zielona Granica), directed by Agnieszka Holland, produced by Marcin Wierzchosławski, Fred Bernstein and Agnieszka Holland (Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
Me Captain (Io Capitano), directed by Matteo Garrone, produced by Matteo Garrone, Paolo Del Brocco, Ardavan Safaee and Joseph Rouschop (Italy, Belgium)
The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer, produced by James Wilson and Ewa Puszczyńska (U.K., Poland, U.S.)
European Director
Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER
Aki Kaurismäki for Fallen Leaves
Agnieszka Holland for Green Border
Matteo Garrone for Me Captain (Io Capitano)
Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest
European Screenwriter
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER
Aki Kaurismäki for Fallen Leaves
Maciej Pisuk, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Agnieszka Holland for Green Border
İlker Çatak and Johannes Duncker for The Teachers’ Lounge
Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest
European Actress
Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER
Eka Chavleishvili in Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Alma Pöysti in Fallen Leaves
Mia Mckenna-Bruce in How to Have Sex
Leonie Benesch in The Teachers’ Lounge
Sandra Hüller in The Zone of Interest
European Actor
Thomas Schubert in Afire
Jussi Vatanen in Fallen Leaves
Josh O’Connor in La Chimera
Mads Mikkelsen in The Promised Land – WINNER
Christian Friedel in The Zone of Interest
European Documentary
Apolonia, Apolonia, directed by Lea Glob (Denmark, Poland)
Four Daughters (Les Filles D’olfa), directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia)
Motherland, directed by Hanna Badziaka and Alexander Mihalkovich (Sweden, Ukraine, Norway)
On the Adamant (Sur L’adamant), directed by Nicolas Philibert (France, Japan)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Savvusanna Sõsarad), directed by Anna Hints (Estonia, France, Iceland) – WINNER
Best European Animated Feature Film
The Amazing Maurice (Toby Genkel)
Chicken for Linda! (Sébastien Laudenbach and Chiara Malta)
A Greyhound of a Girl (Enzo d’Alò)
Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger) – WINNER
White Plastic Sky (Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó)
Best European Short Film
27 (Flóra Anna Buda)
Aqueronte (Manuel Muñoz Rivas)
Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays (Christian Avilés)
Flores del otro patio (Jorge Cadena)
Hardly Working (Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, and Michael Stumpf) – WINNER
European Young Audience Award
Longing for the World
One in a Million
Scrapper – WINNER
European University Film Award
Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER
Green Border
Housekeeping for Beginners
How to Have Sex
The Teachers’ Lounge
European Discovery – Prix Fipresci
20,000 Species of Bees (20.000 Especies De Abejas), directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain)
How to Have Sex, directed by Molly Manning Walker (U.K., Greece) – WINNER
La Palisiada (Ля Палісіада), directed by Philip Sotnychenko (Ukraine)
Safe Place (Sigurno Mjesto), directed by Juraj Lerotić (Croatia, Slovenia)
The Quiet Migration (Stille Liv), directed by Malene Choi (Denmark)
Vincent Must Die (Vincent Doit Mourir), directed by Stéphan Castang (France, Belgium)
European Cinematography: Rasmus Videbæk – THE PROMISED LAND
European Editing: Laurent Sénéchal – ANATOMY OF A FALL
European Production Design: Emita Frigato – LA CHIMERA
European Costume Design: Kicki Ilander – THE PROMISED LAND
European Make-up & Hair: Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver, David Martí & Montse Ribé – SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
European Original Score: Markus Binder – CLUB ZERO
European Sound: Johnnie Burn & Tarn Willers – THE ZONE OF INTEREST
European Visual Effects: Félix Bergés, Laura Pedro – SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
Special awards
EFA Lifetime Achievement Award: Vanessa Redgrave European Achievement in World Cinema Award: Isabel Coixet Honorary Award of the Academy President and Board: Béla Tarr
Eurimages International Co-Production Award: Uljana Kim European Sustainability Award – Prix Film4Climate: Güler Sabancı
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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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