31st European Film Awards Winners

Last Saturday, December 15, the European Film Academy had their ceremony in Seville, Spain where they announced current year's award winners.  Was able to watch it live on TV and was lazy enough to wait until today, when there are too-many industry news, to write post even do I'm glad the BIG winner of the night was none other than Pawel Pawlikowski visually stunning with awesome music (love jazz) Cold War.

Will share that the most emotional and exciting moment in the ceremony was undoubtedly the acceptance speech by Carmen Maura that brought tears to my eyes and I wasn't the only one as Pawel Pawlikoski admitted during one of his acceptance speeches, he was also with tears in his eyes plus all the anonymous people in the public when camera panned.  The rest of the show was unsurprising and at times a bit boring. Sigh.

So a few days later here are the winners.

European Film: Zimna Wojna (Cold War), Pawel Pawlikowski,

European Discovery- Prix FIPRESCI: Girl, Lukas Dhont
European Comedy: The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci
European Documentary: Bergman-A Year In A Life, Jane Magnusson
European Animated Feature Film: Another Day of Life, Raul de la Fuente and Damian Nenow

European Short Film: The Years, Sara Fgaier

European Director: Pawel Pawlikowski for Zimna Wojna (Cold War),

European Actress: Joanna Kulig in Zimna Wojna (Cold War),
European Actor: Marcello Fonte in Dogman

European Screenwriter: Pawel Pawlikowski for Zimna Wojna (Cold War),
European Cinematographer-Prix Carlo di Palma: Martin Otterbeck for Utøya 22. juli (XU-July 22)
European Editor: Jarosław Kamiński for Zimna Wojna (Cold War),
European Production Designer: Andrey Ponkratov for Leto (The Summer)
European Costume Designer: Massimo Cantini Parrini for Dogman
European Hair & Make-up Artist: Christoph M. Kaiser and Julian Maas for 3 Tage in Quiberon (3 Days in Quiberon)
European Sound Designer: André Bendocchi-Alves and Martin Steyer for Der Hauptmann (The Captain)
European Visual Effects Supervisor: Peter Hjorth for Gräns (Border)

European University Film Award: Lazzaro Felice (Happy as Lazzaro), Alice Rohrwacher

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award: Carmen Maura
European Achievement in World Cinema Award: Ralph Fiennes
Honorary Award of the EFA President and Board: Costa-Gavras
European Co-Production Award-Prix Eurimages: Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas

People's Choice Award for Best European Film: Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino

To check winners (and nominations) at official site go here.