As awards season begins to heat up in the final few weeks of 2023, the European Film Academy has unveiled the winners of the 2023 European Film Awards, led by director Justine Triet’s acclaimed courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall [read our ★★★★★ review here].
The French film won five gongs including Best European Film, Best European Director, Best European Screenwriter (Triet and Arthur Harari) and Best European Actress (Sandra Hüller), while Mads Mikkelsen was named Best European Actor for The Promised Land, which also won two further craft awards. Check out the full list of winners here…
European Film:
WINNER “Anatomy of a Fall”
“Fallen Leaves”
“Green Border” “Me Captain”
“The Zone of Interest”
European Director:
WINNER Justine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Aki Kaurismäki, “Fallen Leaves”
Agnieszka Holland, “Green Border”
Matteo Garrone, “Me Captain”
Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
European Screenwriter:
WINNER Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Aki Kaurismäki, “Fallen Leaves”
Maciej Pisuk, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Agnieszka Holland, “Green Border”
İlker Çatak and Johannes Duncker, “The Teachers’ Lounge”
Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
European Actress:
WINNER Sandra Hüller, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Eka Chavleishvili, “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry”
Alma Pöysti, “Fallen Leaves”
Mia Mckenna-Bruce, “How to Have Sex”
Leonie Benesch, “The Teachers’ Lounge”
Sandra Hüller, “The Zone of Interest”
European Actor:
Thomas Schubert, “Afire”
Jussi Vatanen, “Fallen Leaves”
Josh O’Connor, “La Chimera”
WINNER Mads Mikkelsen, “The Promised Land”
Christian Friedel, “The Zone of Interest”
European Documentary:
“Apolonia, Apolonia”
“Four Daughters” “Motherland”
“On the Adamant”
WINNER “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”
European Discovery – Prix Fipresci:
“20,000 Species of Bees”
WINNER “How to Have Sex”
“La Palisiada”
“Safe Place”
“The Quiet Migration”
“Vincent Must Die”
European Animated Feature Film:
“A Greyhound of a Girl”
“Chicken for Linda!”
WINNER “Robot Dreams”
“The Amazing Maurice”
“White Plastic Sky”
European Short Film:
“27”
“Aqueronte”
“Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays”
“Flores Del Otro Patio”
WINNER “Hardly Working”
European Film Awards craft winners (previously announced):
Cinematography – Rasmus Videbæk, The Promised Land
Costume Design – Kicki Ilander, The Promised Land
Make-up and Hair – Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé, Society Of The Snow
Visual Effects – Félix Bergés and Laura Pedro, Society Of The Snow
Editing – Laurent Sénéchal, Anatomy Of A Fall
Production Design – Emita Frigato, La Chimera
Original Score – Markus Binder, Club Zero
Sound – Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers, The Zone Of Interest
