Ruben Östlund’s new satirical film Triangle of Disappointment dominated the European Film Awards by winning 4 awards, including the biggest award of the night, the award for best film.
Östlund also won the Best Screenplay and Best Director awards for his work on the film, while Zlatko Burić won the Best Actor award for his lead role.
The film, which won this year’s Palme d’Or, follows Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), a celebrity couple who are invited on a luxury cruise for the super-rich, led by a captain of ship deranged (Woody Harrelson). What seemed to be an Instagrammable experience turns into a catastrophe, leaving the survivors stranded on a deserted island and struggling to survive.
Vicky Krieps won the Best Actress award for her role in the well-received drama Corsage, while The Good Boss, starring Javier Bardem, won the award for Best Comedy in several major awards.
The awards ceremony, organized by the European Film Academy, took place in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík. Nominations in the main categories, including Best European Film, Director, Actor and Actress, are voted on by the Academy’s 4,400 members in a three-stage process.
The event was preceded this year by the first edition of the Academy’s Month of European Film.
As previously announced, German director Margarethe von Trotta was honored with the European Lifetime Luck Lifetime Achievement Award, while Palestinian director Elia Suleiman was honored with the European Luck in World Cinema Award.
Italian director March Bellocchio received the award for Best Innovative European Storytelling for his miniseries Exterior Night time.
The European Film Academy’s Excellence Awards, celebrating achievements in the arts and crafts categories, were presented on 23 November. Winners include Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front, which won the award for Best European Make-up and Hairstyling for Heike Merker, and the award for Best European Special Effects was awarded to Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller and Markus Frank. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast won Best European Production Design for Jim Clay.
See the full list of EFA winners:
The “European Film” category presents five works in competition. “Alcarràs” is directed by Carla Simón and produced by María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera and Giovanni Pompili (Spain/Italy); “Close” is directed by Lukas Dhont and produced by Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld, Frans van Gestel and Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Belgium/France/Netherlands); “Corsage” is directed by Marie Kreutzer and produced by Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Bernard Michaux, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade and Jean-Christophe Reymond (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany/France); “Holy Spider” is directed by Ali Abbasi and produced by Sol Bondy and Jacob Jarek (Denmark/Germany/Sweden/France); finally, “Triangle of Sadness” is directed by Ruben Östlund and produced by Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober (Sweden/Germany/France/UK).
The “European Documentary” category presents five works in competition. “A House Made of Splinters” is directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont and produced by Danmark, Sweden, Finland and Ukraine; “Girl Gang” is directed by Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland); “Mariupolis 2” is directed by Mantas Kvedaravičius and produced by Lithuania, France and Germany; “The Balcony Movie (Film Balkonowy)” is directed by Paweł Łoziński (Poland); finally, “The March on Rome” is directed by Mark Cousins (Italy).
The “European Director” category presents six directors in competition.
Lukas Dhont for “Close”;
Marie Kreutzer for “Corsage”;
Jerzy Skolimowski for “EO”;
Ali Abbasi for “Holy Spider”;
Alice Diop for “Saint Omer”;
finally, Ruben Östlund for “Triangle of Sadness”.
The “European Actress” category presents five actresses in competition. Vicky Krieps in “Corsage”; Tsar Amir Ebrahimi in “Holy Spider”; Léa Seydoux in “One Fine Morning”; Penélope Cruz in “Parallel Mothers”; finally, Meltem Kaptan in “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush”.
The “European Actor” category presents five actors in competition. Paul Mescal in “Aftersun”; Eden Dambrine in “Close”; Elliott Crosset Hove in “Godland”; Pierfrancesco Favino in “Nostalgia”; finally, Zlatko Burić in “Triangle of Sadness”.
The “European Screenwriter” category presents five screenplays in competition. Carla Simón and Arnau Vilaró for “Alcarràs”; Kenneth Branagh for “Belfast”; Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens for “Close”; Ali Abbasi and Afshin Kamran Bahrami for “Holy Spider”; finally, Ruben Östlund for “Triangle of Sadness”.
The “European Comedy” category presents three films in competition. “Cop Secret (Leynilögga)”, directed by Hannes Þór Halldórsson (Iceland); “The Good Boss (El Buen Patrón)”, directed by Fernando León de Aranoa (Spain); finally, “The Divide (La Fracture)”, directed by Catherine Corsini (France).
The “European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI” category presents six films in competition. Among them: “107 Mothers (Cenzorka)”, directed by Peter Kerekes (Slovakia/Czech Republic/Ukraine); “Love According to Dalva (Dalva)”, directed by Emmanuelle Nicot (Belgium/France); “Other People (Inni Ludzie)”, directed by Aleksandra Terpińska (Poland/France); “Pamfir”, directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine/France/Poland/Germany/Chile); “Small Body (Piccolo Corpo)”, directed by Laura Samani (Italy/Slovenia/France); finally, “Sonne”, directed by Kurdwin Ayub (Austria).
The European Animated Film category features a diverse selection of films, including “Little Nicholas – Happy as Can Be” directed by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre from France and Luxembourg, “My Love Affair with Marriage” directed by Signe Baumane from Latvia, the United States, and Luxembourg, and “My Neighbors’ Neighbors” directed by Anne-Laure Daffis and Leo Marchand from France. Another notable film in this category is “No Dogs or Italians Allowed” directed by Alain Ughetto, which is a co-production between France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, and Portugal. Additionally, “Oink” directed by Mascha Halberstad from the Netherlands and Belgium is also part of this category.
The European Fast Film category features a diverse selection of films, including “Granny’s Sexual Life” directed by Urška Djukič and Émilie Pigeard from Slovenia and France, “Ice Merchants” directed by João Gonzalez from Portugal, France, and the UK, “Love, Dad” directed by Diana Cam Van Nguyen from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, “Techno, Mama” directed by Saulius Baradinskas from Lithuania, and “Will My Parents Come to See Me” directed by Mo Harawe from Austria, Germany, and Somalia.
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