Anatomy of a Fall Sweeps 2023 European Film Awards

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall has swept the 36th European Film Awards (EFA) with five wins for European Film, European Director, European Actress for Sandra Hüller, European Screenwriter, and European Editing. Elsewhere, Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land scored three wins for European Actor for Mads Mikkelsen, European Cinematography, and European Costume Design.

Winners in bold below.

European Film

  • Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie D’une Chute), directed by Justine Triet, produced by Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion (France)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)

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)
  • 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)

European Young Audience Award

  • Longing for the World
  • One in a Million
  • Scrapper

European University Film Award

  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • 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)
  • 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

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

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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.