Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez has dominated the 2024 European Film Awards with four wins from four nominations for European Film, European Director, European Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, and European Screenwriter. Gascón makes history as the first trans actress to win this award.
Wim Wenders received the European Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of his outstanding body of work, his ever-present sense of curiosity, and his contributions to cinema throughout his career. In other special honors and awards, actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini received the award for European Achievement in World Cinema for her impressive work across the industry. Macedonian producer and actress, Labina Mitevska received the Eurimages International Co-production Award to mark her outstanding commitment to co-production and co-producing partnerships.
Winners in bold below.
European Film:
Bye Bye Tiberias (Fr-Bel- Pal-Qatar) – documentary film
Dir: Lina Soualem
Dahomey (Fr-Senegal) – documentary film
Dir: Mati Diop
Emilia Pérez (Fr) – feature film
Dir: Jacques Audiard
Flow (Lat-Fr- Belg) – animated feature film
Dir: Gints Zilbalodis
In Limbo (Pol) – documentary film
Dir: Alina Maksimenko
Living Large (Cz-Fr-Slov) – animated feature film
Dir: Kristina Dufková
No Other Land (Pal-Nor) – documentary film
Dir: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal
Savages (Switz-Fr-Bel) – animated feature film
Dir: Claude Barras
Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat (Fr- Bel-Neth) – documentary film
Dir: Johan Grimonprez
Sultana’s Dream (Sp- Ger-India) – animated feature film
Dir: Isabel Herguera
The Room Next Door (Sp) – feature film
Dir: Pedro Almodóvar
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig (Ger-Fr) – feature film
Dir: Mohammad Rasoulof
The Substance (UK-US- Fr) – feature film
Dir: Coralie Fargeat
They Shot The Piano Player (Sp-Fr-Neth- Port-Peru) – animated feature film
Dir: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal
Vermiglio (It-Fr-Bel) – feature film
Dir: Maura Delpero
European Documentary:
Bye Bye Tiberias
Dir: Lina Soualem
Dahomey
Dir: Mati Diop
In Limbo
Dir: Alina Maksimenko
No Other Land
Dir: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal
Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat
Dir: Johan Grimonprez, produced by Daan Milius & Rémi Grellety
European Director:
Andrea Arnold for Bird
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
Pedro Almodóvar for The Room Next Door
Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Maura Delpero for Vermiglio
European Actress:
Renate Reinsve in Armand
Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez
Trine Dyrholm in The Girl With The Needle
Vic Carmen Sonne in The Girl With The Needle
Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door
European Actor:
Franz Rogowski in Bird
Ralph Fiennes in Conclave
Lars Eidinger in Dying
Daniel Craig in Queer
Abou Sangare in Souleymane’s Story
European Screenwriter:
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
Magnus von Horn & Line Langebek for The Girl With The Needle
Pedro Almodóvar for The Room Next Door
Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Coralie Fargeat for The Substance
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI:
Armand (Nor-Neth-Ger-Swe)
Dir: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Hoard (UK)
Dir: Luna Carmoon
Kneecap (Ire-UK)
Dir: Rich Peppiatt
Santosh (UK-Ger)
Dir: Sandhya Suri
The New Year That Never Came (Anul Nou Care N-A Fost) (Rom-Ser)
Directed and produced by Bogdan Mureșanu
Toxic (Akiplėša) (Lith)
Dir: Saulė Bliuvaitė
European Young Audience Award:
Lars Is Lol (Nor-Den)
Dir: Eirik Sæter Stordahl
The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin (Nor)
Dir: Benjamin Ree
Winners (Ger)
Dir: Soleen Yusef
European Animated Feature Film
Flow
Living Large
Savages
Sultana’s Dream
They Shot the Piano Player
European Short Film
2720
Clamor
The Exploding Girl
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Wander to Wonder
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