Nominations and first winners announced for the EFA (European Film Awards) 2014

At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions proudly announced the nominations for the 27th European Film Awards. The more than 3,000 EFA Members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on 13 December in Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s black-and-white film Ida led the field with five nominations. They were for Best European Film, Director, Screenplay, and Actress nominations for its co-stars Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza. Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski were named European Cinematographer by a jury selecting winners for the craft/technical categories.

Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev‘s Leviathan was next with four nominations. It was also nominated for Best European Film, Director and Screenplay, and Aleksei Serebryakov was nominated for European Actor.

Tied with three nominations were Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac (Director’s Cut – Volume I & II), Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep, and Steven Knight's Locke.


Complete list of nominations for the 2014 European Film Awards

EUROPEAN FILM
Force Majeure; Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway
Ida; Poland/Denmark
Leviathan; Russia
Nymphomaniac (Director’s Cut – Volume I & II); Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium
Winter Sleep; Turkey/France/Germany

EUROPEAN COMEDY
Carmina & Amen; Spain
Le Week-End; U.K.
The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer; Italy

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Winter Sleep
Steven Knight for Locke
Ruben Ostlund for Force Majeure
Paweł Pawlikowski for Ida
Paolo Virzì for Human Capital
Andrey Zvyagintsev for Leviathan

EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Marián Álvarez, for Wounded
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, for The Human Capital
Marion Cotillard, for Two Days, One Night
Charlotte Gainsbourg, for Nymphomaniac
Agata Kulesza, for Ida
Agata Trzebuchowska, for Ida

EUROPEAN ACTOR
Brendan Gleeson, for Calvary
Tom Hardy, for Locke
Aleksei Serebryakov, for Leviathan
Stellan Skarsgard, for Nymphomaniac
Timothy Spall, for Mr Turner

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan, for Winter Sleep
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, for Two Days, One Night
Steven Knight, for Locke
Oleg Negin & Andrei Zvyagintsev, for Leviathan
Pawel Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz, for Ida

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – FIPRESCI PRIZE
10,000 Km (Long Distance)
'71
Party Girl
The Tribe
Wounded

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
Just the Right Amount of Violence by Jon Bang Carlsen
Master Of The Universe by Marc Bauder
Of Men And War by Laurent Bécue-Renard
Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi
Waiting for August by Teodora Ana Mihai
We Come as Friends by Hubert Sauper

EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Jack and The Cuckoo Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu and Stéphane Berla
Minuscule — Valley Of the Lost Ants by Thomas Szabo and Helene Giraud
The Art of Happiness by Alessandro Rak


EFA JURY AWARDS 2014

A special seven-member jury convened in Berlin and, based on the EFA Selection list, decided on the following awards recipients:

EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
Lukasz Zal & Ryszard Lenczewski, for Ida

EUROPEAN EDITING
Justine Wright, for Locke

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Claus-Rudolf Amler, for The Dark Valley

EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER
Natascha Curtius-Noss, for The Dark Valley

EUROPEAN MUSIC COMPOSER
Mica Levi, for Under The Skin

EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER
Joakim Sundström, for Starred Up