{"id":524005,"date":"2026-01-18T01:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/524005\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T01:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:08:12","slug":"european-film-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/524005\/","title":{"rendered":"European Film Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSentimental Value<\/a> was the big winner at the 38th European Film Awards<\/a>, with Joachim Trier\u2019s Norwegian melodrama winning best film, as well as best director and twin acting honors for Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrier and Eskil Vogt also won best screenplay honors for their script to Sentimental Value<\/a>, and Hania Rani took the prize for best score.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe EFAs made a shift from December to mid-January this year, in the hope of boosting buzz around European contenders for international<\/a> honors. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt appears to be working. <\/p>\n

\n\tSentimental Value, already a frontrunner for the Oscars, where many have tipped it as a best picture nominee, Skarsgard and Reinsve as actor contenders, and Trier as a possible best director nominee, should get a nice awards bump from the EFA honors. <\/p>\n

\n\tOliver Laxe<\/a>\u2018s Sir\u0101t, Spain\u2019s official Oscar contender<\/a>, won multiple EFAs, taking best production design, sound design, editing, best cinematography, and the inaugural best casting award. Sound of Falling<\/a>, Germany\u2019s entry for the best international feature honor at the U.S. Academy Awards, took the trophy for European Costume Design. <\/p>\n

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\n\tAnother Oscar hopeful, Ugo Bienvenu\u2019s hopeful animated fantasy Arco<\/a>, won the top prize for European Animation Feature Film. Torsten Witte took the first-ever hair and make-up EFA honor for Bugonia.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut anyone expecting an Oscar-style awards ceremony on Saturday, or a \u201cno politics please\u201d event akin to the Golden Globes<\/a>, were in for a surprise. Politics were front-and-center at the EFAs from the get-go. <\/p>\n

\n\tIranian director Panahi took the stage, to a standing ovation, ahead of the ceremony to read a statement about the dire situation in his home country. Decrying the violence of the regime in Tehran, and the massacre of anti-government protestors, he called on the world to speak out and take action. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is not just the pain of one country if the world does not respond to this blatant violence today. Not only Iran but the entire world is at risk,\u201d he said. \u201cViolence left unanswered becomes normalized and when it become normalized, it\u2019s spread become contagious. When the truth is crushed in one place, freedom suffocates everywhere. Then no-one is safe. Anywhere in the world, not in Iran, not in Europe, not in America\u2026 that is precisely why today as filmmakers and artists more than ever, if we are disappointed with politicians, we must at least must refuse to remain silent because silence in a time of crime is not neutrality silence, silence is a participation in darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJafar Panahi<\/a> speaks onstage during the award ceremony of the 38th European Film Awards<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndreas Rentz\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tPanahi was speaking ten days into a brutal crackdown of nationwide protests by Iran\u2019s hardline government. At least 3,000 protestors are believed to have been killed and another 18,000 arrested. In his speech, Panahi spoke of a reported 12,000 deaths.<\/p>\n

\n\tLiv Ullmann, the two-time Oscar-nominated Norwegian actress and director, best known for such 1970s classics as\u00a0Cries and Whispers, and\u00a0Scenes From a Marriage,\u00a0received the EFA\u2019s lifetime achievement honor<\/a>. She used the opportunity to take a sly jab at Trump, noting that Norway has a rule \u201cthat if you misuse the Nobel Prize, we take it away from you,\u201d a reference to Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado\u2019s decision, widely criticized, to give her Nobel peace prize medal to Trump. \u201cSomebody in power in the United States may be disappointed. He will lose it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlice Rohrwacher, the Italian director of\u00a0La Chimera,\u00a0Futura, and\u00a0Happy as Lazzaro\u00a0was honored<\/a>\u00a0with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award. She dedicated it to \u201cmy great love, my sister [actress] Alba\u201d. She added a political coda, calling on the audience to remain \u201cobstinate and contrary\u201d in the face of those who call for \u201cwar, new weapons and extractivism \u2014 as if the world were a cash mine\u201d to remind them \u201cthat we are many.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the full list of winners below. <\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN FILM<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAfternoons of Solitude
Arco
Dog of God
Fiume o Morte!, dir. Igor Bezinovi\u0107
It Was Just an Accident<\/a>, dir. Jafar Panahi
Little Amelie, dir. Ma\u00eflys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake, dir. Irene Iborra Rizo
Riefenstahl, dir. Andres Veiel
Sentimental Value, dir. Joachim Trier (WINNER)
<\/strong>Sir\u0101t, dir. Oliver Laxe
Songs of Slow Burning Earth, dir. Olha Zhurba
Sound of Falling, dir. Mascha Schilinski
Tales From the Magic Garden, dir. David S\u00fakup, Patrik Pa\u0161\u0161, Leon Vidmar and Jean-Claude Rozec
The Voice of Hind Rajab, dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
With Hasan in Gaza, dir. Kamal Aljafari<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN DIRECTOR<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYorgos Lanthimos for\u00a0Bugonia
Oliver Laxe for\u00a0Sir\u0101t
Jafar Panahi for\u00a0It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski for\u00a0Sound of Falling
Joachim Trier for\u00a0Sentimental Value (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN ACTRESS<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLeonie Benesch for\u00a0Late Shift
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for\u00a0Duse
L\u00e9a Drucker for\u00a0Case 137
Vicky Krieps for\u00a0Love Me Tender
Renate Reinsve for\u00a0Sentimental Value (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN ACTOR<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSergi L\u00f3pez for\u00a0Sir\u0101t
Mads Mikkelsen for\u00a0The Last Viking
Toni Servillo for\u00a0La Grazia
Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd for\u00a0Sentimental Value (WINNER)<\/strong>
Idan Weiss for\u00a0Franz<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN SCREENWRITER<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSantiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe for\u00a0Sir\u0101t
Jafar Panahi for\u00a0It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski and Louise Peter for\u00a0Sound of Falling
Paolo Sorrentino for\u00a0La Grazia
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier for\u00a0Sentimental Value (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAfternoons of Solitude, dir. Albert Serra
Fiume o Morte!, dir. Igor Bezinovi\u0107 (WINNER)<\/strong>
Riefenstahl, dir. Andres Veiel
Songs of Slow Burning Earth, dir. Olha Zhurba
With Hasan in Gaza, dir. Kamal Aljafari<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tArco (WINNER)<\/strong>
Dog of God
Little Amelie
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake
Tales From the Magic Garden<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN COMPOSER (BEST SCORE)\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHania Rani for Sentimental Value (WINNER)<\/strong>
Jerskin Fendrix for Bugonia
Michael Fiedler, Eike Hosenfeld for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMauro Herce for Sir\u0101t (WINNER)<\/strong>
Fabian Gamper for Sound of Falling
Manu Dacosse for The Stranger<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN EDITOR<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYorgos Mavropsaridis for Bugonia
Toni Froschhammer for Die My Love
Crist\u00f3bal Fern\u00e1ndez for Sir\u0101t (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tJames Price for Bugonia
J\u00f8rgen Stangebye Larsen for Sentimental Value
Laia Ateca for Sir\u0101t (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tUrsula Patzak for Duse
Michaela Hor\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 Ho\u0159ej\u0161\u00ed for Franz
Sabrina Kr\u00e4mer for Sound of Falling<\/strong> (WINNER)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN CASTING DIRECTOR<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYngvill Kolset Haga and Avy Kaufman for Sentimental Value
Nadia Acimi, Lu\u00eds B\u00e9rtolo and Mar\u00eda Rodrigo for Sir\u0101t (WINNER)<\/strong>
Karimah El-Giamal and Jacqueline Rietz for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN MAKE-UP & HAIR ARTIST<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tTorsten Witte for Bugonia (WINNER)
<\/strong>Gabriela Pol\u00e1kov\u00e1 for Franz
Irina Schwarz and Anne-Marie Walther for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tJohnnie Burn for Bugonia
Laia Casanovas, Amanda Villavieja and Yasmina Praderas for Sir\u0101t (WINNER)<\/strong>
Gwennol\u00e9 Le Borgne, Marion Papinot, Lars Ginzel, Elias Boughedir and Amal Attia for The Voice of Hind Rajab<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN DISCOVERY \u2013 PRIX FIPRESCI<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLittle Trouble Girls, dir. Ur\u0161ka Djuki\u0107
My Father\u2019s Shadow, dir. Akinola Davies Jr
On Falling, dir. Laura Carreira (WINNER)<\/strong>
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies, dir. Murat F\u0131rato\u011flu
Sauna, dir. Mathias Broe
Under the Grey Sky, dir. Mara Tamkovich<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tArco
I Accidentally Wrote a Book
Siblings (WINNER) <\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\tLUX AUDIENCE AWARD<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tChristy
Deaf
It Was Just an Accident
Love Me Tender
Sentimental Value<\/p>\n

\t\tEUROPEAN SHORT FILM \u2013 PRIX VIMEO<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBeing John Smith
City of Poets (WINNER)
<\/strong>L\u2019Avance
Man Number 4
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sentimental Value was the big winner at the 38th European Film Awards, with Joachim Trier\u2019s Norwegian melodrama winning…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":524006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,232900,1801,196077,75193,112721,232992,25784,232993,204250,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-524005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-european-film-awards","tag-international","tag-it-was-just-an-accident","tag-jafar-panahi","tag-joachim-trier","tag-oliver-laxe","tag-sentimental-value","tag-sirat","tag-sound-of-falling","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115913431707002459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}