The black and white film produced by Opus Film (PL) and Phoenix Film (DK) in association with Portobello Pictures (GB) and supported by the Polish Film Institute, has been a resounding success with international sales throughout the world as well as nominations for the upcoming Golden Globes and Oscars. Ida has already made over 3.7m USD in USA alone and has been distributed in over 30 countries including UK, France, Israel and Italy with international sales managed by Fandango. Ida has already won over 50 awards.
Croatia also scored a win with Una Guniak’s German Croatian coproduction The Chicken which won the Best European Short Film of 2014. The film also won the top prize for best short film at this year’s edition of the Let’s CEE Film Festival in Vienna.
The 27th European Film Awards were hosted by Riga at the Latvian National Theatre on 13 December 2014 as the culminating event of Riga as the European Capital of Culture for 2014. More than 3,000 members of the European Film Academy which is composed of filmmakers from across Europe voted for voted for this year’s European Film Awards.
Latvia also celebrated with the Riga Film Festival 2-12 December and the Riga Meetings 9-12 December 2014.
Winners of the 27th European Film Awards
European Film 2014
Ida (Poland, Denmark)
Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski
Produced by Opus Film andin coproduction with Phoneix Fillm (Denmark) andin association with Portobello Pictures (UK).
Supported by the Polish Film Institute
European Comedy 2014
The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (Italy)
Directed by Pierfrancesco Diliberto
European Discovery 2014 – Prix FIPRESCI
The Tribe (Ukraine)
Directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
European Documentary 2014
Master of the Universe (Germany, Austria)
Directed by Marc Bauder
European Animated Feature Film 2014
The Art of Happiness (Italy)
Directed by Alessandro Rak
European Short Film 2014
The Chicken (Croatia, Germany)
Directed by Una Gunjak
European Director 2014
Paweł Pawlikowski for Ida
European Actress 2014
Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night (Belgium, France, Italy)
European Actor 2014
Timothy Spall in Mr Turner (UK)
European Screenwriter 2014
Paweł Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz for Ida
European Cinematographer 2014-Prix Carlo Di Palma
Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski for Ida
European Editor 2014
Justine Wright for Locke (UK)
European Production Designer 2014
Claus-Rudolf Amler for The Dark Valley (Austria, Germany)
European Costime Designer 2014
Natascha Curtius-Noss for The Dark Valley
European Composer 2014
Mica Levi for Under the Skin (UK)
European Sound Designer 2014
Joakim Sundström for Starred Up (UK)
European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 2014
Agnès Varda
European Achievement in World Cinema 2014
Steve McQueen
European Coproduction Award 2014-Prix EURIMAGES
Ed Guiney
People’s Choice Award 2014 for Best European Film
Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski
