03-09-2012

EFA Press Release: European Film Academy Opens Vote for People's Choice Award with nomination for Agnieszka Holland

    VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE EUROPEAN FILM AND WIN A TRIP TO THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS IN MALTA!

    EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY OPENS VOTE FOR PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD 2012

    Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for: the audience.

    This year’s vote has started – vote now and win the chance to join winners and nominees for the awards ceremony in Malta!

    Winners in the past have included films like Pedro Almodóvar’s VOLVER, Roberto Benigni’s LA VITA E BELLA, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s AMÉLIE, Fatih Akin’s HEAD-ON, and Danny Boyle’s SLUMDOG
    MILLIONAIRE.

    From 1 September on, film fans can cast their vote on the official website www.europeanfilmawards.eu and win a trip to the 25th European Film Awards on Saturday, 1 December 2012, in Malta!

    NOMINATED ARE:

    THE ARTIST
     written & directed by Michel Hazanavicius
     with Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, James Cromwell, John Goodman

    BARBARA
     written & directed by Christian Petzold
     with Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Jasna Fritzi Bauer,
    Christina Hecke

    THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
     directed by John Madden
     written by Ol Parker
     with Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie,
    Ronald Pickup, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith

    CAESAR MUST DIE (CESARE DEVE MORIRE)
     directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
     written by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, in collaboration with Fabio
    Cavalli
     with Giovanni Arcuri, Salvatore Striano, Cosimo Rega, Antonio Frasca,
    Fabio Cavalli

    COME AS YOU ARE (HASTA LA VISTA)
     directed by da Geoffrey Enthoven
     written by Pierre de Clercq
     with Robrecht van den Thoren, Gilles de Schryver, Tom Audenaert,
    Isabelle de Hertogh

    HEADHUNTERS (HODEJEGERNE)
     directed by Morten Tyldum

    written by Lars Gudmestad & Ulf Ryberg
     with Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coter-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund, Eivind
    Sander

    IN DARKNESS
     directed by Agnieszka Holland
     written by David F. Shamoon
     with Robert Więckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria
    Schrader, Herbert Knaup

    THE IRON LADY
     directed by Phyllida Lloyd
     written by Abi Morgan
     with Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman

    SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
     directed by Lasse Hallström

    written by Simon Beaufoy, based on the novel by Paul Torday

    with Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, Amr Waked

    SHAME
     directed by Steve McQueen
     written by Steve McQueen & Abi Morgan
     with Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole
    Beharie

    TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
     directed by Thomas Alfredson
     written by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
     with Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth,
    Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, David Dencik, Ciaran
    Hinds, Simon McBurney, Kathy Burke, Svetlana Khodenchkova

    UNTOUCHABLE
     written & directed by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano
     with François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clothilde
    Mollet

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    Pascal Edelmann

    EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY E.V.

    Head of Press & PR

    Kurfürstendamm 225

    10719 Berlin

    GERMANY

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