The 2010 European Film Award winners were announced this weekend, and the results are quite surprising. Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer swept the awards winning six in total, including best film, director, actor (Ewan McGregor), screenwriter (Polanski and Robert Harris), production designer (Albrecht Konrad), and composer (Alexandre Desplat).
Hit the jump for the full list.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK
directed by Roman Polanski
written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud in Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2010
Giora Bejach for Lebanon
European Editor 2010
Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier for Carlos
European Production Designer 2010
Albrecht Konrad for The Ghost Writer
European Composer 2010
Alexandre Desplat for The Ghost Writer
European Discovery 2010- Prix Fipresci
Lebanon,...
Hit the jump for the full list.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK
directed by Roman Polanski
written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud in Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2010
Giora Bejach for Lebanon
European Editor 2010
Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier for Carlos
European Production Designer 2010
Albrecht Konrad for The Ghost Writer
European Composer 2010
Alexandre Desplat for The Ghost Writer
European Discovery 2010- Prix Fipresci
Lebanon,...
- 12/6/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski, won six awards at the 2010 European Film Awards, held tonight in Tallinn, Estonia.
The film won awards for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, best production design, and best composer. I really enjoyed the film. Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor were great in this film. I was surprised to find out that all of the shots that took place in the house were actually filmed on a sound stage.
See below for a complete listing of this year's winners.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/Uk
Directed By Roman Polanski
Written By Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
Produced By Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski For The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud In Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor In The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski For The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma...
The film won awards for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, best production design, and best composer. I really enjoyed the film. Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor were great in this film. I was surprised to find out that all of the shots that took place in the house were actually filmed on a sound stage.
See below for a complete listing of this year's winners.
European Film 2010
The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/Uk
Directed By Roman Polanski
Written By Robert Harris & Roman Polanski
Produced By Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski
European Director 2010
Roman Polanski For The Ghost Writer
European Actress 2010
Sylvie Testud In Lourdes
European Actor 2010
Ewan McGregor In The Ghost Writer
European Screenwriter 2010
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski For The Ghost Writer
Carlo Di Palma...
- 12/4/2010
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Award season is among us on both sides of the Atlantic. Today the European Film Academy handed out their annual awards in Tallinn, Estonia and the big winner of the evening was Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer, claiming six awards, including Best Picture. Lebanon Israeli's Golden Lion winner of 2009, collected a pair: the award for European discovery, handed out to first time directors ("it's an honor being discovered when you're close to 50", said 48 year old director Samuel Maoz upon receiving the award), and the award for Best Cinematography, handed to Giora Bejach, for his extraordinary work, shooting an (almost) entire film from the Pov of a tank. Lebanon has an enormous artistic appeal, as it demonstrates the claustrophobic feeling leading audiences to believe the film was shot within the confines a tank, when in reality, Maoz didn't have a tank at his disposal. Israeli audiences didn't seem to connect to the film,...
- 12/4/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The Ghost Writer has won 6 European Film Academy awards, the European equivalent of the Oscars, this evening in Tallinn, Estonia. Polanski’s thriller won Best European Film, while Polanski picked up Best Director and shared the screenwriting award with co-author Robert Harris. Ewan McGregor won Best Actor, while production design and music were also honored. In an interview this weekend, Harris said the Swiss authorities were so understanding about Polanski’s need to finish editing The Ghost Writer, they moved editing equipment into the prison where he was being held while facing deportation back to the U.S last year. More than 2,300 academy members voted. European Film 2010 The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK directed by Roman Polanski written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski European Director 2010 Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer European Actress 2010 Sylvie Testud in Lourdes European Actor 2010 Ewan McGregor...
- 12/4/2010
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
Roman Polanski's thriller has been nominated for 7 European Film Awards including best European film, director, actor (Ewan McGregor), screenwriter, editor, production design and composer. Other leading nominees are Samuel Maoz's Lebanon with 5 nods and Semih Kaplanoğlu's Honey with 3. This year's European Film Awards will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on December 4. The 2,300 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the winners. Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon won the European film, director and screenwriter awards last year. European Film 2010: Bal (Honey), Turkey/Germany Directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu Written by Semih Kaplanoğlu & Orçun Köksal Produced by Semih Kaplanoğlu & Johannes Rexin Des Hommes Et Des Dieux (Of Gods and Men), France Directed by Xavier Beauvois Written by Etienne Comar & Xavier Beauvois The Ghost Writer, France/Germany/UK Directed by Roman Polanski Written by Robert Harris & Roman Polanski Produced by Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde & Roman Polanski Lebanon,...
- 11/6/2010
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
Winner of 10 1999 Israeli Academy Awards, including best film, director, actor and actress, "Yana's Friends" (in Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles) is a crowd-pleasing ensemble comedy set in Tel Aviv on the eve of and during the 1991 Gulf War.
The feature debut of Moscow-born director and co-writer Arik Kaplun stars his talented wife, Evelyn, who is also Russian. It is one of the most technically polished and internationally accessible Israeli films in years.
Although it didn't even get nominated as Israel's official submission to the Oscars, "Yana's Friends" premiered Wednesday in Los Angeles to an enthusiastic full house at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, with the Kapluns in attendance. The opening night film of the 16th Israel Film Festival, "Yana's Friends" and other current Israeli features, TV works and documentaries screen this week at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex.
Yana (Evelyn Kaplun in a captivatingly sweet and sensual performance) is a young Russian woman who follows her husband to Israel, where they take up residence in a crowded Tel Aviv tenement. Indeed, they share space with videotaping bohemian Eli (Nir Levi), whose latest girlfriend dumps him and chides him for his obsessive behavior. The landlady is old gal Rosa (Dalia Friedland), a relatively humble and humane hustler, who welcomes another Russian couple and their immobile, wheelchairbound grandfather (Moscu Alcalay).
When Yana's cagey husband goes away and doesn't come back, leaving her with a debt that makes it difficult to return home, she has some tough decisions to make, including what to do about her pregnancy. With Eli, usually paid to chronicle weddings and circumcisions, covertly filming her on the street, she borrows the money and gets an abortion. Soon after, when she takes a look at Eli's tapes of her, including other intimate moments, they almost part ways.
While these two work out their problems on the way to a full-blown romance, the film spends a lot of time on Alcalay's character and his nemesis, a career beggar and accordion-player (Shmil Ben-Ari). Old granddad is a veritable gold mine for small change from passersby, silent and hunched in his wheelchair, barely moving his eyes or face to show he's alive, dressed in his army uniform and covered with medals. His rival is rash and vindictive and not above potentially lethal antics to keep his turf.
When Desert Storm commences and the threat of Scud missile attacks becomes a reality, the film picks up considerably. There are inspired details like the container Yana uses to protect her small dog from biological weapons. She and Eli are forced together during air raids, including kinky clad-only-in-their-gas-masks lovemaking scenes. In a tidy and sentimental conclusion, all survive the conflict and do right by each other.
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Credits: Director: Arik Kaplun; Screenwriters: Arik Kaplun, Semion Vinokur; Producers: Marek Rozenbaum, Moshe Levinson, Uri Sabag, Einat Bikel; Director of photography: Valentin Belanogov; Production designer: Ariel Roshko; Editors: Einat Glazer-Zarchin, Tali Halter-Shenkar; Music: Avi Binyamin. Cast: Yana: Evelyn Kaplun; Eli: Nir Levi; Rosa: Dalia Friedland; Accordionist: Shmil Ben-Ari; Isaac: Moscu Alcalay. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 92 minutes.
The feature debut of Moscow-born director and co-writer Arik Kaplun stars his talented wife, Evelyn, who is also Russian. It is one of the most technically polished and internationally accessible Israeli films in years.
Although it didn't even get nominated as Israel's official submission to the Oscars, "Yana's Friends" premiered Wednesday in Los Angeles to an enthusiastic full house at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, with the Kapluns in attendance. The opening night film of the 16th Israel Film Festival, "Yana's Friends" and other current Israeli features, TV works and documentaries screen this week at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex.
Yana (Evelyn Kaplun in a captivatingly sweet and sensual performance) is a young Russian woman who follows her husband to Israel, where they take up residence in a crowded Tel Aviv tenement. Indeed, they share space with videotaping bohemian Eli (Nir Levi), whose latest girlfriend dumps him and chides him for his obsessive behavior. The landlady is old gal Rosa (Dalia Friedland), a relatively humble and humane hustler, who welcomes another Russian couple and their immobile, wheelchairbound grandfather (Moscu Alcalay).
When Yana's cagey husband goes away and doesn't come back, leaving her with a debt that makes it difficult to return home, she has some tough decisions to make, including what to do about her pregnancy. With Eli, usually paid to chronicle weddings and circumcisions, covertly filming her on the street, she borrows the money and gets an abortion. Soon after, when she takes a look at Eli's tapes of her, including other intimate moments, they almost part ways.
While these two work out their problems on the way to a full-blown romance, the film spends a lot of time on Alcalay's character and his nemesis, a career beggar and accordion-player (Shmil Ben-Ari). Old granddad is a veritable gold mine for small change from passersby, silent and hunched in his wheelchair, barely moving his eyes or face to show he's alive, dressed in his army uniform and covered with medals. His rival is rash and vindictive and not above potentially lethal antics to keep his turf.
When Desert Storm commences and the threat of Scud missile attacks becomes a reality, the film picks up considerably. There are inspired details like the container Yana uses to protect her small dog from biological weapons. She and Eli are forced together during air raids, including kinky clad-only-in-their-gas-masks lovemaking scenes. In a tidy and sentimental conclusion, all survive the conflict and do right by each other.
YANA'S FRIENDS
Transfax Film Prods.
Paralite Prods.
Credits: Director: Arik Kaplun; Screenwriters: Arik Kaplun, Semion Vinokur; Producers: Marek Rozenbaum, Moshe Levinson, Uri Sabag, Einat Bikel; Director of photography: Valentin Belanogov; Production designer: Ariel Roshko; Editors: Einat Glazer-Zarchin, Tali Halter-Shenkar; Music: Avi Binyamin. Cast: Yana: Evelyn Kaplun; Eli: Nir Levi; Rosa: Dalia Friedland; Accordionist: Shmil Ben-Ari; Isaac: Moscu Alcalay. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 92 minutes.
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