Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy Triangle Of Sadness was the big winner at the 2022 European Film Awards (EFAs), which took place today (December 10) in Reykjavík.
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The class warfare comedy won best European film, director, screenwriter and actor, for Zlatko Burić.
Vicky Krieps was also a winner as best European actress for Corsage.
Mantas Kvedaravičius’ Mariupolis 2 won the European documentary prize, whilst Alain Ughetto’s No Dogs Or Italians Allowed picked up the animated feature award.
Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss, which stars Javier Bardem and won six Goyas, received the European comedy prize.
The 4,400 members of the European Film Academy voted for the awards.
The prizes for cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, make-up & hair, original score, sound and visual effects were determined by an eight-member jury and unveiled on November 23, with Belfast and All Quiet On The Western Front leading the winners.
The EFAs also presented the Europe Sustainability Award - Prix Film4Climate to the European Commission for its European Green Deal. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen accepted the award by video message.
The Eurimages Co-Production Award was a symbolic group award given to the producers of Ukraine, accepted at the ceremony by Julia Sinkevych (Heat Singers) and Darya Bassel (Butterfly Vision).
The European Achievement in World Cinema award was given to Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, presented to the director by EFA chairman Mike Downey.
The European Innovative Storytelling award went to Marco Bellochio for his TV series Exterior Night, about the kidnapping and murder of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades terrorist group.
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta received the European Lifetime Achievement award. She is only the third female director to receive the award after Agnes Varda in 2014 and Hungarian writer/director Marta Meszaros last year.
Winners in bold:
European Film
- Alcarràs (Spain-Italy) dir. Carla Simón; prods. María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Giovanni Pompili
- Close (Belgium-France-Netherlands) dir. Lukas Dhont; prods. Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld, Frans van Gestel, Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- Corsage (Austria-Luxembourg-Germany-France) dir. Marie Kreutzer; prods. Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Bernard Michaux, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Jean-Christophe Reymond
- Holy Spider (Denmark-Germany-Sweden-France) dir. Ali Abbasi; prods. Sol Bondy, Jacob Jarek
- Triangle Of Sadness (Sweden-Germany-France-UK) dir. Ruben Östlund; prods. Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober
European Actress
- Vicky Krieps, Corsage
- Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Holy Spider
- Léa Seydoux, One Fine Morning
- Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
- Meltem Kaptan, Rabiye Kurnaz Vs. George W. Bush
European Actor
- Paul Mescal, Aftersun
- Eden Dambrine, Close
- Elliott Crosset Hove, Godland
- Pierfrancesco Favino, Nostalgia
- Zlatko Burić, Triangle Of Sadness
European Director
- Lukas Dhont, Close
- Marie Kreutzer, Corsage
- Jerzy Skolimowski, Eo
- Ali Abbasi, Holy Spider
- Alice Diop, Saint Omer
- Ruben Östlund, Triangle Of Sadness
European Screenwriter
- Carla Simón & Arnau Vilaró, Alcarràs
- Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
- Lukas Dhont & Angelo Tijssens, Close
- Ali Abbasi & Afshin Kamran Bahrami, Holy Spider
- Ruben Östlund, Triangle Of Sadness
European Documentary
- A House Made Of Splinters (Denmark-Sweden-Finland-Ukraine) dir. Simon Lereng Wilmont
- Girl Gang (Switzerland) dir. Susanne Regina Meures
- Mariupolis 2 (Lithuania-France-Germany) dir. Mantas Kvedaravičius
- The Balcony Movie (Poland) dir. Paweł Łoziński
- The March On Rome (Italy) dir. Mark Cousins
European Animated Feature Film
- Little Nicholas - Happy As Can Be dirs. Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre
- My Love Affair With Marriage dir. Signe Baumane
- My Neighbors’ Neighbors dirs. Anne-Laure Daffis & Léo Marchand
- No Dogs Or Italians Allowed dir. Alain Ughetto
- Oink dir. Mascha Halberstad
European Comedy
- Cop Secret dir. Hannes Þór Halldórsson
- The Divide dir. Catherine Corsini
- The Good Boss dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
European Discovery – Prix Fipresci
- 107 Mothers (Slovakia-Czech Republic-Ukraine) dir. Peter Kerekes
- Love According To Dalva (Belgium-France) dir. Emmanuelle Nicot
- Other People (Poland-France) dir. Aleksandra Terpińska
- Pamfir (Ukraine-France-Poland-Germany-Chile) dir. Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
- Small Body (Italy-Slovenia-France) dir. Laura Samani
- Sonne (Austria) dir. Kurdwin Ayub
European Short Film
- Granny’s Sexual Life dirs. Urška Djukič & Émilie Pigeard
- Ice Merchants dir. João Gonzalez
- Love, Dad dir. Diana Cam Van Nguyen
- Techno, Mama dir. Saulius Baradinskas
- Will My Parents Come To See Me dir. Mo Harawe
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