European Film Awards Winners Announced – Live

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFilm industry relations between China and Europe have been kept alive throughout the coronavirus outbreak by Bridging The Dragon, an informal trade organization now in its sixth year.After its regular event held during the Berlin film festival in February, further seminars, presentations and mixers should have taken place in Cannes in May and in Beijing in November.

Also Read: New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Chadwick Boseman, Maria Bakalova, Delroy Lindo Win Acting PrizesLast year, four of the LAFCA winners went on to win the Oscar: “Parasite” for picture and director, “American Factory” for documentary and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” for production design.The LAFCA best-film winner has won the Oscar for Best Picture 11 times in the 46 years the organization has been giving out awards, including three times in the last five years: “The Hurt

Clayton Davis The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), one of the most important critics groups in the awards season, is announcing their favorites films and performances, following Boston and New York last week.Notorious for embracing foreign films and performances, the west coast group chose Neon’s “Parasite” and its director Bong Joon-ho last year, which went on to win the Academy Award for best picture and director.The last time a LAFCA winner for best film failed to be nominated

The New York Film Critics Circle has voted for the winners of its 2020 awards and the full list was just revealed!

Clayton Davis The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), one of the key precursors to the awards season, is announcing their best-of-the-year winners after this very strange 2020.Comprised of nearly 50 critics and journalists from outlets such as Variety, Time Magazine and Vanity Fair, the East Coast group began voting at 9 a.m.

Will Tizard ContributorThe planned $150 million festival center, which will form the crown jewel of the EnergaCamerimage cinematography gala in Torun, Poland, is heading into the concept phase, says the project’s main organizer, with high hopes for international talent coming on board with design ideas in the coming year.Kazik Suwala, director of the European Film Center project, says: “We are right now in the process of building the documentation,” after which Camerimage plans to announce the

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentTitles backed or produced by HBO Europe (“Welcome to Utmark”), NBCU (“Sisterhood”), Fremantle (“Cargo”) and ITV  Studios (“Thin Blue Line”) have been nominated for the 5th Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the most prestigious Nordic award for drama series screenwriting.In a powerful smackdown, a fifth series, “Cry Wolf,” is produced by DR Drama, the Danish producer of Nordic Noir icons “The Killing” and “The Bridge” as well as “Borgen.”Adding another

Ariane Grande has shared the first look at her forthcoming concert film Excuse Me, I Love You.Set to land on Netflix this coming Monday (December 21), the release will capture the pop star’s lengthy ‘Sweetener’ world tour from 2018/2019.The exclusive new clip, released this evening (December 17), sees Grande singing ‘Everytime’ at London’s O2 Arena. “London, how y’all feeling?” she asks the crowd.

Scandinavian star Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) has signed on to play a version of Shakespeare's famed Danish Prince Hamlet in a new film adaptation from director Ali Abbasi (Border). Abbasi will reunite with his Danish Border producers Meta Film for the project.

HBO has ordered a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film Irma Vep with Alicia Vikander on board to star and exec produce.

Thomas Vinterberg'sAnother Roundwas the big winner at the 33rd European Film Awards, taking best film, best director, and best actor for star Mads Mikkelsen who plays a day-drinking high school teacher in theDanish crowd-pleasing dramedy. Vinterberg also won best screenplay for the feature, an honor he shared with co-writer Tobias Lindholm.

In a tight Oscar race in the International Film category, Thomas Vinterberg‘s celebrated “Another Round” is increasingly looking like an easy bet for a nomination. The Venice Film Festival drama swept the major honors at the 2020 European Film Awards including European Film, Director (Vinterberg), Actor (Mads Mikkelsen) and Screenplay.

Janet W. Lee Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” took home the top prize at the 33rd European Film Awards.The Danish dramedy swept Saturday’s virtual ceremony, nabbing additional wins for best director and best actor for Mads Mikkelsen, who plays an alcoholic high school teacher.

Also Read: 5 Things to Worry About This Oscar Season, From Virtual Ceremonies to Awards BoredomNonfiction director Mark Cousins was given the first EFA Award for Innovative Storytelling for his 14-hour, 40-chapter documentary “Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema.”The ceremony took place as a series of virtual events from Tuesday through Saturday, including a finale broadcast live from Berlin on Saturday, but without a live audience, and with nominees watching from remote locations.

Two French films, Emmanuel Courcol's The Big Hit, and the hand-drawn Josep, have won the 2020 European Film Awards for best comedy and best animated film, respectively. In The Big Hit, French star Kad Merad (Welcome to the Sticks) plays a past-his-prime actor who attempts to give drama lessons to a group of prisoners staging a version of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Will Tizard ContributorNow in its second year back in the city where it was born, the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival has partnered with the Torun council in Poland and the national government in funding its most ambitious project, the European Film Center Camerimage, a $155 million facility now entering the architecture bidding stage.

Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg is back in the Oscar race with Another Round (Druk), a film whose star, Mads Mikkelsen, calls “an embracement of life.”