The 2018 European Film Awards (EFA) Winners

By Matt Neglia 

​The winners for the 31st European Film Awards (EFA) were announced today representing the best in European cinema for 2018.

Click below to see the winners.

EUROPEAN FILM
BORDER
COLD WAR
DOGMAN
GIRL
HAPPY AS LAZZARO

EFA PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
A WOMAN CAPTURED
BERGMAN – A YEAR IN A LIFE
OF FATHERS AND SONS
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS
THE SILENCE OF OTHERS

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Ali Abbasi – BORDER
Matteo Garrone – DOGMAN
Samuel Maoz – FOXTROT
Paweł Pawlikowski – COLD WAR
Alice Rohrwacher – HAPPY AS LAZZARO

EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Marie Bäumer – 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir – WOMAN AT WAR
Joanna Kulig – COLD WAR
Bárbara Lennie – PETRA
Eva Melander – BORDER
Alba Rohrwacher – HAPPY AS LAZZARO

EUROPEAN ACTOR
Jakob Cedergren – THE GUILTY
Rupert Everett – THE HAPPY PRINCE
Marcello Fonte – DOGMAN
Sverrir Gudnason – BORG/MCENROE
Tomasz Kot – COLD WAR
Victor Polster – GIRL

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf & John Ajvide Lindqvist – BORDER
Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti & Massimo Gaudioso – DOGMAN
Gustav Möller & Emil Nygaard Albertsen – THE GUILTY
Paweł Pawlikowski – COLD WAR
Alice Rohrwacher – HAPPY AS LAZZARO

EUROPEAN COMEDY
LE SENS DE LA FETE
DIAMANTINO
THE DEATH OF STALIN

EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE
EARLY MAN
THE BREADWINNER
WHITE FANG

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM
AQUA­PARQUE – Portugal
BURK­INA BRAN­DEN­BURG KOM­PLEX – Germany
GRAD­U­A­TION ’97 – Ukraine
I SIGNED THE PE­TI­TION – UK, Germany, Switzerland
KAP­I­TAL­IS­TIS – Belgium, France
KON­TENER – Germany
MERYEM – The Netherlands
PRIS­ONER OF SO­CI­ETY – Georgia, Latvia
RE­LEASE THE DOGS / LÂCHEZ LES CHIENS – France, Belgium
SHAME – Bulgaria
THE ES­CAPE / L’ÉCHAPÉE – France
THE YEARS / GLI ANNI – Italy, France
THOSE WHO DE­SIRE / LOS QUE DE­SEAN – Switzerland, Spain
WHAT’S THE DAM­AGE – UK
WILDE­BEEST – Belgium

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA
Ralph Fiennes

EFA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Carmen Maura

HONORARY AWARD OF THE EFA PRESIDENT & BOARD
Costa-Gavras

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – PRIX FIPRESCI
GIRL – Belgium, The Netherlands

EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD
Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas

EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
Martin Otterbeck – U – JULY 22 / UTØYA 22. JULI

EUROPEAN EDITOR
Jarosław Kamiński – COLD WAR / ZIMNA WOJNA

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Andrey Ponkratov – THE SUMMER / LETO

EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER
Massimo Cantini Parrini – DOGMAN

EUROPEAN HAIR & MAKE-UP ARTIST
Dalia Colli, Lorenzo Tamburini & Daniela Tartari – DOGMAN

EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER
André Bendocchi-Alves & Martin Steyer – THE CAPTAIN / DER HAUPTMANN

EUROPEAN VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR
Peter Hjorth – BORDER / GRÄNS

EUROPEAN COMPOSER
Christoph M. Kaiser & Julian Maas – 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON / 3 TAGE IN QUIBERON

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