"Freedom Square" won six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director
As the most crucial year-end summary film festival in Europe, the 30th European Film Awards recently announced the final list of winners. Directed by Ruben Ostlund, Liberty Square won six awards, including Best Picture, Best Comedy, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and more, making it the undisputed biggest winner of this European Film Festival.
"Freedom Square" has previously won the highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the Palm Award, and this time winning again will become the biggest weight for its Oscars. At the awards ceremony, Ruben Ostlund, who took the stage several times to accept the award, said that he shot Freedom Square because he wanted to make a film that was "both entertaining and wild and exciting." Czech actress Alexandra Borbey won the Award for Best Actress for her performance in Spirit and Flesh. In addition, renowned actress and director Julie Derby received this year's World Cinema Lifetime Achievement Award. The European Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to blackmail director Alexander Sokolov. The best animation that has attracted much attention has been awarded to the "Beloved Van Gogh" currently being released in China, which is a rare animation masterpiece.
Founded in 1988 by the European Cinema Society at the initiative of the Swedish film master Bergmann, the European Film Society is organized by the European Film Society based in Berlin and is known as the European Oscars. Although the European Film Awards are not as famous as the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival, their selection has professional depth and artistic authority. The purpose of the award is to permanently establish the artistic spirit of films followed by all European countries, and is intended to awaken the confidence and support of global audiences for European artistic and humanistic films. It was created to encourage the film industry throughout Europe. The award was established in 1988 at the initiative of the Swedish film master Bergman, with the purpose of promoting the spirit of European film art and awakening the confidence and support of global audiences for European art and humanistic films.
Full list of nominations and winners for the 30th European Film Awards
Best Picture
Freedom Square (Award-winning)
Best Comedy
King of Belgium
Vincent and the End of the World
Welcome to the Hartmans
Best Director
Aki Korismäki, "The Other Side of Hope"
Ruben Ostlund, Freedom Square (award-winning)
Best Actress
Alexandra Borbey, Flesh and Spirit (Award-Winning)
Best Actor
Chris Bond, Liberty Square (Award-Winning)
Colin Farrell, The Death of the Sacred Deer
Jean-Louis Trentinion," Happy Ending
Best Screenplay
Iltico Inyeti, Flesh and Spirit
Eugs Lancemos and Evsimis Philippe, The Death of the Sacred Deer
Oleg Negin and Andrei Sarkinsev, "No Love to Sue"
François Euron and Philippe Piazot in "Franz"
Best Documentary
"House of Faith and Love" (Award-winning)
"La Chana"
Strangers in Paradise
European Discovery Award (Film Critics Fabisi Award)
"Lady Macbeth" (Award-winning)
The Hermit
Best Cartoon
Millennium Zombies