# 32nd European Film Awards

The 32nd European Film Awards were presented in Berlin, Germany, on 7 December 2019.

## Selection
### Feature

The list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the 2019 European Film Awards.

### Documentary

Ten documentary festivals have suggested one film each, which has had its world premiere at the respective festival's latest edition, to the committee. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network (EDN), these festivals are: Cinéma du Réel (France), CPH:DOX (Denmark), Doclisboa (Portugal), DOK Leipzig (Germany), IDFA (Netherlands), Ji.hlava (Czech Republic), Krakow Film Festival (Poland), Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK), Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece) and Visions du Réel (Switzerland). Based on their recommendations and the films individually submitted, the documentary committee, decided on the EFA Documentary Selection.

### Short films

For the 2019 and 2020 editions of the European Film Awards, the European Film Academy will welcome new festivals to participate in the EFA Short Film selection and awarding procedure. When the annual cycle of participating festivals – running from October of the preceding year to September of the actual awards year – is complete, a committee of short film experts and of EFA Board Members will nominate five of the short film candidates for the award European Short Film.

## Awards voted by EFA Members

Nomination has been announced on November 9, 2019.

### Feature
#### Best Film

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos | Element Pictures, Arcana, Film4 Productions, Waypoint Entertainment | English |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral | SRAB Films, Rectangle Productions, Lyly Films | French |
| An Officer and a Spy | Roman Polanski | Alain Goldman | Canal+, Eliseo Cinema, France 2 (FR2), France 3 (FR3), Gaumont, Légende Films, Rai Cinema | French |
| Pain and Glory | Pedro Almodóvar | Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García | El Deseo | Spanish |
| System Crasher | Nora Fingscheidt | Peter Hartwig, Jonas Weydemann, Jakob Weydemann, Frauke Kolbmüller | Kino Filmproduktion, Wydemann Bros. | German |
| The Traitor | Marco Bellocchio | Giuseppe Caschetto, Simone Gattoni | IBC Movie, Kavac Film, Rai Cinema, Ad Vitam Production, Gullane, Match Factory Productions, Arte France | Italian, Sicilian, Portuguese, English |

#### European Comedy

The nominees were announced on 29 October 2019. The nominations were determined by a committee composed of EFA Board Members Katriel Schory (Israel) and Angela Bosch Ríus (Spain), distributor/festival programmer Selma Mehadzic (Croatia), film, festival & event specialist Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark) and producer Nik Powell (UK).
| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos | Element Pictures, Arcana, Film4 Productions, Waypoint Entertainment | English |
| Tel Aviv on Fire | Sameh Zoabi | Gilles Sacuto, Miléna Poylo, Bernard Michaux, Amir Harel, Patrick Quinet | Samsa Film, Lama Films, TS Productions, Artémis Productions | Hebrew, Arabic |
| Ditte & Louise | Niclas Bendixen | Thomas Heinesen | Nordisk Film Production | Danish |

### Documentary

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| For Sama | Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Waad al-Kateab | Channel 4 News, Channel 4, Frontline, ITN, Productions, PBS Distribution, WGBH | Arabic, English |
| The Disappearance of My Mother | Beniamino Barrese | Filippo Macelloni | Nanof, RYOT Films | English, Italian |
| Honeyland | Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska | Atanas Georgiev | Apolo Media, Trice Films | Turkish |
| Putin's Witnesses | Vitaly Mansky | Natalia Manskaia, Gabriela Bussmann, Filip Remunda, Vit Klusak | Vertov SIA, GoldenEggProduction, Hypermarket Film | Russian |
| Selfie | Agostino Ferrente | Marc Berdugo, Barbara Conforti, Gianfilippo Pedote | Magnéto Prod | Italian |

### Animated Feature

The nominations were determined by a committee consisting of EFA Board Deputy Chairman Antonio Saura (Spain), EFA Board Member Graziella Bildesheim (Italy) and producer Paul Young (Ireland) as well as, representing CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, film critic Stéphane Dreyfus (France), producer Kristine M. I. Knudsen (Germany) and director Janno Põldma (Estonia).
| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles | Salvador Simó | Manuel Cristobal, José M. Fernández de Vega | Sygnatia, The Glow, Submarine | Spanish |
| I Lost My Body | Jérémy Clapin | Marc Du Pontavice | Xilam | French |
| Marona's Fantastic Tale | Anca Damian | Anca Damian, Ron Dyens, Tomas Leyers | Aparte Film, Minds Meet, Sacrebleu Productions | French |
| The Swallows of Kabul | Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobé Mévellec | Michel Merkt, Reginald de Guillebon | Les Armateurs | French |

### Short Film

| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Country |
| The Christmas Gift | Bogdan Mureşanu | Bogdan Mureşanu, Vlad Iorga, Victor Dumitrovici, Eduardo M Escribano Solera | Romania, Spain |
| Dogs Barking at Trees | Leonor Teles | Filipa Reis, Leonor Teles, João Miller Guerra | Portugal |
| Reconstruction | Jiří Havlíček, Ondřej Novák | Dagmar Sedláčková | Czech Republic |
| The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady | Gabriel Abrantes | Justin Taurand, Gabriel Abrantes | France, Portugal |
| Watermelon Juice | Irene Moray | Miriam Porté | Spain |

## Television series
### European Achievement in Fiction Series Award

| English title | Director | Screenplay | Country of Production | Language |
| Babylon Berlin | Henk Handloegten Achim von Borries Tom Tykwer | Henk Handloegten Achim von Borries Tom Tykwer | Germany | German |

## Technical awards

The Favourite has scooped four of the eight technical awards. The jury for the initial eight winners were: Nadia Ben Rachid, editor, France: Vanja Černul, cinematographer, Croatia; Annette Focks, composer, Germany; Gerda Koekoek, hair and make-up artist, Netherlands; Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh, costume designer, Ireland; Artur Pinheiro, production designer, Portugal; Gisle Tveito, sound designer, Norway; István Vajda, visual effects, Hungary.

## Critics Award
### European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI

The nominees were announced on 8 October 2019. The nominations were determined by a committee composed of EFA Board Members Mike Goodridge (UK) and Valérie Delpierre (Spain), festival programmer Azize Tan (Turkey) as well as film critics Marta Bałaga (Finland), Robbie Eksiel (Greece) and Michael Pattison (UK) as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics.
| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral | SRAB Films, Rectangle Productions, Lyly Films | French |
| Aniara | Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Annika Rogell | Meta Film Stockholm, Meta Film | Swedish |
| Atlantics | Mati Diop | Judith Levy | Meta Film Stockholm, Meta Film | Wolof |
| Blind Spot | Tuva Novotny | Elisabeth Kvithyll | Cinekap, Frakas Productions, Les Films du Bal | Norwegian |
| Irina | Nadejda Koseva | Stefan Kitanov | Art Fest | Bulgarian |
| Ray & Liz | Richard Billingham | Jacqui Davies | Jacqui Davies | English |

## Audience awards
### People's Choice Award

The nominees were announced on 2 September 2019.
| English title | Director(s) |
| Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| Border | Ali Abbasi |
| Dogman | Matteo Garrone |
| Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | David Yates |
| Girl | Lukas Dhont |
| Happy as Lazzaro | Alice Rohrwacher |
| Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Ol Parker |
| Pain and Glory | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Sink or Swim | Gilles Lellouche |
| The Breadwinner | Nora Twomey |
| The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| The Purity of Vengeance Journal 64 | Christoffer Boe |

### University Award

The European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg, a committee consisting of producer Carlo Cresta-Dina (Italy), EFA Board Member Joanna Szymańska (producer/Poland) and university representative Dagmar Brunow (Linnaeus University, Sweden) has decided on the following nominations:
| English title | Director(s) | Producer(s) | Production companies | Language |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | Bénédicte Couvreur | Lilies Films | French |
| And Then We Danced | Levan Akin | Mathilde Dedye, Ketie Danelia | French Quarter Film | Georgian |
| God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija | Teona Strugar Mitevska | Labina Mitevska | Sister and Brother Mitevski, Entre Chien et Loup, Vertigo, Spiritus Movens, Deuxieme Ligne Films | Macedonian |
| Piranhas | Claudio Giovannesi | Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra | Palomar, Vision Distribution | Italian, Neapolitan |
| System Crasher | Nora Fingscheidt | Jonas Weydemann, Peter Hartwig, Jakob Weydemann, Frauke Kolbmüller | Kineo Filmproduktion, Weydemann Bros. | German |

## European Co-Production Award — Prix Eurimages

The award acknowledges the decisive role of coproductions in fostering international exchange, and pays tribute to a woman's contribution to the success of film coproduction.
| Recipient | Occupation |
| Ankica Jurić | founder of the production company Kinorama |

## Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations (including awards) | Film |
| 9 | The Favourite |
| 6 | Pain and Glory |
| 5 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire |
| 4 | An Officer and a Spy |
| 4 | The Traitor |
| 4 | System Crasher |
| 3 | Les Misérables |
| 2 | And Then We Danced |
Films that received multiple awards :
| Wins | Film |
| 8 | The Favourite |
| 2 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire |
| 2 | Pain and Glory |

## Broadcasters

* Foxtel Arts
* ORF FM4
* cinenews.be
* BHT 1
* HRT
* Total Film
* ARTos Foundation
* Helsinki IFF
* Les Arcs FF
* public.ge
* RBB online
* Cosmote TV
* RÚV
* RTÉ Player
* Cineuropa
* Rai Movie, rai.it
* Dokufest
* Riga Int'l Short FF
* LRT Plius
* Luxembourg FF
* PBS
* iffr.com
* Norway Film Institute
* TVN Fabuła, New Horizons Cinema
* Portuguese Academy Of Film / ICA
* Transilvanis IFF
* Freezone Belgrade
* Theatre Bratislava, Visegrad Film Forum
* RTVSLO
* Movistar+, Movistar CineDoc&Roll, Seville European FF, Filmin
* moviezine
* Curzon
* NTU

## Call to pull Polanski's nominations

French feminists and film industry professionals, including Rosanna Arquette, Andrea Bescond, Eric Metayer, Amandine Gay, Catherine Zavlav asked for An Officer and a Spy to be taken out of contention for the awards. The nominations were announced just days after actress Valentine Monnier came forward with her story of allegedly being raped by Polanski in 1975 in newspaper Le Parisien, which was corroborated by contemporary witnesses. The group addressed the request to EFA Production director Marion Doring and jury members Nadia Ben Rachid, Vanja Cernjul, Annette Focks, Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh, Gerda Koekoek, Artur Pinheiro, Gisle Tveito and Istvan Vadja.