# 27th European Film Awards

The 27th European Film Awards were presented on 13 December 2014 in Riga, Latvia. The winners were selected by more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. Nominations for the People's Choice Award category were announced on 1 September 2014. On 16 September 2014, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced a list of 50 films which qualified for nominations. All nominations were announced on 8 November 2014 at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain. British director Steve McQueen was presented with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award and filmmaker Agnès Varda was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

## Winners and nominees
### Best Film

| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
| Ida | | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| Force Majeure | Turist | Ruben Östlund |
| Leviathan | Левиафан | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut | | Lars von Trier |
| Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |

### Best Director

| Director(s) | English title | Original title |
| Paweł Pawlikowski | Ida | Ida |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu |
| Steven Knight | Locke | Locke |
| Ruben Östlund | Force Majeure | Turist |
| Paolo Virzì | Human Capital | Il capitale umano |
| Andrey Zvyagintsev | Leviathan | Левиафан |

### Best Screenwriter

| Screenwriter(s) | Nationality | English title | Original title |
| Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz | Poland | Ida | |
| Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey | Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu |
| Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Belgium | Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit |
| Steven Knight | United Kingdom | Locke | |
| Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia | Leviathan | Левиафан |

### Best European Actor

| Actor | English title | Original title |
| Timothy Spall | Mr. Turner | Mr. Turner |
| Brendan Gleeson | Calvary | Calvary |
| Tom Hardy | Locke | Locke |
| Aleksei Serebryakov | Leviathan | Левиафан |
| Stellan Skarsgård | Nymphomaniac | Nymphomaniac |

### Best European Actress

| Actress | English title | Original title |
| Marion Cotillard | Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit |
| Marian Álvarez | Wounded | La herida |
| Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Human Capital | Il capitale umano |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg | Nymphomaniac | Nymphomaniac |
| Agata Kulesza | Ida | Ida |
| Agata Trzebuchowska | Ida | Ida |

### Best Comedy

| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
| The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer | La mafia uccide solo d'estate | Pierfrancesco Diliberto |
| Carmina & Amen | Carmina y amén | Paco León |
| Le Week-End | | Roger Michell |

### People's Choice Award for Best European Film

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Writers(s) |
| Ida | | Paweł Pawlikowski | Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Paweł Pawlikowski |
| Beauty and the Beast | La Belle et la Bête | Christophe Gans | Christophe Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh |
| Nymphomaniac | | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier |
| Philomena | | Stephen Frears | Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope |
| The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann | Felix Herngren | Felix Herngren, Hans Ingemansson, Jonas Jonasson |
| Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne |

### Discovery of the Year

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Writers(s) |
| The Tribe | Плем'я (Plemya) | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy |
| 10,000 km | | Carlos Marques-Marcet | Carlos Marques-Marcet, Clara Roquet |
| '71 | | Yann Demange | Gregory Burke |
| Party Girl | | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis | Samuel Theis, Claire Burger, Marie Amachoukeli |
| Wounded | La herida | Fernando Franco | Fernando Franco, Enric Rufas |

### Best Animated Feature Film

The nominees were announced on 22 September 2014.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Animation |
| The Art of Happiness | L'arte della felicità | Alessandro Rak | Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Dario Sansone, Marino Guarnieri, Annarita Calligaris, Ivana Verze, Laura Sammati, Antonia Emanuela Angrisani, Corrado Piscitelli, Flavio Di Biase, Giorgio Siravo, Sergio Chimenti, Ilaria Jones, Antonio Funaro, Danilo Florio, Mirko Prota, Alberto Panico, Paolo Acampora, Marco Iannaccone |
| Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart | Jack et la mécanique du cœur | Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu | Nicolette Ceccoli, Stéphane Martine, Robert Cepo |
| Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants | Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues | Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo | |

### Best Documentary

| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
| Master of the Universe | | Marc Bauder |
| Just the Right Amount of Violence | | Jon Bang Carlsen |
| Of Men and War | Des hommes et de la guerre | Laurent Bécue-Renard |
| Sacro GRA | | Gianfranco Rosi |
| Waiting For August | | Teodora Ana Mihai |
| We Come as Friends | | Hubert Sauper |

### Best Cinematographer

| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
| Ida | | Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski | |

### Best Editor

| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
| Locke | | Justine Wright | |

### Best Production Designer

| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
| The Dark Valley | Das finstere Tal | Claus-Rudolf Amler | |

### Best Costume Designer

| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
| The Dark Valley | Das finstere Tal | Natascha Curtius-Noss | |

### Best Composer

| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
| Under the Skin | | Mica Levi | |

### Best Sound Designer

| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
| Starred Up | | Joakim Sundström | |

### European Co-Production Award—Prix Eurimages

| Recipient | Occupation | Nationality |
| Ed Guiney | Producer | |

### European Achievement in World Cinema

| Recipient | Occupation | Nationality |
| Steve McQueen | Director and screenwriter | |

### Lifetime Achievement Award

| Recipient | Occupation | Nationality |
| Agnès Varda | Director and screenwriter | |

### Best Short Film

The nominees for Best Short Film were selected by independent juries at a series of film festivals throughout Europe.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Nominating Festival |
| The Chicken | | Una Gunjak | Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival |
| Emergency Calls | Hätäkutsu | Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen | Sarajevo Film Festival |
| Shipwreck | | Morgan Knibbe | Locarno Film Festival |
| A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log | Panique au Village: La Bûche de Noël | Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier | Vila do Conde Film Festival |
| Dinola | დინოლა | Mariam Khatchvani | Grimstad Film Festival |
| Summer 2014 | Lato 2014 | Wojciech Sobczyk | Kraków Film Festival |
| Wall | Fal | Simon Szabó | Tampere Film Festival |
| Taprobana | | Gabriel Abrantes | Berlin International Film Festival |
| Pride | | Pavel Vesnakov | Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival |
| The Chimera of M. | | Sebastian Buerkner | International Film Festival Rotterdam |
| Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea | Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar | Jorge Lopez Navarette | Cork Film Festival |
| The Missing Scarf | | Eoin Duffy | Valladolid International Film Festival |
| Whale Valley | Hvalfjörður | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Flanders International Film Festival Ghent |
| Daily Bread | פת לחם | Idan Hubel | Venice Film Festival |
| Still Got Lives | Ich hab noch Auferstehung | Jan-Gerrit Seyler | Drama International Short Film Festival |

### Young Audience Award

Twelve- to fourteen-year-old audiences from across Europe voted for the winner after watching the three nominated films at special screenings held on "Young Audience Film Day".
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Writers(s) |
| Regret! | Spijt! | Dave Schram | Maria Peters, Dick van den Heuvel |
| The Contest: To the Stars and Back | MGP missionen | Martin Miehe-Renard | Gitte Løkkegaard, Martin Miehe-Renard |
| Windstorm | Ostwind - Zusammen sind wir frei | Katja von Garnier | Kristina Magdalena Henn, Lea Schmidbauer |