page_title: European Film Academy
section_title: European Film Awards
hierarchical_section_title: European Film Academy / European Film Awards
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Theater des Westens, Berlin, Charlottenburg, Kantstraße 10–12This is a photograph of an architectural monument.It is on the list of cultural monuments of Berlin, no. 09096231
context_page_description: The European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.
  The Academy—under the name of European Cinema Society—was officially founded by its first President, the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, as well as 40 filmmakers from all over Europe.
  The European Film Awards takes place every second year in Berlin, while they are presented every other year in another European city.
context_section_description: The annual European Film Awards ceremony (until 1997 known as FELIX) is the most visible activity of the European Film Academy. With the awards the Academy pursues the following aims: attracting the interest of the audience in European cinema, promoting its cultural and artistic qualities, and regaining the public's confidence in its entertainment value. To put these ideas into practice, the People's Choice Awards were added as a new category in 1997. They are accompanied by big advertising campaigns in European film magazines. In addition, screenings of the nominated films were in the past years organised for the public in several European cities (Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Warsaw).
  The members of the European Film Academy actively participate in the selection, nomination and awarding procedure.
  The European Film Awards are the first in the annual international awards calendar. Most of the nominees and winners of the European Film Awards are found in the following months among the nominees and winners of the Golden Globes or the Oscars. In the past years, European producers and distributors repeatedly stressed that a nomination or receipt of the European Film Award had a positive impact on the destiny of their films with regard to the Golden Globe or the Oscar.
caption: The Theater des Westens in Berlin was the first venue of the European Film Awards in 1988
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