33rd European Film Awards
The 33rd European Film Awards was scheduled to be presented in Reykjavík, Iceland on 12 December 2020. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic the Awards took place as a virtual ceremony without an audience, broadcast and streamed from the European Film Academy’s seat, Berlin, on Saturday, 12 December 2020. The European Film Academy (EFA), the Mayor of Reykjavik and the Icelandic Minister of Education, Science and Culture decided to cancel the event in the Icelandic capital in December 2020 and announced that instead the 35th European Film Awards Ceremony will be presented in Reykjavik in December  2022. Selection. Feature. The list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the 2020 European Film Awards. Short Film. The European Short Film 2020 is presented in co-operation with the following 24 European film festivals. At each of the festivals, the jury of the international competition appointed by the festival chooses a single candidate (there shall be no ex-aequo candidates). Then the participating festivals nominate five short films from the list of 24 candidates. Awards voted by EFA Members. Nomination has been announced on November 10th, 2020. Feature. European Comedy. The nominees were announced on  27 October 2020. The nominations were determined by a committee consisting of EFA Board Members Katriel Schory (Israel) and Angela Bosch Ríus (Spain), director/screenwriter Paddy Breathnach (Ireland), festival programmer Markus Duffner (Germany/Italy) and distributor/festival programmer Selma Mehadžić (Croatia). Animated Feature. The nominations were determined by a committee consisting of EFA Board Member EFA Board Member Béatrice Thiriet (France), director Anca Damian (Romania), producer Antonio Saura (Spain) and, representing CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, Diogo Carvalho (producer, Portugal), Camilla Deakin (producer, UK) and Norbert Laporte (institutional, Luxembourg). Critics Award. European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI. The nominees were  announced on 8 October 2020. The nominations were determined by a committee composed of EFA Board Members Valérie Delpierre (Spain) and Anita Juka (Croatia), curator Giona A. Nazzaro (Italy) as well as film critics Marta Balaga (Finland/Poland), Andrei Plakhov (Russia) and Frédéric Ponsard (France), all three as representatives of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. Audience awards. University Award. The European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg have announced five following movies as a European University Film Award (EUFA) nominee. Technical awards. The winners for the Excellence Awards were presented on December 9, 2020. 33rd European Film Awards The