Jacques Audiard’s latest Emilia Pérez dominated the European Film Awards this evening in Lucerne, Switzerland, taking Best Film and Best Director. Check out the full winners list below.
The Netflix crime drama won all four of it’s nominations. Audiard’s pic came into this evening’s tied with Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door for the most noms. The film’s haul included Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascón and Best Screenplay.
Other big winners this evening in Switzerland included filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis who won Best Animated feature for his buzzy pic Flow and the Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land took the Best Documentary prize.
Tonight’s dominant display hands Audiard and his Emilia Pérez collaborators a significant vote of confidence as they head into the heat of awards seasons. The European Film Awards, which are voted on by the Berlin-based European Film Academy’s some 5,000 members based across Europe, are also seen as a bellwether for which European films are likely to pick up steam in the U.S. awards season.
Last year’s Best European Film winner Anatomy of a Fall garnered five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress (Sandra Hüller), with director Justine Triet and co-writer Arthur Harari winning the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
This year’s ceremony in Lucerne marked the last time it takes place in December with the dates shifting to mid-January, starting with the 38th edition in 2026, as part of a strategy to position the prizes within the wider awards season conversation on both sides of the Atlantic.
2024 European Film Awards Winners
European Film
EMILIA PÉREZ by Jacques Audiard
European Director
Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ
European Screenwriter
Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ
European Actress
Karla Sofía Gascón in EMILIA PÉREZ
European Actor
Abou Sangare in SOULEYMANE’S STORY
Best Documentary
NO OTHER LAND (Palestine, Norway) – documentary film, directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal, produced by Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
Armand, directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Young Audience Award
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Norway), directed by Benjamin Ree, produced by Ingvil Giske
European Animated Feature Film
FLOW directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium)
European Cinematography
The Substance (Benjamin Kračun)
European Editing
Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
European Production Design
The Girl With the Needle (Jagna Dobesz)
European Costume Design
The Devil’s Bath (Tanja Hausner)
European Make-up & Hair
When the Light Breaks (Evalotte Oosterop)
European Original Score:
The Girl With the Needle (Frederikke Hoffmeier)
European Sound
Souleymane’s Story (Marc-Olivier Brullé, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aïchoun, Rodrigo Diaz)
European Visual Effects
THE SUBSTANCE (Bryan Jones, Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky, Chervin Shafaghi, Guillaume Le Gouez)
European Short Film
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT directed by Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia)
European Achievement in World Cinema
Isabella Rossellini
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