EFA ♥︎s Toni Erdmann

The 29th European Film Awards were held in Wroclaw Poland today and they went all in for the very popular German father/daughter comedy Toni Erdmann with five major prizes. It was also a huge night for women with wins in Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume Design and more! Super high profile titles like Isabelle Huppert & Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta went home empty handed, though.

Maren Ade was the belle of the EFA ball

The winners are after the jump...

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Besides Toni Erdmann, five other high profile foreign film Oscar contenders also had reason to celebrate: Land of Mine from Denmark, A Man Called Ove from Sweden, Fire at Sea from Italy and My Life as Courgette from Switzerland, and The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki from Finland.

Best Film Toni Erdmann (Germany)
Best Director Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann  (German)
Best Actress Sandra Hüller, Toni Erdmann  (Germany)
Best Actor Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann  (Germany)
Best Screenwriter Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann  (Germany)
Best Cinematographer, Camilla Hjelm, Land of Mine (Denmark)
Best Costume Designer Stefanie Bieker, Land of Mine (Denmark)
Best Sound Designer Radoslaw Ochnio, 11 Minutes (Poland)
Best Editor Janus Billeskov Jansen, and Anne Osterud, The Commune (Denmark)
Best Composer Ilya Demutskiy, The Student (Russia)
Best Comedy A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
Best Documentary Fire at Sea (Italy)

I don't like competition -especially cultural competition -- but I am happy to have this 
-Claude Barras for My Life as Courgette 

Best Animated Feature My Life as a Courgette (Switzerland)
Best Short Film 9 Days From My Window in Aleppo (The Netherlands/Syria)
Fipresci Prize Juho Kuosmanen, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Finland)
Young Audience Award Emilie Deleuze, Miss Impossible (France)
Audience Award Body (Poland)

Oscar winning Danish director Susanne Bier introduced Pierce Brosnan for his award

Achievement in World Cinema Pierce Brosnan (Ireland)
Lifetime Achievement Jean-Claude Carriere (France)

For the fina "Best Film" prize they had representatives from each film come up and describe something about them or the process of making them. You can watch the ceremony online here.

 

Comments

[goran]

Oh my god - so ecstatic for Huller and Ade and Erdmann and all the woman power.

But especially for Huller. I realise opinions are subjective andd subtitles get in the way etc etc but how the world can see anything other than the performance of the year (or - screw it - the decade!) here is beyond me.

[/3rtful]

They made sure their statuettes resemble Oscars.

[eurocheese]

Toni Erdmann absolutely deserves all this love. Simonischek and Huller are both absolutely fantastic, and I'm not surprised by the win over Huppert. One of the best comedies in years, and easily one of the best films of the year.

[Claran]

As much as I wan Huppert to win (she alr has two o these fr EFA), I'm so happy for the big sweep o Toni! All totally deserving.

Make me wonder if mayb La La Land will also sweep all the major cat at Oscars, given e luv?

[MrW]

So Toni Erdmann is the Best Film in a Silence of the Cuckoo's Night style landslide, but not the Best Comedy?

Ah, I gave up on trying to understand film prize categories a long, long time ago...

[Paul Outlaw]

I have never seen Toni Erdmann as a comedy, though there is definitely funny stuff in it.

[guest]

Toni Erdmann is one of the funniest films this year, and much funnier than Ove, not to mention a much, much better film, and that's coming from a Swede. Well deserved wins all around!

[Owl]

Finally, some major attention given to Toni Erdmann with big wins for Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek. I hope this will open up more discussions of the film. Maren Ade mixes all the very good elements in Toni Erdmann to create an audacious and original and compulsively watchable film. I didn't even notice the film clocks 3 hours long.

Also curious and excited to see Land of Mine and My Life as a Courgette!

[cal roth]

Go Toni Erdmann, go Sandra Huller!

[chofer]

@/3rtful

You are right, at the extent they seem to love sweeps:) I looooove TE. I just hate sweeps, Oscalr-like. There's no such thing at the BEST FILM in all departments. I'm against this greedy and obtuse mentality since long time ago. Huller is superb, though. But I was much more impressed with Isabelle in ELLE, the same way I was more impressed with Toni Erdmann as a film and direction overall (bravo, Maren Ade!) They're not mutually exclusive.
My Lige as a Courgette winning over The Red Turtle is the BEST news about this award. The swiss animated stop motion is a marvel the needs Oscar consideration in both Foreign Language Film and Animated feature. Wishing it gets a citation in the latter over Finding Dory (because Zootopia won't be stopped. Sigh)