European Film Awards: Winners List — Updating Live

The 38th European Film Awards are underway in Berlin, Germany. Variety will be bringing you the winners live here. The livestream can be found at www.europeanfilmawards.eu.

The awards ceremony was opened by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who spoke about the terrible bloodshed and oppression in his homeland. “When the truth is crushed in one place, freedom suffocates everywhere,” he said. “Then no one is safe anywhere in the world. Not in Iran. Not in Europe. Not in America. Not anywhere.”

“Sentimental Value” has five nominations, while “Sirāt” follows with four, and “Sound of Falling” and “It Was Just an Accident” tie with three each.

The best film nominees include narrative features “It Was Just an Accident,” “Sentimental Value,” “Sirāt,” “Sound of Falling” and “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” as well as documentaries “Afternoons of Solitude,” “Fiume O Morte!,” “Riefenstahl,” “Songs of Slow Burning Earth” and “With Hasan in Gaza,” and animated films “Arco,” “Dog of God,” “Little Amelie,” “Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake” and “Tales From the Magic Garden.”

The director nominees are Yorgos Lanthimos for “Bugonia,” Oliver Laxe for “Sirāt,” Panahi for “It Was Just an Accident,” Mascha Schilinski for “Sound of Falling,” and Joachim Trier for “Sentimental Value.”

Screenwriter prize contenders are Santiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe for “Sirāt,” Jafar Panahi for “It Was Just an Accident,” Mascha Schilinski and Louise Peter for “Sound of Falling,” Paolo Sorrentino for “La Grazia,” and Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier for “Sentimental Value.”

The statuette for best European actress is being chased by Leonie Benesch for “Late Shift,” Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for “Duse,” Léa Drucker for “Case 137,” Vicky Krieps for “Love Me Tender,” and Renate Reinsve for “Sentimental Value.”

The actor award is fought over by Sergi López for “Sirāt,” Mads Mikkelsen for “The Last Viking,” Toni Servillo for “La Grazia,” Stellan Skarsgård for “Sentimental Value,” and Idan Weiss for “Franz.”

Best documentary contenders are Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude,” Igor Bezinović’s “Fiume O Morte!,” Andres Veiel’s “Riefenstahl,” Olha Zhurba’s “Songs of Slow Burning Earth,” and Kamal Aljafari’s “With Hasan in Gaza.”

The European animated feature film award is being chased by Ugo Bienvenu’s “Arco,” Raitis Ābele and Lauris Ābele’s “Dog of God,” Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s “Little Amelie,” Irene Iborra Rizo’s “Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake,” and David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar and Jean-Claude Rozec’s “Tales From the Magic Garden.”

The nominees for the Discovery Award, given to a director for their first full-length feature film, are Urška Djukić’s “Little Trouble Girls,” Akinola Davies Jr.’s “My Father’s Shadow,” Laura Carreira’s “On Falling,” Murat Fıratoğlu’s “One of Those Days When Hemme Dies,” Mathias Broe’s “Sauna,” and Mara Tamkovich’s “Under the Grey Sky.” The winner was “On Falling.”

The nominees for the European Young Audience Award are Ugo Bienvenu’s “Arco,” Nóra Lakos’ “I Accidentally Wrote a Book” and Greta Scarano’s “Siblings.”

Other awards to be presented on Saturday include those for cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, make-up and hair, original score, sound, casting director and visual effects.

During the ceremony, the European Lifetime Achievement Award will be received by Liv Ullmann, Alice Rohrwacher will pick up the European Achievement in World Cinema Award, and the Eurimages International Co-Production Award will go to Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach and Janine Jackowski of Berlin’s Komplizen Film, whose credits include “Sentimental Value.”