| 27th European Film Awards | |
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Latvian National Opera
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| Date | 13 December 2014 |
| Site | Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia |
| Hosted by | Thomas Hermanns |
| Produced by | Marion Döring and Jürgen Biesinger |
| Organized by | European Film Academy |
| Highlights | |
| Best Film | Ida |
| Best Director | Paweł Pawlikowski |
| Best Actor | Timothy Spall |
| Best Actress | Marion Cotillard |
| Most awards | Ida (5) |
| Most nominations | Ida (7) |
| Television coverage | |
| Channel | Arte |
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The 27th European Film Awards were presented on 13 December 2014 in Riga, Latvia.[1][2] The winners were selected by more than 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. Nominations for the People's Choice Award category were announced on 1 September 2014.[3][4] On 16 September 2014, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced a list of 50 films which qualified for nominations.[5] All nominations were announced on 8 November 2014 at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain.[6][7][8] British director Steve McQueen was presented with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award[9] and filmmaker Agnès Varda was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.[10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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| Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski |  
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| Force Majeure | Turist | Ruben Östlund |   
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| Leviathan | Левиафан | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 
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| Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut | Lars von Trier |  
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| Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 
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| Director(s) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|
| Paweł Pawlikowski |
Ida | |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu |
 Steven Knight |
Locke | |
| Ruben Östlund |
Force Majeure | Turist |
 Paolo Virzì |
Human Capital | Il capitale umano |
| Andrey Zvyagintsev |
Leviathan | Левиафан |
| Screenwriter(s) | Nationality | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz | Poland |
Ida | |
| Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu |
| Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit |
| Steven Knight | United Kingdom |
Locke | |
| Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
Leviathan | Левиафан |
| Actor | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|
| Timothy Spall |
Mr. Turner | |
 Brendan Gleeson |
Calvary | |
| Tom Hardy |
Locke | |
| Aleksei Serebryakov |
Leviathan | Левиафан |
| Stellan Skarsgård |
Nymphomaniac | |
| Actress | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|
| Marion Cotillard |
Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit |
 Marian Álvarez |
Wounded | La herida |
| Valeria Bruni Tedeschi |
Human Capital | Il capitale umano |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg |
Nymphomaniac | |
| Agata Kulesza |
Ida | |
| Agata Trzebuchowska |
Ida | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer | La mafia uccide solo d'estate | Pierfrancesco Diliberto |
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| Carmina & Amen | Carmina y amén | Paco León |
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| Le Week-End | Roger Michell |
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| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Writers(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Paweł Pawlikowski |
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| Beauty and the Beast | La Belle et la Bête | Christophe Gans | Christophe Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh |
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| Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier |
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| Philomena | Stephen Frears | Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope |
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| The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann | Felix Herngren | Felix Herngren, Hans Ingemansson, Jonas Jonasson |
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| Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne |
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| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Writers(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Tribe | Плем'я (Plemya) | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | 
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| 10,000 km | Carlos Marques-Marcet | Carlos Marques-Marcet, Clara Roquet |
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| '71 | Yann Demange | Gregory Burke |
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| Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis | Samuel Theis, Claire Burger, Marie Amachoukeli |
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| Wounded | La herida | Fernando Franco | Fernando Franco, Enric Rufas |
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The nominees were announced on 22 September 2014.[11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Animation | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Art of Happiness | L'arte della felicità | Alessandro Rak | Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Dario Sansone, Marino Guarnieri, Annarita Calligaris, Ivana Verze, Laura Sammati, Antonia Emanuela Angrisani, Corrado Piscitelli, Flavio Di Biase, Giorgio Siravo, Sergio Chimenti, Ilaria Jones, Antonio Funaro, Danilo Florio, Mirko Prota, Alberto Panico, Paolo Acampora, Marco Iannaccone |
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| Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart | Jack et la mécanique du cœur | Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu | Nicolette Ceccoli, Stéphane Martine, Robert Cepo |
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| Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants | Minuscule - La vallée des fourmis perdues | Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo |
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| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master of the Universe | Marc Bauder | 
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| Just the Right Amount of Violence | Jon Bang Carlsen |
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| Of Men and War | Des hommes et de la guerre | Laurent Bécue-Renard | 
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| Sacro GRA | Gianfranco Rosi |
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| Waiting For August | Teodora Ana Mihai | 
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| We Come as Friends | Hubert Sauper |
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| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ida | Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski |
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| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locke | Justine Wright |
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| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
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| The Dark Valley | Das finstere Tal | Claus-Rudolf Amler |
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| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dark Valley | Das finstere Tal | Natascha Curtius-Noss |
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| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under the Skin | Mica Levi |
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| English title | Original title | Winner(s) | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starred Up | Joakim Sundström |
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| Recipient | Occupation | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| Ed Guiney | Producer |
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| Recipient | Occupation | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| Steve McQueen | Director and screenwriter |
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| Recipient | Occupation | Nationality |
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| Agnès Varda | Director and screenwriter |
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The nominees for Best Short Film were selected by independent juries at a series of film festivals throughout Europe.[12][13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | Nominating Festival |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chicken | Una Gunjak |  |
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival | |
| Emergency Calls | Hätäkutsu | Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen |  |
Sarajevo Film Festival |
| Shipwreck | Morgan Knibbe |  |
Locarno Film Festival | |
| A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log | Panique au Village: La Bûche de Noël | Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier | |
Vila do Conde Film Festival |
| Dinola | დინოლა | Mariam Khatchvani |  |
Grimstad Film Festival |
| Summer 2014 | Lato 2014 | Wojciech Sobczyk | |
Kraków Film Festival |
| Wall | Fal | Simon Szabó |  |
Tampere Film Festival |
| Taprobana | Gabriel Abrantes |   |
Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Pride | Pavel Vesnakov |  |
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival | |
| The Chimera of M. | Sebastian Buerkner | |
International Film Festival Rotterdam | |
| Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea | Pequeño bloque de cemento con pelo alborotado conteniendo el mar | Jorge Lopez Navarette | |
Cork Film Festival |
| The Missing Scarf | Eoin Duffy | |
Valladolid International Film Festival | |
| Whale Valley | Hvalfjörður | Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson |  |
Flanders International Film Festival Ghent |
| Daily Bread | פת לחם | Idan Hubel |  |
Venice Film Festival |
| Still Got Lives | Ich hab noch Auferstehung | Jan-Gerrit Seyler | |
Drama International Short Film Festival |
Twelve- to fourteen-year-old audiences from across Europe voted for the winner after watching the three nominated films at special screenings held on "Young Audience Film Day".[14][15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Writers(s) | Production country |
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| Regret! | Spijt! | Dave Schram | Maria Peters, Dick van den Heuvel |
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| The Contest: To the Stars and Back | MGP missionen | Martin Miehe-Renard | Gitte Løkkegaard, Martin Miehe-Renard |
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| Windstorm | Ostwind - Zusammen sind wir frei | Katja von Garnier | Kristina Magdalena Henn, Lea Schmidbauer |
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