BERLIN (EFE) .- Michael Caine said he was “tremendously honored” with the honorary award from the European Film Academy (EFA, for its acronym in English), which received yesterday in Berlin at the hands of German filmmaker and president of this institution, Wim Wenders.
Caine, also nominated for the award for best actor at the European Film Awards for her performance in “Youth” by Paolo Sorrentino, said that normally one is “terribly nervous” on these circumstances.
“Then clap another who has won and have made the trip for nothing,” joked the singer, who finally also was recognized for best actor.
In any case, already he carried Caine home an honorary award in the nearly 30-year history of the European Film Awards have been granted only twice. Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, a founding member of the EFA, and French actor and director Michel Piccoli
“I’ve never won a European award, except this,” Caine, who reiterated he was honored to receive a distinction for his career and his life said.
Before handing the award, said Wenders the prize, awarded directly to the president and the board of the EFA, coming from the bottom of their hearts. The filmmaker also called Caine as “one of the greatest actors of our time” that “has come as far as you can reach anyone in the world of cinema.”
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EFA Prizes, which are awarded in a total of 22 categories, emerged in 1989 as an alternative to Hollywood’s Oscars and driven by forty European filmmakers, including Wenders and Swede Ingmar Bergman.
First they were called Felix, but after a few years moved to the neutral designation of European Film Awards.
Other winners
The Spanish film “The minimum Island” directed by Alberto Rodriguez, was awarded the Audience Award, which received the actress Nerea Barros, who thanked the prize to a film that has learned that “if do things with love, passion and hard work dreams come true “.
The film, which swept the Goya Awards by taking home ten statuettes, including best director, film, screenplay and actor protagonist, succeeded this time the distinction is awarded annually by vote of the European viewers.
The “thriller” set in the marshes of the Guadalquivir, travels to 1980 when two homicide cops Madrid are sent Seville to investigate the disappearance of two girls during the holidays.
Among the candidates tapes to the audience award were, among others, “Samba” (France), “Vitoria” (Germany), “A Piegeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence “(Sweden) and” Leviathan “(Russia).
Finally,” Youth “, which started as the favorite of the show, won the award for best film and direction, while Charlotte Rampling took home the award for best actress for her performance in the film “45 years”, British director Andrew Haigh.
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In the category of Best Screenplay was won “Lobster” by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, while in the section of best documentary award was to “Amy”, the British Asif Kapadia, who portrays the life of the controversial singer Amy Winehouse
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