About 900 guests will attend this Saturday in Berlin at the ceremony of the 28th edition of the European Film Awards , where “Youth”, the Italian Paolo Sorrentino arrives at the gala as favorite with five nominations, the largest number of competitors.
“Youth” aim to gain the awards for best picture, director, screenplay, actress (Rachel Weisz) and actor ( . Michael Caine)
With four are “A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence”, the Norwegian Roy Andersson, nominated for best film, comedy, director and screenplay and “The lobster”, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos-best film, director, screenwriter and actor (Colin Farrell).
These three titles the award for best film with “Rams” (“The Valley of rams”), the Icelandic Grímur Hákonarson be played; German “Victoria” Sebastian Schipper, “Mustang” , the Turkish Deniz Gamze Ergüven.
Sorrentino, Anderson, Lanthimos Schipper and will compete for the award for best director, along with Italian Nanni Moretti for “my mother” and Polish Malgorzata Szumowska for “Body”.
Actor section, candidates are Colin Farrell for “The lobster”; Vincent Lindon , for “La loi du marché”; Michael Caine , for “Youth”; Tom Courtenay for “45 years”, Christian Friedel to “13 minutes”.
And in women, the Spanish Laia Costa , star of “Victoria” will face Italian Margherita Buy (“my mother”), British Charlotte Rampling (45 years “), the Swedish Alicia Vikander (“Ex Machina”) and the UK Rachel Weisz (“Youth”).
Already up winners
While many of the nominees still waiting to know if returned to their home with a statuette, There are three major European film winners are known already.
Charlotte Rampling will receive the award of honor in recognition of his entire career, and Austrian Christoph Waltz for his contribution as a European representative to world cinema.
British actor Michael Caine will be the third representative of European cinema in the nearly 30-year history of these awards to receive the distinction of honor awarded directly to the president and the board of the Academy.
Rampling also stars in “45 Years”, nominated for the European Film Award for the year and won the last Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Female and Male Performance for her and Tom Courtenay.
Waltz, winner of two Oscars for “Inglorious basterds” and “Django Unchained” and several Golden Globes and European awards, will receive the award for his “outstanding contribution to international cinema.”
Caine, already in 2001 was nominated for Best Actor at the European Film Awards for her role in “Last Orders” by Fred Schepisi, concurs in this edition of “Youth”.
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 the German Wim Wenders and Swede Ingmar Bergman.
First they were called Felix, but after a few years moved to the neutral designation of European Film Awards
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