European Film Academy falls for Triet drama

Anatomy Of A Fall takes top prizes on awards night

by Amber Wilkinson

Sandra Hüller in Anatomy Of A Fall
Sandra Hüller in Anatomy Of A Fall

Anatomy Of A Fall was the big winner at the European Film Awards in Berlin tonight.

Justin Triet's ambiguous drama about a writer who finds herself in the dock for the murder of her husband, took home the prizes for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay (which Triet shared with her partner Arthur Harari).

Lead actress Sandra Hüller, who was double nominated in the Best Actress category thank to The Zone Of Interest, took home the gong for Triet's film.

The prize for Best Actor went to Mads Mikkelson for historic drama Nikolaj Arcel's The Promised Land.

Best Documentary went to Anna Hints' Smoke Sauna Sisterhood. The European discovery – prix FIPRESCI went to Molly Manning Walker's debut How To Have Sex.

The honorary award of the academy president and board was given to Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr (The Turin Horse, The Man From London). The Lifetime Achievement Award went to British star Vanessa Redgrave.

The nominations are based on the votes of 4,600 members of the European Film Academy.

European Film Awards 2023

European film

  • WINNER: Anatomy Of A Fall (Fr) dir. Justine Triet
  • Fallen Leaves (Fin-Ger) dir. by Aki Kaurismäki
  • Green Border (Pol-Fr-Cz-Bel) dir. by Agnieszka Holland
  • Me Captain (Io Capitano) (It-Bel) dir. Matteo Garrone
  • The Zone Of Interest (UK-Pol-US) dir. Jonathan Glazer

European director

European actress

European actor

European screenwriter

European animated feature film

  • A Greyhound Of A Girl (Lux-It-Ire-UK-Latvia-Est-Ger) dir. Enzo d’Alò
  • Chicken For Linda! (Fr-It) dirs. Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
  • WINNER: Robot Dreams (Sp-Fr) dir. Pablo Berger
  • The Amazing Maurice (Ger-UK) dir. Toby Genkel
  • White Plastic Sky (Hun-Slovakia) dirs.Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó

European discovery – prix FIPRESCI

European documentary

European young audience award

  • WINNER: Scrapper (UK) dir. Charlotte Regan
  • Longing For The World (Switz) dir. Jenna Hasse
  • One In A Million (Ger) dir. Joya Thome

European short film

  • 27 (Fr-Hun) dir. Flóra Anna Buda
  • Aqueronte (Sp) dir. Manuel Muñoz Rivas
  • Flores Del Otro Patio (Switz-Col) dir. Jorge Cadena
  • WINNER: Hardly Working (Austria) dirs. Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf.

European Film Awards craft winners (which have been previously announced)

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