by Nathaniel R
The annual European Film Awards have logged many frequent flyer miles over the years as they hop around to various host countries. Today they were held in Berlin Germany and multiple Oscar hopefuls in Best Foreign Language Film took home prizes. The Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Square won the most statues and Hungary's Alexandra Borbely who stars in the weirdly compelling On Body and Soul (reviewed here) took Best Actress. You can see all the winners after the jump...
The EFA awards are considered a bellwether of sorts for Oscar's Foreign Film race (since many of the competing films are their countries submissions for the Oscar. Oscar will narrow down their very long eligibility list (92 films from all over the world) to 9 films this week from which 5 will be selected as nominees. We say this every year at this time but we won't stop saying it: they'd do well to make their numbers more consistent between categories. Why not 15 finalists like documentaries or 10 like shorts? Shouldn't all categories which end with 5 nominees but begin with a two part winnowing process like this reduce to the same amount of finalists before the actual nomination vote? Let's get some consistency in their Academy. Your consistency made you an institution in numerous other ways.
The winners of the 2017 European Film Awards are...
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DIRECTOR
ACTRESS
ACTOR
SCREENPLAY
COMEDY
DISCOVERY
DOCUMENTARY
ANIMATED FILM
Ethel & Ernest and Loving Vincent are both eligible for the Animated Feature Oscar this year. Loving Vincent has been doing very well for itself in precursors despite what seemed, at least to these eyes, like mixed feelings about it. Is it a threat to the Animated Feature Oscar or will it be a surprise snub given their past feelings about rotoscoping?
SHORT FILM
Timecode, the winner here, was nominated for an Oscar last season, losing to Sing
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