Spanish actress Penelope Cruz won the Best Actress Award at the European Film Acadmey European Film Awards held in Warsaw, Poland on 2 December, for her role in Pedro Almadovar’s Volver. Almodovar won the Best Director award for the same film, which was the People’s Choice winner.
Best Film was the German production The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who also won Best Screenplay.
Cult Polish director Roman Polanski (The Pianist, Rosemary’s Baby) was the recipient of the EFA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Here is the full list of winners:
WINNERS OF THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2006At the European Film Awards Ceremony in Warsaw, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions have announced this year’s winners:
EUROPEAN FILM 2006
DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives Of Others); Germany
directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion/Bayerischer Rundfunk/ARTE/Creado Film
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2006
Pedro Almodovar for VOLVER
EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2006
Penelope Cruz in VOLVER
EUROPEAN ACTOR 2006
Ulrich Muhe in DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives Of Others)
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER 2006
Barry Ackroyd for THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
Jose Luis Alcaine for VOLVER
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2006
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck for DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives Of Others)
EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2006
Alberto Iglesias for VOLVER
EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2006
13 TZAMETI by Gela Babluani, France
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY AWARD FOR AN ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION 2006
Pierre Pell & Stephane Rozenbaum for the production design in THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2006 – Prix UIP
BEFORE DAWN by Balint Kenyeres, Hungary
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Roman Polanski
EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2006 – Prix Screen International
Jeremy Thomas
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS AWARD 2006 – Prix Fipresci
LES AMANTS REGULIERS by Philippe Garrel, France
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2006 – Prix Arte
DIE GROSSE STILLE (Into Great Silence) by Philip Groning, Germany/Switzerland
THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD 2006
for Best European Film
VOLVER by Pedro Amodovar, Spain
