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	Lien and Nielsen in position for Nordic and European Film Awards
		A Norwegian jury has nominated the two features for the largest film prize in the Nordic countries - DKK 350,000 (app 47,000) to be shared equally among the winning film’s director — which will be dished out for the third time.
		Members of the jury include film critic Øyvor Dalan Vik, of the Dagens Næringsliv; film and culture journalist Anne Hoff, of the NRK.
		Canon Awards to Norwegian films in Trondheim 23.04.2007
	www.nfi.no /english/_nyheter/vis.html?id=2254 (613 words)

	All Headline News - European Film Awards Honoring Volver and Polanski - December 5, 2006
		The film is in the running for six European film awards, including best film, best director and best actress for its stunning star Penelope Cruz.
		The awards, held this year in the Polish capital of Warsaw, applaud homegrown European talent and are considered to be the highest honor for international cinema besides the Academy Awards.
		The 19th annual awards ceremony is to be hold on December 2.
	www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/7005713574 (233 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People
		This category reflects the importance of quality short films in European cinema, both as a training ground for new film makers and as an opportunity for established directors to explore more unusual cinematic subjects and techniques.
		All the nominated films are voted on by the members of the European Film Academy, and the overall winner will be presented with the European Short Film Award - Prix UIP and the financial donation of 10,000 at the annual Awards ceremony.
		Together, the European Film Academy and the Short Film Award are the perfect situation for UIP to play a truly proactive role.
	www.filmfestivalspro.com /htmpro/festivals/efa/2000/efa.html (467 words)

	COSMOWORLDS \| THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS - The Winners of the European Film Awards, The European Film Awards Festival, ...
		EFA's most visible activity is the annual presentation of the European Film Awards (formerly known under the name FELIX) which are produced by DDA Productions.
		The Prix UIP is an initiative by UIP and the European Film Academy in co-operation with fourteen festivals throughout Europe.
		The overall winner will be presented during the European Film Awards on December 2 and will receive a donation of EUR 10,000.
	www.cosmoworlds.com /european_film_awards.html (470 words)

	MMI Special Report: European Film Awards, December 2, 2000. Paris. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The European Film Awards now in its fourth year was held in Paris on December 2.
		Björk was not present which was no surprise as the actress felt that the editing of the music she composed to fit von Trier's film was mercenary and that she has no aspiration to be an actress.
		The highlight of the European Film Awards event was the Lifetime Achievement Award give to British actor Richard Harris who chastised the British Film Institute for never acknowledging him.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/european-film-awards-2000.html (579 words)

	CNN.com - 'Lenin' sweeps film awards - Dec. 7, 2003
		The European Film Academy has 1,600 members from European film boards, subsidy agencies and industry professionals.
		The awards are presented in Berlin every second year and in other European cities in the alternate years.
		"European films are so much better than their reputation in theatres around the world," said Wim Wenders, president of the European Film Academy and a German director.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/07/europe.film.reut (677 words)

	Spotlight on Caché at European film awards \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		In other categories, the award for best actress went to the German actor Julia Jentsch for her portrayal of the titular second world war resistance figure in Sophie Scholl: The Final Days.
		The film tells the story of how the student came to found the White Rose movement in Germany with her brother and friends.
		The European film awards have not yet achieved the cachet of such venerable institutions as the Cannes, Venice or Berlin film festivals, but they are widely respected in the film industry and are sometimes seen as Europe's equivalent to the Oscars.
	film.guardian.co.uk /awards/news/0,,1658109,00.html (438 words)

	Film at Eleven » The European Film Awards
		Film at Eleven » The European Film Awards
		Every year, the various activities of the European Film Academy culminate in the presentation of the European Film Awards, which includes the Jameson People’s Choice Awards - which is open for voting now.
		The awards ceremonony will be held in Berlin on December 3rd.
	www.pulpmovies.com /f11/2005/10/the-european-film-awards (91 words)

	The European Film Awards 1999
		Mel Smith, co-host of the 1999 European Film Awards, and Award presenter, Brenda Blethyn.
		David Lynch, winner of the 1999 Screen International Award for a non-European Film, Ulrich Felsberg, producer of the Buena Vista Social Club, winner of the European Documentary Award 1999-Prix Arte, Cecilia Roth, Pedro Almodovar, Antonio Banderas, and Ennio Morricone, winner of the European Film Academy 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award.
		Prominent among them were European ‘Discovery´ Tim Roth for The War Game; European Actor of the Year Ralph Fiennes; European Cinematographer of the Year Lajos Koltai; and European Screenwriter of the Year István Szabó (sharing the prize with his collaborator on Sunshine, the American playwright Israel Horovitz).
	www.preview-online.com /jan_feb/feature_articles/1999_european_film_awards/page2.html (335 words)

	The European Film Awards 2000
		There was an abundance of stars both on stage, to present and receive the European Film Awards 2000, and in the audience to clap and cheer.
		Firmly laying their claim to be the inauguration of the annual Awards season, the European Film Awards 2000, broadcast live throughout Europe (and, for the first time, unencrypted in France), were also shown in an edited version around the world over the next couple of days (including, for the first time, in Latin America).
		It was to be found in the genuine delight on the face of young Icelandic actor Ingvar E Sigurdsson as he received the People’s Choice Award for Best Actor (the entire population of Iceland apparently voted for him, following the enormous success there of Angels of the Universe).
	www.preview-online.com /jan_feb2001/feature_articles/2000_european_film_awards/index.html (368 words)

	indieWIRE > Awards Watch
		The European Film Awards were presented Saturday night in Warsaw, Poland with Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" from Spain and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "The Lives of Others" from Germany dominating the awards.
		It's awards season in L.A. and New York, time for specialty and indie marketers to find ways for their would-be nominees to press the flesh, in the hopes that journalists and colleagues will remember them when any number of nominations, critics prizes, and year-end top ten lists are unveiled.
		The film follows a rebellious girl on a road trip across Europe with a cult-like collective named "Spark." One hundred forty-three films were screened at this year's festival, which took place from June 3-12 in Brooklyn, NY.
	www.indiewire.com /awards (3663 words)

	European Film Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Film Academy and the European Film Awards are an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.
		In the past years, European producers and distributors repeatedly stressed that a nomination or receipt of the European Film Award had a positive impact on the destiny of their films with regard to the Golden Globe or the Oscar.
		The European Film Academy is mainly funded by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin (German National Lottery), the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, and Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Film_Academy (1259 words)

	European Film Promotion
		Film Sales Support (FSS), EFP’s support scheme for the promotion of European films at international non-European film festivals, is entering its fourth year.
		After highly successful years in which a large number of supported feature films and documentaries were sold for distribution in North and South America and Asia, FSS has been awarded an increased budget of 430,000 by the MEDIA Programme to carry forward in 2007 this special sales support.
		FSS offers grants to European sales agents or producers who actively market their films at selected international film festivals.
	www.efp-online.com /cms/fss (359 words)

	'Volver,' 'Lives' Top EFA Nods, European Film Awards Set For Dec. 2 In Poland - The ShowBuzz
		The European Film Academy announced the 2006 EFA nominees Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Seville Film Festival in Spain.
		EUROPEAN FILM 2006: "Breakfast on Pluto," directed by Neil Jordan; "Grbavica," directed by Jasmila Zbanic; "The Lives of Others," directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; "The Road to Guantanamo," directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross; "Volver," directed by Pedro Almodovar; "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," directed by Ken Loach.
		EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER 2006: Bary Ackroyd for "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," Jose Luis Alcaine for "Volver," Roman Osin for "Pride and Prejudice," Timo Salminen for "Lights in the Dusk"
	showbuzz.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/05/movie_awards/main2154105.shtml (634 words)

	German drama "The Lives of Others" wins best picture at European Film Awards - Culture - International Herald Tribune
		WARSAW, Poland: The German Stasi drama "The Lives of Others" won the best picture award Saturday at the 19th annual European Film Awards, while director Roman Polanski was honored with a lifetime achievement award in the country of his childhood.
		He dedicated the award to leading actress Penelope Cruz and her co-stars, actresses who he said represented "the incredible women that surrounded me when I was a child."
		In winning the best film award, "The Lives of Others" edged out competitors including "Volver" and this year's winner at Cannes, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," British director Ken Loach's saga set amid Ireland's struggle for independence in the early 1920s.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/12/02/arts/EU_A-E_MOV_European_Film_Awards.php (749 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Film about German secret police scores at European awards
		The awards, voted on by the 1,700 members of the European Film Academy, are considered the Oscars of the European film world.
		Almodovar's film about a woman who returns to her hometown after the death of her mother had widely been perceived as the front-runner for best film.
		Director Roman Polanski was honoured with a lifetime achievement trophy at the European Film Awards in Warsaw.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/12/03/european-film-awards.html (1512 words)

	Volver heads European film awards - Movies
		Spanish language film Volver has received six nominations in the run up to next month's European film awards.
		German film The Lives of Others also received six nods, while Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley has been nominated five times, including in the best actor category for star Cilian Murphy.
		Loach's film walked away with the Palme d'Or in Cannes five months ago, while Cruz and her female co-stars shared the best actress gong at the French film festival for Volver.
	movies.monstersandcritics.com /news/article_1218348.php/Volver_heads_European_film_awards (269 words)

	European Film Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The eleventh annual award ceremony of the European Film Awards will take place in London on Friday, December 4, 1998 at the Old Vic Theatre and will honor the excellence and diversity of European Cinema.
		Organized by the European Film Academy which was founded in 1991 and presided by Wim Wenders, the European Oscars known as the "Felix" awards will go to feature fiction films which were completed after July 1, 1997.
		The awards also honored Juliette Binoche in "The English Patient" as the Best European Actress, Bob Hoskins in "Twenty Four Seven" as the Best European and Jeanne Moreau received the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.
	www.filmfestivals.com /efa/efa.htm (125 words)

	European Film Awards
		Similar to the Academy Awards in many ways, the European Movie Awards are selected by the European Film Academy.
		The host cities change every year, for example in 2002 the awards were given in Rome, in 2004 in Barcelona and in 2005 they took place in Berlin.
		The awards are given in over ten categories of which the most important is the Film of the year.
	www.filmmovement.com /filmcatalog/festivals.asp?FestivalID=33 (199 words)

	European Movie Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Similar to the Academy Awards in many ways, the European Film Awards are selected by the European Film Academy.
		In this regard they are sometimes called the “European Oscars.” They are reserved to European cinema and European producers and actors.
		The awards were originally called the Felix Awards but the name was changed to the European Film Awards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Film_Awards (796 words)

	european-films.net - awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Before the official awards ceremony on December 2 in Warsaw, Poland, the European Film Academy has announced two prize winners: the Prix Fipresci and the new award for Best Production Design.
		The fl and white film, which stars Philippe's son Louis and newcomer Clothilde Hesme as two students caught up in the 1968 protests in Paris, was made as a direct response to The Dreamers, the candy-coloured take on the same subject from Bernardo Bertolucci.
		The other EFA Best Film nominations went to three Berlinale titles: Golden Bear winner Grbavica (Esma's Secret) from Jasmila banić, a Sarajevo-set motherhood drama; Neil Jordan's transvestite tale Breakfast on Pluto and the Berlinale Best Director winner The Road to Guantanomo, the docu-thriller about Guantanomo Bay Prison from Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom.
	european-films.net /content/blogcategory/20/47 (554 words)

	European Film Awards shortlist - britfilms.com
		European Film Academy Discovery 2004 - Prix Fassbinder
		European Film Academy Short Film 2004 - Prix UIP
		European Film Academy Critics Award 2004 - Prix Fipresci
	www.britfilms.com /newsandevents/europeanfilmawardsshortlist (495 words)

	Polanski Honored at European Film Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		WARSAW, Poland — Roman Polanski was honored with a lifetime achievement award in the country of his childhood at the 19th annual European Film Awards.
		Polish-born film director Roman Polanski, left, the prize winner of this year's European Film Academy Award for his career achievements, looks on as Thomas Kretschmann who starred in the Polanski film 'The Pianist' speaks at the European Film Awards (EFA) awards ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006.
		The film explores the ruthlessness of East Germany's all-pervasive secret police, the Stasi, through the story of a party loyalist trying to advance his career by collecting evidence on a playwright.
	statesman.com /life/content/shared-gen/ap/Movies/People_Polanski.html (509 words)

	european-films.net - feature: European Film Awards 2006 predictions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This year in their 19th edition, the EFAs are awarded by the membership of the European Film Academy, which counts around 1700 industry professionals.
		The EFA members would of course like to be considered as giving away influential awards, and giving its highest award to a possible Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscar nominee will give Volver the edge.
		Both films are representing their country in the Best Foreign Language category as well, but this is considered a minor Oscar next to the categories populated by Hollywood’s titles such as Best Director.
	european-films.net /content/view/488/62 (1439 words)

	German 'Lives' tops European Film Awards
		The German film, The Lives of Others, has been recognized as this year's best film by the European Film Awards, held in the Polish capital of Warsaw.
		The Warsaw event proved to be a homecoming for both Donnersmarck, whose father was born in Poland, and famed Polish director Roman Polanski, who was honored at the ceremony with a lifetime achievement award.
		While Volver lost out in the European Film Awards' best film category, the drama took home five other awards, including best actress for its star Penelope Cruz and best director for Pedro Almodovar, the BBC said.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Entertainment/20061204/526511.html (136 words)

	MMI Special Report: European Film Awards, Rome, ITALY 2002
		At the European Film Awards held on December 6 in Rome, Pedro Almodovar from Spain was the grand slam winner taking home awards for best film, best director, and best screenplay.
		The European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 2002 went to screenwriter Tonino Guerra (Italy) who has written screenplays for Vittorio de Sica, Federico Fellini, and the Taviani brothers.
		Still despite the awards that were created to compete with the American Oscars European film does not experience the same box office vitality.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/europeanfilmawa-ms-97866953.html (517 words)

	Polanski honored at European Film Awards - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		WARSAW (AP) — Roman Polanski was honored with a lifetime achievement award in the country of his childhood at the 19th annual European Film Awards.
		Polanski was given the award for creating what the academy said "were some of the most unforgettable moments in cinema" with films such as Rosemary's Baby,Chinatown and The Pianist.
		Polanski was given the lifetime achievement award for creating what the academy said "were some of the most unforgettable moments in cinema" with films such as Rosemary's Baby,Chinatown and The Pianist.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-12-04-polanski_x.htm?csp=34 (531 words)

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