COLD WAR wins big at the European Film Awards

At the 31st European Film Awards awards ceremony on Dec 15, 2018 in Seville Paweł Pawlikowski's film COLD WAR won the European Film Prize in the categories Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress (for Joanna Kulig). In mid-November, the European Film Academy also announced the prize for Best Editior (for Jarosław Kamiński).

COLD WAR was the opening film of the 28th FilmFestival Cottbus and won the Audience Award as well as the prize for the distribution of a festival film "Cottbus at the Cinema".

Overview of the winners of the European Film Awards

EUROPEAN FILM 2018
COLD WAR
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Pawel Pawlikowski
PRODUCED BY Ewa Puszczynska & Tanya Seghatchian

EUROPEAN COMEDY 2018**
THE DEATH OF STALIN**
DIRECTED BY Armando Iannucci
WRITTEN BY Armando Iannucci, David Schneider & Ian Martin
PRODUCED BY Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Kevin Loader & Sidonie Dumas

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2018 – Prix FIPRESCI 
**GIRL 
**DIRECTED BY Lukas Dhont
WRITTEN BY Lukas Dhont & Angelo Tijssens
PRODUCED BY Dirk Impens

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2018
BERGMAN – A YEAR IN A LIFE
DIRECTED BY Jane Magnusson
PRODUCED BY Fredrik Heinig & Mattias Nohrborg

EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2018
ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE
DIRECTED BY Raul de la Fuente & Damian Nenow
WRITTEN BY Raul de la Fuente, Amaia Remirez, David Weber, Niall Johnson & Damian Nenow
PRODUCED BY Jarosław  Sawko, Amaia Remirez, Ole Wendorff-Østergaard, Stefan Schubert & Eric Goossens
ANIMATION: Rafał Wojtunik, Rafał Kidziński & Dominik Wawrzyniak

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2018
THE YEARS by Sara Fgaier

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2018
**Paweł Pawlikowski** for COLD WAR

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2018
Joanna Kulig in COLD WAR

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2018
Marcello Fonte in DOGMAN

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2018
**Paweł Pawlikowski** for COLD WAR

EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER 2018 – Prix CARLO DI PALMA
Martin Otterbeck for XU - JULY 22 (UTØYA 22. JULI)

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2018
Jaros**ław Kamiński ** for COLD WAR (ZIMNA WOJNA) 

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2018
**Andrey Ponkratov **  for THE SUMMER (LETO) 

EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER 2018
Massimo Cantini Parrini ** ** for DOGMAN 

EUROPEAN HAIR & MAKE-UP ARTIST 2018
**Dalia Colli, Lorenzo Tamburini & Daniela Tartari ** for DOGMAN 

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2018
Christoph M. Kaiser & Julian Maas** ** for 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON (3 TAGE IN QUIBERON) 

EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER 2018
André Bendocchi-Alves & Martin Steyer** ** for THE CAPTAIN (DER HAUPTMANN) 

EUROPEAN VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR 2018
**Peter Hjorth** for BORDER (GRÄNS)

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Carmen Maura

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA
Ralph Fiennes** **

HONORARY AWARD OF THE EFA PRESIDENT AND BOARD**
Costa-Gavras**

EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2018 – Prix EURIMAGES
Konstantinos Kontovrakis** **and Giorgos Karnavas

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD 2018 for Best European Film
**CALL ME BY YOUR NAME**
DIRECTED BY Luca Guadagnino
WRITTEN BY James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino