After receiving the Palme d’Or at the latest Cannes Film Festival, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, directed by Romanian Cristian Mungiu, was awarded Best European Film during the 20th edition of the EFA Awards Ceremony held in Berlin on Saturday 1st December.

Mungiu also picked up the honours for Best European Director.

On the whole, 17 Prizes were awarded during the European Film Awards Ceremony.

Fatih Akin won for second time after the 2007 Cannes Film Festival the Best Screenplay prize for The Edge of Heaven. In 2004, his film Head On, celebrated by the critics, had won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Following her long line of awards for her performance in Stephen Frears’s The Queen, Helen Mirren has been awarded Best European actress. Sasson Gabai won Best Actor for his performance in The Band’s visit, directed by Israeli Eran Kolirin.

French director Jean-Luc Godard, who did not appear on stage, received the European Film Academy lifetime achievement award.

After London, Roma, Paris, Barcelona, Warsaw and Berlin, the European Film Awards will take place in the next years in: Copenhagen (2008), Berlin (2009), Tallinn (2010).

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Winners of the European Film Awards:

EUROPEAN FILM
4 Luni, 3 Saptamini si 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), Romania, directed by Cristian Mungiu, produced by Mobra Film SRL

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Cristian Mungiu for 4 Luni, 3 Saptamini si 2 Zile

EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Helen Mirren in The Queen

EUROPEAN ACTOR
Sasson Gabai in Bikur Hatizmoret (The Band’s Visit)

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Fatih Akin for Auf Der Anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)

EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
Frank Griebe for Das Parfum– Die Geschichte eines mörders (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer)

EUROPEAN COMPOSER
Alexandre Desplat for The Queen

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY
Bikur Hatizmoret (The Band’s Visit) by Eran Kolirin

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY PRIX D’EXCELLENCE
Uli Hanisch for Production Design Das Parfum- Die Geschichte Eines Mörders

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY CRITICS AWARD - Prix FIPRESCI
Coeurs by Alain Resnais

EUROPEAN  FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM – Prix UIP
Alumbramiento by Eduardo Chapero-Jackson

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD for Best European Film
La Sconosciuta by Giuseppe Tornatore

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Jean-Luc Godard

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA – Prix Screen International
Michael Ballhaus

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY – Prix ARTE
Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise(Paper cannot Wrap up Embers) by Rithy Panh

PRIX EURIMAGES
Margaret Ménégoz and Dr. Veit Heiduschka

HONORARY AWARDpresented by the European Film Academy on the occasion of the 20th European Film Awards
Manoel de Oliveira

Photos from the top :
Cristian Mungiu
Manoel de Oliveira, Jeanne Moreau and Liv Ullman
Happy Birthday European Film Academy