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Outstanding European Achievement In World Cinema
The European Film Awards (or European Film Academy Awards) have been presented annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy to recognize excellence in European cinematic achievements. The awards are given in 19 categories, of which the most important is the ''Best Film''. They are restricted to European cinema and European producers, directors, and actors. The awards were officially also called the "Felix Awards" until 1997, in reference to the former award's trophy statuette, which was replaced by a feminine statuette. Since 1997, the European Film Awards have been held in early- to mid-December. Hosting duties have alternated between Berlin, Germany in odd-numbered years and other European cities in even-numbered years. The most recent European Film Awards were held on 12 December 2020 as a virtual ceremony. In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian films were excluded from the 2022 European Film Awards. Awarding procedures Feature films participatin ...
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European Film Academy
The European Film Academy is 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. The Academy—under the name of European Cinema Society—was officially founded by its first President, the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, as well as 40 filmmakers from all over Europe, among them Bernardo Bertolucci, Claude Chabrol, Dušan Makavejev, István Szabó, and Wim Wenders. Every year, the European Film Academy honours films and filmmakers with the European Film Awards. The ceremony is taking place every even year in a different European city, and every odd year in Berlin. European Film Academy In 1988, the Academy—under the name of European Cinema Society—was officially founded by its first President, the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, as well as 40 filmmakers from all over Europe in order to promote European film culture worldwide and to protect and to support the inte ...
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Robin Bextor
Robin Bextor (born 11 October 1953) is an English film and television producer and director. He is the father of the dance-pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor. (Short biography of Robin Bextor on p.9) Early life and education After education at Richmond Park Academy, Shene Grammar School in Richmond, London, Richmond, Surrey, England, and at the University of Reading, he worked at the Dimbleby owned Richmond and Twickenham Times before joining Thames Television and then the BBC, where he produced and directed documentaries, including the Royal Television Society, RTS award-winning film on blind parents and entertainment programmes, including ''That's Life!''. During this time he also made Pop music, pop Music video, promotion videos for such bands as Bad Manners, Bow Wow Wow, Adam Ant and Bucks Fizz (band), Bucks Fizz. Career He directed ''Edward on Edward'', a documentary in which Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex discussed King Edward VIII. Bextor then worked as director of programm ...
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Potsdam
Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of Berlin, and lies embedded in a hilly morainic landscape dotted with many lakes, around 20 of which are located within Potsdam's city limits. It lies some southwest of Berlin's city centre. The name of the city and of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Potsdam was a residence of the Prussian kings and the German Kaiser until 1918. Its planning embodied ideas of the Age of Enlightenment: through a careful balance of architecture and landscape, Potsdam was intended as "a picturesque, pastoral dream" which would remind its residents of their relationship with nature and reason. The city, which is over 1000 years old, is widely known for its palaces, its lakes, and its overall historical and cultural significance. Landmarks include ...
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Babelsberg Studio
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is Europe's largest film studio. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include ''V for Vendetta'', '' Captain America: Civil War'', ''Æon Flux'', '' The Bourne Ultimatum'', ''Valkyrie'', ''Inglourious Basterds'', ''Cloud Atlas'', ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'', ''The Hunger Games'', ''Isle of Dogs'' and ''The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also acts as producer on German productions and co-producer on international high-budget productions. Since January 2022 it has been owned by TPG Real Estate ...
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4th European Film Awards
The 4th Annual European Film Awards were given out in 1991. Winners European Film of the Year Young European Film of the Year * ''Toto the Hero'', by Jaco van Dormael, Prod. Pierre Drouot & Dany Geys, Iblis Films Bruxelles, Belgium European Actor of the Year * Michel Bouquet - ''Toto the Hero'' European Actress of the Year * Clotilde Courau - ''Le Petit Criminel'' European Supporting Actor of the Year * Ricky Memphis - ''Ultra'' European Supporting Actress of the Year * Marta Keler - ''Virdzina'' European Screen-Writer of the Year * Jaco van Dormael - ''Toto the Hero'' European Cinematographer of the Year * Walther van den Ende - ''Toto The Hero'' European Film Composer of the Year * Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson - ''Börn Náttúrunnar'' ''(Children of Nature)'' European Production Designers of the Year * Kreta Kjnakovic (sets) and Valerie Pozzo Di Borgo (costumes) - ''Delicatessen'' European Film Editor of the Year * Giancarla Simoncelli - ''Ultra'' European Cinema Lif ...
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Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is best known for his work with ITV as editor and presenter of ''The South Bank Show'' (1978–2010), and for the BBC Radio 4 documentary series ''In Our Time''. Earlier in his career, Bragg worked for the BBC in various roles including presenter, a connection that resumed in 1988 when he began to host ''Start the Week'' on Radio 4. After his ennoblement in 1998, he switched to presenting the new ''In Our Time'', an academic discussion radio programme, which has run to over 900 broadcast editions and is a popular podcast. He was Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1999 until 2017. Early life Bragg was born on 6 October 1939 in Carlisle, the son of Stanley Bragg, a stock keeper turned mechanic, and Mary Ethel (née Park), a tailor; both the Braggs and Parks- both families of Cumberland- were agricultural labourers, also working at collieries and in domestic servi ...
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Sheena McDonald
Sheena Elizabeth McDonald (born 25 July 1954, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. Early life She was the daughter of Very Rev William J. G. McDonald, minister of Mayfield church in Edinburgh, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1989. He himself was a broadcaster, contributing to ''Thought for the Day'' for many years. She was a pupil at George Watson's Ladies College, and then read English at the University of Edinburgh from where she graduated in 1976 before gaining a postgraduate certificate in radio, film and television studies from the University of Bristol. Whilst at university in Edinburgh, she had a relationship with then-Rector Gordon Brown.Brian WheeleThe Gordon Brown story ''BBC News'', 27 June 2007 She also co-founded the Edinburgh Festival Fringe newspaper ''Festival Times'' with Garfield Kennedy. Broadcasting In 1978 she began her professional broadcasting career as a producer and presenter at B ...
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Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 635,640. Straddling the border between historic Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, the city now forms the Glasgow City Council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and is governed by Glasgow City Council. It is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. Glasgow has the largest economy in Scotland and the third-highest GDP per capita of any city in the UK. Glasgow's major cultural institutions – the Burrell Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Ballet and Scottish Opera – enjoy international reputations. The city was the European Capital of Culture in 1990 and is notable for its architecture, cult ...
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Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is a concert and arts venue located in Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned by Glasgow City Council and operated by Glasgow Life, an agency of Glasgow City Council, which also runs Glasgow's City Halls and Old Fruitmarket venue. History Built as the Glasgow International Concert Hall, the Royal Concert Hall is one of the largest halls in the United Kingdom. It was granted Royal status shortly before it was officially opened on 5 October 1990 at a gala performance attended by HRH Princess Anne. It is the replacement for the acclaimed St. Andrew's Hall, adjacent to the Mitchell Library, which had been destroyed by fire in 1962, and was promoted and constructed in time for the city being recognised in the 1980s as the European City of Culture. The Concert Hall stands at the junction of Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street with a performers` entrance in West Nile Street, and public entrances in Buchanan street and in Killermont Street, with the RSNO Cent ...
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3rd European Film Awards
The 3rd Annual European Film Awards were given out in 1990. Winners and nominees Bold indicates winner in the category. European Film * '' Porte aperte'' (''Open Doors'') * ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' * '' Matj'' (''Mother'') * ''Przesluchanie'' (''Interrogation'') * '' Skyddsängeln'' (''The Guardian Angel'') * '' Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö'' (''The Match Factory Girl'') * '' ¡Ay, Carmela!'' Young European Film * ''Henry V'' * ''La blanca paloma'' (''The White Dove'') * '' Turnè'' (''On Tour'') * ''Un monde sans pitié'' (''Love Without Pity'') * '' Zamri, umri, voskresni!'' (''Lie Still, Die, Revive'') European Actor * Kenneth Branagh for ''Henry V'' * Gérard Depardieu for ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' * Philip Zandén for '' Skyddsängeln'' (''The Guardian Angel'') European Actress * Carmen Maura for '' ¡Ay, Carmela!'' * Anne Brochet for ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' * Krystyna Janda for ''Przesluchanie'' (''Interrogation'') European Supporting Actor * Dmitrij Pevsov for ...
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Agnès Soral
Agnès Soral (born 8 June 1960) is a Franco-Swiss actress, comedian and writer. Early life Her family settled in Meudon in the 1960s before the expropriation by the state of forest land owned by her father, who works as a legal adviser. Personal life The family settled in Grenoble. She is the younger sister of essayist Alain Soral Alain Bonnet, known as Alain Soral (; born 2 October 1958), is a far-right Franco-Swiss ideologue, essayist, filmmaker and actor. Claiming to have been a member of the French Communist Party in the 1990s, Soral worked for the National Front .... She avoided him for years and in January 2014, denounced his political positions to the press and television. When her brother began his writing career, Agnès Soral authorized him to use her notoriety by appropriating her pseudonym, something she since regretted. Theatre Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Soral, Agnes 1960 births Living people People from Aix-les-Ba ...
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Fernando Rey
Fernando Casado Arambillet (La Coruña (Spain), 20 September 1917 – Madrid (Spain), 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel (''Viridiana'', 1961; ''Tristana'', 1970; '' Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'', 1972; ''That Obscure Object of Desire'', 1977) and as the drug lord Alain Charnier in '' The French Connection'' (1971) and '' French Connection II'' (1975), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century. The debonair Rey was described by ''French Connection'' producer Philip D'Antoni as "the last of the Continental guys". He achieved his greatest fame after he turned 50: "Perhaps it is a pity that my success came so late in life", he told the ''Los Angeles Times''. "It might have been better to have been successful while young, like El Cordobés in the bullr ...
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