The 20th Annual European Film Awards took place on 1 December 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

Winners and nominees

European Film of the Year

European Director

* Fatih Akin '' (Auf Der Anderen Seite)'' *

Roy Andersson Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for ''A Swedish Love Story'' (1970), '' About Endlessness'' (2019) and his "Living trilogy," which includes '' Songs from the Second Floor'' (2000), '' You, ...

'' (Du Levande)'' * Stephen Frears ('' The Queen'') * Kevin Macdonald '' (The Last King of Scotland)'' *

Giuseppe Tornatore Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema.Katz, Ephraim, "Italy," ''The Film Encyclopedia'' (New York: HarperRes ...

('' La Sconosciuta'') * Cristian Mungiu '' (4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile)''

European Actress

* Marion Cotillard ('' La Môme'') * Marianne Faithfull ('' Irina Palm'') * Carice van Houten '' (Zwartboek)'' *

Anamaria Marinca Anamaria Marinca (born 1 April 1978) is a Romanian actress. She made her screen debut with the Channel 4 film ''Sex Traffic'', for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Marinca is also known for her performance in ...

'' (4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile)'' *

Helen Mirren Dame Helen Mirren (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is the only performer to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom. ...

('' The Queen'') * Ksenia Rappoport ('' La Sconosciuta'')

European Actor

* Sasson Gabai - '' Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (The Band's Visit)'' *

Elio Germano Elio Germano (born 25 September 1980) is an Italian actor. He is the recipient of many accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and a Silver Bear for Best Actor. Life and career Born in Rome to a Molisan family from Duro ...

- '' Mio fratello è figlio unico (My Brother Is an Only Child)'' * James McAvoy - '' The Last King of Scotland'' *

Miki Manojlović Predrag "Miki" Manojlović ( sr-cyr, Предраг "Мики" Манојловић; born 5 April 1950) is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of former Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he su ...

- '' Irina Palm'' * Michel Piccoli - ''

Belle Toujours ''Belle Toujours'' is a 2006 French-language Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It was Portugal's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It is a ...

'' * Ben Whishaw - '' Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Mörders (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer)''

European Cinematographer

* Anthony Dod Mantle '' (The Last King of Scotland)'' *

Frank Griebe Frank Griebe (born 28 August 1964) is a German cinematographer. Griebe was born in Hamburg. He is most popular for his work with German director Tom Tykwer. He photographed his films '' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'', ''Heaven'', ''The Princes ...

'' (Das Parfum – Die Geschichte Eines Mörders)'' *

Mikhail Krichman Mikhail Krichman (Михаил Владимирович Кричман; born 1967) is a Russian cinematographer who received a Golden Osella award at the 67th Venice Film Festival for ''Silent Souls'' and 3 time award winner at Camerimage. Krichm ...

'' (Izgnanie)'' * Fabio Zamarion ('' La Sconosciuta'')

European Screenwriter

* Fatih Akin '' (Auf Der Anderen Seite)'' * Eran Kolirin '' (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret)'' *

Peter Morgan Peter Julian Robin Morgan, (10 April 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright. He is the playwright behind '' The Audience'' and '' Frost/Nixon'' and the screenwriter of ''The Queen'' (2006), '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008), ''The Damned United ...

('' The Queen'') * Cristian Mungiu '' (4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile)''

European Composer

* Alexandre Desplat ('' The Queen'') *

Alex Heffes Alex Heffes (; born 2 September 1971) is a British film composer. His film scores include those for the BAFTA-winning '' Touching the Void'', and Oscar-winning movies ''One Day in September'', ''The Last King of Scotland'', and ''Inside Job''. He ...

'' (The Last King of Scotland)'' * Dejan Pejovic ('' Gucha'') * Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil '' (Das Parfum – Die Geschichte Eines Mörders)''

European Film Academy Prix d'Excellence

* Uli Hanisch for ''Production Design'' in '' (Das Parfum – Die Geschichte Eines Mörders)'' * Annette Focks, Jörg Höhne, Robin Pohle and Andreas Ruft for ''Sound Effects'' in '' (Vier Minuten)'' * Didier Lavergne for ''Make up'' in ('' La Môme'') * Francesca Sartori for ''Costume'' in (''

Alatriste ''Alatriste'' is a 2006 Spanish epic historical fiction war film directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, based on the main character of a series of novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, '' The Adventures of Captain Alatriste'' (). The film, which ...

'') *

Lucia Zucchetti Lucia Zucchetti is an Italian film editor. Born in Monza, Zucchetti became interested in film attending the ninth grade at ITSOS (''Istituto tecnico statale ordinamento speciale''), an experimental secondary school in Milan influenced by the free ...

for ''Editing'' in ('' The Queen'')

European Discovery 2007

* Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (''The Band's Visit'') by Eran Kolirin *

Control Control may refer to: Basic meanings Economics and business * Control (management), an element of management * Control, an element of management accounting * Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization * Controlling ...

Anton Corbijn Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, film director and music video director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2,Pitman, Joanna"The silent partner"' ...

* Gegenüber (''Counterparts'') by

Jan Bonny Jan Bonny (born 1979 in Düsseldorf) is a German film director and screenwriter. Life and work Jan Bonny studied from 2000 to 2006 at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and finished his study with the screenplay for his award-winning feature fil ...

* Takva (''A Man's Fear of God'') by Özer Kiziltan

European Documentary - Prix ARTE

Am Limit ''To the Limit'' (german: Am Limit) is a 2007 German documentary film written and directed by German film director Pepe Danquart, about brothers Alexander Huber and Thomas Huber climbing the El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park.C ...

(''To the Limit'') by

Pepe Danquart Pepe is a pet form of the Spanish name José (Josep). It is also a surname. * People Mononyms *Pepe (footballer, born 1935), real name José Macia, Brazilian footballer *Pepe (footballer, born 1983), real name Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, ...

* Belarusian Waltz by Andrzej Fidyk *

Forever Forever or 4ever may refer to: Film and television Films * ''Forever'' (1921 film), an American silent film by George Fitzmaurice * ''Forever'' (1978 film), an American made-for-television romantic drama * ''Forever'' (1992 film), an American ...

by Heddy Honigmann */ Heitmatklänge (''Echoes of Home'') by Stefan Schwietert * Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (''Paper cannot Wrap up Embers'') by Rithy Panh * Malon 9 Kohavim (''9 Star Hotel'') by Ido Haar */ Meragel Hashampaniya (''The Champagne Spy'') by

Nadav Schirman Nadab may refer to: * Nadab (son of Aaron), Biblical figure, eldest son of Aaron the High Priest of Israel * Nadab of Israel Nadab ( he, נָדָב ''Nāḏāḇ'') was the second king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel. He was the son ...

* Ou Est L’amour Dans La Palmeraie? (''Where is the Love in the Palmgrove?'') by Jérôme Le Maire * Razvod Po Albanski (''Divorce at the Albanian Style'') by Adela Peeva * The Monastery by Pernille Rose Grønkjær

European Shortfilm - Prix UIP

*Prix UIP Ghent: ''Kwiz'' by Renaud Callebaut *Prix UIP Valladolid: ''Le Diner'' by Cécile Vernant *Prix UIP Angers: ''Adjustment'' by Ian Mackinnon *Prix UIP Rotterdam: // ''Amin'' by

David Dusa David Dusa (born May 17, 1979 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian and Swedish film director. Biography Dusa grew up in Sweden, and after working in fish factories in northern Norway, he settled in France in 2001. In 2004, he completed his stu ...

*Prix UIP Berlin: ''Rotten Apple'' by Ralitza Petrova *Prix UIP Tampere: ''Dreams and Desires - Family Ties'' by Joanna Quinn *Prix UIP Cracow: ''Dad'' by

Daniel Mulloy Daniel Mulloy (born 1977) is a British artist and filmmaker. Short films The work of Daniel Mulloy has often been defined by both its starkness and deceptive simplicity. Mulloy's short films have won over one hundred international festival awa ...

*Prix UIP Grimstad: ''Tommy'' by

Ole Giæver Ole Giæver (born 19 July 1977, in Tromsø), is a Saami film director, screenwriter and actor from Norway. He was educated at the Nordland Art and Film College in Lofoten and Konstfack in Stockholm. His debut feature film was ''The Mountain'', rele ...

*Prix UIP Vila Do Conde: ''Plot Point'' by

Nicolas Provost Nicolas Provost (born 1969, Ronse, Belgium) is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in New York and Brussels. His works are in a number of collections, including The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museum and Art Ga ...

*Prix UIP Edinburgh: ''Soft'' by Simon Ellis *Prix UIP Sarajevo: ''Tokyo Jim'' by Jamie Rafn *Prix UIP Venezia: ''Alumbramiento'' by Eduardo Chapero-Jackson *Prix UIP Drama: ''Salvador'' by Abdelatif Hwidar

People's Choice Award

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2 Days in Paris ''2 Days in Paris'' is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Julie Delpy, who also edited the film, composed the soundtrack and played the leading female role. The film also stars Adam Goldberg and Daniel Brühl. I ...

'' by

Julie Delpy Julie Delpy (; born 21 December 1969) is a French-American actress, film director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She studied filmmaking at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, includi ...

*'' 12:08 East of Bucharest'' by Corneliu Porumboiu *''

'' by Agustín Díaz Yanes *'' Black Book'' by Paul Verhoeven *''

I Served the King of England ''I Served the King of England'' ( cs, Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a novel by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. The story is set in Prague in the 1940s, during the Nazi occupation and early communism, and follows a young man who alterna ...

'' by

Jiří Menzel Jiří Menzel () (23 February 1938 – 5 September 2020) was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films ...

*'' The Last King of Scotland'' by Kevin Macdonald *'' Perfume'' by Tom Tykwer *'' The Queen'' by Stephen Frears *'' Reprise'' by

Joachim Trier Joachim Trier () (born 1 March 1974) is a Danish-born Norwegian film director, best known for ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011), ''Louder Than Bombs'' (2015), ''Thelma'' (2017), and '' The Worst Person in the World'' (2021). For the latter film, he ...

*'' La Sconosciuta'' by

*'' La Môme'' by Olivier Dahan

External links

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