24th European Film Awards
The 24th European Film Awards were presented on 3 December 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The winners were selected by the over 2,500 members of the European Film Academy. Winners and nominees The nominations for the 24th European Film Awards were announced on 5 November. Best Film Best Director Best Actress Best Actor Best Screenwriter Best Cinematographer Best Editor Best Production Designer Best Composer Best Documentary Best Animated Feature Film The nominees for Best Animated Feature Film were selected by a committee consisting of EFA Board Members and representatives from the European Association of Animation Film. Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI The nominees for best feature-film debut were selected by a committee consisting of representatives from EFA and the International Federation of Film Critics. Best Short Film The nominees for Best Short Film were selected by independent juries at a series of film festivals throughout Europe. People's Choice Award T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tempodrom
The Tempodrom (also referred to as Neues Tempodrom) is a multi-purpose event venue in Berlin. Founded by Irene Moessinger, it opened in 1980 next to the Berlin Wall on the west side of Potsdamer Platz, housed in a large circus tent. After several changes of location, it is now housed in a permanent building in the Kreuzberg neighborhood. History Moessinger had recently become a nurse when she came into an 800,000 mark inheritance from her father; it was this bequest that she used to start the Tempodrom in a circus tent. Her initial funds were quickly exhausted and the following year the Berlin Senate agreed to contribute funds to keep the operation going. The original location attracted noise complaints, and in 1985, the Tempodrom moved to a site in the Tiergarten, where it remained until displaced by construction of the new German Chancellery. At this time a new construction of the current building was proposed, and the tents moved to a temporary site during construction. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Le Havre (film)
''Le Havre'' () is a 2011 comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish company Sputnik with international co-producers in France and Germany. It is Kaurismäki's second French-language film, after '' La Vie de Bohème'' from 1992. The film premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize. Kaurismäki envisions it as the first installment in a trilogy about life in port cities. His ambition was to make follow-ups set in Spain and Germany, shot in the local languages. However, his next film '' The Other Side of Hope'' is set in Helsinki. Plot Marcel Marx, formerly both a bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city of Le Hav ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikael Persbrandt
Mikael Åke Persbrandt (; born 25 September 1963) is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films, he is perhaps best known for playing Gunvald Larsson in the ''Beck'' series of movies. He is internationally known for his starring role in the Academy Award-winning feature, '' In a Better World'', directed by Susanne Bier. His performance earned him a 2011 European Film Award nomination for Best Actor. Other parts include the role of Carl Hamilton from the novels by Jan Guillou, Beorn in '' The Hobbit'', as well as Jakob Nyman in the English TV series ''Sex Education''. Early life Persbrandt was born in Jakobsberg, Järfälla Municipality, Stockholm County. He was baptized in the Finnish Church in Gamla stan. Persbrandt has stated that he has ancestry from Åland on his mother's side, and that he thinks his paternal ancestors were Walloons. Career He has performed onstage with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and in numerous film and TV roles. Persbrandt is well known for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jean Dujardin
Jean Edmond Dujardin (; born 19 June 1972) is a French actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Paris before guest starring in comedic television programmes and films. He first came to prominence with the cult TV series '' Un gars, une fille'' (1999–2003), in which he starred alongside his partner Alexandra Lamy, before becoming a popular film actor with comedies such as '' Brice de Nice'' (2005), Michel Hazanavicius's '' OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (2006), its sequel '' OSS 117: Lost in Rio'' (2009), and '' 99 Francs'' (2007). Dujardin garnered international fame and widespread acclaim with his performance of George Valentin in the 2011 award-winning silent movie '' The Artist'' by Hazanavicius. The role won him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor (the first for a French actor), the Golden Globe Award, the BAFTA Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award. Despite this newfound po ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Colin Firth
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Colin Firth, several accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE for his services to drama, and appeared in ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine's Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world. Identified in the mid-1980s with the "Brit Pack (actors), Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, he had leading roles in ''A Month in the Country (film), A Month in the Country'' (1987), ''Tumbledown'' (1988) and ''Valmont (film), Valmont'' (1989). His portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'' led to widespread attention and roles in more prominent f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Elena (2011 Film)
''Elena'' () is a 2011 Russian crime drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize. Plot The film depicts the social and cultural distance between the inhabitants of an exclusive apartment in downtown Moscow and a crumbling ''khrushchevka'' in Moscow's industrial suburb. Elena is a woman with a proletarian background who meets Vladimir, an elderly business tycoon, in a hospital when she is his nurse. This meeting eventually results in their marriage. Her social position and social rank are substantially increased by the marriage to such a wealthy man. Elena's son from a previous marriage is poor and wants money from Vladimir to send his 17-year-old son to university, keeping him out of the compulsory military service. Her son and his family live in a crumbling apartment in the industrial suburb. After being approached by Elena, Vladimir makes it clear that he is not g ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nadezhda Markina
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Markina (; born 29 January 1959) is a Soviet and Russian actress. She was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actress at the European Film Awards, the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and the IFFI Best Actor Award (Female): Silver Peacock Award at the 42nd International Film Festival of India The 42nd International Film Festival of India was held on 23 to 30 November 2011 in Goa. The International competition (Feature) was chaired by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, and Short film competition was chaired by Basu Bhattacharya. For the first tim ... for the film '' Elena'' (2011). Selected filmography * '' How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea'' as ''Sonya'' (1989) * '' The Wedding'' as ''Valka'' (2000) * '' Moscow Saga'' as episode (2004) * '' The Sword Bearer'' as ''Sasha's mother'' (2006) * '' Elena'' as ''Elena'' (2011) * '' In the Fog'' as ''Burov's mother'' (2012) * '' Gagarin: First in Space'' as ''Yuri's mother'' (2013) * '' Ottepel'' as ''Olga Fil ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (; born 21 July 1971) is a British and French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress and singer Jane Birkin and French singer Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical debut with her father on the song " Lemon Incest" at the age of 12, she released an album with her father at the age of 15. More than 20 years passed before Gainsbourg released albums as an adult ('' 5:55'', '' IRM'', '' Stage Whisper'' and ''Rest'') to commercial and critical success. She has acted in many films, including collaborations with Lars von Trier, and received two César Awards and Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress Award, among many nominations. Background Gainsbourg was born on 21 July 1971 in the Marylebone area of Central London. Her mother was English actress and singer Jane Birkin. Her father was Jewish French musician Serge Gainsbourg. Gainsbourg was born at the height of her parents' fame; they had made headlines three years earlier with the sex ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cécile De France
Cécile or Cecile is a female given name or surname. People Given name * Ce'cile (Cecile Charlton, born 1976), Jamaican musician * Severin Cecile Abega (1955–2008), Cameroonian author * Cécile Aubry (1928–2010), retired French film actress and television screenwriter and director * Princess Cécile of Bourbon-Parma (1935–2021), French humanitarian and political activist * Cecile Bonnifait (born 1971), French architect based in New Zealand * Cécile Bozanga (born 1951), Central African politician and banker * Cécile Breccia, French actress * Cécile Brunschvicg (1877–1946), French feminist politician * Cécile Bruyère (1845–1909), Benedictine nun * Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944), French composer and pianist * Cecile de Brunhoff (1903–2003), French storyteller * Cécile de France (born 1975), Belgian actress * Cecile of France ( 1097–1145), French princess * Cécile Delpirou (born 1964), French politician * Cécile Fatiman ( 1791), voodoo priestess an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the anthology film ''New York Stories'' (1989) and has since starred in several film and television productions. She has received several awards including nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. Dunst first gained recognition for her role as child vampire Claudia in the horror film '' Interview with the Vampire'' (1994), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also had roles in her youth in ''Little Women'' (1994) and ''Jumanji'' (1995). Dunst transitioned to leading roles in teen films of 1999, the satires '' Dick'' and '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'' and Sofia Coppola’s drama '' The Virgin Suicides''. After the leading role in the cheerleading film '' Bring It On'' (2000), she gained wider attention for her role as Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's ''Spider-Man'' trilogy (2002–2007). Her career pr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tilda Swinton
Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. She is known for playing eccentric and enigmatic characters, often working with auteurs. Her accolades include an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Volpi Cup, in addition to nominations for five Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Swinton began her career by appearing in Derek Jarman's experimental films ''Caravaggio'' (1986), '' The Last of England'' (1988), '' War Requiem'' (1989), and '' The Garden'' (1990). For her portrayal of Isabella of France in '' Edward II'' (1991), she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She next starred in ''Orlando'' (1992), '' Female Perversions'' (1996), and '' The Beach'' (2000), and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a desperate mother in '' The Deep End'' (2001). Swinton received the Academy Award for Best Supp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |