European Film Awards

EUROPEAN FILM: Ida
DIRECTOR: Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida
ACTOR: Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner
ACTRESS: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
SCREENWRITER: Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ida
ANIMATED FEATURE: The Art of Happiness
DOCUMENTARY: Master of the Universe
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski, Ida
COSTUME DESIGNER: Natascha Curtius-Noss, The Dark Valley
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Claus-Rudolf Amler, The Dark Valley
EDITOR: Justine Wright, Locke
COMPOSER: Mica Levi, Under the Skin
SOUND DESIGNER: Joakim Sundström, Starred Up
SHORT FILM: The Chicken
EUROPEAN COMEDY FILM: The Mafia Only Kills In Summer- directed by Pierfrancesco Diliberto  
EUROPEAN DISCOVERY: The Tribe- directed by Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT: Steve McQueen 
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Agnés Varda
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD: Ida

European Film Award Nominations

Ida earns the most 2014 European Film Award nods.

BEST EUROPEAN FILM
Force Majeure
Ida
Leviathan
Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut
Winter Sleep

BEST EUROPEAN COMEDY
Carmina y Amén
The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer
Le Week-End

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Winter Sleep
Steven Knight, Locke
Ruben Ostlund, Force Majeure
Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida
Paolo Virzi, Human Capital
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Leviathan

BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR
Brendan Gleeson, Calvary
Tom Hardy, Locke
Alexey Serebryakov, Leviathan
Stellan Skarsgard, Nymphomaniac - Director's Cut 
Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner

BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Marian Alvarez, Wounded
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nymphomanic - Director's Cut
Agata Kulesza, Ida
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Human Capital
Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida  

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Winter Sleep
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night
Steven Knight, Locke
Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ida
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin, Leviathan

BEST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
Just the Right Amount of Violence
Master of the Universe
Of Men and War
Sacro Gra
Waiting for August
We Come as Friends 

BEST EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE 
The Art of Happiness  
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Minuscule - Valley of the Lost Ants

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM
The Chicken
The Chimera of M.
Daily Bread
Dinola
Emergency Calls
Little Block of Cement with Dishevelled Hair Containing the Sea
The Missing Scarf
Pride
Shipwreck
Still Got Lives
Summer 2014
Taprobana
A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log
Wall

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY
'71
10,000 KM
Party Girl
The Tribe
Wounded    

Locke

Taut and compactly-sized, Steven Knight's new film Locke stars Tom Hardy as a man whose life begins to unravel during a particularly stress-laden drive on a British highway.  The eighty-five minute morality play-- a one man show, nearly real-time affair-- sounds on the outset like a stage-driven chamber piece that may outstay its welcome a few miles in.  Certainly the idea of  someone yammering on his Bluetooth doesn't exactly lend itself for entertaining or particularly interesting drama.  Yet, thanks to inventive filming and a commanding lead turn, Locke is an invigorating and alert piece of filmmaking, one where the contrivances are certainly there and made aware, but quickly forgotten due to its human connection to real world stress and anxiety-- which to be fair, quite often takes place independently and behind the wheel of a car.

On one hand, Locke poses itself as a companion piece of sorts to recent ultra-confined one man (or woman) movies like Buried (2010), which saw Ryan Reynolds trapped in a coffin, Phone Booth (2003), which saw Colin Farrell trapped in a, well, duh, and Gravity (2013) where Sandra Bullock floated in deep space.  Yet, what separates Locke is that it's crafted and shaded with everyday human struggle.  No alien premise or absurd set of circumstances pivot Ivan Locke (Hardy) down this particularly dark British highway except for the small, but pivotal professional and personal choices of his own doing.