Did Haneke and White Ribbon bands triumph at European Film Awards?”
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) was the big winner at this year’s European Film Awards, taking awards for European film, director and screenwriter of the year. The ceremony was held at the weekend in Bochum’s impressive Jahrhunderthalle as a prologue to the year-long European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010 celebrations. Accepting his third award of the evening with his producers Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Andrea Occhipinti on the stage, Haneke said that he was “completely bowled over” by the recognition and apologised in terrospect for the seemingly unfriendly impression he made when he also won three prizes at the awards ceremony in Berlin in 2005 for Cache. “Perhaps it is difficult for me to show my joy,” Haneke suggested. Other popular winners of the evening were Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (Une Prophete), which picked up European Actor 2009 for Tahar Rahim and European Film Academy Prox Excellence 2009 for sound design, and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionair
The ceremony was held at the weekend in Bochum’s impressive Jahrhunderthalle as a prologue to the year-long European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010 celebrations. Accepting his third award of the evening with his producers Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Andrea Occhipinti on the stage, Haneke said that he was “completely bowled over” by the recognition and apologised in terrospect for the seemingly unfriendly impression he made when he also won three prizes at the awards ceremony in Berlin in 2005 for Cache. “Perhaps it is difficult for me to show my joy,” Haneke suggested. Other popular winners of the evening were Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (Une Prophete), which picked up European Actor 2009 for Tahar Rahim and European Film Academy Prox Excellence 2009 for sound design, and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, which shared the Carlo di Palma European Cinematographer Award for Anthony Dod Mantle with Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and was voted by cinema-goers around Europe for the People
