'The Favourite' Is Crowned Best Film At 2019 European Film Awards

It may not have won the Best Picture Oscar, but a little over nine months later “The Favourite” is in the winner’s circle again.  Yorgos Lanthimos’ dramedy took European Film, European Director (Lanthimos), European Actress Olivia Colman and Best Comedy at the 32nd European Film Awards in Berlin, Germany on Saturday.  It was the first almost completely English-language film to win the top prize since Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth” in 2015.

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“The Favourite” is also the third Fox Searchlight film to win the honor after “Youth” and “The Full Monty” in 1997.

Antonio Banderas took European Actor for “Pain and Glory” while Céline Sciamma took European Screenplay for “Portrait of a Girl on Fire.” Ladj Ly’s “Les Miserables,” won the European Discovery honor while “Cold War,” last’s year’s winner for European Film, won the People’s Choice Award (no, we don’t get that either).

A full list of this year’s winners are as follows:

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM
The Christmas Gift, dir: Bogdan Mureșanu

EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Bunuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles, dir: Salvador Simó

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Céline Sciamma, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

EUROPEAN ACTOR
Antonio Banderas, Pain And Glory

EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Olivia Colman, The Favourite

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – Prix FIPRESCI
Les Misérables, dir: Ladj Ly

PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD
Cold War, dir: Pawel Pawlikowski

EUROPEAN COMEDY
The Favourite

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
For Sama; dirs: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

EUROPEAN FILM
The Favorite, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos