Coralie FargeatsThe Substanceand Jacques AudiardsEmilia Perezare among the winners of the European Film Academys 2024 Excellence Awards, celebrating arts and crafts achievements in eight categories.
The winners, which are decided by a specialist eight-member jury, will receive their trophies at the European Film Awards ceremony in the Swiss city of Lucerne on December 7.
The UKs Benjamin Kracun won best European Cinematography for his work onThe Substancewith the jury praising the way he captured the demise of protagonist Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore).
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|The audience is transported through to an unbearably painful, and hilariously raucous ending, achieved only through collaboration with all departments and is undoubtably a celebration of cinematography and cinema.
French film editor Juliette Welfling won Best Editing forEmilia Perez, with the jury noting the films incredible fluidity and elegance and praising the way it immersed the audience in the narrative without feeling any of the usual stop-and-go between sung scenes and the others.Polands Jagna Dobesz won Best European Production Design for her work on Magnus von Horns Swedish-Polish co-productionThe Girl With The Needle.The difficult life and psychological drama of young Karoline in post-WWI Copenhagen is expertly illustrated by an excellent, interesting, visually strong, and striking production design, commented the jury.Through skillfully designed interiors, along with carefully chosen exteriors, production designer Jagna Dobesz strongly and powerfully contributes to the visual quality and atmosphere of the movie.Multi-award winning Austrian costume designer Tanja Hausner won Best European Costume Design forThe Devils Bath, for the way her costumes built every single character in a masterful and very modern way.The Netherlands Evalotte Oosterop won best Make-up & Hair for her work on Icelandic director Runar Runarssons dramaWhen the Light Breaks.
Frederikke Hoffmeier won best European Original ScoreThe Girl With The Needle, with the jury commenting on the original and experimental way.
Next to the cinematography which seems extremely modern, although its a period film, the music has a modern and brave approach as well and creates a timeless musical language, said the jury.Marc-Olivier Brulle, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aichoun and Rodrigo Diaz clinched Best Sound forSouleymanes story.A perfectly modulated masterpiece of sonic realism.
Rather than relying on score, the film utilises dialogue, diegetic music, sound effects and atmospheres to dramatise a despairing journey through the cacophony of Parisian traffic, shops, offices, restaurants and Metro stations, said the jury.Best European Visual Effects went to Bryan Jones, Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky, Chervin Shafaghi and Guillaume Le Gouez for their work onThe Substance.Combining organic SFX and VFX in a surprising way,The Substanceshows high-level visual effects in good combination with prosthetics.
Stepping back where necessary, there is a lot of excellent VFX which you dont even notice, said the jury.Representing the respective crafts, the members of the jury for the Excellence Awards were: composer Dascha Dauenhauer (Germany), production designer Miljen Kreka Kljakovic (Serbia), make-up artist Barbara Kreuzer (Germany), costume designer Katarzyna Lewinska(Poland), VFX supervisor Inaki Madariaga (Spain), cinematographer Kate McCullough (Ireland), editor Laurent Senechal (France), sound designer Joakim Sundstrom (Sweden).
