‘Triangle Of Sadness’ sweeps top prizes at the 2022 European Film Awards

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Ruben Ostlund

Source: European Film Awards

Ruben Ostlund at the 2022 EFAs

Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy Triangle Of Sadness was the big winner at the 2022 European Film Awards (EFAs), which took place today (December 10) in Reykjavík.

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The class warfare comedy won best European film, director, screenwriter and actor, for Zlatko Burić.

Vicky Krieps was also a winner as best European actress for Corsage.

Mantas Kvedaravičius’ Mariupolis 2 won the European documentary prize, whilst Alain Ughetto’s No Dogs Or Italians Allowed picked up the animated feature award.

Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss, which stars Javier Bardem and won six Goyas, received the European comedy prize.

The 4,400 members of the European Film Academy voted for the awards.

The prizes for cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, make-up & hair, original score, sound and visual effects were determined by an eight-member jury and unveiled on November 23, with Belfast and All Quiet On The Western Front leading the winners.

The EFAs also presented the Europe Sustainability Award - Prix Film4Climate to the European Commission for its European Green Deal. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen accepted the award by video message.

The Eurimages Co-Production Award was a symbolic group award given to the producers of Ukraine, accepted at the ceremony by Julia Sinkevych (Heat Singers) and Darya Bassel (Butterfly Vision).

The European Achievement in World Cinema award was given to Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, presented to the director by EFA chairman Mike Downey.

The European Innovative Storytelling award went to Marco Bellochio for his TV series Exterior Night, about the kidnapping and murder of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades terrorist group.

German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta received the European Lifetime Achievement award. She is only the third female director to receive the award after Agnes Varda in 2014 and Hungarian writer/director Marta Meszaros last year.

Winners in bold:

European Film

Alcarràs (Spain-Italy) dir. Carla Simón; prods. María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Giovanni Pompili
Close (Belgium-France-Netherlands) dir. Lukas Dhont; prods. Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld, Frans van Gestel, Jacques-Henri Bronckart
Corsage (Austria-Luxembourg-Germany-France) dir. Marie Kreutzer; prods. Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Bernard Michaux, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Jean-Christophe Reymond
Holy Spider (Denmark-Germany-Sweden-France) dir. Ali Abbasi; prods. Sol Bondy, Jacob Jarek
Triangle Of Sadness (Sweden-Germany-France-UK) dir. Ruben Östlund; prods. Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober

European Actress

Vicky Krieps, Corsage
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Holy Spider
Léa Seydoux, One Fine Morning
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Meltem Kaptan, Rabiye Kurnaz Vs. George W. Bush

European Actor

Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Eden Dambrine, Close
Elliott Crosset Hove, Godland
Pierfrancesco Favino, Nostalgia
Zlatko Burić, Triangle Of Sadness

European Director

Lukas Dhont, Close
Marie Kreutzer, Corsage
Jerzy Skolimowski, Eo
Ali Abbasi, Holy Spider
Alice Diop, Saint Omer
Ruben Östlund, Triangle Of Sadness

European Screenwriter

Carla Simón & Arnau Vilaró, Alcarràs
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Lukas Dhont & Angelo Tijssens, Close
Ali Abbasi & Afshin Kamran Bahrami, Holy Spider
Ruben Östlund, Triangle Of Sadness

European Documentary

A House Made Of Splinters (Denmark-Sweden-Finland-Ukraine) dir. Simon Lereng Wilmont
Girl Gang (Switzerland) dir. Susanne Regina Meures
Mariupolis 2 (Lithuania-France-Germany) dir. Mantas Kvedaravičius
The Balcony Movie (Poland) dir. Paweł Łoziński
The March On Rome (Italy) dir. Mark Cousins