EFA open votes for people's choice awards 2011
Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for, the audience. This year’s vote has started – vote now and win the chance to join winners and nominees on the red carpet in Berlin!
Winners in the past have included films like Pedro Almodóvar’s VOLVER, Roberto Benigni’s LA VITA E BELLA, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s AMÉLIE, Fatih Akin’s HEAD-ON, and Danny Boyle’s SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.
Film fans can now join the European Film Awards on Facebook, cast their vote on
www.europeanfilmawards.eu
and win a chance to attend the 24th European Film Awards on Saturday, 3 December 2011, in Berlin!
EFA People’s Choice Award 2011 nominees:
ANIMALS UNITED (Konferenz der Tiere)
directed by Reinhard Klooss & Holger Tappe
written by Oliver Huzly & Reinhard Klooss
EVEN THE RAIN (También la lluvia)
directed by Icíar Bollaín
written by Paul Laverty
starring Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar & Karra Elejalde
IN A BETTER WORLD (Hævnen)
directed by Susanne Bier
written by Anders Thomas Jensen
starring Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm & Ulrich Thomsen
THE KING’S SPEECH
directed by Tom Hooper
written by David Seidler
starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush & Helena Bonham Carter
LITTLE WHITE LIES (Les Petits Mouchoirs)
written & directed by Guillaume Canet
starring François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard & Benoît Magimel
POTICHE
directed by François Ozon
written by Pierre Barillet, Jean-Pierre Grédy & François Ozon
starring Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu & Fabrice Luchini
UNKNOWN
directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
written by Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell, Karl Gajdusek & Anthony Peckham
starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger & January Jones
WELCOME TO THE SOUTH (Benvenuti al Sud)
directed by Luca Miniero
written by Massimo Gaudioso
starring Claudio Bisio, Alessandro Siani, Angela Finocchiaro.
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Ernst & Young, one of the leading global professional services firms, continues to act as Official Tabulator, endorsing the voting procedures and confirming the winner.
THE 24th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Berlin, 3 Dec 2011
The European Film Awards 2011 are presented by the European Film Academy e.V. and EFA Productions gGmbH with the support of the Capital Cultural Fund, FFA German Federal Film Board, the German State Lottery Berlin, the German State Minister for Culture and the Media, Hôtel Concorde Berlin, the MEDIA Programme of the EU, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and TNT Express.
PATRONS: CENTRE DU CINEMA OF THE FRENCH SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF BELGIUM * DANISH FILM INSTITUTE * EGEDA * EURIMAGES * FILM FUND LUXEMBOURG * FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL FUND (VAF) * ICA - INSTITUTO DO CINEMA E DO AUDIOVISUAL * MALTA FILM COMMISSION * MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE OF CYPRUS (CULTURAL SERVICES) * NETHERLANDS FILM FUND * POLISH FILM INSTITUTE * SEVILLE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL, A PROJECT OF ICAS, ORGANISED BY ANDALUCIA FILM COMMISSION AND SPONSORED BY EMASESA *AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI * SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE * TELEWIZJA POLSKA S.A. (TVP) *
