
The European Film Academy revealed the nominees of the categories “European Animated Feature Film” and “European Short Film”.

The European Film Academy revealed the nominees of the categories “European Animated Feature Film” and “European Short Film”.

The European Film Academy added 21 more films to the shortlist for the European Film Awards’ Feature Film Selection 2023, now comprising 40 European feature films. This year’s feature film selection includes an increased number of female filmmakers with 18 female directors out of all 43 directors of the 40 selected films.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will replace actor Hattie McDaniel’s missing Best Supporting Actress Academy Award® and gift it to the Howard University Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts. Howard University will host a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” at its Ira Aldridge Theater in Washington, D.C., on October 1, 2023.

Actress Dame Vanessa Redgrave will be honored at this year’s 36th European Film Awards with the European Lifetime Achievement award for her outstanding body of work.

Award-winning actor Vicky Krieps will receive the TIFF Tribute Performer Award at the fifth annual Awards gala at the Toronto International Film Festival. Krieps is being recognized for her outstanding body of work and returns to the Festival this year for the World Premiere of Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt.

The European Film Academy revealed the five films nominated for LUX – The European Audience Film Award, presented by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy in partnership with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas.

European Film Academy has selected 14 feature-length documentary films to comprise the Documentary Film Selection for the European Film Awards 2023. The European Film Awards, honorring the greatest achievements in European cinema, will be presented on December 9 in Berlin.

Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) directed by Aki Kaurismäki has won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix as the best film of 2023 – films released after July 1 , 2022. The FIPRESCI Grand Prix will be presented at the opening gala of San Sebastian Festival where Fallen Leaves will also screen in the Perlak section.

The European Film Awards has selected 19 films as the first part of the Academy’s Feature Film Selection 2023. The Feature Film Selection includes films that the Board of the Academy recommends to all Academy members for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2023.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to present Academy Honorary Awards to Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks and editor Carol Littleton and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter.

Actor Billy Crystal and actress Queen Latifah are among five honorees who will receive the 46th Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements. Other honorees include acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming; British singer-songwriter, producer and member of the Bee Gees, Barry Gibb; and singer Dionne Warwick.

The documentary films Batata, Fire of Love, Aftershock and Mariupol: The People’s Story are among the 35 winners of the 83rd Peabody Awards, recognized as the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting, streaming, and interactive media during 2022.