Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Honey
  Honey (2010 film)
  Honey is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Egg and Milk. It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it became the third Turkish film, after...
  
   (Bal) – Semih Kaplanoğlu
  Semih Kaplanoglu
  Semih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.-Career:He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown...
  
   • Turkey/Germany
• Of Gods and Men
  Of Gods and Men (film)
  Of Gods and Men is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Its original French title is Des hommes et des dieux, which means "Of Men and of Gods" and refers to a verse from the Bible shown at the beginning of the film...
  
   (Des hommes et des dieux) – Xavier Beauvois
  Xavier Beauvois
  Xavier Beauvois is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize....
  
   • France
• Lebanon – Samuel Maoz
  Samuel Maoz
  Samuel Maoz is an Israeli film director. His2009 film, Lebanon won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.-Biography:...
  
   • Israel/Germany/France
• The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) – Juan José Campanella • Spain/Argentina
• Soul Kitchen
  Soul Kitchen (film)
  Soul Kitchen is a 2009 German comedy film directed by Fatih Akın, with a screenplay by Akin and Adam Bousdoukos. Bousdoukos based the story on his own experiences as the owner of a Greek tavern named "Taverna", where Akin was a regular customer. Akin filmed the movie entirely in the Hamburg...
  
   – Fatih Akin
  Fatih Akin
  Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...
  
   • Germany

Best Director

• Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...
  
   – Carlos
  Carlos (TV miniseries)
  Carlos is a 3-part French television drama mini-series, first broadcast on Canal+ in 2010. Produced by Film En Stock's Daniel Leconte in coproduction with Jens Meuer in association with Canal +, Studio Canal, ARTE, the Sundance Channel, it was created by Daniel Leconte and written by Dan Franck and...
  
  
• Semih Kaplanoğlu
  Semih Kaplanoglu
  Semih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.-Career:He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown...
  
   – Honey
  Honey (2010 film)
  Honey is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Egg and Milk. It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it became the third Turkish film, after...
  
   (Bal)
• Samuel Maoz
  Samuel Maoz
  Samuel Maoz is an Israeli film director. His2009 film, Lebanon won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.-Biography:...
  
   – Lebanon
• Paolo Virzì
  Paolo Virzì
  Paolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...
  
   – The First Beautiful Thing
  The First Beautiful Thing
  The First Beautiful Thing is a 2010 Italian drama film directed by Paolo Virzì, produced by Medusa Film, Motorino Amaranto and Indiana Production, released in Italy on 15 January 2010...
  
   (La prima cosa bella)

Best Actress

• Zrinka Cvitešić
  Zrinka Cvitešic
  Zrinka Cvitešić is a film, television and theatre actress.As a theatre actress, she has been a member of the Croatian National Theatre since 2005. In addition to acting, she is also an accomplished dancer...
  
   – On the Path
  On the Path
  On the Path is a 2010 Bosnian and Herzegovinan drama film directed by Jasmila Žbanić.-Plot:Luna and Amar are a young Bosnian couple living in Sarajevo. Both have traumatic memories from the Bosnian War of the 1990's. Luna had seen her parents killed by an anti-Muslim militia in Bijeljina, and had...
  
   (Na putu)
• Sibel Kekilli – When We Leave
  When We Leave
  When We Leave is a 2010 German drama film, produced, written and directed by Feo Aladag, which highlights the problem of honour killings by depicting the drama of a Turkish family living in Germany.-Cast:* Sibel Kekilli - Umay* Nizam Schiller - Cem...
  
   (Die Fremde)
• Lesley Manville
  Lesley Manville
  Lesley Manville is an award-winning English actress.-Early life:Born in Brighton, Manville was raised in Hove, East Sussex, one of three daughters of a taxicab driver. Training as a soprano singer from age 8, she twice became under-18 champion of Sussex...
  
   – Another Year
• Lotte Verbeek
  Lotte Verbeek
  Lotte Verbeek is a Dutch actress born in Venlo, the Netherlands. She won the Leopard for the best actress at the Locarno International Film Festival 2009 for her role in Nothing Personal...
  
   – Nothing Personal
  Nothing Personal (2009 film)
  Nothing Personal is a 2009 film directed by Urszula Antoniak. It was presented at the Locarno International Film Festival for the international competition...
  
  

Best Actor

• Jakob Cedergren – Submarino
  Submarino
  Submarino is a 2010 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, starring Jakob Cedergren and Peter Plaugborg. It is based on the 2007 novel Submarino by Jonas T. Bengtsson, and focuses on two brothers on the bottom of Danish society, with lives marked by violence and drug addiction. The film...
  
  
• Elio Germano
  Elio Germano
  Elio Germano is an Italian actor.Born in Rome, he debuted, aged twelve, in the Castellano e Pipolo's movie Ci hai rotto papà...
  
   – Our Life
  La nostra vita
  La nostra vita is a 2010 Italian film directed by Daniele Luchetti. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, with Elio Germano sharing the prize for Best Actor with Javier Bardem for his role in the Mexican film Biutiful directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.-Cast:* Elio...
  
   (La nostra vita)
• George Piştereanu – If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
  If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
  If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle is a 2010 Romanian drama film directed by Florin Şerban.-Plot:Romanian youth Silviu serves a four-year prison sentence. A few days before his release, his younger brother visits him and tells him that their mother has returned, who has found work in Italy and will...
  
   (Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier)
• Luis Tosar
  Luis Tosar
  Luis Tosar is a Galician actor and musician.-Biography:Born in Lugo, Galicia, Spain on 13th October 1971, he is best known internationally for his villain role in Miami Vice and the role in the upcoming horror film Flatmate, which is directed by Jaume Balagueró.-Selected filmography:*1998 Atilano...
  
   – Cell 211
  Cell 211
  Cell 211 is a 2009 Spanish prison film directed by Daniel Monzón, starring Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann and Antonio Resines.- Plot :Juan Oliver wants to make a good impression at his new job as a prison officer and reports to work a day early, leaving his pregnant wife, Elena, at home. During his...
  
   (Celda 211)

Best Animated Feature Film

• Planet 51
  Planet 51
  Planet 51 is a 2009 Spanish/British/American animated science fiction/family film directed by Jorge Blanco, written by Joe Stillman, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Gary Oldman, Seann William Scott, and John Cleese. Produced by Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios and...
  
   – Jorge Blanco
  Jorge Blanco
  Jorge Blanco is an artist from Venezuela before he emigrated to the United States in 1999. Jorge Blanco is currently residing in Sarasota, Florida. He has spent his professional career working as a sculptor, graphic designer and illustrator...
  
   • Spain/United Kingdom
• Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage
  Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage
  Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage is a 2010 Belgian animated film produced in English...
  
   – Ben Stassen
  Ben Stassen
  Ben Stassen is a Belgian film producer and director. He founded nWave Pictures in 1994, producing highly successful CGI ride films including the groundbreaking Devils Mine...
  
   • Belgium

Best Screenwriter

• Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Daniel Monzón – Cell 211
  Cell 211
  Cell 211 is a 2009 Spanish prison film directed by Daniel Monzón, starring Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann and Antonio Resines.- Plot :Juan Oliver wants to make a good impression at his new job as a prison officer and reports to work a day early, leaving his pregnant wife, Elena, at home. During his...
  
   (Celda 211)
• Samuel Maoz
  Samuel Maoz
  Samuel Maoz is an Israeli film director. His2009 film, Lebanon won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.-Biography:...
  
   – Lebanon
• Radu Mihaileanu
  Radu Mihaileanu
  Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer...
  
   – The Concert
  Le Concert
  Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...
  
   (Le concert)

Best Cinematographer

• Caroline Champetier – Of Gods and Men
  Of Gods and Men (film)
  Of Gods and Men is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Its original French title is Des hommes et des dieux, which means "Of Men and of Gods" and refers to a verse from the Bible shown at the beginning of the film...
  
   (Des hommes et des dieux)
• Pavel Kostomarov – How I Ended This Summer
  How I Ended This Summer
  How I Ended This Summer is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
   (Как я провел этим летом)
• Barış Özbiçer – Honey
  Honey (2010 film)
  Honey is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Egg and Milk. It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it became the third Turkish film, after...
  
   (Bal)

Best Editor

• Arik Lahav-Leibovich – Lebanon
• Hervé de Luze
  Hervé de Luze
  Hervé de Luze is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.de Luze had a long collaboration with the director Claude Berri, for whom he edited eight films between 1981 and 1999. de Luze has been director Roman Polanski's principal editor since Pirates , including the much honored...
  
   – The Ghost Writer

Best Production Designer

• Paola Bizzarri and Luis Ramirez – I, Don Giovanni (Io, Don Giovanni)
• Markku Pätilä and Jaagup Roomet – The Temptation of St. Tony
  The Temptation of St. Tony
  The Temptation of St. Tony is a 2009 Estonian film written and directed by Veiko Õunpuu, starring Taavi Eelmaa. The plot has been described as a black comedy and centers around a successful, middle aged man who becomes interested in questions about morality...
  
   (Püha Tõnu kiusamine)

Best Composer

• Ales Brezina – Kawasaki's Rose
  Kawasaki's Rose
  Kawasaki's Rose is a 2009 Czech drama film directed by Jan Hřebejk. The film was selected in the Czech Republic as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist...
  
   (Kawasakiho růže)
• Pasquale Catalano – Loose Cannons (Mina vaganti)
• Gary Yershon
  Gary Yershon
  Gary Yershon is an English composer.Yershon was born in London. He is one of a group of composers who have little or no concert or commercial recording career, but whose nevertheless prolific output is evidenced for the most part in UK theatre souvenir programs. Others in this group include Paddy...
  
   – Another Year

Best Documentary

• Armadillo
  Armadillo (film)
  Armadillo is a Danish documentary film about Danish soldiers in the war in Afghanistan. The film follows a group of soldiers from the Guard Hussars regiment who are on their first mission in Helmand Province at a forward operating base named FOB Armadillo. The film premièred at the Cannes Film...
  
   – Janus Metz • Denmark/Sweden
• Steam of Life
  Steam of Life
  Steam of Life is a Finnish documentary film directed by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen. The movie was produced by Joonas Berghäll. It opened theatrically in New York City on July 30th, 2010 and opened in Los Angeles on August 6th, 2010 at the 14th Annual DocuWeeks.It was selected as the...
  
   (Miesten vuoro) – Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen • Finland/Sweden

Best Short Film

• Amor – Thomas Wangsmo • Norway
• Lights (Ampelmann) – Giulio Ricciarelli • Germany
• Joseph’s Snails (Les ecargots de Joseph) – Sophie Roze • France
• Stay, Away (Blijf bij me, weg) – Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito • Netherlands
• Out of Love (Ønskebørn) – Birgitte Stærmose • Denmark
• Venus VS Me – Nathalie Teirlinck • Belgium
• The Little Snow Animal (Lumikko) – Miia Tervo • Finland
• Tussilago – Jonas Odell
  Jonas Odell
  Jonas Odell is a Swedish music video and film director and founder of FilmTecknarna. Odell, who specializes in a mix of animation and live action, has directed a number of short films, music videos and commercials...
  
   • Sweden
• Maria's Way – Anne Milne • United Kingdom/Spain
• Talleres Clandestinos – Catalina Molina • Austria/Argentina
• Rendezvous in Stella-Plage (Rendez-vous à Stella-Plage) – Shalimar Preuss • France
• Diarchy (Diarchia) – Ferdinando Cito Filomarino • Italy/France
• The External World – David O'Reilly
  David O'Reilly (artist)
  David O'Reilly is an Irish film director and artist based in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for creating animated short films with a stripped down aesthetic.-Work:...
  
   • Germany
• Here I Am (Itt vagyok) – Bálint Szimler • Hungary

People's Choice Award for Best European Film

• The Girl Who Played with Fire
  The Girl Who Played with Fire (film)
  The Girl Who Played with Fire is a 2009 Swedish thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson, and the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the second in his "Millennium series".The...
  
   (Flickan som lekte med elden)
• Soul Kitchen
  Soul Kitchen (film)
  Soul Kitchen is a 2009 German comedy film directed by Fatih Akın, with a screenplay by Akin and Adam Bousdoukos. Bousdoukos based the story on his own experiences as the owner of a Greek tavern named "Taverna", where Akin was a regular customer. Akin filmed the movie entirely in the Hamburg...
  
  
• Baarìa
• Loose Cannons (Mina vaganti)
• An Education
  An Education
  An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age drama film, based on an autobiographical article in Granta by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, and stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, and Peter Sarsgaard as David,...
  
  
• Agora
  Agora (film)
  Agora is a 2009 Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a female mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in 4th century Roman Egypt who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system...
  
  
• The Ghost Writer
• Kick-Ass
  Kick-Ass (film)
  Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman...
  
  
• Little Nicholas (Le Petit Nicolas)