Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez are among the many winners of the European Movie Academy’s 2024 Excellence Awards, celebrating arts and crafts achievements in eight classes.
The winners, that are determined by a specialist eight-member jury, will obtain their trophies on the European Movie Awards ceremony within the Swiss metropolis of Lucerne on December 7.
The UK’s Benjamin Kračun gained finest European Cinematography for his work on The Substance with the jury praising the way in which he captured the demise of protagonist Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore).
“He playfully explores her bodily and psychological demise with extremely stylised lens distortions and manipulations. It’s loud and shiny, but additionally manages to eke out an sudden intimacy and vulnerability,” learn the jury feedback.
|The viewers is transported by way of to an unbearably painful, and hilariously raucous ending, achieved solely by way of collaboration with all departments and is undoubtably a celebration of cinematography and cinema.”
French movie editor Juliette Welfling gained Finest Enhancing for Emilia Pérez, with the jury noting the movie’s “unbelievable fluidity and magnificence” and praising the way in which it immersed “the viewers within the narrative with out feeling any of the standard stop-and-go between sung scenes and the others.”
Poland’s Jagna Dobesz gained Finest European Manufacturing Design for her work on Magnus von Horn’s Swedish-Polish co-production The Woman With The Needle.
“The tough life and psychological drama of younger Karoline in post-WWI Copenhagen is expertly illustrated by a superb, fascinating, visually robust, and hanging manufacturing design,” commented the jury.
“By way of skillfully designed interiors, together with fastidiously chosen exteriors, manufacturing designer Jagna Dobesz strongly and powerfully contributes to the visible high quality and ambiance of the film.”
Multi-award profitable Austrian costume designer Tanja Hausner gained Finest European Costume Design for The Satan’s Tub, for the way in which her costumes constructed “each single character in a masterful and really trendy method.
The Netherlands’ Evalotte Oosterop gained finest Make-up & Hair for her work on Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s drama When the Gentle Breaks.
Frederikke Hoffmeier gained finest European Authentic Rating The Woman With The Needle, with the jury commenting on the “unique and experimental method”.
“Subsequent to the cinematography which appears extraordinarily trendy, though it’s a interval movie, the music has a contemporary and courageous method as effectively and creates a timeless musical language,” mentioned the jury.
Marc-Olivier Brullé, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aïchoun and Rodrigo Diaz clinched Finest Sound for Souleymane’s story.
“A superbly modulated masterpiece of sonic realism. Relatively than counting on rating, the movie utilises dialogue, diegetic music, sound results and atmospheres to dramatise a despairing journey by way of the cacophony of Parisian visitors, outlets, workplaces, eating places and Metro stations,” mentioned the jury.
Finest European Visible Results went to Bryan Jones, Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky, Chervin Shafaghi and Guillaume Le Gouez for his or her work on The Substance.
“Combining natural SFX and VFX in a stunning method, The Substance exhibits high-level visible results in good mixture with prosthetics. Stepping again the place crucial, there may be a whole lot of wonderful VFX which you don’t even discover,” mentioned the jury.
Representing the respective crafts, the members of the jury for the Excellence Awards have been: composer Dascha Dauenhauer (Germany), manufacturing designer Miljen Kreka Kljakovic (Serbia), make-up artist Barbara Kreuzer (Germany), costume designer Katarzyna Lewinska(Poland), VFX supervisor Iñaki Madariaga (Spain), cinematographer Kate McCullough (Eire), editor Laurent Sénéchal (France), sound designer Joakim Sundström (Sweden).
