Father Geek here to introduce our Euro-editor Robert Bernocchi from Rome with the results of the 15th annual European Film Awards... I'm afraid I'll have to agree with Robert that Roman Polanski got robbed... in my opinion he and his great masterwork, "The Pianist" clearly deserved the top honors, although "Talk To Her" is a wonderful motion picture for sure...

Here's Robert with the winners...

Hi people, Robert here.

Saturday evening here in Rome they announced the winners of the 15th European Fim Awards. It was a great ceremony for Pedro Almodovar, who was able to win five prizes for his movie "Talk to Her", including Best Movie, Best Director and Best Screenwriter. I'm probably the only critic in the world who didn't loved his pic and I'm very disappointed that Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" didn't receive what it deserved (it won only for the best cinematographer). There is also (not considering the Lefetime achievement Award for the Fellini and Antonioni's screenwriter Tonino Guerra) a prize for an Italian. In fact, Sergio Castellitto won in the category Best Actor. I like him very much, even if I don't reckon he gave his best performance ever in the movies for which he was nominated...

Anyway, this is a full list of the winners:

BEST EUROPEAN FILM 2002

Talk to Her by Pedro Almodovar

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

Pedro Almodovar for Talk to her

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER

Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her

BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR

Sergio Castellitto for My Mother's Smile and Mostly Martha

BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS

The ensemble cast of 8 femmes (Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Emanuelle Béart, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, Firmine Richard)

BEST EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER

Pawel Edelman for The Pianist

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR NON-EUROPEAN FILM

Elia Suleiman for Divine Intervention

THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS BEST DIRECTOR

Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her

BEST ACTOR

Javier Camara for Talk to Her

BEST ACTRESS

Kate Winslet for Iris

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY

Hukkle by Gyorgy Palfi

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD-PRIX ARTE

Etre et avoir by Nicolas Philibert

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM

10 Minutes by Ahmed Imamovic

EUROPEAN CRITICS' AWARD

Sweet Sixteen by Ken Loach

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA

Victoria Abril

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Tonino Guerra

Robert Bernocchi

http://www.caltanet.it/2003/?id_arg=2003&desc=CINEMA