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\n\tEskil Vogt and Joachim Trier won Best Screenwriter for Sentimental Value at the 38th European Film Awards on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe win followed Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd and Renate Reinsve scooping Best European Actor and European Best Actress for their performance in the film at the ceremony<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Cannes Grand Prix winner went into the ceremony as the frontrunner with nominations also for best film an director.<\/p>\n
\n\tOther strong contenders include Oliver Laxe\u2019s Morocco-set drama Sir\u0101t<\/em>, Mascha Schilinski\u2019s debut film Sound of Falling <\/em>and Jafar Panahi\u2019s It Was Just An Accident<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tIn awards announced earlier in the evening, Oliver Laxe\u2019s Oscar hopeful Sir\u0101t<\/em> dominated the craft awards with wins for Best European Production Designer, Best European Sound Design, Best Editor and Best European Casting Director.<\/p>\n \n\tIranian director Panahi opened the ceremony in Berlin with an impassioned plea asking the world not to remain silent in the wake of \u201cthe unprecedented massacre\u201d unfolding in Iran.<\/p>\n \n\tPanahi was speaking ten days into a brutal crackdown by Iran\u2019s hardline government of nationwide popular protests. At least 3,000 protestors are believed to have been killed and another 18,000 arrested, although Panahi reiterated report of 12,000 deaths in his speech.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis is not just the pain of one country if the world does not respond to this blatant violence today. Not only Iran but the entire world is at risk. Violence left unanswered becomes normalized and when it become normalized, it\u2019s spread become contagious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhen the truth is crushed in one place, freedom suffocates everywhere. Then no-one is safe. Anywhere in the world, not in Iran, not in Europe, not in America\u2026 that is precisely why today as filmmakers and artists more than ever, if we are disappointed with politicians, we must at least must refuse to remain silent because silence in a time of crime is not neutrality silence, silence is a participation in darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThere were also honorary prizes for Norwegian acting legend Liv Ullmann and Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the European Achievement in World Cinema Award respectively.<\/p>\n \n\tUllmann used her acceptance speech to express the role of cinema in capturing human reality as well as her consternation at \u00a0U.S. President Donald Trump being recently presented by Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado with her Nobel Peace Prize. <\/p>\n \n\tIn the first major award of the evening, Arco <\/em>by Ugo Bienvenu won the Best European Animated Feature Film.<\/p>\n \n\tIt continues award-winning spree for the work, produced by Natalie Portman produced with Sophie Mas under their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA and F\u00e9lix de Givry, which also won Best Film At Annecy and is on the Bafta long-list for Best Animated Film.<\/p>\n \n\tIn other awards announced early in the evening, Oliver Laxe\u2019s Oscar hopeful Sir\u0101t<\/em> won Best European Production Designer. <\/p>\n \n\tDeadline is in Berlin covering the ceremony, check in here for live update.<\/p>\n \n\t2026 European Film Awards Winners: <\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tBest European Actor <\/strong> \n\tBest European Actress<\/strong> \n\tBest European Animated Feature Film<\/strong> \n\tLux Audience Award<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tBest European Screenwriter <\/strong> \n\tBest European Editor<\/strong> \n\tEuropean Casting Director<\/strong> \n\tBest European Make-up & Hair Artist<\/strong> \n\tEuropean Sound Designer<\/strong> \n\tEuropean Production Designer<\/strong> \n\tEuropean Costume Designer<\/strong> \n\tEuropean Discovery \u2013 Prix FIPRESCI<\/strong>
Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd for Sentimental Value<\/em><\/p>\n
Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value<\/em><\/p>\n
Arco <\/em>(France)
Directed by Ugo Bienvenu<\/p>\n
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value<\/em><\/p>\n
Crist\u00f3bal Fern\u00e1ndez for\u00a0Sir\u0101t<\/em><\/p>\n
Nadia Acimi, Lu\u00eds B\u00e9rtolo & Mar\u00eda Rodrigo for\u00a0Sir\u0101t<\/em><\/p>\n
Torsten Witte for\u00a0Bugonia<\/em><\/p>\n
Laia Casanovas for\u00a0Sir\u0101t<\/em><\/p>\n
Laia Ateca for\u00a0Sir\u0101t<\/em><\/p>\n
Sabrina Kr\u00e4mer for\u00a0Sound Of Falling\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
On Falling<\/em> (United Kingdom, Portugal)
Directed by Laura Carreira<\/p>\n