Polanski's 'Ghost Writer' wins European Film Award

Roman Polanski's thriller "The Ghost Writer" is the big winner with six trophies at the European Film Awards. He won on Saturday evening in the Estonian capital of Tallinn in the areas of best film, director, film music, script, and equipment. With the six total awards was the political thriller "The Ghost Writer" by director Roman Polanski, the clearing at the European Film Prize 2010. The strip was honored on Saturday evening in the Estonian capital Tallinn as the winner in the categories of film, director, film, music, script and features, actor Ewan McGregor was named best actor. The trophy for best actress went to Sylvie Testud, the French for their role in the Austrian director Jessica Hausner staged by the movie, "Lourdes" (Austria / France / Germany). In the award-winning strip, she plays the young, full body paralyzed Christine, who can be cured, despite initial skepticism in the French Lourdes. Telstud sat down by others against Sibel Kekilli, the mimes in "The Strangers" a German-Turkish young mother who wants to escape a forced marriage to a decent life. 

Polanski's 'Ghost Writer' wins European Film Award

Audience Award for "Mr. Nobody" 

With "The Brave One" who was born in Vienna Feo Aladag in the category was nominated for European Discovery, but went away empty-handed. Instead, "Lebanon" by Israeli director Samuel Maoz named best first film. The prize for the best camera went with Giora Bejach to the war drama. But from a dark, narrow tanks out of the film's brutal events in the Lebanon war shows in June 1982. At the Venice Film Festival, "Lebanon" last year with the Golden Lion award.

The title of best European documentary 2010 went to "Nostalgia for the Light" by the Chilean Patricio Guzman, was the best European short film "Hanoi - Warsaw" chosen by the Polish Katarzyna Klimkiewicz. Winner of the Audience Prize of the Belgian Jaco Van Dormael with his film "Mr. Nobody". An award for lifetime achievement, the 69-year-old Swiss actor Bruno got Ganz ("Downfall", "Wings of Desire") by Wim Wenders, president of the European Film Academy. The Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared was meanwhile praised for his contribution to world cinema.

"The Ghost Writer" was nominated in seven categories for the European Film Awards, he was awarded for his direction already at the Berlinale Silver Bear. The film is based on the novel "Ghost" by best-selling author Robert Harris, who together with Polanski wrote the screenplay. The film will be shot in Germany from the perspective of the writer's memoir tells of a politician reminiscent of Tony Blair. Polanski, the threat of a U.S. trial for a more than 30 years previous sexual offenses, was not there at the ceremony. He thanked them on a webcam from Paris, when he received the directing prize, he said, "This is too much."

The next edition of the European Film Awards 2012 takes place in Valetta, the capital of Malta instead. The award is to promote European film culture was founded in 1988 to life and will be hosted alternately in different cities in Europe.

Polanski's 'Ghost Writer' wins European Film Award