1st European Film Awards

Template:Short description Template:Infobox film awards The 1st Annual European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy, recognized excellence in European cinema. The ceremony took place on 1 December 1988 at the Theater des Westens in West Berlin and was hosted by Luxembourgish presenter Desirée Nosbusch and German actor Jan Niklas.

British film Distant Voices, Still Lives led the nominations with five but the films Wings of Desire, Pelle the Conqueror and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown got the most wins with two each. Krzysztof Kieślowski's A Short Film About Killing received the award for Best European Film.

The Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to two iconic European directors, to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman presented by German actress Nastasja Kinski and to Italian director Marcello Mastroianni presented by Italian actress Giulietta Masina. English actor Sir Richard Attenborough received the Award of Merit, which was presented by Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida while two Special Awards were presented, one to Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor and one to Russian composer Yuri Khanon for the music of The Days of Eclipse.

Winners and nominees

The winners are in a yellow background and in bold.

Best European Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
A Short Film About Killing	Krótki film o zabijaniu	Krzysztof Kieslowski	Ryszard Chutkowski	Template:Flagicon
Goodbye Children	Au revoir les enfants	Louis Malle		Template:Flagicon
The Animated Forest	El bosque animado	José Luis Cuerda	Eduardo Ducay	Template:Flagicon
Distant Voices, Still Lives		Terence Davies	Jennifer Howarth	Template:Flagicon
Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin	Wim Wenders		Template:Flagicon
Pelle the Conqueror	Pelle erobreren	Bille August	Per Holst	Template:Flagicon

Best European Director

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Template:Flagicon Wim Wenders	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin
Template:Flagicon Terence Davies	Distant Voices, Still Lives
Template:Flagicon Louis Malle	Goodbye Children	Au revoir les enfants
Template:Flagicon Manoel de Oliveira	The Cannibals	Os canibais
Template:Flagicon Sergei Parajanov	The Lovelorn Minstrel	Ashik Kerib /

Best European Actress

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Template:Flagicon Carmen Maura	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios	Pepa
Template:Flagicon Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir	In the Shadow of the Raven	Í skugga hrafnsins	Isold
Template:Flagicon Ornella Muti	Private Access	Codice privato	Anna
Template:Flagicon Carol Scanlan	Reefer and the Model		Teresa "the Model"

Best European Actor

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Template:Flagicon / Template:Flagicon Max von Sydow	Pelle the Conqueror	Pelle erobreren	Lassefar "Lasse" Karlsson
Template:Flagicon / Template:Flagicon Klaus Maria Brandauer	Hanussen		Klaus Schneider / Erik Jan Hanussen
Template:Flagicon Alfredo Landa	El bosque animado		Malvís / Bandid Fendetestas
Template:Flagicon Udo Samel	Mit meinen heißen Tränen		Franz Schubert
Template:Flagicon Dorel Vișan	Iacob		Iacob

Best European Supporting Actress

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Template:Flagicon Johanna ter Steege	The Vanishing	Spoorloos	Saskia Wagter
Template:Flagicon Lene Brøndum	Hip Hip Hurrah!	Hip hip hurra! / Hipp hipp hurra!	Lille
Template:Flagicon Freda Dowie	Distant Voices, Still Lives		Mother / Nell Davies
Template:Flagicon Karin Gregorek	Bear Ye One Another's Burden	Einer trage des anderen Last	Oberschwester Walburga

Best European Supporting Actor

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Template:Flagicon Curt Bois	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin	Homer
Template:Flagicon Björn Granath	Pelle the Conqueror	Pelle erobreren	Erik
Template:Flagicon Ray McBride	Reefer and the Model		Badger
Template:Flagicon Wojciech Pszoniak	Mit meinen heißen Tränen		Kajetan
Template:Flagicon Helgi Skúlason	Shadow of the Raven	Í skugga hrafnsins	Grim

Best European Young Actor or Actress

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Template:Flagicon Pelle Hvenegaard	Pelle the Conqueror	Pelle erobreren	Pelle Karlsson
Template:Flagicon Ondřej Vetchý	House for Two	Dům pro dva	Dan
Template:Flagicon Michaela Widhalm	Mit meinen heißen Tränen		Schuberts Halbschwester Josefa
Template:Flagicon Stefan Wood	Cripples Go Christmas	Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen	Spasski

Best European Script

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Template:Flagicon Louis Malle	Goodbye Children	Au revoir les enfants
Template:Flagicon Manoel de Oliveira	The Cannibals	Os Canibais
Template:Flagicon Terence Davies	Distant Voices, Still Lives
Template:Flagicon Angelo Pasquini	It's Happening Tomorrow	Domani accadrà
Template:Flagicon Wolfgang Held	Bear Ye One Another's Burden	Einer trage des anderen Last

Best Young Film

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Country
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios	Pedro Almodóvar	Augustin Almodovár	Template:Flagicon
Damnation	Kárhozat	Béla Tarr	József Marx, Tamas Liszkay	Template:Flagicon
Days of Darkness	Дни затмения	Aleksandr Sokurov	-	Template:Flagicon
It's Happening Tomorrow	Domani accadrà	Daniele Luchetti	Angelo Barbagallo, Nanni Moretti	Template:Flagicon
Pathfinder	Ofelaš / Veiviseren	Nils Gaup	John M. Jacobsen	Template:Flagicon
Reefer and the Model		Joe Comerford	Lelia Doolan	Template:Flagicon
Stormy Monday		Mike Figgis	Nigel Stafford-Clark	Template:Flagicon, Template:Flagicon

Special Aspect Award

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Work
Gogi Aleksi-Meschischiwili, Niko Sanukeli, Schota Gogolaschwili	The Lovelorn Minstrel	Ashik Kerib /	Production Design
Henri Alekan	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin	Cinematography
Mário Barroso	The Cannibals	Os Canibais
Terence Davies	Distant Voices, Still Lives		Original Score
Félix Murcia	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios	Production Design

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Template:Flagicon Ingmar Bergman
• Template:Flagicon Marcello Mastroianni

Special Jury Award

• Template:Flagicon Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor (L'ultimo imperatore)
• Template:Flagicon Yuri Khanon for The Days of Eclipse (Дни затмения) (Special Prize of the Jury for the music the film)

Award of Merit

• Template:Flagicon Sir Richard Attenborough

External links

• Official site