Béla Tarr Set For European Film Awards Honor; ‘Aftersun’ Leads BAFTA Scotland Awards; Mediawan To Distribute Berlusconi Doc; Tim Blake Nelson Leads Animated Short — Global Briefs
deadline.comBéla Tarr Set For European Film Awards Honor Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr will receive the Honorary Award of the Academy President and Board at this year’s European Film Awards.
Tarr is the sixth filmmaker to receive this recognition – earlier recipients are Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Sir Michael Caine, Andrzej Wajda, and Costa-Gavras.
Tarr is best known for his 1994 feature Sátántangó, a 450-minute adaptation of the novel by László Krasznahorkai. The film won the Grand Prix of the Jury at the Budapest Hungarian Film Week and quickly reached cult status, often referred to as one of the most important films of the 1990s.
This year’s European Film Awards take place in Berlin on December 9. ‘Aftersun’ Leads 2023 BAFTA Scotland Awards Charlotte Well’s debut feature, Aftersun, leads this year’s BAFTA Scotland Awards with five nominations.
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