European Film Awards: ‘The Substance’, ‘Emilia Pérez’ & ‘The Girl With The Needle’ Lead Arts & Craft Prizes

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Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez are among the winners of the European Film Academy’s 2024 Excellence Awards, celebrating arts and crafts achievements in eight categories.

The winners, which are decided by a specialist eight-member jury, will receive their trophies at the European Film Awards ceremony in the Swiss city of Lucerne on December 7.

The UK’s Benjamin Kračun won best European Cinematography for his work on The Substance with the jury praising the way he captured the demise of protagonist Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore). “He playfully explores her physical and psychological demise with highly stylised lens distortions and manipulations.

It is loud and glossy, but also manages to eke out an unexpected intimacy and vulnerability,” read the jury comments. |The audience is transported through to an unbearably painful, and hilariously raucous ending, achieved only through collaboration with all departments and is undoubtably a celebration of cinematography and cinema.” French film editor Juliette Welfling won Best Editing for Emilia Pérez, with the jury noting the film’s “incredible fluidity and elegance” and praising the way it immersed “the audience in the narrative without feeling any of the usual stop-and-go between sung scenes and the others.”Poland’s Jagna Dobesz won Best European Production Design for her work on Magnus von Horn’s Swedish-Polish co-production The Girl With The Needle.  “The difficult life and psychological drama of young Karoline in post-WWI Copenhagen is expertly illustrated by an excellent, interesting, visually strong, and striking production design,” commented the jury.“Through skillfully designed interiors, along with carefully chosen exteriors,