2nd European Film Awards
# 2nd European Film Awards

The 2nd Annual European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy, recognized excellence in European cinema. The ceremony took place on 25 November 1989 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, France and was hosted by Franco-Swiss actress Agnès Soral and Spanish actor Fernando Rey.

Hungarian film The Midas Touch and Soviet film Little Vera led the nominations with five each while British film High Hopes received the most awards with three wins. Theo Angelopoulos's Landscape in the Mist received the award for Best European Film.

Italian director Federico Fellini received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

## Winners and nominees

The winners are in a yellow background and in bold.

### Best European Film

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Producer(s) |
| - | - | - | - |
| Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | Theo Angelopoulos | Theo Angelopoulos, Eric Heumann, Amedeo Pagani & Stéphane Sorlat |
| The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | Géza Bereményi | - |
| Magnús | Magnús | Þráinn Bertelsson | Þráinn Bertelsson |
| Recollections of the Yellow House | Recordações da casa amarela | João César Monteiro | Joâo Pedro Benard & Joaquim Pinto |
| High Hopes | High Hopes | Mike Leigh | Victor Glynn & Simon Channing-Williams |
| Little Vera | Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра | Vasili Pichul | Gorky Film Studio |

### Best European Director

| Recipient(s) | English title | Original title |
| - | - | - |
| Géza Bereményi | The Midas Touch | Eldorádó |
| Theo Angelopoulos | Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli |
| Maciej Dejczer | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba |
| Vasili Pichul | Little Vera | Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра |
| Jim Sheridan | My Left Foot | My Left Foot |

### Best European Actress

| Recipient(s) | English title | Original title | Role |
| - | - | - | - |
| Ruth Sheen | High Hopes | High Hopes | Shirley |
| Sabine Azéma | Life and Nothing But | La vie et rien d'autre | Irène de Courtil |
| Snezana Bogdanovic | Kuduz | Kuduz | Badema Kuduz |
| Corinna Harfouch | Treffen in Travers | Treffen in Travers | Therese Forster |
| Natalya Negoda | Little Vera | Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра | Vera |

### Best European Actor

| Recipient(s) | English title | Original title | Role |
| - | - | - | - |
| Philippe Noiret | Cinema Paradiso | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Alfredo |
| Philippe Noiret | Life and Nothing But | La vie et rien d'autre | Commandant Delaplane |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot | My Left Foot | Christy Brown |
| Davor Dujmovic | Time of the Gypsies | Dom za vesanje | Perhan |
| Károly Eperjes | The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | Sándor Monori |
| Jozef Króner | Thou, Which Art in Heaven | Ti, koyto si na nebeto | Geprg Henih |

### Best Supporting Performance

| Recipient(s) | English title | Original title | Role |
| - | - | - | - |
| Edna Doré | High Hopes | High Hopes | Mrs Bender |
| Sabine Berg | A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom | A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom | Anke Keipes |
| Roger Jendly | The Woman from Rose Hill | La femme de Rose Hill | Marcel |
| Alessandro Di Sanzo | Forever Mery | Mery per sempre | Mario "Mery" Libassi |
| Lyudmila Zaytseva | Little Vera | Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра | Rita |

### Best Young Film

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Producer(s) |
| - | - | - | - |
| 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | Maciej Dejczer | TOR Film Production |
| My Left Foot | My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | Noel Pearson |
| Cinema Paradiso | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Franco Cristaldi |
| Kuduz | Kuduz | Ademir Kenović | Bakir Tanović |
| Scandal | Scandal | Michael Caton-Jones | Stephen Woolley |
| Waller's Last Trip | Wallers letzter Gang | Christian Wagner | Christian Wagner |
| Mist | Sis | Zülfü Livaneli | Ülker Livanelli |

### Best European Screenwriter

| Recipient(s) | English title | Original title |
| - | - | - |
| Mariya Khmelik | Little Vera | Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра |
| Thanassis Valtinos | Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli |
| Géza Bereményi | The Midas Touch | Eldorádó |
| Þráinn Bertelsson | Magnús | Magnús |
| Maciej Dejczer | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba |

### Best European Cinematographer

| Recipient(s) | English title | Original title |
| - | - | - |
| Ulf Brantas and Jörgen Persson | The Women on the Roof | Kvinnorna på taket |
| Giorgos Arvanitis | Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli |
| Sándor Kardos | The Midas Touch | Eldorádó |
| Krzysztof Ptak | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba |
| Yefim Reznik | Little Vera | Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра |

### Best European Composer

| Recipient(s) | English title | Original title |
| - | - | - |
| Andrew Dickson | High Hopes | High Hopes |
| Goran Bregovic | Kuduz | Kuduz |
| Ferenc Darvas | The Midas Touch | Eldorádó |
| Michał Lorenc | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba |
| Maggie Parke Gast Waltzing | A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom | A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom |

### Best Documentary

| Result | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European Documentary Winner | Recsk 1950-1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary | Recsk 1950–1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története | Géza Böszörményi & Lívia Gyarmathy | |
| Documentary Film Jury Special Award | A Tale of the Wind | Een verhaal van de wind | Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan | |

### Lifetime Achievement Award

* Federico Fellini

### Special Jury Award

* Bertrand Tavernier for Life and Nothing But
* Giuseppe Tornatore for Cinema Paradiso

### Special Mention Film / Person

* Yugoslavia – Special Mention for the creative spirit of the new films from Sarajevo.
* Pictures of the Old World (Obrazy starého sveta) – Dušan Hanák
* The Road to God Knows Where – Alan Gilsenan

### European Cinema Society Special Award

* Anatole Dauman
