The 20th European Film Awards was held in Berlin and hosted by French actress Emmanuelle Beart and German actor Jan Josef Liefers.
Britain’s Helen Mirren won yet another award on Saturday for her performance in “The Queen”, winning the best actress crown at the 2007 European Film Academy and that after she won the Oscar for the same movie a few moths ago.
Also on the same note, the Israeli actor Sasson Gabay won the best actor award on his role in “The band’s visit” a comedy about an Egyptian police band who finds itself in Israel as a result of a cultural exchange, and that we already recommended to you few weeks ago.
This was a great achievement for the Israeli film industry, other Israeli actors have been nominated in the past but Gabay is the first to win. At the same award show the director Eran Kolirin won the award for the European discovery of 2007.
The awards mark the great work and progress the Israeli film industry has been making for the last few years with movies who won awards like: “walk on water” “meduzut” etc. The only sad thing about last night is the big sense of missing the opportunity to win the Oscars, as a couple moths ago “The band’s visit” was disqualified from competing in the Oscars due to the fact that the language spoken in the movie is mostly English and not Hebrew or Arab.
We keep hoping that Israeli films will keep making it big not only in Israel but all around the world.
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