Gopo Awards
Gopo Awards | |
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Awarded for | Best in film |
Country | Romania |
Presented by | Association for Romanian Film Promotion |
First awarded | 2007 |
Official website | http://www.premiilegopo.ro/ |
The Gopo Awards (Romanian: Premiile Gopo) are the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (U.S.A.), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). They are presented by the Association for Romanian Film Promotion and were inaugurated in 2007
Trophy
They were established in 2007 and were named in honour of Romanian film director Ion Popescu-Gopo, also celebrating the 50th anniversary of his winning a prize in the Cannes Film Festival. The trophy is a sculpture by Romanian artist Adrian Ilfoveanu representing Gopo's Little Man, the main character of Gopo's animation films.The Gopo Prizes honour the best Romanian cinematic achievements of the previous year(or, in the case of the "Best European Film Award,the best European film distributed in Romania in the previous year).
Categories
- Best film
- Best director
- Best screenplay
- Best actor
- Best actress
- Best actor in supporting role
- Best actress in supporting role
- Best cinematography
- Best film editing
- Best sound
- Best original music score
- Best art direction
- Best costume design
- Best documentary film
- Best short film
- Best debut
- Best box office success
- Life achievement
- Best European film
Selected winners
Best film
- 2007 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
- 2008 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- 2009 The Rest Is Silence (Nae Caranfil)
- 2010 Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
- 2011 If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Florin Șerban)
- 2012 Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
- 2013 Everybody in Our Family (Radu Jude)
- 2014 Child's Pose (Călin Peter Netzer)
- 2015 Closer to the Moon (Nae Caranfil)
- 2016 Aferim! (Radu Jude)
Best director
- 2007 Corneliu Porumboiu for 12:08 East of Bucharest
- 2008 Cristian Mungiu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- 2009 Radu Muntean for Boogie
- 2010 Corneliu Porumboiu for Police, Adjective
- 2011 Florin Șerban for If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
- 2012 Cristi Puiu for Aurora
- 2013 Radu Jude for Everybody in Our Family
- 2014 Călin Peter Netzer for Child's Pose
- 2015 Nae Caranfil for Closer to the Moon
- 2016 Radu Jude for Aferim!
Best actor
- 2007 Ion Sapdaru - 12:08 East of Bucharest
- 2008 Räzvan Vasilescu - California Dreamin'
- 2009 Dragoş Bucur - Boogie
- 2010 Dragoş Bucur - Police, Adjective
- 2011 Victor Rebengiuc - Medal of Honor
- 2012 Adrian Titieni - Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intenții
- 2013 Șerban Pavlu - Everybody in Our Family
- 2014 Victor Rebengiuc - The Japanese Dog
- 2015 Florin Piersic Jr. - Quod Erat Demonstrandum
- 2016 Teodor Corban - Aferim!
Best actress
- 2007 Dorotheea Petre - Ryna
- 2008 Anamaria Marinca - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- 2009 Anamaria Marinca - Boogie
- 2010 Hilda Péter - Katalin Varga
- 2011 Mirela Oprișor - Tuesday, After Christmas
- 2012 Ana Ularu - Outbound
- 2013 not awarded
- 2014 Luminița Gheorghiu - Child's Pose
- 2015 Ofelia Popii - Quod Erat Demonstrandum
- 2016 Ioana Flora - Acasă la tata
Best screenplay
- 2007 Corneliu Porumboiu - 12:08 East of Bucharest
- 2008 Cristian Nemescu, Tudor Voican - California Dreamin'
- 2009 Nae Caranfil - The Rest Is Silence
- 2010 Corneliu Porumboiu - Police, Adjective
- 2011 Tudor Voican - Medal of Honor
- 2012 Cristi Puiu - Aurora
- 2013 Radu Jude, Corina Sabău - Everybody in Our Family
- 2014 Răzvan Rădulescu, Călin Peter Netzer - Child's Pose
- 2015 Nae Caranfil - Closer to the Moon
- 2016 Radu Jude, Florin Lăzărescu - Aferim!
Lifetime achievement
- 2007 Lucian Pintilie
- 2008 Jean Constantin
- 2009 Elisabeta Bostan, Marin Moraru
- 2010 Draga Olteanu Matei
- 2011 Ion Besoiu
- 2012 Iurie Darie
- 2013 Mitică Popescu
- 2014 Radu Beligan
- 2015 Coca Bloos
- 2016 Florin Piersic
Best European film
- 2007 Volver (Pedro Almodóvar (Spain
- 2008 13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani (Georgia)
- 2009 I Served the King of England (Jiří Menzel) (Czech Republic)
- 2010 Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone) (Italy)
- 2011 The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke) (Germany)
- 2012 Melancholia (Lars von Trier) (Denmark)
- 2013 not awarded
- 2014 Amour (Michael Haneke) (France)
- 2015 The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) (Italy)
- 2016 Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev) (Russia)