One film that has been surprisingly absent from many of the U.S. year-end awards lists is Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness.” The social media skewing farce took the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival but fizzled with critics in the U.S. and audiences around the globe earning just $15 million to date. Östlund and his colleagues have something to celebrate after “Sadness” took four wins at the 2022 European Film Awards including the top prize, European Film.
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The NEON release also won European Director (Östlund), European Screenwriter (Östlund), and European Actor (Zlatko Burić). Vicky Krieps took European Actress for “Corsage,” a performance she was also honored for at Cannes.
Mantas Kvedaravičius‘s “Mariupolis 2” took European Documentary.
A complete list of this year’s nominees and winners are as follows:
EUROPEAN FILM
Alcarràs (Sp-It)
Director Carla Simón, producers María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera & Giovanni Pompili  
Close (Bel-Fr-Neth)
Director Lukas Dhont, producers Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Arnold Heslenfeld, Frans van Gestel & Jacques-Henri Bronckart
Corsage (Austria-Lux-Ger-France)
Director Marie Kreutzer, producers Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Bernard Michaux, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade & Jean-Christophe Reymond
Holy Spider (Den-Ger-Swe-Fr)
Director by Ali Abbasi, producers Sol Bondy & Jacob Jarek
Triangle Of Sadness (Swe-Ger-Fr-UK) – ***WINNER***
Directed by Ruben Östlund, producers Erik Hemmendorff & Philippe Bober  
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
A House Made Of Splinters (Den-Swe-Fin-Ukr)
Director Simon Lereng Wilmont
Girl Gang (Switz)
Director Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland)
Mariupolis 2 (Lithuania-Fr-Ger) – ***WINNER***
Director Mantas Kvedaravičius
The Balcony Movie (Pol)
Director Paweł Łoziński  
The March On Rome (It)
Director Mark Cousins  
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Lukas Dhont for Close
Marie Kreutzer for Corsage
Jerzy Skolimowski for EO
Ali Abbasi for Holy Spider
Alice Diop for Saint Omer
Ruben Östlund for Triangle Of Sadness – ***WINNER***
EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Vicky Krieps in Corsage – ***WINNER***
Zar Amir Ebrahimi in Holy Spider
Léa Seydoux in One Fine Morning
Penélope Cruz in Parallel Mothers
Meltem Kaptan in Rabiye Kurnaz Vs. George W. Bush
EUROPEAN ACTOR
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Eden Dambrine in Close
Elliott Crosset Hove in Godland
Pierfrancesco Favino in Nostalgia
Zlatko Burić in Triangle Of Sadness – ***WINNER***
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Carla Simón & Arnau Vilaró for Alcarràs
Kenneth Branagh for Belfast
Lukas Dhont & Angelo Tijssens for Close
Ali Abbasi & Afshin Kamran Bahrami for Holy Spider
Ruben Östlund for Triangle Of Sadness – ***WINNER***
EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – Prix FIPRESCI
107 Mothers (Slovakia-Czech Rep-Ukr)
Director Peter Kerekes
Love According To Dalva (Bel-Fr)
Director Emmanuelle Nicot  
Other People (Pol-Fr)
Director Aleksandra Terpińska  
Pamfir (Ukr-Fr-Pol-Ger-Chile)
Director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Small Body (It-Slovenia-Fr) – ***WINNER***
Director Laura Samani
Sonne Director Kurdwin Ayub
EUROPEAN COMEDY
COP SECRET (LEYNILÖGGA)
directed by Hannes Þór Halldórsson (Iceland)
THE GOOD BOSS (EL BUEN PATRÓN) – ***WINNER***
directed by Fernando León de Aranoa (Spain)
THE DIVIDE (LA FRACTURE)
directed by Catherine Corsini (France)
EUROPEAN ANIMATED FILM
LITTLE NICHOLAS – HAPPY AS CAN BE (LE PETIT NICOLAS – QU’EST-CE QU’ON ATTEND POUR ÊTRE HEUREUX?)
directed by Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre (France, Luxembourg)
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE
directed by Signe Baumane (Latvia, United States, Luxembourg)
MY NEIGHBORS’ NEIGHBORS (LES VOISINS DE MES VOISINS SONT MES VOISINS)
directed by Anne-Laure Daffis & Léo Marchand (France)
NO DOGS OR ITALIANS ALLOWED (INTERDIT AUX CHIENS ET AUX ITALIENS)
directed by Alain Ughetto (France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal) – ***WINNER***
OINK (KNOR)
directed by Mascha Halberstad (Netherlands, Belgium)
EUROPEAN SHORT FILM
GRANNY’S SEXUAL LIFE (BABIČINO SEKSUALNO ŽIVLJENJE)
directed by Urška Djukič & Émilie Pigeard (Slovenia/France) – ***WINNER***
ICE MERCHANTS
directed by João Gonzalez (Portugal/France/UK)
LOVE, DAD (MILÝ TATI)
directed by Diana Cam Van Nguyen (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
TECHNO, MAMA
directed by Saulius Baradinskas (Lithuania)
WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME
directed by Mo Harawe (Austria/Germany/Somalia)