“The Snow Society” received two Awards of Excellence from the European Film Academy

The European Film Academy today revealed the winners of its Awards of Excellence, awards that honor the most artistic works of the past year.

A special jury of eight specialists selected the winners in these categories from the feature films selected for the 36th European Film Awards (EFA). A handover ceremony will be held In Berlin on Saturday, December 9th. Audiovisual451 will go to the German capital to cover the event live, and will also present the concert via live broadcast.

So, “snow community”The Netflix hit and JA Bayona’s dream come true has won awards Makeup and hair stylingto Ana Lopez-Puigserver, Belén Lopez-Puigserver, David Marti, Montsi Rippie, and to Visual effectsBy Felix Berges and Laura Pedro. The Catalan director has placed great emphasis in all his promotional interviews and on his social networks on the meticulous work of all the teams to reflect the passage of time in the appearance of the characters in “The Snow Society”. The film can be watched for a limited time in Spanish theaters during December and on Netflix worldwide starting January 4. “The Snow Society,” which would have had a budget of 65 million euros, is the film representing Spain at the 2024 Oscars.

In the case of make-up and hairstyling, the jury highlighted that “The enviable achievement in this field of ‘The Snow Society’ combines great care not to break continuity and a profound way of showing the passage of time. With great precision, the viewer witnesses how the characters’ hair and beards grow and how their skin changes.” Over time, the environment is threatened. “In addition, care was taken to make the actors look like real people in the face of such terrifying events.”

In the case of visual effects, the jury highlighted that “in this drama based on the true events of the plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972, we never question what we see on screen. The excellent visual effects and very good composition make everything look like it was filmed on location and that everything happened while the cameras were there. Moreover, the illusion was not broken at any point in the footage.”

The rest of the categories

The Excellence in Cinematography Award goes to Rasmus Wiedebäck for his film “Promised Land” (Directed by Nikolaj Arcel). This same film won the Costume Design Award for Kiki Elander.

The editorial award goes to Laurent Sénéchal “Anatomy of a Fall”French film directed by Justine Triet. For her part, Emita Frigato received the Production Design Award for her film “Chimera”, directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Moreover Austrian “Zero Club”The film, directed by Jessica Hausner, won the Original Score Award for Markus Bender. finally, “area of ​​interest”The film, directed by Jonathan Glazer, won the Excellence in Sound Award, which goes to Johnny Byrne and Tarn Wheelers.

he Jury The Awards of Excellence were made up of Director of Photography Matteo Cocco (Italy), Editor Mdhamiri A Nkemi (UK), Production Designer Maria Shoop (Ukraine), Costume Designer Armafini Stoyanova (Bulgaria), and Make-up Artist and Hair Designer Igli Mikalauskaiti. (Lithuania), sound designer Gina Keller (Switzerland), composer Zviad Mejbri (Georgia), and visual effects supervisor Martin Larsson (Sweden).