20/03/2012 - With seven awards including Best Film, Wojciech Smarzowski’s feature film was the star of the 2012 Eagles.

At the Polish Film Academy’s 2012 Eagles awards ceremony yesterday in Warsaw, Rose [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Wojciech Smarzowski swept away seven awards. Best Film of the Year 2011, the feature also won Best Director, Best Actress (Agata Kulesza), Best Supporting Actor (Jacek Braciak), Best Screenplay (Michal Szczerbic), and Best Sound (Jacek Hamela and Katarzyna Dzida-Hamela), besides the Audience’s Award.

The Award for Best Actor went to Robert Więckiewicz, who has featured in some of the most important Polish films of the moment (like In Darkness by Agnieszka Holland and Courage by Greg Zgliński) and who is currently on set acting in Walęsa by Andrzej Wajda. In Darkness also took away awards for Best Supporting Actress (Kinga Preis) and Best Director of Photography (Jolanta Dylewska).

The Discovery of the Year, Suicide Room [+see also:
trailer
interview: Jakub Gierszal - Shooting S…
interview: Jan Komasa
film profile] by Jan Komasa also won the Eagle for Best Editing (Bartosz Pietras), while The Mill and the Cross [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Lech Majewski
film profile] by Lech Majewski won Best Costumes (Dorota Roqueplo) and Best Production Design (Marcel Slawiński, Katarzyna Sobańska). Finally, Best European Film went to The King’s Speech [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Tom Hooper
film profile] by Tom Hooper, and an award was presented to Janusz Majewski (The Lodger, The Criminal Who Stole a Crime, Hotel Pacific, Deserter’s Gold) for his life’s work.

(Translated from French)