25/03/2014 - The Golden Bear winner takes home eight trophies at the Romanian film industry awards

It may not have been the most nominated film of this edition, but without doubt, Călin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose [+see also:
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The trophies for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Luminiţa Gheorghiu), Best Screenplay (Răzvan Rădulescu, Netzer), Best Supporting Actress (Ilinca Goia), Best Supporting Actor (Vlad Ivanov), Best Editing (Dana Bunescu) and Best Sound (Cristian Tarnoveţchi, Dana Bunescu, Cristinel Şirli) went to the team of Child’s Pose in one of the most predictable editions of the Gopos ever. The film’s director did not attend the gala hosted on Monday evening by the National Opera in Bucharest. 

The most nominated film of the edition, Igor Cobileanski’s Romanian-Moldovan co-production The Unsaved [+see also:
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Senior actor Victor Rebengiuc won his second Gopo for Best Actor for Tudor Cristian Jurgiu’s The Japanese Dog [+see also:
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Tom Wilson’s The Bucureşti Experiment received the Best Documentary Award, and young DoP Tudor Panduru was given the Best New Hope Award for the cinematography on short film The Black Brigade. 

The 95-year-old actor Radu Beligan was given a Lifetime Achievement Award, only months after receiving a Guinness World Records certificate for being the world’s oldest active professional theatre actor.