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Collective receives the Gopo Award for Best Film

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- Legacy, Acasă – My Home and 5 Minutes Too Late were also among the gala’s winners

Collective receives the Gopo Award for Best Film
Collective producers Bianca Oana and Hanka Kastelikova with one of their Gopo Awards

After receiving Romania’s first Academy Award nomination, Alexander Nanau’s documentary Collective [+see also:
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(Romania/Luxembourg) has triumphed at the 15th edition of the Gopo Awards, organised outdoors on Tuesday evening. Nanau also won the Best Director trophy and, together with Dana Bunescu and George Cragg, the Best Editing Award.

Radu Ciorniciuc’s well-travelled documentary Acasă – My Home [+see also:
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interview: Radu Ciorniciuc
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(Romania/Finland/Germany) won Best First Feature, Best Documentary (a category where Collective wasn’t actually competing) and Best Sound. The awards won by these two documentaries at home and abroad will certainly revive the conflict between the Romanian documentary community and the National Film Center, which funnels only 10% of its funding into documentary production.

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Interestingly, all four of the acting categories were won by Dan Chişu’s 5 Minutes Too Late [+see also:
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(Romania). Jésus del Cerro’s Miami Bici [+see also:
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snagged the Audience Award, a nod given to the domestic film with the highest number of admissions in the previous year (for more on the movie’s popularity, see the news). Dorian Boguţă’s Legacy [+see also:
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won three gongs, including the coveted Best Screenplay Award, while Radu Jude’s Uppercase Print [+see also:
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won two accolades. Although it received this edition’s highest number of nominations, namely 12, Ivana Mladenovic’s Ivana the Terrible [+see also:
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(Romania/Serbia) didn’t take home a single award.

Probably Romania’s most talked-about film of 2020, Cristi Puiu’s Malmkrog [+see also:
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, was not considered at this edition of the Gopos, as it hasn’t yet been released domestically.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Film
Collective [+see also:
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- Alexander Nanau (Romania/Luxembourg)

Best Director
Alexander Nanau – Collective

Best Screenplay
Dorian Boguţă, Loredana Novak – Legacy [+see also:
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Best Lead Actor
Mihai Călin - 5 Minutes Too Late [+see also:
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Best Lead Actress
Diana Cavallioti - 5 Minutes Too Late

Best Supporting Actress
Elvira Deatcu - 5 Minutes Too Late

Best Supporting Actor
Emanuel Pârvu - 5 Minutes Too Late

Best Cinematography
Oleg Mutu - Love 2. America [+see also:
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Best Editing
Alexander Nanau, George Cragg, Dana Bunescu - Collective

Best Sound
Tom Weber, Andreas Mühlschlegel, Lukás Moudrý - Acasă – My Home [+see also:
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interview: Radu Ciorniciuc
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]
(Romania/Finland/Germany)

Best Score
Marius Leftărache, Matei Stratan, Cristina Chiosea - Legacy

Best Art Direction
Irina Moscu - Uppercase Print [+see also:
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Best Costumes
Mălina Ionescu - Legacy

Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Bianca Boeroiu, Domnica Bodogan - Uppercase Print

Best First Feature
Acasă - My Home - Radu Ciorniciuc

Best Documentary
Acasă - My Home - Radu Ciorniciuc

Best European Film
Sorry We Missed You [+see also:
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]
- Ken Loach (UK/France/Belgium)

Best New Hope
Alma Buhagiar – director of Together (short film)

Best Short Film
Into the Night - Ana Pasti

Best Short Documentary Film
The Deer Passed in Front of Me - Vlad Petri

Best Short Animated Film
The Death and the Knight - Radu Gaciu

Audience Award
Miami Bici [+see also:
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- Jésus del Cerro

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