2nd European Film Awards explained

Number:	2
Award:	European Film Awards
Award Link:	European Film Awards
Date:	25 November 1989
Site:	Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris
Host:	Agnès Soral and Fernando Rey
Organizer:	European Film Academy
Best Picture:	Landscape in the Mist
Best Direction Film:	The Midas Touch
Best Actor:	Philippe Noiret
Best Actor Film:	Cinema Paradiso Life and Nothing But
Best Actress:	Ruth Sheen
Best Actress Film:	High Hopes
Most Wins:	High Hopes (3)
Most Nominations:	The Midas Touch and Little Vera (5)
Last:	1988
Next:	1990

The 2nd Annual European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy, recognized excellence in European cinema. The ceremony took place on 25 November 1989 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, France and was hosted by Franco-Swiss actress Agnès Soral and Spanish actor Fernando Rey.^[1]

Hungarian film The Midas Touch and Soviet film Little Vera led the nominations with five each^[2] while British film High Hopes received the most awards with three wins.^[3] Theo Angelopoulos's Landscape in the Mist received the award for Best European Film.

Italian director Federico Fellini received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Winners and nominees

The winners are in a yellow background and in bold.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Producer(s)
*Landscape in the Mist*	*Topio stin omichli*	Theo Angelopoulos	Theo Angelopoulos, Eric Heumann, Amedeo Pagani & Stéphane Sorlat
The Midas Touch	Eldorádó		-
Magnús
Recollections of the Yellow House	Recordações da casa amarela		Joâo Pedro Benard & Joaquim Pinto
High Hopes
Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Géza Bereményi	*The Midas Touch*	*Eldorádó*
	Landscape in the Mist	Topio stin omichli
	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba
	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра
	My Left Foot

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Ruth Sheen	*High Hopes*		Shirley
	Life and Nothing But	La vie et rien d'autre	Irène de Courtil
	Kuduz		Badema Kuduz
	Treffen in Travers		Therese Forster
	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра	Vera

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Philippe Noiret	*Cinema Paradiso*	*Nuovo Cinema Paradiso*	Alfredo
Philippe Noiret	*Life and Nothing But*	*La vie et rien d'autre*	Commandant Delaplane
	My Left Foot		Christy Brown
	Time of the Gypsies	Dom za vesanje	Perhan
	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó	Sándor Monori
	Thou, Which Art in Heaven	Ti, koyto si na nebeto	Geprg Henih

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title	Role
Edna Doré	*High Hopes*		Mrs Bender
Sabine Berg	A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom		Anke Keipes
	The Woman from Rose Hill	La femme de Rose Hill	Marcel
	Forever Mery	Mery per sempre	Mario "Mery" Libassi
	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра	Rita

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Mariya Khmelik	*Little Vera*	*Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра*
Thanassis Valtinos	Landscape in the Mist	Topio stin omichli
	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó
	Magnús
	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Ulf Brantas and Jörgen Persson	*The Women on the Roof*	*Kvinnorna på taket*
	Landscape in the Mist	Topio stin omichli
Sándor Kardos	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó
	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba
Yefim Reznik	Little Vera	Malenkaya Vera / Ма́ленькая Ве́ра

Recipient(s)	English title	Original title
Andrew Dickson	*High Hopes*
	Kuduz
Ferenc Darvas	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó
	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba
	A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom

Result	English title	Original title	Director(s)
European Documentary Winner		*Recsk 1950–1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története*	Géza Böszörményi & Lívia Gyarmathy
Documentary Film Jury Special Award	*A Tale of the Wind*	*Een verhaal van de wind*	Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan