On Monday,
28th of March, the
Hellenic Film Academy celebrated Greek cinema with the 7th awards ceremony of
Iris – as they are called from now on – awards.
Wednesday 04:45 by
Alexis Alexiou was the great winner of the evening, receiving nine awards in total, including best film, best director, best actor, best cinematography, best editing, best sound, best music, best set design and best visual effects.
Ouzeri Tsitsanis by
Manousos Manousakis left with best supporting female actress, best make-up and best costumes awards, while
Yorgos Zois and
Evangelia Kranioti shared the best debut director award for their films
Interruption and
Erotica, exotica, etc… respectively.
Evangelia Andreadaki received the best actress award for the film
Smac by
Elias Demetriou and
Minas Hatzissavas was the winner of best supporting male actor award for his performance in the film
Worlds Apart by
Christofors Papakaliatis. Best script award was handed to
Chevalier’s scriptwriters
Efthimis Filippou and
Athina Rachel Tsangari, while the Academy awarded for the first time a foreign film,
Lobster by
Yorgos Lanthimos. Present at the ceremony was the British actress Vanessa Redgrave, who took a few moments to talk about refugees and the European governments’ attitude towards them.
Alexis Alexiou, Director of Wednesday 04:45
Iris Awards of the Hellenic Film Academy 2016
Nominations for Best Fiction Film
Nominations for Best Documentary “Loukia Rikaki”
Nominations for Best Director
Nominations for Best Debut Director
Nomination for Best Script
Chevalier – Efthimis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari
Wednesday 04:45 – Alexis Alexiou
Interruption – Yorgos Zois, Vassilis Kyriakopoulos
Smac – Elias Demetriou
Nominations for Best Actor
Wednesday 04:45 – Stelios Mainas
Nominations for Best Actress
Smac – Evangelia Andreadaki
Nominations for Best Supporting Actor
Worlds Apart – Minas Hatzissavas
Nominations for Best Supporting Actress
Ouzeri Tsitsanis – Vassiliki Troufakou
Nominations for Best Cinematography
Wednesday 04:45 – Christos Karamanis
Nominations for Best Editing
Wednesday 04:45 – Lambis Haralambidis
Nominations for Best Original Music Score
Wednesday 04:45 – Yannis Veslemes (Felizol)
Nominations for Best Set Design
Wednesday 04:45 – Spyros Laskaris
Interruption – Spyros Laskaris
Best Costume Award went to Anna Machairianaki for the film Ouzeri Tsitsanis
Nominations for Best Costume
Ouzeri Tsitsanis – Anna Machairianaki
Wednesday 04:45 – Alkistis Mamali
Nominations for Best Make-up
Ouzeri Tsitsanis – Nabil Salame
Wednesday 04:45 – Stella Karapouliou
Best Sound Award went to Aris Athanassopoulos, Avi Mizrahi and Gil Toren for the film Wednesday 04:45
Nominations for Best Sound
Nominations for Best Visual Effects and Film Innovation
Wednesday 04:45 – Ippokratis Chalas, Michalis Samiotis, Giorgos Alahouzos, Argiris Alahouzos, Dani Cohen
Nominations for Best Short Film
Fig – Nikolas Kolovos
The Film Factory Short Film Fund selected projects, which will be granted 15.000 Eur. each, are "Vourvourou" by Karina Logotheti and "Rages" by Elina Fessa.
