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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2017

EFA honours Julie Delpy

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- The French-American actress will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award at the European Film Awards ceremony

EFA honours Julie Delpy
(© Giornate degli Autori 2015)

The European Film Academy will present the honorary award European Achievement in World Cinema to French-American actress Julie Delpy, in recognition of a rich and diverse career in front of and behind the camera. Delpy will be an honorary guest at the 30th European Film Awards Ceremony on 9 December in Berlin.

Born in Paris, Julie Delpy was discovered when she was 14 years old by Jean-Luc Godard, who cast her in Detective (1985). She graduated in Filmmaking from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written or acted in more than 30 films. She played the lead in Bertrand Tavernier's The Passion of Beatrice (1987), for which she was nominated as Most Promising Actress for a French César. In The Dark Night by Carlos Saura she was the Virgin Mary and in 1990 her breakthrough came with Europa Europa by Agnieszka Holland. Her first EFA Nomination followed in 1991 for The Voyager by Volker Schlöndorff. She also worked with Krzysztof Kieslowski as Dominique in the Three Colours trilogy (1993/1994), Jim Jarmusch in Broken Flowers (2005) and Todd Solondz in Wiener-Dog (2016).

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Probably most unforgettable is Julie Delpy's performance with Ethan Hawke in Richard Linklater's Before series: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013). She co-wrote these and received an Oscar nomination in Screenwriting for the latter two as well as a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Before Midnight.

She has directed six feature films and received her second EFA Nomination in 2007 for 2 Days in Paris [+see also:
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for which she was also nominated for a César. Her film Skylab [+see also:
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received the Special Prize of the jury at San Sebastian 2011 and Lolo [+see also:
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premiered at Venice 2015.

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