After Czech film critics got a chance to cast their votes in order to single out the best oeuvres of 2018 just one month ago (see the news), the Czech Film Academy voiced its opinions over the weekend, celebrating domestic cinema at the annual Czech Lion ceremony. The big surprise at the 26^th edition was that the historical biopic drama Toman [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Olmo Omerzu, which cashed in on the majority of its ten nominations (two for Best Supporting Actress), including Best Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Script. Omerzu thus became doubly crowned as Best Director, adding the Czech Lion to the prize he received from the domestic film critics.

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Omerzu’s was not the only case on which both academy members and film critics saw eye to eye, as Jenovéfa Boková netted the Best Actress Award for her performance in Beata Parkanová’s feature debut, Moments [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Czech surrealist maestro Jan Švankmajer won the Best Stage Design Award for the art direction on what was previously announced to be his last feature project, Insect [+lee también:
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The second most-nominated film, the period romantic thriller The Hastrman by Ondřej Havelka, picked up four awards (Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Music and Best Costume Design), while the sports drama The Golden Sting by Radim Procházka, which had notched up nine nominations, shared Toman’s fate, winning none. The same thing happened to the historical biopic Jan Palach [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which had accumulated eight nominations and was even considered the Best Film of 2018 by the national film critics. Also on the list of nominees was the road dramedy The Interpreter [+lee también:
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Besides domestic cinema, the Czech Lions acknowledge the most interesting television projects as well. The comedy series Dubbing Street by Petr Zelenka, who turned his play (which he also directed) into a television series, won the Best Television Drama Series Award, while the two-part TV movie Dukla 61, about a horrendous mining tragedy that took place in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, directed by David Ondříček, won the Best Television Film Award.

Here is the complete list of Czech Lion winners:

Best Film
Winter Flies [+lee también:
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Best Documentary
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Best Director
Olmo Omerzu – Winter Flies

Best Actress
Jenovéfa Boková – Moments [+lee también:
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Best Actor
Karel Dobrý – The Hastrman (Czech Republic) 

Best Supporting Actress
Eliška Křenková – Winter Flies

Best Supporting Actor
Jan František Uher - Winter Flies

Best Screenplay
Petr Pýcha - Winter Flies

Best Cinematography
Diviš Marek - The Hastrman 

Best Film Editing
Jana Vlčková - Winter Flies

Best Sound
Jakub Jurásek, Jan Šulcek, David Titěra – Domestique [+lee también:
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Best Music
Petr Wajsar - The Hastrman 

Best Stage Design
Jan Švankmajer, Václav Švankmajer – Insect [+lee también:
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Best Costume Design
Eva Kotková - The Hastrman 

Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Zdeněk Klika – The Magic Quill (Czech Republic/Slovakia)

Best Television Film or Miniseries
Dukla 61 - David Ondříček (Czech Republic)

Best Television Drama Series
Dubbing Street - Petr Zelenka