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AWARDS Greece

Dogtooth sweeps up first-ever Academy honours

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Un Certain Regard winner Dogtooth [+see also:
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came out on top of Monday night’s first-ever awards ceremony of the newfound Hellenic Film Academy, winning five major awards.

The film’s streak started quite early in the evening, when Yorgos Mavropsaridis was called on stage at the Megaron (Athens Concert Hall) to collect the Best Editing Award. The film went on to win Best Supporting Acting for Hristos Passalis, and wrapped up the ceremony by winning Best Screenplay (Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou), Best Director (Lanthimos) and Best Film (Lanthimos, Yorgos Tsourgiannis, Iraklis Mavroidis).

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Dogtooth’s major rival, Strella [+see also:
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, which was directed by Panos H Koutras and screened at the 2009 Berlinale, started out as the evening’s leader. But after winning Best Make-up, Costumes and Production Design, its roll ended with Mina Orfanou’s triumphant acceptance of the Best Actress prize for the titular role.

Pantelis VoulgarisDeep Soul won Best Sound and Best Score; Petros Noussias made history by receiving the first HFA Award of the evening, for his work as head of the special effects team of Evil in the Time of Heroes; and Marcus Waterloo, the British DoP of Black Field [+see also:
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, became the first non-Greek to win a prize in any Greek film awards ceremony.

An upset occurred when Argyris Papadimitropoulos won Best Debut Director for mega-hit Bank Bang, over Vardis Marinakis’ Black Field, which was considered the favorite. Anna Mascha’s Best Supporting Actress award was also a slight surprise, while Antonis Kafetzopoulos’ Best Actor nod for his (Locarno awarded) work in Plato’s Academy [+see also:
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was the evening’s safest bet.

Rounding out the awards were Best Feature Documentary winner There Was No Other Way, by Stavros Psillakis, and Best Short Film And Me For Myself by Tzortzis Grigorakis.

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