The Gopo Awards (Romanian: Premiile Gopo) are the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (U.S.A.), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). They are presented by the Association for Romanian Film Promotion and were inaugurated in 2007
Trophy
They were established in 2007 and were named in honour of Romanian film director Ion Popescu-Gopo, also celebrating the 50th anniversary of his winning a prize in the Cannes Film Festival. The trophy is a sculpture by Romanian artist Adrian Ilfoveanu representing Gopo's Little Man, the main character of Gopo's animation films.The Gopo Prizes honour the best Romanian cinematic achievements of the previous year(or, in the case of the "Best European Film Award,the best European film distributed in Romania in the previous year).
Categories
- Best film
- Best director
- Best screenplay
- Best actor
- Best actress
- Best actor in supporting role
- Best actress in supporting role
- Best cinematography
- Best film editing
- Best sound
- Best original music score
- Best art direction
- Best costume design
- Best documentary film
- Best short film
- Best debut
- Best box office success
- Life achievement
- Best European film
Selected winners
Best film
- 2007 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
- 2008 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- 2009 The Rest Is Silence (Nae Caranfil)
Best director
- 2007 Corneliu Porumboiu for 12:08 East of Bucharest
- 2008 Cristian Mungiu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- 2009 Radu Muntean for Boogie
Best actor
- 2007 Ion Sapdaru - 12:08 East of Bucharest
- 2008 Räzvan Vasilescu - California Dreamin'
- 2009 DragoÅŸ Bucur - Boogie
Best actress
- 2007 Dorotheea Petre - Ryna
- 2008 Anamaria Marinca - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- 2009 Anamaria Marinca - Boogie
Best screenwriter
- 2007 Corneliu Porumboiu - 12:08 East of Bucharest
- 2008 Cristian Nemescu, Tudor Voican - California Dreamin'
- 2009 Nae Caranfil - The Rest is Silence
Life achievement
- 2007 Lucian Pintilie
- 2008 Jean Constantin
- 2009 Elisabeta Bostan, Marin Moraru
Best European film
- 2007 Volver (Pedro Almodóvar(Spain
- 2008 13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani (Georgia)
- 2009 I Served the King of England (Jiřà Menzel) (Czech Republic)