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Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghostwriter’ Is Best Picture in the European Film Awards

Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghostwriter’ was awarded ‘Best Picture’ in the European Film Awards. The ‘Best Picture’ prize or ‘Film of the Year’ is the highest accolade given by the European Film Academy.

Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghostwriter’ Is Best Picture in the European Film Awards

Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghostwriter is Best Picture in the European Film Awards. The event was held in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital and largest city. The European film awarding body also recognized Ewan McGregor’s performance as the lead movie character, a British ghostwriter, for which he was awarded the ‘Best Actor’ prize. Robert Harris and Roman Polanski, who both wrote the film’s script, jointly won its ‘Best Screenplay’ award.

‘The Ghostwriter’ Movie Plot

‘The Ghostwriter’ movie was based loosely on real-life former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In the movie, an unnamed British Ghostwriter played by Ewan McGregor accepts the task of writing the unfinished memoirs of British Prime Minister Adam Lang, whom actor Pierce Brosnan played. The day the lead character goes to work, which requires him to board a plane to an oceanfront house located in ‘Old Haven’, a fictional place, Adam Lang is accosted by former British Foreign Secretary and United States’ Envoy Richard Rycart, played by Robert Pugh, and accused of illegally handing terrorist suspects to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be tortured, which could be a war crime. The accusation would have caused Adam Lang to face trial presided by the International Criminal Court, unless he remains in America or transfer to another country that does not recognize the International Criminal Court’s stature and laws. The scene attracts the attention of the media toward Lang’s home, where he lives with his wife Ruth and personal assistant/mistress Amelia, played by Olivia Williams and Kim Cattral, respectively. A local old man tells the writer how improbable it was for the ocean currents to have washed out the corpse of the ghostwriter, who died while writing the memoirs and disappeared in the ferry. The woman who witnessed flashlights on the beach area, where the ocean currents were supposed to have washed out the corpse, went into a coma. Following the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the dead writer’s car, he finds himself in the estate of Professor Paul Emmett, whom Tom Wilkinson played. He could feel the professor was nursing a secret. Upon leaving Emmett’s place, a car tails him, which he fortunately escapes. While surfing the Internet in a motel, he finds Emmett’s identity as a Central Intelligence Agency personnel. He learns from Rycart that the writer who died left clues in the unfinished book’s beginning, which they could not get a hold of. Receiving a call from Lang, the ghostwriter boards a plane with him. After leaving the plane, an anti-war protestor shoots Lang, who dies, and law enforcers shoots back at the assassin, killing him as well. The ghostwriter finishes the book. In the book launch party, he learns from Amelia about Ruth’s connection with Paul Emmett. He underlines each first word in each chapter of the book’s original manuscript, which was written by the dead writer. The words read, ‘Lang’s wife Ruth was recruited as a CIA agent by Professor Paul Emmett of Harvard University.’ Telling Ruth of his discovery, he turns away to leave the party. A car zooms towards him, as he crosses the street, insinuating his death (murder) from a car crash.

The 23rd European Film Awards

The 23rd European Film Awards was held last December 4, 2010. The 2300 award-giving body awarded the movie ‘The Ghostwriter’, its ‘Best Picture’ prize. Last year it gave the same recognition to Michael Haneke’s movie, ‘The White Ribbon’. Around forty films are nominated for the European Film Academy’s categories, of which the most important is ‘The Film of the Year’ award. The nominees are announced at the Seville European Film Festival in November. The nominees are voted upon by the EFA, which winners are announced in the European Film Awards held annually and exclusively for European films, actors, directors, and producers. It is usually hosted in Berlin, alternated by other cities in Europe every other year.

References:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_european_film_awards;_ylt=Aq94RcClQ6T8EynMYj3rm9tzfNdF

http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/2010/12/04/the-23rd-european-film-awards-the-winners/

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