MUMBAI: Michael Haneke‘s The White Ribbon beat a selection of films including Jacques Audiard‘s A Prophet, Jane Campion‘s Bright Star, Jessica Hausner‘s Lourdes and Luca Guadagnino‘s I Am Love to win the Screen International Hollywood World Award at the Hollywood Awards gala in Los Angeles last night.
In Haneke‘s absence, the award was accepted by US distributor Sony Pictures Classics‘ co-president Tom Bernard.
The star-studded event also saw JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek named film of the year by the public online voters of the Yahoo! Movies wevsite.
Winners whose names were previously announced include Robert De Niro, Hilary Swank, Christoph Waltz, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Renner, Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Gabourey Sidibe. Lee Daniels, Nora Ephron, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Melanie Lynskey, Zachary Quinto, Kathryn Bigelow, Lee Daniels, Pete Docter and Ryan Kavanaugh.
Steven Spielberg, Ron Meyer, Ed Asner, Kate Beckinsale, Ewan McGregor, Kathleen Kennedy, Diane Kruger, Michael Mann, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Bullock, Pierce Brosnan, Charlize Theron, Maria Bello, Diablo Cody, Zooey Deschanel, Marisa Tomei and Anthony Mackie were among the presenters.
