Shooting Stars Award


European Shooting Stars is an initiative of the pan-European network organisation European Film Promotion for the international promotion and networking of promising up-and-coming actors from the 37 respective EFP member countries. Over the past 20 years, 10 talents selected from all over Europe have been presented each year during the Berlinale to the international press, the general public, and the film industry. The four-day programme culminates with the presentation of the European Shooting Stars Awards

Selection and Programme

The EFP member organisations from a total of 37 European countries can each nominate one actor/actress aged between 18 and 32, who has been successful and already won awards in their native country.
An independent international expert jury selects the 10 best and internationally most promising talents to then be presented at the Berlinale to international casting directors, agencies, directors, producers as well as the international press and the general public and to also receive the European Shooting Star Award at the end of the programme.

Award winners

Up until 2018, a total of 170 actresses and 133 actors had been presented at the Berlinale and received awards as European Shooting Stars, including the now internationally known actors Rachel Weisz, Franka Potente, Daniel Craig, August Diehl, Nina Hoss, Heike Makatsch, Ludivine Sagnier, Jérémie Renier, Daniel Brühl, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrew Scott, Ruth Negga, Mélanie Laurent, Andrew Garfield , Carey Mulligan, Pilou Asbaek, Alicia Vikander, Riz Ahmed, Carla Juri, George MacKay and Maisie Williams.

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Partners

The European Shooting Stars is supported by the participating EFP member organisations, the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union as well as by other cooperation partners and sponsors.