"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" Wins European Film Award

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"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" Wins European Film Award

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Posted by: Sue

December 07, 2008, 06:06 PM

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was a winner at the European Film Awards. The BBC reports the fifth Harry Potter movie "received the People's Choice Award - the only prize decided by ordinary cinemagoers.

Its British director David Yates thanked the European Film Academy for their "beautiful" award, adding he would be delighted to "take it back to Hogwarts".

Congratulations to all who worked on Order of the Phoenix!

Thanks Johan!

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6 Comments

Loving this so far. Looking forward to the additional GOF scenes.

Posted by tinagin on December 07, 2008, 06:39 PM report to moderator

it’d be cool if he put it in the trophy room :-) imagine if we saw a random "muggle" award on GOF? lol

Posted by kerri on December 07, 2008, 11:40 PM report to moderator

Great, it was definitely the best of the nominated films. Cant wait for hbp!

Posted by Miriam on December 08, 2008, 02:52 AM report to moderator

Conratulations OotP and of course David Yates !!!!! Hope to see you winning many, many more !!!!!!!!!

Posted by Shivi on December 09, 2008, 05:20 AM report to moderator

Gr8 ! It’s a wonderful news. Hope HBP makes it bigger than OOTP.

Posted by Demelza on December 09, 2008, 06:57 AM report to moderator

And well deserved too. It was all round the most entertaining and well performed film in the series that truly made it my favourite film of the whole year. Not for one moment, did the film drag with great characters (Staunton as Umbridge was pure gold), comedy, suspense, battles, it had it all.

Posted by Professor Potter on December 10, 2008, 07:12 AM report to moderator

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