The European Film Awards announced their technical award winner with "Goodnight Mommy" leading the awards.

The Austrian film, which is competing for the Academy Award won the Best Cinematography award for Martin Gschlacht. The film beat out "Victoria," the German film, which follows a young Spanish girl during a night in Berlin. The movie was shot in one take and most expected that the film would win the award. However, the horror film "Goodnight Mommy" took it for its extremely consistent and suggestive images and for the atmosphere it creates. The movie is Austria's Oscar selection and this award brings it one step closer as the European Film Award are a good precursor for the foreign film race.

The Belgium Oscar selection film "The Brand New Testament" also won big at the awards as it took home the production designer award. The film, which has not obtained much buzz to this point won because its design was able to mix the real and the surreal. The movie currently does not have U.S. distribution but if the takes off at the awards it will likely gain more traction and could potentially land U.S. distribution and possibly be shortlisted for the Oscars.

Portugal's "Arabian Nights" surprised as it took home the Sound award. The second part of the three-part film is the country's official Oscar selection and has a lot of buzz especially after the successful festival run which included Cannes and New York. The movie will be distributed by Kino Lorber in December.

The Cannes selection "The Lobster" won for costume design. The movie by Yorgos Lanthimos won the Grand Prix at Cannes and has been getting buzz all year. However, Alchemy will not be releasing the film until next year and therefore it will not qualify for the Academy Awards.

Poland's "Body" took home the Editing award while U.K. and Hungary co-production "The Duke of Burgundy" took home the Composing award.

The nominations in the film, comedy, director, screenwriter, actress and actor categories will be announced on Nov. 7 at the Seville European Film Festival. Among the films that could still compete for awards are "Victoria," Sweden's Oscar selection "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence," Romania's Oscar selection "Aferim!," Germany's "Labyrinth of Lies," France's Oscar selection "Mustang" and Ireland's Oscar selection "Ram."

Other big contenders include the festival hit "Mia Madre," Oscar contender "45 Years," Ex Machina starring Oscar Isaac, "Louder than Bombs" and Michael Caine's "Youth."