The Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki Leaves that have fallen and British director Jonathan Glazer The zone of interest leads the nominations in the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards, which take place on December 9 in Berlin.
The dramas were nominated in all five main categories: Best European Film, Director, Screenwriter and Best Actress and Actor. (Click on film titles for Deadline reviews and interviews)
Both films celebrated their world premiere in competition at Cannes this year The zone of interest Win the Grand Prix and Leaves that have fallen Win the jury prize. They represent Great Britain and Finland respectively in the Oscar race for best international film.
Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or by French director Justine Triet Anatomy of a fall Four nominations follow in all categories except Best Actor, while Poland’s Agnieszka Holland is nominated Green borderNext is the film, which won the Venice Special Jury Prize, with three nominations.
The Italian director Matteo Garrone I captainThe German filmmaker Ilker Çatak Staff room and this How to have sexby Brit Molly Manning Walker each won two nominations in different categories.
Other nomination categories announced Tuesday include Best Documentary and Best First Feature. The nominees for best European documentary include Nicolas Philibert’s Golden Bear winner at the Berlinale On the Adamantines and the award-winning hybrid work of Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania Four daughtersa co-production with France, Tunisia, Germany and Saudi Arabia (scroll down for the full list of nominees).
The European Film Awards ceremony is presented by the European Film Academy and European Film Academy Productions.
Nominations are based on the votes of 4,600 members of the European Film Academy on films included in the Academy’s annual selection. It consists of 35 to 45 films selected by the board of the European Film Academy and a group of experts.
Awards for the craft categories Best European cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, make-up and hair, original music, sound and visual effects are selected by an expert jury from the films in the Academy’s core selection
The video announcement of this year’s nominations features young members of the European Film Club, recently established by the European Film Academy, a new initiative to promote film culture in the 12 to 19 age group. (Scroll down to watch the video.)
These are the nominees for 2023:
European film
- ANATOMY OF A CASE (ANATOMY OF A CHUTE)
Director: Justine Triet
Produced by Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion
(France) - FALLEN LEAVES (KUOLLET LEHDET)
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Produced by Aki Kaurismäki, Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff and Reinhard Brundig
(Finland, Germany) - GREEN BORDER (ZIELONA GRANICA)
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Produced by Marcin Wierzchosławski, Fred Bernstein and Agnieszka Holland
(Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium) - I CAPTAIN (IO CAPITANO)
director: Matteo Garrone
Produced by Matteo Garrone, Paolo Del Brocco, Ardavan Safaee and Joseph Rouschop
(Italy, Belgium) - THE ZONE OF INTEREST
director: Jonathan Glazer
Produced by James Wilson and Ewa Puszczyńska
(UK, Poland, USA)
European documentary film
- APOLLONIA, APOLLONIA
director: Lea Glob (Denmark, Poland) - FOUR DAUGHTERS (LES FILLES D’OLFA)
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania (France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia) - HOME TOWN
Director: Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich (Sweden, Ukraine, Norway) - ON THE ADAMANT (SUR L’ADAMANT)
director: Nicolas Philibert (France, Japan) - SMOKING SAUNA SISTERHOOD (SAVVUSANNA SÕSARAD)
Director: Anna Hints (Estonia, France, Iceland)
European Director
- Justine Triet for ANATOMY OF A FALL
- Aki Kaurismaki for FALLEN LEAVES
- Agnieszka Holland for GREEN EDGE
- Matteo Garrone for ME, CAPTAIN
- Jonathan Glazer for THE ZONE OF INTEREST
European actress
- Sandra Hueller in ANATOMY OF A CASE
- Eka Chavleishvili in BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY
- Alma Poysti in FALLEN LEAVES
- Mia McKenna-Bruce in HOW TO HAVE SEX
- Leonie Benesch in the TEACHER STICK
- Sandra Hueller in the area of interest
European actor
- Thomas Schubert in AFIRE
- Jussi Vatanen in FALLEN LEAVES
- Josh O’Connor in LA CHIMERA
- Mads Mikkelsen in the promised land
- Christian Friedel in the area of interest
European screenwriter
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for ANATOMY OF A FALL
- Aki Kaurismaki for FALLEN LEAVES
- Maciej Pisuk, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko & Agnieszka Holland for GREEN EDGE
- İlker Çatak & Johannes Duncker for THE TEACHER’S STICK
- Jonathan Glazer for THE ZONE OF INTEREST
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20,000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS) directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain)
- HOW TO HAVE SEX Director: Molly Manning Walker (UK, Greece)
- LA PALISIADA (ЛЯ ПАЛИСІАДА) directed by Philip Sotnychenko (Ukraine)
- SAFE PLACE (SIGURNO MJESTO) directed by Juraj Lerotić (Croatia, Slovenia)
- THE SILENT MIGRATION (SILENT LIV) directed by Malene Choi (Denmark)
- VINCENT MUST DIE (VINCENT DOIT MOURIR) Director: Stéphan Castang (France)
Source: Deadline
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