European Film Awards: France’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ and Spain’s ‘The Room Next Door’ lead nominations

The European Movie Academy has introduced the nominees in key classes of the thirty seventh European Movie Awards, which shall be held within the Swiss metropolis of Lucerne on 7 December.  

Double Cannes winner and French Oscar entry Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard and this yr’s Golden Lion winner The Room Subsequent Door by Pedro Almodóvar lead the nominations, with each movies nominated for Finest European Movie, Director and Screenplay, in addition to Finest Actress for Karla Sofia Gascón in Emilia Pérez and Tilda Swinton in The Room Subsequent Door. 

Different frontrunners embrace Germany’s Oscar entry The Seed of the Sacred Fig by exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, which has been nominated for Finest Movie, Director and Screenplay. 

Different notable nominations embrace Andrea Arnold’s Chook and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance.  

For the primary time this yr, movies nominated for Finest European Documentary and Finest Animated Function Movie are additionally eligible within the Finest European Movie class. Which means the Finest European Movie nominations checklist for 2024 is bigger than earlier years, and contains titles like Mati Diop’s Golden Bear winner Dahomey and Latvian Gints Zilbalodis’ animated movie Movement.  

One other change will happen after this yr’s European Movie Awards: the 2024 ceremony would be the final time it takes place in December. From 2026 onwards, the ceremony will happen in January, in order that the awards are a part of the broader awards season dialog.

The European Movie Awards are one thing of a bellwether for which EU titles are more likely to be nominated within the upcoming US awards season.  

Final yr, Anatomy of a Fall received 4 of the 5 main prizes, together with Finest European Movie, and went on to nab 5 Oscar nominations. Director Justine Triet and co-writer Arthur Harari received the Oscar for Finest Screenplay. 

Listed here are the 2024 nominations:  

Finest European Movie 

• BYE BYE TIBERIAS (BYE BYE TIBERIADE) (France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar), directed by Lina Soualem, produced by Jean-Marie Nizan, Guillaume Malandrin & Ossama Bawardi 

• DAHOMEY (France, Senegal), directed by Mati Diop 

• EMILIA PÉREZ (France), directed by Jacques Audiard 

• FLOW (STRAUME) (Latvia, France, Belgium), directed by Gints Zilbalodis 

• IN LIMBO (W ZAWIESZENIU) (Poland), directed by Alina Maksimenko 

• LIVING LARGE (ŽIVOT Okay SEŽRÁNÍ) (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia), directed by Kristina Dufková 

• NO OTHER LAND (Palestine, Norway), directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal 

• SAVAGES (SAUVAGES) (Switzerland, France, Belgium), directed by Claude Barras 

• SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (France, Belgium, Netherlands), directed by Johan Grimonprez 

• SULTANA’S DREAM (EL SUEÑO DE LA SULTANA) (Spain, Germany, India), directed by Isabel Herguera 

• THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Spain), directed by Pedro Almodóvar 

• THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (DANAYE ANJIR-E MOABAD) (Germany, France), directed by Mohammad Rasoulof 

• THE SUBSTANCE (UK, United States, France), directed by Coralie Fargeat 

• THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru), directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal 

• VERMIGLIO (Italy, France, Belgium), directed by Maura Delpero

Finest European Documentary 

• BYE BYE TIBERIAS (BYE BYE TIBERIADE), directed by Lina Soualem 

• DAHOMEY (France, Senegal), directed by Mati Diop 

• IN LIMBO (W ZAWIESZENIU) (Poland), directed by Alina Maksimenko 

• NO OTHER LAND (Palestine, Norway), directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal 

• SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (France, Belgium, Netherlands), directed by Johan Grimonprez

Finest European Director 

• Andrea Arnold for BIRD 

• Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ 

• Pedro Almodóvar for THE ROOM NEXT DOOR 

• Mohammad Rasoulof for THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG 

• Maura Delpero for VERMIGLIO

Finest Actress 

• Renate Reinsve in ARMAND 

• Karla Sofía Gascón in EMILIA PÉREZ 

• Trine Dyrholm in THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE 

• Vic Carmen Sonne in THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE 

• Tilda Swinton in THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

Finest Actor 

• Franz Rogowski in BIRD 

• Ralph Fiennes in CONCLAVE 

• Lars Eidinger in DYING 

• Daniel Craig in QUEER 

• Abou Sangare in SOULEYMANE’S STORY

Finest Screenplay 

• Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ 

• Magnus von Horn & Line Langebek for THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE 

• Pedro Almodóvar for THE ROOM NEXT DOOR 

• Mohammad Rasoulof for THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG 

• Coralie Fargeat for THE SUBSTANCE

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 

• ARMAND (Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden), directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel 

• HOARD (UK), directed by Luna Carmoon 

• KNEECAP (Eire, UK), directed by Wealthy Peppiatt 

• SANTOSH (UK, France, Germany), directed by Sandhya Suri 

• THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME (ANUL NOU CARE N-A FOST) (Romania, Serbia), directed by Bogdan Mureșanu 

• TOXIC (AKIPLĖŠA) (Lithuania) directed by Saulė Bliuvaitė

European Younger Viewers Award 

• LARS IS LOL (Norway, Denmark), directed by Eirik Sæter Stordahl 

• THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN (Norway), directed by Benjamin Ree 

• WINNERS (Germany), directed by Soleen Yusef

Beforehand Introduced Nominations 

Finest European Animated Movie (introduced on 9 October) 

• FLOW directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium)  

• LIVING LARGE directed by Kristina Dufková (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia)  

• SAVAGES directed by Claude Barras (Switzerland, France, Belgium)  

• SULTANA’S DREAM directed by Isabel Herguera (Spain, Germany, India) 

• THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal (Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru)

Finest European Quick Movie (introduced on 16 Oct) 

• 2720 directed by Basil da Cunha (Portugal, Switzerland) 

• CLAMOR directed by Salomé Da Souza (France) 

• THE EXPLODING GIRL directed by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (France) 

• THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT directed by Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia) 

• WANDER TO WONDER directed by Nina Gantz (The Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom)

The winners of the 2024 European Movie Awards shall be unveiled in Lucerne, Switzerland on 7 December. Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will obtain the European Achievement in World Cinema Award on the ceremony.