The European Movie Academy has introduced the nominees in key classes of the thirty seventh European Movie Awards forward of the ceremony within the Swiss lakeside metropolis of Lucerne on December 7.
French Oscar entry Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard and The Room Subsequent Door by Pedro Almodovar lead the nominations making it into 4 classes every. Each movies have been nominated for finest European movie, director and screenplay in addition to actress, for Karla Sofia Gascón in Emilia Pérez and Tilda Swinton in The Room Subsequent Door.
Different frontrunners included Germany’s Oscar entry The Seed of the Sacred Fig by exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, which was nominated for finest movie, director and screenplay.
A slew of movies clinched two nominations together with Maura Delpero’s Italian Oscar entry Vermiglio, Halfdan Ullmann Tondel’s Norwegian Oscar entry Armand in addition to Andrea Arnold’s Chook and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance.
For the primary time this 12 months, below new guidelines introduced final summer season, movies nominated for Finest European Documentary and Finest Animated Characteristic Movie are additionally eligible within the Finest European Movie class.
This has led to an expanded Finest European Movie nominations record this 12 months with Bye Bye Tiberias by Lina Soualem, Mati Diop’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey and Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat selecting up noms for finest doc and movie.
Animated movies within the operating in each classes embody Latvian Gints Zilbalodis’s Move and Spanish director Isabel Herguera’s Sultan’s Dream.
The awards, that are voted on by the Berlin-based European Movie Academy’s some 5,000 members primarily based throughout Europe, are additionally seen as a bellwether for which European movies are prone to choose up steam within the U.S. awards season.
Final 12 months’s Finest European Movie winner Anatomy of a Fall garnered 5 Oscar nominations, together with Finest Image and Finest Actress (Sandra Hüller), with director Justine Triet and co-writer Arthur Harari profitable the Academy Award for Finest Screenplay.
This 12 months’s ceremony in Lucerne will mark the final time it takes place in December with the dates shifting to mid-January, beginning with the thirty eighth version in 2026, as a part of a technique to place the prizes throughout the wider awards season dialog on each side of the Atlantic.
Awards for the craft classes of Finest European Cinematography, Enhancing, Manufacturing Design, Costume Design, Make-up and Hair, Authentic Rating, Sound and Visible Results are determined by a specialised a jury and chosen from the movies in core Academy choice.
The EFA beforehand introduced the nominations for European Animated Movie class in October.
The 2024 Nominations in full
Finest European Movie
- BYE BYE TIBERIAS (BYE BYE TIBERIADE) (France, Belgium, Palestine, Qatar) – documentary movie, directed by Lina Soualem, produced by Jean-Marie Nizan, Guillaume Malandrin & Ossama Bawardi
- DAHOMEY (France, Senegal) – documentary movie, directed by Mati Diop, produced by Eve Robin, Judith Lou-Lévy & Mati Diop
- EMILIA PÉREZ (France) – function movie, directed by Jacques Audiard, produced by Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard, Valérie Schermann & Anthony Vaccarello
- FLOW (STRAUME) (Latvia, France, Belgium) – animated function movie, directed by Gints Zilbalodis, produced by Matīss Kaža, Gints Zilbalodis, Ron Dyens & Gregory Zalcman
- IN LIMBO (W ZAWIESZENIU) (Poland) – documentary movie, directed by Alina Maksimenko, produced by Filip Marczewski
- LIVING LARGE (ŽIVOT Ok SEŽRÁNÍ) (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia) – animated function movie, directed by Kristina Dufková, produced by Matej Chlupacek, Agata Novinski & Marc Faye
- NO OTHER LAND (Palestine, Norway) – documentary movie, directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal, produced by Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal
- SAVAGES (SAUVAGES) (Switzerland, France, Belgium) – animated function movie, directed by Claude Barras, produced by Nicolas Burlet, Laurence Petit, Barbara Letellier, Carole Scotta, Vincent Tavier, Hugo Deghilage, Annemie Degryse & Olivier Glassey
- SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (France, Belgium, Netherlands) – documentary movie, directed by Johan Grimonprez, produced by Daan Milius & Rémi Grellety
- SULTANA’S DREAM (EL SUEÑO DE LA SULTANA) (Spain, Germany, India) – animated function movie, directed by Isabel Herguera, produced by Chelo Loureiro, Diego Herguera, Fabian Driehorst, Mariano Baratech & Iván Miñambres
- THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Spain) – function movie, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, produced by Agustín Almodóvar & Esther García
- THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (DANAYE ANJIR-E MOABAD) (Germany, France) – function movie, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, produced by Mohammad Rasoulof, Amin Sadraei, Jean-Christophe Simon, Mani Tilgner & Rozita Hendijanian
- THE SUBSTANCE (UK, United States, France) – function movie, directed by Coralie Fargeat, produced by Coralie Fargeat, Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner
- THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru) – animated function movie, directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, produced by Cristina Huete, Serge Lalou, Sophie Cabon, Bruno Felix, Janneke van de Kerkhoff, Femke Wolting & Humberto Santana
- VERMIGLIO (Italy, France, Belgium) – function movie, directed by Maura Delpero, produced by Francesca Andreoli, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, Santiago Fondevila Sancet & Maura Delpero
Finest European Documentary
- 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, produced by Eve Robin, Judith Lou-Lévy & Mati Diop
- IN LIMBO (W ZAWIESZENIU) (Poland), directed by Alina Maksimenko, produced by Filip Marczewski
- NO OTHER LAND (Palestine, Norway), directed by Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal, produced by Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal
- SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (France, Belgium, Netherlands), directed by Johan Grimonprez, produced by Daan Milius & Rémi Grellety
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, produced by Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
- HOARD (UK), directed by Luna Carmoon, produced by Loran Dunn, Helen Simmons & Andrew Starke
- KNEECAP (Eire, UK), directed by Wealthy Peppiatt, produced by Patrick O’Neill, Trevor Birney & Jack Tarling
- SANTOSH (UK, France, Germany), directed by Sandhya Suri, produced by Mike Goodridge, James Bowsher, Roman Paul, Gerhard Meixner, Carole Scotta & Eliott Khayat
- THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME (ANUL NOU CARE N-A FOST) (Romania, Serbia), directed and produced by Bogdan Mureșanu
- TOXIC (AKIPLĖŠA) (Lithuania) directed by Saulė Bliuvaitė, produced by Giedre Burokaite
European Younger Viewers Award
- LARS IS LOL (Norway, Denmark), directed by Eirik Sæter Stordahl, produced by Caroline Hitland & Matilda Appelin
- THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN (Norway), directed by Benjamin Ree, produced by Ingvil Giske
- WINNERS (Germany), directed by Soleen Yusef, produced by Sonja Schmitt, Marc Schmidheiny & Christoph Daniel
Beforehand Introduced Nominations
Finest European Animated Movie (introduced October 9)
- 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 Oct 16)
- 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)
