At the Seville European Film Festival, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announced the nominations for the 27th European Film Awards. Leading the field is Ida , Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish postwar drama with five nominations, including film, directing and screenplay (shared with Rebecca Lenkiewicz), as well as two acting nominations for Agata Kulesza and Agata Trzebuchowska.
Next is Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Russian satire Leviathan (Leviafan) with four nominations (film, directing and screenplay for Sorrentino, the latter shared with Oleg Negin, as well as Alexey Serebryakov as actor).
Three films have garnered three nominations each. Lars von Trier’s sexual drama Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut-Vol. I & II is nominated for European Film, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgård as actors; Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Turkish entry Winter Sleep (Kış Uykusu) which is nominated as European Film, director and screenplay (with Ebru Ceylan); and Steven Knight’s British real time drama Locke for which he received nominations as director and screenwriter (the third goes to actor Tom Hardy).
The remaining film nominated for European Film is the Swedish family drama Force Majeure (Turist) by Ruben Östlund (who is also nominated as best director). Two other films received two nominations, as well: the Belgian social drama Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne who are nominated as screenwriters, Marion Cotillard received an actress nomination; and the Italian financial drama Human Capital (Il capitale umano) by Paolo Virzì, who is nominated as director, as well as actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Three films are nominated as European Comedy: Paco Léon’s semibiographical portrayal Carmine & Amen (Carmina y amèn) from Spain, Roger Michell’s romantic comedy Le Week-end from the UK and Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s crime satire The Mafia Only Kills In The Summer (La Mafia uccide solo d’estate) from Italy.
The remaining nominations are in the acting categories: Marian Alvarez in Fernando Franco’s psychological drama Wounded (La herida) from Spain (which has already been nominated as European Discovery), Brendan Gleeson in John Michael McDonagh’s religious drama Calvary from Ireland and Timothy Spall in Mike Leigh’s biopic Mr. Turner from the UK.
The more than 3,000 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on 13 December 13 in Riga, Latvia. (See the complete list of nominations here.)
Award recpients
A special seven-member jury convened in Berlin and, based on the EFA Selection list, decided on the following award recipients spanning such disciplines as cinematography, editing, production design, music and sound design:
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER – Prix CARLO DI PALMA 2014
Łukasz Żal & Ryszard Lenczewski for Ida
EUROPEAN EDITOR 2014
Justine Wright for Locke
EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2014
Claus-Rudolf Amler for The Dark Valley (Das Finstere Tal)
EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER 2014
Natascha Curtius-Noss for The Dark Valley (Das Finstere Tal)
EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2014
Mica Levi for Under The Skin
EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER 2014
Joakim Sundström for Starred Up
