The European Academy has announced the movies nominated for the European Film Awards.
Three films in particular are topping the list, all with four nominations: Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider, Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness and Lukas Dhont’s Close, nominated for best film, director and screenplay. In addition, Zar Amir Ebrahimi was nominated for Best Actress for Holy Spider, while Zlatko Burić and Eden Dambrine were both nominated for Best Actor, respectively for Triangle of Sadness and Close.
The list of Best Actor nominees is very competitive. Besides Burić and Dambrine, we have Paul Mescal for Aftersun, Elliot Crochet Hove for Godland and Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino for Nostalgia.
The awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, December 10 in the Harpa Conference and Concert Hall in Reykjavik.
Below is the full list of nominations for the European Film Awards 2022:
BEST FILM
Alcarràs by Carla Simón (Spain, Italy)
Produced by María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera, Giovanni Pompili
Close by Lukas Dhont (Belgium, France, Netherlands)
Produced by Frans Van Gestel, Dirk Impens, Michiel Dhont, Michel Saint-Jean, Laurette Schillings, Jacques-Henri Bronckart
Corsage by Marie Kreutzer (Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, France)
Produced by Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Jean-Christophe Reymand, Bernard Michaux
Holy Spider by Ali Abbassi (Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France)
Produced by Sol Bondy, Jacob Jarek
Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund (Sweden, Germany, France, UK)
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober
BEST DIRECTORS
Lukas Dhont – Close
Marie Kreutzer – Corsage
Jerzy Skolimowski – EO
Ali Abbassi – Holy Spider
Ruben Östlund – Triangle of Sadness
BEST SCREENWRITERS
Arnau Vilaró, Carla Simón – Alcarràs
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens – Close
Ali Abbasi, Afshin Kamran Bahrami – Holy Spider
Ruben Östlund – Triangle of Sadness
BEST ACTORS
Paul Mescal (Ireland) – Aftersun
Eden Dambrine (Belgium) – Close
Elliott Crosset Hove (United States, Denmark) – Godland
Pierfrancesco Favino (Italy) – Nostalgia
Zlatko Burić (Croatia, Denmark) – Triangle of Sadness
BEST ACTRESS
Vicky Krieps (Luxembourg) – Corsage
Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Iran, France) – Holy Spider
Léa Seydoux (France) – One Fine Morning
Penélope Cruz (Spain) – Parallel Mothers
Meltem Kaptan (Germany, Turkey) – Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
EUROPEAN COMEDY
Cop Secret by Hannes Þór Halldórsson (Iceland)
The Divide by Catherine Corsini (France)
The Good Boss by Fernando León de Aranoa (Spain)
EUROPEAN DISCOVERY – FIPRESCI PRIZE
Love According to Anna by Emmanuelle Nicot (France, Belgium)
107 Mothers by Peter Kerekes (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine)
Other People by Aleksandra Terpińska (Poland, France)
Pamfir by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine, France, Poland, Germany, Chile)
Small Body by Laura Samani (Italy, Slovenia, France)
Sonne by Kurdwin Ayub (Austria)
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
The Balcony Movie by Paweł Łoziński (Poland)
Girl Gang by Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland)
A House Made of Splinters by Simon Lereng Wilmont (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine)
The March on Rome by Mark Cousins (Italy)
Mariupolis 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius (Lithuania, France, Germany)
EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Little Nicholas – Happy As Can Be by Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre (France, Luxembourg)
My Love Affair with Marriage by Signe Baumane (Latvia, United States, Luxembourg)
My Neighbors’ Neighbors by Anne-Laure Daffis & Léo Marchand (France)
No Dogs or Italians Allowed by Alain Ughetto (France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal
Oink by Mascha Halberstad (Netherlands, Belgium)
📸EFA
