2014 European Film Awards Nominations
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 10:13AM Manuel here bringing you some more awards talk from across the Atlantic.
Ida, the nomination leader with 5 citationsTis the season for awards and so before we could even digest those British Independent Film Awards nominations, here come the European Film Awards to dole out their own. They bring great news to several Best Foreign Language Oscar hopefuls. Poland's Ida, Russia's Leviathan, Sweden's Force Majeure, Italy's Human Capital, Turkey's Winter Sleep, Austria's The Dark Valley, and Belgium's Two Days, One Night are all well represented. Take a look at the below-the-line categories and you'll find a number of welcome inclusions (one must give respect to any awards body which gives Mica Levi an award for her hauntingly discordant score for Under the Skin). Kudos to the TFE team who have reviewed all the films up for 2014 European Film.
27th European Film Awards Nominations
European Film
Force Majeure
Ida
Leviathan
Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut – Volume I & II
Winter Sleep
Catch the full list of nominations after the jump.
European Comedy
Carmina & Amen
Le Week-End
The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer
Force Majeure garnered 2 nominations for European Film and European Director
European Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Winter Sleep
Steven Knight, Locke
Ruben Ostlund, Force Majeure
Paweł Pawlikowski, Ida
Paolo Virzì, Human Capital
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Leviathan
European Actress
Marian Alvarez, Wounded
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Human Capital
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut – Volume I & II
Agata Kulesza, Ida
Agata Trzebuchowska, Ida
Cotillard nabs her first nomination since La Vie en Rose (she lost that year to The Queen's Helen Mirren)
European Actor
Brendan Gleeson, Calvary
Tom Hardy, Locke
Alexey Serebryakov, Leviathan
Stellan Skarsgard, Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut – Volume I & II
Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner
European Screenwriter
Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Winter Sleep
Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night
Steven Knight, Locke
Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Leviathan
Pawel Pawikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ida
Leviathan nabbed four nominations
European Documentaries
Just the Right Amount of Violence
Master of the Universe
Of Men and War
Sacro Gra
Waiting For August
We Come As Friends
European Discoveries
10,000 KM
71
Party Girl
The Tribe
Wounded
European Animated Feature Film
Jack and the Cuckoo-clock Heart
Minuscule – Valley of the Lost Ants
The Art of Happiness
AWARDS
European Cinematographer – Prix Carlo Di Palma
Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski, Ida
European Editor
Justine Wright, Locke
European Production Designer
Claus-Rudolf Amler, The Dark Valley
European Costume Designer
Natascha Curtius-Noss, The Dark Valley
Love that Under the Skin is cited for its moody score
European Composer
Mica Levi, Under the Skin
European Sound Designer
Joakim Sundstrom, Starred Up
Lifetime Achievement Award
Agnes Varda
European Achievement in World Cinema
Steve McQueen
Which nomination are you most excited about? I want to hear from readers across the pond; what films/names missed the cut? Do you have any theories as to what it is it about the Oscar-winning actresses of 2007 (Cotillard and Swinton) who keep giving us wonderful performances destined to be ignored by the Academy?
Reader Comments (15)
Mica Levi's a her, btw :-) And very glad to see her nominated for her amazing work.
The "Under the Skin" score is amazing and memorable; much of the horrific creepiness of that film comes from the score. I'm glad to see Agata Kulesza for "Ida" here. Her cynical, tragic Wanda is perhaps my favorite performance so far this year. Just thinking about her last scene makes the pre-tears spring to my eyes.
Owen; I have yet to catch Ida though it's definitely up on my Must Watch List before the year ends!
Helena: This is what happens when one is writing too fast! Thanks for catching the pronoun mixup!
Cotillard did win an Oscar for La Vie en Rose. Mirren won the year before.
I would strongly recommend Carmina y amén (and the previous Carmina y revienta) to anyone who loved Volver. Fabulous mix of professional and amateur actresses with glorious faces.
To all the Cotillard fans out there: We must make up our minds that Kulesza is totally going to win.
FC, you are correct, but I was talking about European Film Awards. Because of tricky release dates, Cotillard and Mirren were nominated the same year at these awards with Mirren winning over the French actress despite both biopic performances winning back to back Best Actress kudos at the Oscars.
Peggy Sue, I hope you're right about Kulesza. Sure, Cotillard was amazing in Two Days, One Night, but she doen't really need another award (she's got Oscar after all :)). But for unknown Polish actress winning for equally impressive performance might lead to possilby another wins and maybe she will be able to crack into supporting actress category at the Oscars? Fingers crossed.
Manuel: Typical US-centrism about release dates - sorry ;)
Kulesza for the win. And for oscar nomination, I hope.
I put my support behind Kulesza too. She deserves it.
I agree that Kulesza is fantastic in a very very strong category. Marian Álvarez is also excellent.
MICA LEVI!
Mica Levi has the best score for film by a country mile. I think the only person who comes close is Cliff Martinez's musical compositions for The Knick, which I know does not count since it is TV but that tells you how scarce it is.
Ida's personally faded from memory but I think Kulesza's performance is very strong. She's first-billed and co-lead but I wonder if any traction she gets may have her bounce around lead and supporting.
Leviathan is a beautiful and smart film, albeit with some obvious symbolism (counter-balanced by characters reflexive to the symbols around them) but you wonder if there was self-censorship as there is a plot point where I wonder the implications and provocations were much more sinister than the text. I think the lead is great but I love the attorney and the mayor and the couple who bicker while drunk on vodka. There's probably Russian characteristics to those characters that goes over my head, but to me those characters can exist anywhere- which is why the film works.
So Nymphomaniac and Force Majeure stand out to me as far and away the most realized, great works of the year on the list of nominees for me. It's hard to articulate what both each bring to the table but the tones and directions each film takes is not always expected and much more than what meets the eye along with some daring, audacious imagery- and I am not even talking about the sex in Nymphomaniac. Ostlund, you can probably say has more empathy for the characters, the film works like Paul Mazursky taking on a Tati film, but Von Trier's script is a script I am kinda jealous of. Only he could write that script that is all about him and everything he worked for to get to that point. It seems so effortless and easy. It's quite a shock he missed Screenplay and Director.
On the one hand, overlooking Two Days, One Night for Best Film - and, for that matter, Under the Skin - is unforgivable. But on the other, that is such an amazing lineup (even if I have some reservations about Force Majeure) that I am inclined to forgive.
So glad Nymphomaniac is getting some awards love!
"Do you have any theories as to what it is it about the Oscar-winning actresses of 2007 (Cotillard and Swinton) who keep giving us wonderful performances destined to be ignored by the Academy?"
Puny, jealous mortals.