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?