Ildikó Enyedi’s ON BODY AND SOUL and Ruben Östlund’s social satire THE SQUARE, lead the nominations for the 30th European Film Awards with four nominations each, including Best European Film, Best European Director and Best European Screenwriter, as well actress Alexandra Borbély in ON BODY AND SOUL and actor Claes Bang in THE SQUARE.
Two films have garnered three nominations each: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s LOVELESS, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ family drama THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER. LOVELESS is nominated for European Film, as well as Zvyagintsev for directing and together with Oleg Negin as screenwriter. Yorgos Lanthimos is nominated for director and, shared with co-author Efthimis Filippou, as screenwriter. Colin Farrell is nominated as actor in the film.
Aki Kaurismäki’s refugee melodrama THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is nominated for European Film and directing. The remaining film nominated for European Film is Robin Campillo’s AIDS drama BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE), actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart received a nomination as well.
Nominees for Best Documentary include AUSTERLITZ by Sergei Loznitsa (Germany); COMMUNION (Komunia) by Anna Zamecka (Poland); LA CHANA by Lucija Stojevic (Spain, Iceland, USA); STRANGER IN PARADISE by Guido Hendrikx (the Netherlands) and THE GOOD POSTMAN by Tonislav Hristov (Finland, Bulgaria).
The winners will be presented during the awards ceremony on December 9 in Berlin.
European Film Awards 2017 Nominations
EUROPEAN FILM 2017
BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE)
120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE
France
145 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Robin Campillo
PRODUCED BY Marie-Ange Luciani & Hugues Charbonneau
LOVELESS
НЕЛЮБОВЬ (NELYUBOV)
Russia, Belgium, Germany, France
127 min
DIRECTED BY Andrey Zvyagintsev
WRITTEN BY Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev
PRODUCED BY Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov & Gleb Fetisov
ON BODY AND SOUL
TESTRŐL ÉS LÉLEKRŐL
Hungary
116 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ildikó Enyedi
PRODUCED BY Mónika Mécs, András Muhi & Ernö Mesterházy
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN
Finland, Germany
100 min
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Aki Kaurismäki
THE SQUARE
Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark
145 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Ruben Östlund
PRODUCED BY Erik Hemmendorff & Philippe Bober
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2017
AUSTERLITZ
Germany
94 min
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY Sergei Loznitsa
COMMUNION
KOMUNIA
Poland
72 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Anna Zamecka
PRODUCED BY Anna Wydra, Anna Zamecka, Zuzanna Krol, Izabela Lopuch & Hanka Kastelicová
LA CHANA
Spain, Iceland, USA
86 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Lucija Stojevic
PRODUCED BY Lucija Stojevic, Greta Olafsdottir, Deirdre Towers & Susan Muska
STRANGER IN PARADISE
Netherlands
72 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Guido Hendrikx
PRODUCED BY Frank van den Engel
THE GOOD POSTMAN
Finland, Bulgaria
80 min
DIRECTED BY Tonislav Hristov
WRITTEN BY: Tonislav Hristov, Lubomir Tsvetkov
PRODUCED BY Kaarle Aho & Kai Nordberg
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2017
Ildikó Enyedi for ON BODY AND SOUL
Aki Kaurismäki for THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
Yorgos Lanthimos for THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
Ruben Östlund for THE SQUARE
Andrey Zvyagintsev for LOVELESS
EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2017
Paula Beer in FRANTZ
Juliette Binoche in BRIGHT SUNSHINE IN
Alexandra Borbély in ON BODY AND SOUL
Isabelle Huppert in HAPPY END
Florence Pugh in LADY MACBETH
EUROPEAN ACTOR 2017
Claes Bang in THE SQUARE
Colin Farrell in THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
Josef Hader in STEFAN ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO EUROPE
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart in BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE)
Jean-Louis Trintignant in HAPPY END
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2017
Ildikó Enyedi for ON BODY AND SOUL
Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou for THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev for LOVELESS
Ruben Östlund for THE SQUARE
François Ozon for FRANTZ