The European Film Academy announced this Tuesday the nominees for the 37th European Film Awards. The next roomby Pedro Almodóvar, and Emilia Perezstarring Madrid-born Karla Sofía Gascón, lead the candidates with four nominations each. The awards will be presented on December 7 a ceremony that will take place in Lucerne, Switzerland. Both films compete in the categories of best European film, direction and script, as well as best actress for Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez) y Tilda Swinton (The next room). They are followed, with three nominations, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, by the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, and The Girl With the Needle, of the Dane Magnus von Horn.
Almodóvar is a candidate to win the award for best direction and best script. In the first category she competes with Andrea Arnold for BirdJacques Audiard Emilia PerezMohammad Rasoulof por The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Maura Delpero for Vermilion. In the script section, the Spanish filmmaker has Jacques Audiard, Rasoulof, Magnus von Horn and Line Langebek as rivals for The Girl with the Needle y Coralie Fargeat by The substance.
In addition to The next roomSpain will also be represented by The sultana’s dreamby Isabel Herguera, and by They shot the pianistby Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, who are up for best European animated film and best film. In this category they also compete The substance, Bye bye Tiberias, Dahomey, Emilia Perez, Flow, In limbo, Living Large, No other land, Savages, Vermilion, Soundtrack to a coup d’etat y The seed of the sacred fig. Among them there are five documentaries, Bye bye Tiberias, Dahomey, In limbo, No other land y Soundtrack to a coup d’etat, Well, for the first time this year, according to new rules announced last summer, films nominated for best European documentary are also eligible in the best European film category. The animation ones also come in, in this case Flow y Living Large.
In the best actress section, in addition to the aforementioned Tilda Swinton and Karla Sofía Gascón, there is Renate Reinsve for The tutoring, Trine Dyrholm por The Girl With The Needle; and Vic Carmen Sonne for The girl with the needle. Franz Rogowski is up for the best actor award for BirdRalph Fiennes por ConclaveLars Eidinger por DyingDaniel Craig by Queer and Abou Sangare for Souleymane’s story.