Emilia Pérez and The Substance Lead 2024 European Film Awards Nominations

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Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance lead the way at the nominations for the 2024 European Film Awards with four nods each including European Film.

The awards will be presented on December 7 at a ceremony in Lucerne, Switzerland. Full list of nominations below.

European Film:

Bye Bye Tiberias (Fr-Bel- Pal-Qatar) – documentary film
Dir: Lina Soualem

Dahomey (Fr-Senegal) – documentary film
Dir: Mati Diop

Emilia Pérez (Fr) – feature film
Dir: Jacques Audiard

Flow (Lat-Fr- Belg) – animated feature film
Dir: Gints Zilbalodis

In Limbo (Pol) – documentary film
Dir: Alina Maksimenko

Living Large (Cz-Fr-Slov) – animated feature film
Dir: Kristina Dufková

No Other Land (Pal-Nor) – documentary film
Dir: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal

Savages (Switz-Fr-Bel) – animated feature film
Dir: Claude Barras

Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat (Fr- Bel-Neth) – documentary film
Dir: Johan Grimonprez

Sultana’s Dream (Sp- Ger-India) – animated feature film
Dir: Isabel Herguera

The Room Next Door (Sp) – feature film
Dir: Pedro Almodóvar

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig (Ger-Fr) – feature film
Dir: Mohammad Rasoulof

The Substance (UK-US- Fr) – feature film
Dir: Coralie Fargeat

They Shot The Piano Player (Sp-Fr-Neth- Port-Peru) – animated feature film
Dir: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal

Vermiglio (It-Fr-Bel) – feature film
Dir: Maura Delpero

European Documentary:

Bye Bye Tiberias
Dir: Lina Soualem

Dahomey
Dir: Mati Diop

In Limbo
Dir: Alina Maksimenko

No Other Land
Dir: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal

Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat
Dir: Johan Grimonprez, produced by Daan Milius & Rémi Grellety

European Director:

Andrea Arnold for Bird
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
Pedro Almodóvar for The Room Next Door
Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Maura Delpero for Vermiglio

European Actress:

Renate Reinsve in Armand
Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez
Trine Dyrholm in The Girl With The Needle
Vic Carmen Sonne in The Girl With The Needle
Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door

European Actor:

Franz Rogowski in Bird
Ralph Fiennes in Conclave
Lars Eidinger in Dying
Daniel Craig in Queer
Abou Sangare in Souleymane’s Story

European Screenwriter:

Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
Magnus von Horn & Line Langebek for The Girl With The Needle
Pedro Almodóvar for The Room Next Door
Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Coralie Fargeat for The Substance

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI:

Armand (Nor-Neth-Ger-Swe)
Dir: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel

Hoard (UK)
Dir: Luna Carmoon

Kneecap (Ire-UK)
Dir: Rich Peppiatt

Santosh (UK-Ger)
Dir: Sandhya Suri

The New Year That Never Came (Anul Nou Care N-A Fost) (Rom-Ser)
Directed and produced by Bogdan Mureșanu

Toxic (Akiplėša) (Lith)
Dir: Saulė Bliuvaitė

European Young Audience Award:

Lars Is Lol (Nor-Den)
Dir: Eirik Sæter Stordahl

The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin (Nor)
Dir: Benjamin Ree

Winners (Ger)
Dir: Soleen Yusef


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.