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‘Close’, ‘Holy Spider’ & ‘Triangle Of Sadness’ Lead European Film Awards Nominations
08.11.2022 - 12:57 / deadline.com
Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont’s Close, Danish director Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider and Swedish director Ruben Ôstlund’s Triangle Of Sadness lead the nominations for the 35th European Film Awards, which were unveiled today.
The films have each made it into four categories including best European Film, Best Director and Screenwriter.
All three films debuted at Cannes this year, where Triangle Of Sadness clinched the Palme d’Or; Close, the Grand Prize (in ex-aequo with Claire Denis’s Stars At Noon); and Holy Spider, best actress for Zar Amir-Ebrahimi.
Close and Holy Spider are also the entries for their respective countries of Belgium and Denmark in the Academy Awards Best International Film category this year.
Further hot contenders include Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, with three nominations, including best actress for Vicky Krieps, and Berlinale Berlinale Golden Lion Alcarràs with two nominations. Venice Golden Lion winnerSaint Omer picked up one nomination for Best European Director for Alice Diop.
Contenders in the Best Documentary section include Mariupolis 2 by the late documentarian Mantas Kvedaravičius, who was killed earlier this year while gathering material for the film in the Russian-occupied city, and Mark Cousins’s March On Rome exploring the rise of Benito Mussolini in 1922 and the contemporary legacy of his fascist rule.
The awards ceremony, overseen by the European Film Academy, will take place on December 10 in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík. The event will be preceded this year by the academy’s inaugural edition of the Month of European Film.
The nominations in the key categories of the spanning European Film, Director, Actor, and Actress are voted on by the 4,400 members of the
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