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NOMINATIONS Norway

The Bothersome Man and Pitbullterje Amanda Favourites

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The nominations for this year’s Amanda Awards (Norway’s Oscars) reflect the variety as well as quality and originality of Norway’s current film output, with nine films competing in various sections, including five feature debuts.

Jens Lien’s The Bothersome Man [+see also:
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and Arild Frølich’s Pitbullterje, followed by Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen’s Izzat, which received four nominations.

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In the Best Film category, feature debuts Izzat and Pitbullterje and animated film Slipp Jimmy [+see also:
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by cartoonist Christopher Nielsen are competing against Lien’s Cannes 2006 critics’ favourite and the first feature-length documentary by Hallvard Bræin and Arne B. Rostad, The Giant, which focuses on the last three years of the life of iconic figure Erik Bye.

In the Best Actress category, this year’s Norwegian Shooting Star at Berlin, Ane Dahl Torp (Hans Petter Moland’s High School Teacher Pedersen), is competing against Kristin Skogheim (Pittbullterje) and Mariann Saastad Ottesen (Love Me Tomorrow [+see also:
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by Petter Næss).

Three feature debuts are vying for the Best Children/Youth Film: Izzat, Pitbullterje and Tommy’s Inferno by Ove Raymond Gyldenås. The Oscar-winning short film Sniffer by Bobbie Peers is a candidate in its category while the Best Foreign Film Category (only the 30 top grossers are taken into account) includes Brokeback Mountain, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Walk the Line.

The five Nordic film institutes will also designate their Canal+/SF Norge Nordisk Debutante Amanda (Best Nordic Newcomer) from among five feature films: Princess [+see also:
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by Denmark’sAnders Morgenthaler, Beauty and the Bastard [+see also:
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by Finland’s Dome Karukoski, Thicker Than Water by Iceland’s Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson, Izzat by Norway’s Ulrik Imitaz Rolfsen and God Willing by Swedish filmmaker Amir Chamdin.

The Amanda Awards will be handed out on August 18 during the 34th Norwegian International Film Festival and will be broadcast live for the first time on TV2, after 20 years partnership with NRK.

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