Fresh off its European Film Awards sweep last weekend (read news), Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value [+leggi anche:
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The Cannes Grand Prix winner is nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, as well as in the acting categories, with all of the main cast in them (Renate Reinsve for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Stellan Skarsgård for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), and of course for Best International Feature, as Norway’s submission. A last nomination in the Best Editing category rounds up the film’s success.

With just one less nomination, a European co-production in English language is showing some strength too; Chloé Zhao’s UK-US co-production Hamnet [+leggi anche:
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Brazil is also celebrating a surprising four nominations with its submission, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s  The Secret Agent [+leggi anche:
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The Best International Feature category is completely made of European co-productions. Besides Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent, Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Palme d’or winner It Was Just an Accident [+leggi anche:
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In the rest of the categories, a few European productions have received some love. The Danish submission Mr. Nobody Against Putin [+leggi anche:
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Little Amelie or the Character of Rain [+leggi anche:
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Lastly, a few shorts have been selected in their respective categories: Two People Exchanging Saliva (France/USA) by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh, Butterfly (Croatia/Denmark) by Sunčana Brkulj, Retirement Plan (Ireland) by John Kelly and The Three Sisters (Cyprus) by Timur Kognov.

The complete list of nominees:

Best Picture
Bugonia [+leggi anche:
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F1 – Joseph Kosinski (USA)
Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro (USA)
Hamnet [+leggi anche:
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Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie (USA)
One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson (USA)
The Secret Agent [+leggi anche:
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Sentimental Value [+leggi anche:
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Sinners – Ryan Coogler (USA)
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley (USA)

Best Director
Chloé Zhao - Hamnet
Josh Safdie - Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler - Sinners

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jessie Buckley - Hamnet
Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (USA)
Kate Hudson - Song Sung Blue (USA)
Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value
Emma Stone - Bugonia

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon [+leggi anche:
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Michael B. Jordan - Sinners
Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Elle Fanning - Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas - Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan - Weapons (USA)
Wunmi Mosaku - Sinners
Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Benicio del Toro - One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo - Sinners
Sean Penn - One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård - Sentimental Value

Best International Feature
The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident [+leggi anche:
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Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier
Sirāt [+leggi anche:
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The Voice of Hind Rajab [+leggi anche:
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Best Documentary Feature
The Alabama Solution – Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman (USA)
Come See Me in the Good Light – Ryan White (USA)
Cutting Through Rocks [+leggi anche:
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin [+leggi anche:
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The Perfect Neighbor – Geeta Gandbhir (USA)

Best Animated Feature
Arco [+leggi anche:
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Elio – Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrián Molina (USA)
KPop Demon Hunters – Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang (USA)
Little Amelie or the Character of Rain [+leggi anche:
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Zootopia 2 - Jared Bush, Byron Howard (USA)

Best Original Screenplay
Robert Kaplow - Blue Moon
Jafar Panahi - It Was Just an Accident
Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein - Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt - Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler - Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay
Will Tracy - Bugonia
Guillermo del Toro - Frankenstein
Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell - Hamnet
Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar - Train Dreams

Best Casting
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sinners

Best Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

Best Editing
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash (USA)
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth (USA)
The Lost Bus (USA)
Sinners

Best Production Design
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Costume Design
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Frankenstein
Kokuho (Japan)
Sinners
The Smashing Machine (USA)
The Ugly Stepsister [+leggi anche:
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Best Sound
F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt

Best Original Score
Jerskin Fendrix - Bugonia
Alexandre Desplat - Frankenstein
Max Richter - Hamnet
Jonny Greenwood - One Battle After Another
Ludwig Göransson - Sinners

Best Original Song
“Dear Me” (Diane Warren: Relentless)
“Golden” (KPop Demon Hunters)
“I Lied to You” (Sinners)
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” (Viva Verdi!)
“Train Dreams" (Train Dreams)

Best Live Action Short Film
Butcher’s Stain – Meyer Levinson-Blount (Israel)
A Friend of Dorothy – Lee Knight (UK)
Jane Austen’s Period Drama – Julia Aks, Steve Pinder (USA)
The Singers – Sam A Davis (USA)
Two People Exchanging Saliva – Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh (France/USA)

Best Documentary Short
All the Empty Rooms – Joshua Seftel (USA)
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud – Craig Renaud, Brent Renaud (USA)
Children No More: Were and Are Gone – Hilla Medalia (Israel)
The Devil Is Busy – Geeta Gandbhir, Christalyn Hampton (USA)
Perfectly a Strangeness – Alison McAlpine (Canada)

Best Animated Short Film
Butterfly – Sunčana Brkulj (Croatia/Denmark)
Forevergreen – Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears (USA)
The Girl Who Cried Pearls – Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski (Canada)
Retirement Plan – John Kelly (Ireland)
The Three Sisters – Timur Kognov (Cyprus)