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The European Film Academy has unveiled the nominations in the 16 key categories of its 39th European Film Awards taking place in Greece in January 2027.
Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland leads the nominations, making it into 11 categories, followed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra with ten nominations and Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Fjord with five.
The nominations were announced in front of a live audience on Saturday at the Pavlos Zannas Theatre in the iconic Olympian building in Thessaloniki, as part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
The winners will be unveiled at an awards ceremony on January 16 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece, co-organised by the European Film Academy and the Ηellenic Film and Audiovisual Center.
The nominations are based on the votes of 5,700 members of the European Film Academy who have been watching the films included in the annual European Film Awards Shortlist, and will now vote for the winners.
Pawlikowski’s first film in eight years, Cold War drama Fatherland stars Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller as writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika as they travel across Germany in 1949 from Frankfurt in West Germany to Weimar, East Germany.
The Polish filmmaker shared the Cannes Best Director prize in May with Calvo and Ambrossi, whose La Bola Negra is one of the frontrunners across the award season this year.
Revolving around the interconnected stories of three gay men in 1932, 1937 and 2017, La Bola Negra has been raking in audience awards and storming the box office at home and internationally since its Cannes world premiere and Best Director win.
Mungiu’s Fjord, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as a Romanian and Norwegian couple whose plans for a new life in a fjord village come up against neighbors with a very different outlook on life, won the director his second Cannes Palme d’Or this year, after 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days in 2007.
Fifteen films have garnered a nomination in the European Film category spanning fiction, documentary and animation.
A number of documentaries have been nominated for Best Documentary and Best film including bombshell exposé NAZA, French box office break out Whispers in the Woods and Letters from A Silenced Country. Best Animation nominees also making it into the Best Film category include festival breakouts In Waves, Iron Boy and Jim Queen.
The upcoming ceremony in Greece will be the second time the European Film Awards take place in a new January slot as part of a strategy to place them at the heart of the wider awards season, having taken place in December for many years.
The January 16, 2027 slot once again falls the day after the end of nomination voting in the Academy Awards on January 15, and before the January 21 nominations announcement. This gives European talents in the running for the Oscars time to return home to Europe for the awards. The Golden Globes will also be done and dusted with its 2027 ceremony set for January 10.
Full List of Nominations
European Film
• FATHERLAND directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, produced by Mario Gianani, Ewa Puszczyńska, Jeanne Tremsal, Lorenzo Mieli, Edward Berger, Dimitri Rassam & Lorenzo Gangarossa (Poland, Germany, Italy, France) – fiction film
• FJORD directed by Cristian Mungiu, produced by Cristian Mungiu (Romania, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland) – fiction film
• IN WAVES directed by Phuong Mai Nguyen, produced by Priscilla Bertin, Judith Nora & Nick Shumaker (France, Belgium) – animation film
• IRON BOY (LE CORSET) directed by Louis Clichy, produced by Nicolas de Rosanbo & Céline Vanlint (France, Belgium) – animation film
• JIM QUEEN directed by Marco Nguyen & Nicolas Athané, produced by Arthur Delabays & David Alric (France, Belgium) – animation film
• LA BOLA NEGRA directed by Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi, produced by Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo (Spain, France) – fiction film
• LA GRADIVA directed by Marine Atlan, produced by Inès Daïen Dasi (France, Italy) – fiction film
• LETTERS FROM THE SILENCED COUNTRY (LISTY) directed by Andrei Kutsila, produced by Miroslaw Dembinski (Poland, Lithuania, Germany) – documentary
• LUCY LOST directed by Olivier Clert, produced by Marc Du Pontavice & Lucie Bolze (France) – animation film
• NAZA directed by Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor, produced by Harry Davies, Lindsay Poulton & James Wilson (UK) – documentary
• REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION directed by Pegah Ahangarani, produced by Kaveh Farnam & Adrià Monés Murlans (Czech Republic, Spain) – documentary
• TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN (PLANINA) directed by Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić, produced by Biljana Tutorov (Montenegro, Serbia, France, Slovenia, Croatia) – documentary
• VIVA CARMEN (CARMEN, L’OISEAU REBELLE) directed by Sébastien Laudenbach, by Damien Brunner, Sarah Delmas, Thibaut Ruby & Pierre-Henri Léon (France) – animation film
• WHISPERS IN THE WOODS (LE CHANT DES FORÊTS) directed by Vincent Munier, produced by Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, Laurent Baujard & Vincent Munier (France) – documentary
• WOMAN UNKNOWN (KVINDE UKENDT) directed by May el-Toukhy, produced by Mikael Rieks
European Animation Film
• IN WAVES directed by Phuong Mai Nguyen (France, Belgium)
• IRON BOY (LE CORSET)directed by Louis Clichy (France, Belgium)
• JIM QUEEN directed by Marco Nguyen & Nicolas Athané (France, Belgium)
• LUCY LOST directed by Olivier Clert (France)
• VIVA CARMEN (CARMEN, L’OISEAU REBELLE) directed by Sébastien Laudenbach (France)
European Documentary
• LETTERS FROM THE SILENCED COUNTRY (LISTY) directed by Andrei Kutsila (Poland,
Lithuania, Germany)
• NAZA directed by Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor (UK)
• REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION directed by Pegah Ahangarani (Czech Republic, Spain)
• TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN (PLANINA) directed by Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić (Montenegro, Serbia, France, Slovenia, Croatia)
• WHISPERS IN THE WOODS (LE CHANT DES FORÊTS) directed by Vincent Munier (France)
European Director
• Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi for LA BOLA NEGRA
• Cristian Mungiu for FJORD
• Paweł Pawlikowski for FATHERLAND
• Sandra Wollner for EVERYTIME
• Andrey Zvyagintsev for MINOTAUR
European Screenwriter
• Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi & Alberto Conejero for LA BOLA NEGRA
• Cristian Mungiu for FJORD
• Paweł Pawlikowski & Henk Handloegten for FATHERLAND
• Sandra Wollner for EVERYTIME
• Simon Liashenko & Andrey Zvyagintsev for MINOTAUR
European Actress
• Mathilde Arcel in WOMAN UNKNOWN
• Penélope Cruz in BUNKER
• Sandra Hüller in FATHERLAND
• Sandra Hüller in ROSE
• Renate Reinsve in FJORD
• Léa Seydoux in GENTLE MONSTER
European Actor
• Swann Arlaud in A MAN OF HIS TIME
• Javier Bardem in THE BELOVED
• Andrew Scott in ELSINORE
• Sebastian Stan in FJORD
• Hanns Zischler in FATHERLAND
European Casting Director
• Nina Haun, Magdalena Szwarcbart & Karen Lindsay Stewart for FATHERLAND
• Eva Leira & Yolanda Serrano for LA BOLA NEGRA
• Jessica Ronane for ELSINORE
European Cinematographer
• Gris Jordana for LA BOLA NEGRA
• Frank van den Eeden for COWARD
• Łukasz Żal for FATHERLAND
European Composer (Original Score)
• Volker Bertelmann for BUNKER
• Tara Nome Doyle for ROSE
• Alberto Iglesias for BITTER CHRISTMAS
European Costume Designer
• Doris Bartelt for ROSE
• Ana López Cobos for LA BOLA NEGRA
• Rebecca Richmond & Jūlija Volkinšteine for WOMAN UNKNOWN
European Editor
• Alberto Gutiérrez for LA BOLA NEGRA
• Gesa Jäger for YELLOW LETTERS
• Paweł Pawlikowski & Piotr Wójcik for FATHERLAND
European Make-up & Hair Artist
• Pablo Morillas & Marilo Osuna for LA BOLA NEGRA
• Evalotte Oosterop & Pierre Olivier Persin for COWARD
• Waldemar Pokromski for FATHERLAND
European Production Designer
• Roger Bellés for LA BOLA NEGRA
• Olivier Meidinger for ROSE
• Katarzyna Sobańska & Marcel Sławiński for FATHERLAND
European Sound
• Robert Farr, Lars Ginzel & Benjamin Hörbe for NAZA
• Lars Ginzel & Tarn Willers for FATHERLAND
• Rodrigo Madrigal, Anna Harrington, Alejandro López & Mayte Cazorla for LA BOLA NEGRA
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
• 17 directed by Kosara Mitic (North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)
• AT NIGHT directed by Beatrice Gibson (United Kingdom)
• CUTE directed by Marlene Emilie Lyngstad (Denmark, Norway)
• FLESH & FUEL (DU FIOUL DANS LES ARTÈRES) directed by Pierre Le Gall (France, Poland)
• THE GUEST (GÆSTEN) directed by Mads Mengel (Denmark)
• THIRTEEN IN GAZA directed by Hosam Abu Dan (Palestine, Qatar)
European Short Film (announced on November 13)
• GOD IS SHY (DIEU EST TIMIDE)directed by Jocelyn Charles (France)
• L’MINA directed by Randa Maroufi (France, Morocco, Italy, Qatar, United Arab Emirates)
• MORNING CIRCLE (MORGENKREIS)directed by Basma al-Sharif (Germany, Canada, UAE)
• THE END directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Sweden, France, Denmark)
• UNLEADED 95 (BLEIFREI 95)directed by Emma Hütt, Tina Muffler (Germany, Austria)
European Young Audience Award (announced November 1)
- HOLD ONTO ME by Myrsini Aristidou (Cyprus, Greece, Denmark)
- I MATTER by Alina Șerban (Romania, Germany, Belgium)
- IRON BOY by Louis Clichy (France, Belgium)
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Melanie Goodfellow
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