‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Room Next Door’ Lead 2024 European Film Awards Nominations (EFA)

Today, the European Film Academy revealed the nominees for the main categories of the 2024 European Film Awards where Jacques Audiard’s Cannes-winning Emilia Pérez and Pedro Almodóvar’s Venice-winning The Room Next Door led with the same, head-to-head four mentions apiece including Best European Film, Best European Director, Best European Screenwriter and Best European Actress, for Karla Sofía Gascón and Tilda Swinton, respectively.

Closely following with three nominations apiece were the animated film Flow (Best European Film, Best European Animated Feature Film and the Lux European Audience Film Award), Dahomey (Best European Film, Best European Documentary and the Lux European Audience Film Award) and The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Best European Film, Best European Director and Best European Screenwriter, both for Mohammad Rasoulof).

Rounding out the animated and doc-heavy list for Best European Film are Bye Bye Tiberias, In Limbo, Living Large, No Other Land, Savages, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Sultana’s Dream, The Substance, They Shot the Piano Player and Vermiglio.

Last year, Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest led the nominations with five each while Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall swept the awards, winning in each of the categories it was nominated for: European Film, European Director, European Screenwriter and European Actress. Anatomy of a Fall went on to duplicate those as Oscar nominations at the Academy Awards (plus Film Editing), winning Original Screenplay. The Zone of Interest earned nominations for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay and won Oscars for Sound and International Feature Film.

Previously announced, the European Film Academy will also honor director Wim Wenders with the European Lifetime Achievement Award and Isabella Rossellini with the European Achievement in World Cinema award.

The nominations are based on the votes of 5,000 members of the European Film Academy who have been watching the films included in the annual Academy Selection. Now, the Academy members will vote for the winners. The selection is based on the Diversity & Inclusion Standards of the European Film Academy. 

The winners of the 37th European Film Awards will be revealed in this year’s award ceremony on December 7 in Lucerne, Switzerland. The ceremony is presented by the European Film Academy and European Film Academy Productions gGmbH.

Here is the full list of nominations.

Best European Film

Bye Bye Tiberias
Dahomey
Emilia Pérez
Flow
In Limbo
Living Large
No Other Land
Savages
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sultana’s Dream
The Room Next Door
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Substance
They Shot the Piano Player
Vermiglio

Best European Director

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

Best European Actor

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

Best European Actress

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

Best European Screenwriter

Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Magnus von Horn and Line Langebek, The Girl with the Needle
Pedro Almodóvar, The Room Next Door
Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Best European Animated Feature Film

Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
Living Large (Kristina Dufková)
Savages (Claude Barras)
Sultana’s Dream (Isabel Herguera)
They Shot the Piano Player (Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal)

Best European Documentary

Bye Bye Tiberias (Lina Soualem)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
In Limbo (Alina Maksimenko)
No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Johan Grimonprez)

European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI

Armand (Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel)
Hoard (Luna Carmoon)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)
The New Year That Never Came (Bogdan Mureșanu)
Santosh (Sandhya Suri)
Toxic (Saulė Bliuvaitė)

Best European Short Film

2720 (Basil da Cunha)
Clamor (Salomé Da Souza)
The Exploding Girl (Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel)
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Nebojša Slijepčević)
Wander to Wonder (Nina Gantz)

Lux European Audience Film Award

Animal
Dahomey
Flow
Intercepted
Julie Keeps Quiet

European Young Audience Award

Lars Is LOL
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Winners

European University Film Award

April
Armand
Kneecap
Moon
Three Kilometres to the End of the World