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European Film Academy Announces Animated Film Nominees; Adds 16 to Feature Film Selection of EFA Awards

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Today, the European Film Academy revealed the nominees of the category European Animated Feature Film. As the Academy aims to equally recognize the achievements and contributions of animation films for European film culture, the nominated films in this category are also eligible for the category European Film. The committee which decided on the nominations was comprised of representatives of the European Film Academy and CARTOON, the European Association for Animation Film.

The nominees:

Flow directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, France, Belgium)

Living Large directed by Kristina Dufková (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia)

Savages directed by Claude Barras (Switzerland, France, Belgium)

Sultana’s Dream directed by Isabel Herguera (Spain, Germany, India)

They Shot the Piano Player directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal (Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru)

The selection is based on the Diversity & Inclusion Standards of the European Film Academy.

In addition, 16 further feature films have been added by the European Film Academy to the European Film Awards’ Feature Film Selection. With the already announced 29 films, the shortlist comprises 45 strong European feature films. They have been selected by the European Film Academy Board – consulted by a diverse range of European invited experts.

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.

In the coming weeks, the 5,000 members of the European Film Academy will watch the selected films and vote on the nominations in the categories ‘European Film,’ ‘European Director,’ ‘European Actress,’ European Actor,’ ‘European Screenwriter’ and ‘European Documentary.’ Based on the votes of all members, the nominations will be made public on November 5, 2024. The members of the European Film Academy will then vote for the winner who will be announced on December 7, 2024 in Lucerne.

Additional titles:

April directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili

Conclave directed by Edward Berger

The End directed by Joshua Oppenheimer

Hard Truths directed by Mike Leigh

Harvest directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari

Misericordia directed by Emma Dante

Moon directed by Kurdwin Ayub

Mr. K directed by Tallulah H. Schwab

My Father’s Daughter directed by Egil Pedersen

The New Year That Never Came directed by Bogdan Muresanu

Queer directed by Luca Guadagnino

The Room Next Door directed by Pedro Almodóvar

The Sparrow in the Chimney directed by Ramon Zurcher

Toxic directed by Saule Bliuvaite

Vermiglio directed by Maura Delpero

Windless directed by Pavel G. Vesnakov

They join the previously announced films:

Arcadia (Gre-Bul-US) directed by Yorgos Zois

Armand (Nor) directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel

Bird (UK) directed by Andrea Arnold

The Count Of Monte-Cristo directed by Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre De La Patellière

Crossing directed by Levan Akin

The Devil’s Bath directed by Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala

Dying directed by Matthias Glasner

Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard

The Girl With The Needle directed by Magnus von Horn

Grand Tour directed by Miguel Gomes

Hesitation Wound directed by Selman Nacar

The Invisible Fight directed by Rainer Sarnet

Julie Keeps Quiet directed by Leonardo Van Dijl

Kinds Of Kindness directed byYorgos Lanthimos

Kneecap (Ire-UK) directed by Rich Peppiatt

Life directed by Zeki Demirkubuz

The Other Way Around directed by Jonás Trueba

The Rye Horn directed by Jaione Camborda

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig directed by Mohammad Rasoulof

The Shameless directed by Konstantin Bojanov

Souleymane’s Story directed by Boris Lojkine

The Substance directed by Coralie Fargeat

There’s Still Tomorrow directed by Paola Cortellesi

Three Kilometres To The End Of The World directed by Emanuel Pârvu

Un Amor directed by Isabel Coixet

The Village Next To Paradise directed by Mo Harawe

When The Light Breaks directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson

Without Air directed by Katalin Moldovai

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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