European Film Award Winners: Jacques Audiard Wins Best Director For ‘Emilia Pérez’ — Updating Live
deadline.comThe 37th European Film Awards are underway in the Swiss lakeside city of Lucerne. Leading noms this year are French Oscar entry Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard and The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodovar with four nods each.
Both films were nominated for best European film, director, and screenplay as well as actress, for Karla Sofia Gascón in Emilia Pérez and Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door.
Other frontrunners included Germany’s Oscar entry The Seed of the Sacred Fig by exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, which was nominated for best film, director, and screenplay.
A slew of films clinched two nominations including Maura Delpero’s Italian Oscar entry Vermiglio, Halfdan Ullmann Tondel’s Norwegian Oscar entry Armand as well as Andrea Arnold’s Bird and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance.
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