The marathon title in this year's competition. Clocking in at three hours and 15 minutes, Ceylan's latest slow-burning drama will not be for the faint of heart, but the Turkish auteur has proven in the past he can deliver the goods. His last Cannes competition entry, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, won the 2011 Jury Grand Prix (an honor he also took in 2002 for Distant) and his 2008 feature Three Monkeys won Ceylan the director's prize. Many think Ceylan is overdue for the Palme d'Or and Winter Sleep might be the film to give it to him.
Turkey’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep, from Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Russian festival favorite and foreign-language Oscar nominee Leviathan from Andrei Zvyagintsev and Lars von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut are among the five nominees for the best European film honor at this year’s European Film Awards.
Also competing for the 27th annual award will be Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida, which got the most nominations in major categories, and Force Majeure from Sweden’s Ruben Ostlund.
In the past two years, the winner of the best picture honor at the European Film Awards went on to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film. In 2014, that was Italy’s The Great Beauty, following Austria’s Amour the year before.
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Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tom Hardy, Stellan Skarsgard and Timothy Spall are among the big-name acting nominees for European Film Awards honors.
Ida got five major nominations, including for actresses Agata Kulesza and Agata Trzebuchowska, followed by Leviathan‘s four. The European Film Awards ceremony will be handed out in Riga, Latvia on Dec. 13.
Here are the complete nominations:
EUROPEAN FILM
Force Majeure
Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway
Ida
Poland/Denmark
Leviathan
Russia
Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut – Volume I & II
Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium
Winter Sleep
Turkey/France/Germany
EUROPEAN COMEDY
Carmina & Amen
Spain
Le Week-End
U.K.
The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer
Italy
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Winter Sleep
Steven Knight for Locke
Ruben Ostlund for Force Majeure
Pawe? Pawlikowski for Ida
Paolo Virzì for Human Capital
Andrey Zvyagintsev for Leviathan
EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Marian Alvarez in WOUNDED
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in HUMAN CAPITAL
Marion Cotillard in TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
Charlotte Gainsbourg in NYMPHOMANIAC DIRECTOR’S CUT – VOLUME I & II
Agata Kulesza in IDA
Agata Trzebuchowska in IDA
EUROPEAN ACTOR
Brendan Gleeson in Calvary
Tom Hardy in Locke
Alexey Serebryakov in Leviathan
Stellan Skarsgard in Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut – Volume I & II
Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan for WINTER SLEEP
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
Steven Knight for LOCKE
Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev for LEVIATHAN
Pawe? Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz for IDA
