‘Fatherland,’ ‘La Bola Negra,’ ‘Fjord’ Top European Film Award Noms
The European Film Academy’s top nominations reflect recent festival winners, with Fatherland and La Bola Negra leading a field shaped by Cannes recognition.
- On Saturday, the European Film Academy announced nominations for the 39th European Film Awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, with PaweB Pawlikowski's Fatherland leading at 11 nominations and Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi's La Bola Negra following with 10.
- Pawlikowski's Fatherland centers on writer Thomas Mann and his daughter, while La Bola Negra, directed by Calvo and Ambrossi, is a triptych about the history of gay men's sexuality. Both films are frontrunners across the 2027 awards season.
- Cristian Mungiu's Fjord secured 5 nominations, while Markus Schleinzer's Rose received 4. Sandra Hüller earned two best actress nominations for Fatherland and Rose, competing with Penélope Cruz for Bunker.
- Winners will be unveiled on January 16, 2027, in Athens at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, co-organised by the European Film Academy and the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center.
- The January 16 ceremony falls between the Academy Awards' voting deadline on January 15 and the January 21 nominations announcement, positioning the European Film Awards at the heart of the wider awards season.
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‘Fatherland,’ ‘La Bola Negra,’ ‘Fjord’ Top European Film Award Noms
Fatherland has the biggest showing in these nominations, which is kind of interesting, given it’s not so “in the conversation.” I wonder if this pushes it through. Nice to see both Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve for Fjord nominated here. They are so worthy. And Sandra Huller is double-nominated for Fatherland and Rose. As always, if Naza is present, one must think it will beat even the favorites. It definitely wins Documentary. It’s odd that …
'La Bola Nega' & 'Fatherland' Top 2027 European Film Awards Nominations
If you are looking for any insight into what non-English language films have a shot at dominating the 2027 Oscar nominations, then this morning’s 2027 European Film Awards nominations are for you. Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland,” released in the U.S. by MUBI, led all films with 11 nominations, including European Film, European Director and European Actress for Sandra Hüller. “La Bola Negra,” distributed by Netflix in the States, took 10 nominat…
The European Film Awards (EFA) have already made public their selection of films that will be up for an award at the next ceremony, scheduled for January 16 in the Greek city of Athens. One of the titles with the most nominations has been La bola negra, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, which has ten nominations, including the main ones: best film, best director and best screenplay. It has only been surpassed by the eleven nominations of Fath…
'La Bola Negra' and 'Fatherland' are the most nominated films in the 2027 European Film Award.
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, 'the Javis', are also nominated in the categories of European director and European screenwriter 'The black ball', 'The loved one', 'Three goodbyes' and 'I will not die of love', nominated for the Forqué Awards 2026 'The Black Ball', by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, and 'Fatherland', by Polish Pawel Pawlikowski, are the films with the most nominations in the European Film Award 2027, announced the European F…
Only in number of possible awards "Fatherland" of Pawel Pawlikowski, who aspires to eleven. Javier Bardem is also among the candidates thanks to his interpretation in "The loved one", as well as Penélope Cruz for "Bunker"
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