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At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy and EFA Productions proudly announced the nominations for the 27th European Film Awards.

The more than 3,000 EFA Members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on 13 December in Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014.

Nominated are:

EUROPEAN FILM 2014

FORCE MAJEURE
TURIST
Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Ruben Östlund
PRODUCED BY: Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson & Philippe Bober

IDA
Poland/Denmark
DIRECTED BY: Pawel Pawlikowski
WRITTEN BY: Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz
PRODUCED BY: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska & Christian Husum

LEVIATHAN
LEVIAFAN
Russia
DIRECTED BY: Andrey Zvyagintsev
WRITTEN BY: Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev
PRODUCED BY: Alexander Rodnyansky & Sergey Melkumov

NYMPHOMANIAC DIRECTOR'S CUT – VOLUME I & II
Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Lars von Trier
PRODUCED BY: Louise Vesth

WINTER SLEEP
KIŞ UYKUSU
Turkey/France/Germany
DIRECTED BY: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
WRITTEN BY: Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan
PRODUCED BY: Zeynep Özbatur Atakan


EUROPEAN COMEDY 2014

CARMINA & AMEN
CARMINA Y AMÉN
Spain
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Paco León
PRODUCED BY: Paco León, Ghislain Barrois & Álvaro Augustin

LE WEEK-END
UK
DIRECTED BY: Roger Michel
WRITTEN BY: Hanif Kureishi
PRODUCED BY: Kevin Loader

THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS IN THE SUMMER
LA MAFIA UCCIDE SOLO D’ESTATE
Italy
DIRECTED BY: Pierfrancesco Diliberto
WRITTEN BY: Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco Diliberto & Marco Martani
PRODUCED BY: Mario Gianani & Lorenzo Mieli

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2014
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for WINTER SLEEP (KIŞ UYKUSU)
Steven Knight for LOCKE
Ruben Östlund for FORCE MAJEURE (TURIST)
Paweł Pawlikowski for IDA
Paolo Virzì for HUMAN CAPITAL (IL CAPITALE UMANO)
Andrey Zvyagintsev for LEVIATHAN (LEVIAFAN)

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2014
Marian Alvarez in WOUNDED (LA HERIDA)
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in HUMAN CAPITAL (IL CAPITALE UMANO)
Marion Cotillard in TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)
Charlotte Gainsbourg in NYMPHOMANIAC DIRECTOR'S CUT – VOLUME I & II
Agata Kulesza in IDA
Agata Trzebuchowska in IDA

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2014
Brendan Gleeson in CALVARY
Tom Hardy in LOCKE
Alexey Serebryakov in LEVIATHAN (LEVIAFAN)
Stellan Skarsgård in NYMPHOMANIAC DIRECTOR'S CUT – VOLUME I & II
Timothy Spall in MR. TURNER

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2014
Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan for WINTER SLEEP (KIŞ UYKUSU)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)
Steven Knight for LOCKE
Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev for LEVIATHAN (LEVIAFAN)
Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz for IDA

EFA JURY AWARDS 2014

A special seven-member jury convened in Berlin and, based on the EFA Selection list, decided on the following awards recipients:

EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER – Prix CARLO DI PALMA 2014
Łukasz Żal & Ryszard Lenczewski for IDA

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2014
Justine Wright for LOCKE

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2014
Claus-Rudolf Amler for THE DARK VALLEY (DAS FINSTERE TAL)

EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER 2014
Natascha Curtius-Noss for THE DARK VALLEY (DAS FINSTERE TAL)

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2014
Mica Levi for UNDER THE SKIN

EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER 2014
Joakim Sundström for STARRED UP

Berlin & Seville, 8 November 2014

PLEASE NOTE: You will find a full list of all nominations at www.europeanfilmawards.eu and hi-res pictures at www.europeanfilmacademy.org/Pictures.212.0.html

THE 27th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: Riga, 13 December 2014
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An end full of new starts

Have you got a strong idea for a factual series, cross-platform project, format or one-off documentary? Then please send us your applications for the Documentary Campus Masterschool 2015 by 30 November 2014.

The European Film Academy proudly announces the six nominations in the category EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2014.