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The 37th European Film Awards are underway in Lucerne, Switzerland. Variety will be bringing you the winners live here.
The best film nominees include narrative features “Emilia Perez,” “The Room Next Door,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “The Substance” and “Vermiglio,” as well as documentaries “Bye Bye Tiberias,” “Dahomey,” “In Limbo,” “No Other Land” and “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” and animated films “Flow,” “Living Large,” “Savages,” “Sultana’s Dream” and “They Shot the Piano Player.”
The director nominees are Andrea Arnold for “Bird,” Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez,” Pedro Almodóvar for “The Room Next Door,” Mohammad Rasoulof for “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” and Maura Delpero for “Vermiglio.”
Screenwriter prize contenders are Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez,” Magnus Von Horn and Line Langebek for “The Girl With the Needle,” Pedro Almodóvar for “The Room Next Door,” Mohammad Rasoulof for “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” and Coralie Fargeat for “The Substance.”
Popular on Variety The statuette for best European actress is being chased by Renate Reinsve in “Armand,” Karla Sofía Gascón in “Emilia Pérez,” Trine Dyrholm in “The Girl With the Needle,” Vic Carmen Sonne in “The Girl With the Needle” and Tilda Swinton in “The Room Next Door.”
The actor award is fought over by Franz Rogowski in “Bird,” Ralph Fiennes in “Conclave,” Lars Eidinger in “Dying,” Daniel Craig in “Queer” and Abou Sangare in “Souleymane’s Story.”
Best documentary contenders are “Bye Bye Tiberias,” “Dahomey,” “In Limbo,” “No Other Land” and “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.”
The nominees for the Discovery Award, given to a director for their first full-length feature film, are Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s “Armand,” “Hoard” by Luna Carmoon, “Kneecap” by Rich Peppiatt, “Santosh” by Sandhya Suri, “The New Year That Never Came” by Bogdan Mureșanu, and “Toxic” by Saulė Bliuvaitė.
