Thanks for the link DMark. I’ve seen 3 of the 5 nominated films, and I agree with everything you say about The Ghost Writer, it’s a fantastic film, and I would not be surprised if it won in the nominated categories. It’ll be up against the excellent The Secret In Their Eyes though, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film at the last Oscars. Both have a better chance than Lebanon, which was good, but I can’t see it winning. The entire movie, save for the very beginning and very end, is set in a tank. Very claustrophobic. I’m looking forward to the ones I haven’t yet seen.
Man, The Hollywood Reporter is super sloppy. The story says that Soul Kitchen, which is one of my favorite movies of the year, is also nominated, so I got all excited. But if you click on the link to the nominations, it’s not listed. Plus, the HR story says “Gods and Monsters from France’s Xavier Beauvois” is nominated, but the movie is called “Of Gods and Men.” Geez.
Here are the nominees. I put in links to their IMDB pages.
European Film Awards 2010 Nominees
European Film
“The Ghost Writer” dir. Roman Polanski
“Honey” dir. Semih Kaplanoglu
“Of Gods and Men” dir. Xavier Beauvios
“Lebanon” dir. Samuel Maoz
“The Secret in their Eyes” dir. Juan Jose Campanella
European Director
Roman Polanski for “The Ghost Writer”
Olivier Assayas for “Carlos”
Semih Kaplanoglu for “Honey”
Samuel Maoz for “Lebanon”
Paolo Virzi for “The First Beautiful Thing”
European Actress
Zrinka Cvitesic in “On the Path”
Sibel Kekilli in “When We Leave”
Lesley Manville in “Another Year”
Sylvie Testud in “Lourdes”
Lotte Verbeek in “Nothing Personal”
European Actor
Ewan McGregor in “The Ghost Writer”
Jakob Cedergren in “Submarino”
Elio Germano in “Our Life”
George Pistereanu in “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle”
Luis Tosar in “Cell 311”
European Screenwriter
Robert Harris & Roman Polanski for “The Ghost Writer”
Jorge Guerricaechevarria & Daniel Monzon for “Cell 311”
Samuel Maoz for “Lebanon”
Radu Mihaileanu for “The Concert”
Carlo di Palma Cinematography Award
Giora Bejach for “Lebanon”
Caroline Champetier for “Of Gods and Men”
Pavel Kostomarov for “How I Ended this Summer”
Baris Ozbicer for “Honey”
European Editor
Herve de Luzefor “The Ghost Writer”
Luc Barnier & Marion Monnier for “Carlos”
Arik Lahav-Leibovich for “Lebanon”
European Production Designer
Albrecht Konrad for “The Ghost Writer”
Paola Bizzarri & Luis Ramirez for “I, Don Giovanni” (both are uncredited, very odd)
Markku Patila & Jaagup Roomet for “The Temptation of St. Tony”
European Composer
Alexandre Desplat for “The Ghost Writer”
Ales Brezina for “Kawasaki’s Rose”
Pasquale Catalano for “Loose Cannons”
Gary Yershon for “Another Year”
Besides The Ghost Writer, The Secret In Their Eyes and Lebanon, the only films I’ve seen on the list are If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle which was decent even if I wanted to slap the shit out of the lead character (the Best Actor nomination is very deserved. Some smart casting director should get George Pistereanu in Hollywood to play Ryan Phillipe or Channing Tatum’s brother); The Concert, which had some nice moments but overall I didn’t like; and How I Ended This Summer, which I absolutely hated, HATED! though the acting was excellent and it very much deserves the cinematography nomination and win.