“Juliet”, by Pedro Almodóvar, nominated for the European Cinema Prize – The Universal

The film Juliet, the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, got today three nominations in the XXIX Awards European Film Academy (EFA), which will be delivered the next December 10 in Wroclaw (Poland).

As is traditional, the nominations were announced this Saturday at the European Film Festival of Seville, which is held in the andalusian capital of seville (south).

Juliet will be the Spanish film that more nominations have in these awards, having been nominated as best european film of 2016, Almodóvar as best director and actors Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte, an “ex-aequo” as best actresses.

In the case of the award for best director, Almodóvar will have to compete with germany’s Maren Ade by “Toni Erdmann”, the british Kean Loach by “I, Daniel Blake”, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu for “Graduation”, and the Dutch Paul Verhoeven for “Elle”.

The nomination “ex aequo” Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte, for their part, contend for the prize of best actress with the Italian Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, for his work in “Mad Joy”, the Danish Trine Dyrholm, for his performance in “The commune”, and the German Sandra Hüller, actress in “Elle”.

with Respect to the award for best actor european 2016, the Spanish Javier Cámara is one of the candidates, for his role in “Truman”, in addition to the british Hugh Grant for “Florence Foster Jenkins” and Dave Johns, by “I, Daniel Blake”.

Also competing for this award the German Burghart Klaubner, by “Fritz Bauer”, sweden’s Rolf Lassgard, for “A man called Ove”, and the austrian, Peter Simonischek, “Toni Erdman”.

In the category of writers, five candidates competing for the award in this modality: the German Mared Ade by “Toni Erdman”, the irish Emma Donoghue for “room”, the scotsman Paul Laverty for “I, Daniel Blake”.

Also opt to this prize the Romanian Cristian Mungiu for “Graduation” and the Polish Tomasz Wasilewski for “United States of love”.

To get the title of best european film, Almodóvar will compete with the tape franco/German “Elle”, the French “I, Daniel Blake”, the irish/canadian “The room” and the German/austrian “Toni Erdmann”.

The prizes include, in addition, a recognition to the best documentary, to choose six works: “21 x New York”, by Piotr Stasik (Poland), “A family affair”, by Tom Fassaert (Netherlands/Belgium), “Fire at sea”, by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy/France), “Mr. Gaga”, by Tomer Heyman (Israel/Sweden/Germany/Holland), “S is for Stanley – 30 years at the wheel for Stanley Kubrick” by Alex Infascelli (Italy) and “The land of The enlightened”, by Pieter-Jan De Pue (Germany).

At the gala of this XXIX edition of the Awards of the European Film Academy (EFA), which will be held in the Polish city of Wroclaw, the actor is irish Pierce Brosnan will be honored with an honorary award.

The prizes of the EFA emerged in 1989 as an alternative to the Oscar of Hollywood and are driven by forty filmmakers europeans, including the German Wim Wenders and the swede Ingmar Bergman.

First we called Felix, but after a few years went by the appellation neutral European Film Awards.

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