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EFA 2003 Nominations

Wolfgang Becker against Lars von Trier

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- The nominations for the European Oscars (Berlin, December 6) have been announced. Good-Bye Lenin! is running in 5 categories, with 4 nominations for Dogville and Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Frears

Good Bye Lenin! [+see also:
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against Dogville [+see also:
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and Dirty Pretty Things [+see also:
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. This is the shortlist of the favourites for the European Film Awards, the European cinema prizes that will be awarded in Berlin on December 6, 2003. These are the three films that have received that highest number of nominations: the film by Wolfgang Becker, the German box office hit, has received 5 nominations (Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay), while there are four nominations apiece for the films by Lars von Trier and Stephen Frears: the first is running in the categories for Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Photography; the second is up for Best Film, Actor, Screenplay and Photography. Michael Winterbottom's In This World has also fared well in the nominations after it was awarded at the Berlinale and has now received nominations in 3 categories, along with the Italian The Best of Youth [+see also:
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by Marco Tullio Giordana (3) and the Spanish-Candian co-production, My Life Without Me [+see also:
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, by Isabel Coixet (2). Here is the complete listing of nominations, category by category:

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BEST FILM

DIRTY PRETTY THINGS [+see also:
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, UK
directed by Stephen Frears

DOGVILLE [+see also:
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, Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden/France/UK/Germany
directed by Lars von Trier

GOOD BYE, LENIN! [+see also:
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, Germany
directed by Wolfgang Becker

IN THIS WORLD, UK
directed by Michael Winterbottom

MY LIFE WITHOUT ME [+see also:
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, Spain/Canada
directed by Isabel Coixet

SWIMMING POOL [+see also:
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, France/UK
directed by François Ozon


BEST DIRECTOR

Wolfgang Becker forGood Bye, Lenin!
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Uzak
Isabel Coixet for My Life Without Me
Marco Tullio Giordana for The Best of Youth [+see also:
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Lars von Trier for Dogville
Michael Winterbottom for In This World


BEST ACTOR

Daniel Brühl in Good Bye, Lenin!
Luigi Lo Cascio in The Best of Youth
Chiwetel Ejiofor in Dirty Pretty Things
Tomas Lemarquis in Noi the Albino
Jean Rochefort in The Man on the Train [+see also:
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Bruno Todeschini in His Brother


BEST ACTRESS

Diana Dumbrava in Maria
Helen Mirren in Calendar Girls
Charlotte Rampling in Swimming Pool
Anne Reid in The Mother
Katja Riemann in Rosenstrasse [+see also:
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Katrin Sass in Good Bye, Lenin!


BEST SCREENPLAY

Steve Knight for Dirty Pretty Things
Dusan Kovacevic for The Professional
Hanif Kureishi for The Mother
Bernd Lichtenberg for Good Bye, Lenin!
Sandro Petraglia & Stefano Rulli for The Best of Youth
Lars von Trier for Dogville


BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

Anthony Dod Mantle for Dogville & 28 Days Later
Tom Faehrmann for The Miracle of Bern
Bogumil Godfrejow for Distant Lights
Chris Menges for Dirty Pretty Things
Italo Petriccione for I'm Not Scared [+see also:
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Marcel Zyskind for In This World


BEST DISCOVERY – FASSBINDER PRIZE

Fuse [+see also:
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by Pjer Zalica/Bosnia & Herzegovina/Austria/Turkey/France
The Hours of the Day by Jaime Rosales/Spain
Anything you Say by Guillaume Canet/France
Reconstruction
by Christoffer Boe /Denmark/Norway
Schultze Gets the Blues [+see also:
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by Michael Schorr /Germany
The Return
by Andrei Zvyagintsev/Russia
Young Adam
by David Mackenzie /UK


BEST SHORT FILM - UIP PRIZE

UIP PRIZE Ghent: La Chanson-Chanson
by Xavier Diskeuve/Belgium
UIP PRIZE Valladolid: At Dawning
by Martin Jones /UK
UIP PRIZE Angers: Mamaman
by Iao Lethem/Belgium
UIP PRIZE Berlin: (A) Torzija
by Stefan Arsenijevic/Slovenia
UIP PRIZE Tampere: Redd Barna
by Terje Rangnes/Norway
UIP PRIZE Cracow: Kraj Urodzenia
by Jacek Blawut/Poland
UIP PRIZE Grimstad: Une Étreinte
by Eskil Vogt/Norway
UIP PRIZE Vila do Conde: My Zhivem na Krai
by Victor Asliuk/Belarus
UIP PRIZE Sarajevo: Le Portefeuille
by Vincent Bierrewaerts/France/Belgium
UIP PRIZE Edinburgh: Små Skred
by Birgitte Staermose/Denmark
UIP PRIZE Venice: The Trumouse Show
by Julio Robledo/Spain
UIP PRIZE Drama: Velikan
by Alexander Kott/Russia


BEST DOCUMENTARY - ARTE PRIZE

Whose is this song?
by Adela Peeva/Bulgaria/Belgium/Germany/Finland/Denmark/The Netherlands
The Five Obstructions
by Jorgen Leth & Lars von Trier/Denmark/Belgium/Switzerland/France
Eat, Sleep, No Women
by Heiner Stadler/Germany
A Species Odyssey
by Jacques Malaterre/France/Canada/Belgium
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
by Rithy Panh/France
The Day I Will Never Forget
by Kim Longinotto/UK
The Story of the Weeping Camel
by Byambasuren Daava & Luigi Falorni/Germany
Tishe! (Hush!)
by Victor Kossakovsky/Russia


BEST NON-EUROPEAN FILM - PRIX SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

21 Grams
by Alejandro González Iñárritu/ US
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
by Kim Ki-Duk/Korea/Germany
Finding Nemo
by Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich/ US
Kill Bill: Volume 1
by Quentin Tarantino/ US
Lost in Translation
by Sofia Coppola /US
Mystic River
by Clint Eastwood/ US
The Barbarian Invasions
by Denys Arcand/Canada
Zatoichi
by Takeshi Kitano/ Japan


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