by Nathaniel R
The Favourite may have lost most of its Oscar nominations but it can still win some EFAs!
The 32nd annual European Film Awards are happening this December 7th in Berlin. Voting for the People's Choice prize is now open. And -- "gay rights!"-- The Favourite still probably has another award ceremony to get through. Due to the EFA's non-calendar year eligibility as well as the complications of release patterns in multiple countries and the EFA's non-fussiness about dates you'll find that the people's choice options are a very strange mix this year from THREE calendar years worth of movies (2017-2019).
After the jump, that odd group as well as two longlists (to give you festival prioritizing help) before the nominations are announced in early November...
PEOPLE'S CHOICE NOMINEES
- Border (Sweden)
- Cold War (Poland)
It was the big winner at last year's EFAs with five prizes (PICTURE, DIRECTOR, ACTRESS, EDITING, and SCREENPLAY) but is somehow up for people's choice this year! - Dogman (Italy)
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (UK)
- Girl (Belgium)
- Happy as Lazzaro (Italy)
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (UK)
- Pain & Glory (Spain)
- Sink or Swim (France -major Cesar contender last season)
- The Breadwinner (Ireland)
- The Favourite (UK)
- The Purity of Vengeance (also known as Journal 64) (Denmark)
The EFAs proper (the prizes you can't vote on since that's up to the EFA membership itself) wont announce their nominations until November 9th but they have announced the finalist lists for both documentaries and features which are as follows...
DOCUMENTARY FINALISTS
- Advocate (Israel)
- Acquarela (Germany) -- currently in US theaters
- Delphine & Carole (France)
- For Sama (UK/US) -- already played its US run
- Heimat is a Space and Time (Germany/Austria)
- Honeyland (North Macedonia) - OSCAR SUBMISSION THIS YEAR. Currently in US theaters
- M (France)
- Push (Sweden)
- Putin's Witness (Latvia)
- Scheme Birds (Sweden)
- Selfie (France/Italy)
- The Disappearance of My Mother (Italy)
FEATURE FILM LONG LIST
These 46 films will be where they draw their nominations from for the 2019 EFA nominations
Sweden's remarkable Georgian-based film AND THEN WE DANCED is an EFA longlister and Oscar submission
- All Good (Germany)
- And Then We Danced (SWEDEN'S OSCAR SUBMISSION)
- By the Grace of God (France)
- Bad Poems (Hungary)
- Beanpole (Russia)
- Chained (Israel)
- Clergy (Poland)
- Dafne (Italy)
- Dirty God (The Netherlands)
- The Favourite (UK, Ireland)
- Fire Will Come (Spain, France, Luxembourg)
God Exists, her Name is Petrunija about a woman crashing an all male event. The Macedonian comedy has been sold to 15 countries already.
- God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija (North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia...)
- Gundermann (Germany)
- Homeward (UKRAINE'S OSCAR SUBMISSION)
- High Life (Germany, Poland, UK, France)
- I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Romania's Oscar submission last year)
- I Was At Home, But... (Germany, Serbia)
- It Must Be Heaven (PALESTINE'S OSCAR SUBMISSION)
- Jumpman (Russia, Ireland, France, Lithuania)
- Joy (Austria)
- Les Miserables (France)
- Little Joe (Austria, UK, Germany)
- Mr Jones (Poland, UK, Ukraine)
- Non-Fiction (France)
- Oleg (Latvia, Lithuania...)
It's been 13 years since Pedro Almodovar's last Oscar attention. Can "Pain & Glory" return him to the mix?
- Pain & Glory (Spain's Oscar submission finalist)
- Piranhas (Italy)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France)
- The Realm (France, Spain)
- Queen of Hearts (Denmark's Oscar submission finalist)
- Sibel (Turkey, France, Germany, Luxembourg)
- Sons of Denmark (Denmark)
- Sorry We Missed You (UK)
- Stitches (Serbia)
- Synonyms (Israel, France, Germany)
- System Crasher (GERMANY'S OSCAR SUBMISSION)
- A Tale of Three Sisters (Turkey, Germany)
Tel Aviv on Fire is an Ophir nominee this year (Israel's Oscars)
- Tel Aviv on Fire (Israel's Oscar submission finalist -- in US theaters now)
- A Twelve Year Night (Spain, France... was Uruguay's Oscar submission last year)
- The Traitor (Italy)
- Twin Flower (Italy)
- Werewolf (Poland, Germany, The Netherlands)
- The Whistlers (ROMANIA'S OSCAR SUBMISSION)
- A White White Day (Iceland)
- Yesterday (UK)
- Young Ahmed (Belgium)