EFA Nominees: Denmark's "Another Round" Leads the Pack
Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 7:00PM
NATHANIEL R in Another Round, Best International Film, Corpus Christi, EFA, Germany, Goran Bogan, Hope, Madds Mikkelsen, Martin Eden, Thomas Vinterberg, Undine

by Nathaniel R

Apologies that in this week where we've been doing such a fine job covering international cinema news what will all the Oscar submission daily stuff, that we missed the EFA nominations. "OOPS-HOWD-THAT- HAPPEN?" in all caps. The nominees and commentary are after the jump. If we've written about the film there are links...

FILM

This list has only one shot at any Oscar correlation this season. Denmark has yet to announce their submission but Another Round is surely the frontrunner. 

DIRECTOR 

ACTRESS 

The only one of these films we were unfamiliar with was DAU. Natasha. It stars Natalia Berezhnaya as a canteen worker at a Soviet research institute who gets into trouble with drinking, affairs, and State security. This is Nina Hoss's second nomination (she was previously cited for Barbara)

ACTOR

Pity that Martin Eden took so long to gather steam. Italy passed it by last season (when it was eligible to be an Oscar submission)

Beyond thrilled to see Bogdan show up here. He's phenomenal in that film. The rest of the men aren't slouches either though we suspect that, in the end, this will be a Marinelli vs. Mikkelsen showdown. Mikkelsen probably has the advantage as this is his fourth nomination at the EFAs and he's never won competitively. He did, however, received a non-competitive "Oustanding European Achievement" award about a decade back. 

SCREENWRITER

COMEDY

I fundamentally object to "comedy" categories when there are no directly parallel drama categories (see also Critics Choice Awards) but the other category is just best film. What this implicitly states is that comedies are not "films" but dramas are "films" and need not be categorized as "dramas". It's showing the bias right up front. If you want to honor comedies, make the categories equal parallels like the Globes. 

DISCOVERY  

DOCUMENTARY 

Gunda, which is about farm animals, is looking likely to make the Academy's eligibility list this year as it's been a festival favourite.

ANIMATED FILM


Will any of these show up in the eligibility list for Best Animated Feature this year? It's such a slim field when you only look at the American features. 

SHORT FILM 

Too soon to tell if any of these (other than Uncle Thomas) will show up in the Oscar correlative categories.

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