Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland leads the 39th European Film Awards nominations with 11, just ahead of Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra with 10. Sandra Hüller, meanwhile, has two European Actress nominations, for Fatherland and Rose. SourceSource
The European Film Academy announced the nominations on November 14, 2026, at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece. Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner Fjord follows the leading pair with five nominations. Winners are scheduled to be announced in Athens on January 16, 2027. SourceSource
Cannes has supplied the rematch
Fatherland and La Bola Negra are both nominated for European Film, Director, Screenwriter and Cinematographer. Their filmmakers already shared the Best Director prize at Cannes in May, so they’ve had some practice sharing an awards headline. SourceSource
Fatherland is a black-and-white drama about writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, played by Hanns Zischler and Hüller. Pawlikowski isn’t confined to the directing category, either: he shares the screenplay nomination with Henk Handloegten and the editing nomination with Piotr Wójcik. Quite a few opportunities to hear his name read out. SourceSource
La Bola Negra follows the interconnected stories of three gay men in 1932, 1937 and 2017. Calvo and Ambrossi share its screenplay nomination with Alberto Conejero. Fjord, meanwhile, has nominations for European Film, Director and Screenwriter, plus acting nods for Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan.
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