‘The black ball’ sweeps the nominations for the European Film Awards
It has only been surpassed by the minimum by ‘Fatherland’, which is up for eleven awards
BarcelonaThe European Film Awards (EFA) have already made public their selection of films that will compete for an award at the next ceremony, scheduled for January 16 in the Greek city of Athens. One of the titles with the most nominations has been The Black Ball, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, which has ten options, including the main ones: best film, best director, and best screenplay. It has only been surpassed by the eleven nominations of Fatherland, by Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski. And although the music by Raül Refree has been left out of the finalists, the ten options allow it to surpass Sirat as the Spanish film with the most nominations in the history of the competition.
Among the statuettes it is competing for, there are two Catalans: Gris Jordana, who could take home the award for best cinematography, and Roger Bellés, a candidate in the best production design category.
The EFA have also valued the work of other filmmakers from the State by making them nominees. This is the case of Alberto Iglesias, as the author of the soundtrack for Bitter Christmas, the latest film by Pedro Almodóvar; of Javier Bardem, as a possible best actor for his character of a despotic but wounded director in The Beloved, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and Penélope Cruz, in this case for her participation in the French film Bunker, by Florian Zeller.
The rest of the titles nominated for best film are: Fjord, The Gradiva, Unknown Woman, Letters from the Silenced Country, Naza, Essays for a Revolution, To Hold a Mountain, Whispers in the Woods, Comes and Goes, Iron Boy, Jim Queen, The Mystery of Lucy Lost, Long Live Carmen.
