"Fatherland" by Paweł Pawlikowski receives 11 European Film Award nominations

The European Film Academy has announced nominations for the European Film Awards. "Fatherland", directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, appears in eleven categories, which according to the channel's description is the largest number of nominations of any production in the competition.

Nominations in the main categories

The list includes Best Film and Best Director. Łukasz Żal is nominated for cinematography, and Paweł Pawlikowski, together with Henk Handloegten, for screenplay. In the acting categories, Sandra Hüller is recognised for a female role and Hanns Zischler for a male role.

The closest rival is "Black Ball" by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, which has 10 nominations. Cristian Mungiu's "Fjord" received 5 nominations.

Pawlikowski and earlier successes

For the director, this is a chance to win a third European Film Award. He previously won one for "Ida" in 2014, a film that later also won an Oscar. He won his second for "Cold War" in 2018.

"Fatherland" has already been awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and at the 51st Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia. The production has also been named as Poland's candidate for the Oscars.

Polish titles among the nominees

Polish titles also feature in other sections. The documentary "Letters" by Andrei Kutsila, a Polish-German-Lithuanian co-production about contemporary Belarus, is among the five nominated documentaries. In the "Discovery" section, the French-Polish co-production "Flash & Fuel", directed by Pierre Le Gall, has been nominated, with Julian Świeżewski in one of the leading roles.