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Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ Wins Best Film, Director, Screenwriter and Actress at European Film Awards
The 37th European Film Awards are underway in Lucerne, Switzerland. Variety will be bringing you the winners live here.
The director nominees are Andrea Arnold for “Bird,” Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez,” Pedro Almodóvar for “The Room Next Door,” Mohammad Rasoulof for “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” and Maura Delpero for “Vermiglio.” Screenwriter prize contenders are Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez,” Magnus Von Horn and Line Langebek for “The Girl With the Needle,” Pedro Almodóvar for “The Room Next Door,” Mohammad Rasoulof for “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” and Coralie Fargeat for “The Substance.” The nominees for the Discovery Award, given to a director for their first full-length feature film, are Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s “Armand,” “Hoard” by Luna Carmoon, “Kneecap” by Rich Peppiatt, “Santosh” by Sandhya Suri, “The New Year That Never Came” by Bogdan Mureșanu, and “Toxic” by Saulė Bliuvaitė.
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