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Pedro Almodóvar and Jacques Audiard lead European Film Awards nominations


Emilia Peréz and The Room Next Door are both up for honours in prizes regarded as Oscars bellwethers

A genre-bending musical about a trans cartel boss and a Spanish veteran director’s English-language debut lead the nominations for this year’s European Film Awards, with Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Peréz and Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door both up for honours in four categories. Andrea Arnold (Bird) Jacques Audiard(Emilia Peréz) Pedro Almodóvar (The Room Next Door) Mohammad Rasoulof (The Seed of the Sacred Fig) Maura Delpero (Vermiglio) Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez) Magnus von Horn and Line Langebek (The Girl With the Needle) Pedro Almodóvar(The Room Next Door) Mohammad Rasoulof (The Seed of the Sacred Fig) Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

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