European Film Academy Award Nominations: Sentimental Value Leads the Race

According to the CinemaDrame News Agency, the family drama Sentimental Value, directed by Joachim Trier—which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025—has been nominated in five categories at the European Film Awards. The nominees were selected by five thousand four hundred members of the European Film Academy.

The film is nominated for Best European Film, Best European Director, Best European Screenwriter, Best European Actress for Renate Reinsve, and Best European Actor for Stellan Skarsgård. Sirāt, directed by Oliver Laschet, has received four nominations, while Sound of Falling by Masha Shilinsky and It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi have each earned three nominations.

The European Film Awards ceremony will be held on 17 January 2026 in Berlin.

European Film Award Nominees for 2025

Best European Film

AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE – Albert Serra
ARCO – Ugo Bienuno
DOG OF GOD – Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele
FIUME O MORTE! – Igor Bezinović
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT – Jafar Panahi
LITTLE AMELIE – Mellis Valad & Lian-Chou Han
OLIVIA AND THE INVISIBLE EARTHQUAKE – Irene Iborra Rizo
RIEFENSTAHL – Anders Fjel
SENTIMENTAL VALUE – Joachim Trier
SIRÂT – Oliver Laschet
SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH – Olha Zhurba
SOUND OF FALLING – Masha Shilinsky
TALES FROM THE MAGIC GARDEN – David Soukup, Patrick Pasch, Leon Widmar & Jean-Claude Rosek
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB – Kaouther Ben Hania
WITH HASAN IN GAZA – Kamal Aljafari

Best European Documentary

AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE – Albert Serra
FIUME O MORTE! – Igor Bezinović
RIEFENSTAHL – Anders Fjel
SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH – Olha Zhurba
WITH HASAN IN GAZA – Kamal Aljafari

Best European Animated Feature

ARCO – Ugo Bienuno
DOG OF GOD – Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele
LITTLE AMELIE – Mellis Valad & Lian-Chou Han
OLIVIA AND THE INVISIBLE EARTHQUAKE – Irene Iborra Rizo
TALES FROM THE MAGIC GARDEN – David Soukup, Patrick Pasch, Leon Widmar & Jean-Claude Rosek

Best European Director

Yorgos Lanthimos, BUGONIA
Oliver Laschet, SIRĀT
Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Masha Shilinsky, SOUND OF FALLING
Joachim Trier, SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Best European Actress

Leonie Benesch, LATE SHIFT
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, DUSE
Léa Drucker, CASE 137
Vicky Krieps, LOVE ME TENDER
Renate Reinsve, SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Best European Actor

Sergi López, SIRĀT
Mads Mikkelsen, THE LAST VIKING
Toni Servillo, LA GRAZIA
Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Idan Weiss, FRANZ

Best European Screenwriter

Santiago Fiole & Oliver Laschet, SIRĀT
Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Masha Shilinsky & Louise Peter, SOUND OF FALLING
Paolo Sorrentino, LA GRAZIA
Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier, SENTIMENTAL VALUE

European Discovery

KAJ TI JE DEKLICA (TROUBLEMAKER GIRLS) – Urška Djukić
MY FATHER’S SHADOW – Akinola Davies Jr.
ON FALLING – Laura Carreira
ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES – Murat Firatoglu
SAUNA – Matthias Brü
UNDER THE GREY SKY – Mara Temkowicz

European Young Audience Award

ARCO – Ugo Bienuno
I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A BOOK – Nora Lakos
SIBLINGS – Greta Scarrato