HIFF Celebrates the Academy Awards®

EMILIA PÉREZ: most overall nominations (13)

Films we featured and guests we welcomed at HIFF32 were as well received by The Academy as they were by our audiences last fall, receiving a record 51 (!) nominations for the 97th Academy Awards on March 2. 


Congratulations to the films, filmmakers and actors who joined us last October and received a nomination from The Academy this week! 🥂 🎉 HIFF was proud to screen five of the Best Picture nominees: ANORA, CONCLAVE (HIFF New York Premiere), EMILIA PÉREZ (which led with 13 nominations), I’M STILL HERE, and NICKEL BOYS. 

Demi Moore

Guests of HIFF32 who received nominations included  Career Achievement in Acting Award recipient Demi Moore (Best Actress nomination for THE SUBSTANCE), Fernanda Torres (Best actress nominations for I’M STILL HERE), Ed Lachman (Best Cinematography, MARIA) and Breakthrough Performer Clarence Maclin (Best Adapted Screenplay, SING SING).

Overall, HIFF screened half of the twenty nominated performances:

Best Actress
• Karla Sofía Gascón, EMILIA PÉREZ
• Mikey Madison, ANORA
• Demi Moore, THE SUBSTANCE
• Fernanda Torres, I’M STILL HERE

Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles

Best Actor
• Colman Domingo, SING SING
• Ralph Fiennes, CONCLAVE

Best Supporting Actor
• Yura Borisov, ANORA
• Kieran Culkin, A REAL PAIN

Best Supporting Actress
• Isabella Rossellini, CONCLAVE
• Zoe Saldaña, EMILIA PÉREZ

Two of the directors of films that screened at HIFF were recognized:
Best Director
Sean Baker, ANORA
Jacques Audiard, EMILIA PÉREZ

HIFF screened seven of the ten films for which the screenplay was nominated:

CONCLAVE

Best Adapted Screenplay
• Peter Straughan, CONCLAVE
• Jacques Audiard, EMILIA PÉREZ
• RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, NICKEL BOYS
• Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield, SING SING

Best Original Screenplay
• Sean Baker, ANORA
• Jesse Eisenberg, A REAL PAIN
• Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, and Alex David, SEPTEMBER 5

DEATH BY NUMBERS

Director Kim A. Snyder received a nomination for her short documentary DEATH BY NUMBERS, which is a first for a film that had its World Premiere at HIFF!

All HIFF short film nominees include:

Best Documentary Short
• DEATH BY NUMBERS

Best Live Action Short
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT

Best Animated Short
BEAUTIFUL MEN
WANDER TO WONDER

THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE

All five of the films nominated for Best International Feature screened at HIFF:
• I’M STILL HERE (Brazil)
• THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (Denmark, US Premiere)
• EMILIA PÉREZ (France)
• THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Germany)
• FLOW (Latvia, HIFF East Coast Premiere, a double nominee; see below)

Two of the five Best Documentary Feature nominees played at HIFF:
• SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
• PORCELAIN WAR

And finally, we screened two of the Best Animated Feature nominees:
FLOW 
MEMOIR OF A SNAIL


Congratulations to all the nominees! We will be rooting for these films on March 2. In the meantime, we hope our audiences will seek out any of the films you may have missed… so many of them are still in theaters and/or streaming. Who do you think will win?

>> Read the complete list of nominations via Variety