This year’s Oscar® nominations are here, and HIFF is well-represented.
We want to congratulate the films, filmmakers, and actors who have been a part of HIFF, and received a nomination this morning. HIFF films garnered 42 nominations this year, screening five of this year’s Best Picture nominees: HAMNET, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, BUGONIA, TRAIN DREAMS, and THE SECRET AGENT.
Guests of HIFF who received nominations included Ethan Hawke (Best Actor nomination for BLUE MOON), Joshua Seftel and Steve Hartman (Best Short Documentary nomination for ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS), Geeta Gandbhir (Best Documentary Feature nomination for THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR), and Steve Pinder and Julia Aks, Winners of the Peter MacGregor-Scott Memorial Award at HIFF32 (Best Live Action Short nomination for JANE AUSTEN’S PERIOD DRAMA).
HIFF33 films scored nine acting nominations this morning:
Best Actress
• Jessie Buckley, HAMNET
• Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
• Renate Reinsve, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
• Emma Stone, BUGONIA
Best Actor
• Ethan Hawke, BLUE MOON
• Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT
Best Supporting Actor
• Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Best Supporting Actress
• Elle Fanning, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
In the directing and screenplay race, HIFF33 films earned 8 nominations:
Best Director
• Chloé Zhao, HAMNET
• Joachim Trier, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Best Adapted Screenplay
• Will Tracy, BUGONIA
• Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell, HAMNET
• Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar, TRAIN DREAMS
Best Original Screenplay
• Robert Kaplow, BLUE MOON
• Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
• Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
For the second year in a row, all five of the films nominated for Best International Feature screened at HIFF:
• THE SECRET AGENT (Brazil)
• THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (Tunisia)
• IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (France)
• SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Norway)
• SIRĀT (Spain)
HIFF short films were also represented across all 3 eligible categories, including selections from both HIFF33 and HIFF32:
Best Documentary Short
• ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS
Best Live Action Short
• JANE AUSTEN’S PERIOD DRAMA
Best Animated Short
• FOREVERGREEN
We welcomed the team behind THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR for in-person Q+As at HIFF33, which earned a nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
ARCO, which played in this year’s World Cinema Narrative section, earned a nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Finally, HIFF has 2 films included in this year’s inaugural Best Casting award nominees: HAMNET and THE SECRET AGENT.
Congratulations to all the nominees, and to our programming team for consistently bringing the very best of international cinema to the East End every year!
“If the Academy Awards were a horse race, the Hamptons International Film Festival would be quite the handicapper.” — The New York Times
