Admin I Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2024
BERLIN – German actress Sandra Hüller won an Oscar nomination for starring role in the drama “Anatomy of a Fall,” and German directors Wim Wenders and Ilke Catak were both nominated for an Oscar for Best International Feature.
The prestigious Oscar nominations, announced on Tuesday, show a major international footprint for German cinema talent.
Hüller’s star turn in the drama by French director Justine Triet has already won her the European Film Award for Best Actress in December and a nomination for a Golden Globe, although she lost out there to Lily Gladstone from “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Hüller, who is from eastern Germany and lives in Leipzig, portrays a successful writer suspected of murder in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture.
Hüller also appeared in another Best Picture and Best International Feature nominee, the Holocaust drama “Zone of Interest.”
Catak’s nomination for Best International Feature comes for the German film “The Teachers’ Lounge,” about a young teacher trying to solve a series of thefts at a school, while Wenders directed the largely Japanese production “Perfect Days,” about a man named Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), who works as a toilet cleaner, seems content with his simple life and lives very much in the moment.
In addition to Germany and Japan, three other countries are represented in the Best International Feature category: Italy (“Io Capitano”), United Kingdom (“The Zone of Interest”) and Spain (“The Snow Society”).
