The gala evening will be hosted by Lucie Výborná
The Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) has revealed the nominations for the 22nd Czech Lion Annual Awards. This year the academics had 55 feature films and documentary features released in 2014 to choose from. The films aspiring to get the Czech Lion statuette in the category of the best film are The Way Out, Nowhere in Moravia, Fair Play, To See the Sea and The Three Brothers. The awards will be presented in Dvořák’s Hall of Rudolfinum in Prague on Saturday 21st February 2015. Just as last year the CFTA wants the evening to be ceremonial. The host of the evening will be Lucie Výborná. The audience can expect a new set and a special music performance by foreign artists. The ceremony of the 22nd Czech Lion Awards will be broadcast live on CT1 channel at 8 p.m.
The members of CFTA had been deciding about the nominations for the 22nd Czech Lion Annual Awards by 9th January 2015, mainly by electronic vote. The 123 academics, who took part in the voting, were choosing from 32 feature films and 23 documentary features. As far as the number of nominations is regarded, the winner is the film Fair Play by Andrea Sedláčková with 15 nominations, the film Nowhere in Moravia by Miroslav Krobot comes second with its 13 nominations. At the third place of the imaginary top list there are two films with 10 nominations – The Way Out by Petr Václav and The Three Brothers by Jan Svěrák. Then there are three films with four nominations − Angels directed by Alice Nellis, Hostage directed by Juraj Nvota and Storyteller by Vladimír Michálek.
In the category of the best film the following five films have been nominated: The Way Out, Nowhere in Moravia, Fair Play, To See the Sea and The Three Brothers. The Czech Lion for the best documentary feature will be awarded to one of the following films – Into the Clouds We Gaze (directed by Martin Dušek), The Magic Voice of a Rebel (Olga Sommerová), Olga (Miroslav Janek), The Old Man And The World (Petr Horký) and Life by Václav Havel (Andrea Sedláčková).
At the CFTA press conference, apart from the revelation of the nominations, the winner of the non-statutory award for the best film poster was announced. The award was presented to Tomáš Machek and Marius Corradini from the Side2 studio, the designers of the poster for the film Fair Play.
The Czech Lion for the best actress in a leading role can be obtained by the following actresses - Klára Melíšková for the film Angels, Klaudia Dudová for the film The Way Out, Tatiana Vilhelmová for her role in the film Nowhere in Moravia, Judit Bárdos for the film Fair Play and Tatiana Pauhofová for the film Tender Waves. The following actresses have a chance to get the Czech Lion for the best actress in a supporting role – Zuzana Bydžovská for the film Angels, Mária Ferencová-Zajacová for the film The Way Out, Lenka Krobotová for her role in the film Nowhere in Moravia, Anna Geislerová and Eva Josefíková for the film Fair Play.
The statuette of the Czech Lion for the best actor in a leading role will belong to one of these nominees – Boleslav Polívka for the film Angels, Ivan Trojan for his role in the film Nowhere in Moravia, Roman Luknár for the film Fair Play, Milan Lasica for the film Hostage and Ondřej Nosálek for the role in US 2. The winner in the category of the best actor in a supporting role can be Jaroslav Plesl for his role in the film Nowhere in Moravia, Igor Bareš for the film Fair Play, Ondřej Vetchý for the film Hostage, Karel Roden for his role in Krasno and Matěj Hádek for the role in Storyteller.
The award for the best director will be handed over during the gala evening to one of these five nominees – Petr Václav for The Way Out, Miroslav Krobot for directing the film Nowhere in Moravia, Andrea Sedláčková for Fair Play, Jiří Mádl for directing the film To See the Sea and Jan Svěrák for the fairy tale The Three Brothers.
This year CFTA has prepared several changes in the presentation of the awards. The first is the name of the host. This year the gala evening will be hosted by Lucie Výborná, a radio and TV presenter and journalist. Another piece of news is the set of the stage that was created for the Czech Lion by the stage designer Jaroslav Svoboda. In the course of the ceremonial evening the audience can look forward to an original presentation of classical music by foreign artists. The gala evening will be directed by Michael Čech and the graphic design was prepared just like last year by the Oficina studio. The music composed by Jan Čechtický for the ceremony has been recorded by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
OVERVIEW OF THE NOMINATIONS:
BEST FILM
The Way Out – Miloš Lochman, Jan Macola, Karel Chvojka
Nowhere in Moravia – Ondřej Zima
Fair play – Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad
To See the Sea – Miloslav Šmídmajer
The Three Brothers – Jan Svěrák
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
To the Clouds We Gaze – Martin Dušek
The Magic Voice of a Rebel – Olga Sommerová
Olga – Miroslav Janek
The Old Man And The World – Petr Horký
Life by Václav Havel – Andrea Sedláčková
BEST DIRECTOR
The Way Out – Petr Václav
Nowhere in Moravia – Miroslav Krobot
Fair play – Andrea Sedláčková
To See the Sea – Jiří Mádl
The Three Brothers – Jan Svěrák
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Angels – Klára Melíšková
The Way Out – Klaudia Dudová
Nowhere in Moravia – Tatiana Vilhelmová
Fair play – Judit Bárdos
Tender Waves – Tatiana Pauhofová
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Angels – Boleslav Polívka
Nowhere in Moravia – Ivan Trojan
Fair play – Roman Luknár
Hostage – Milan Lasica
US 2 – Ondřej Nosálek
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Angels – Zuzana Bydžovská
The Way Out – Mária Ferencová-Zajacová
Nowhere in Moravia – Lenka Krobotová
Fair play – Anna Geislerová
Fair play – Eva Josefíková
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Nowhere in Moravia – Jaroslav Plesl
Fair play – Igor Bareš
Hostage – Ondřej Vetchý
Krasno – Karel Roden
Storyteller – Matěj Hádek
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Way Out – Petr Václav
Nowhere in Moravia – Lubomír Smékal, Miroslav Krobot
Fair play – Andrea Sedláčková
To See the Sea – Jiří Mádl
The Three Brothers – Zdeněk Svěrák
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Way Out – Štěpán Kučera
Nowhere in Moravia – Jan Baset Střítežský
Fair play – Jan Baset Střítežský
Storyteller – Martin Štrba
The Three Brothers – Vladimír Smutný
BEST FILM EDITING
The Way Out – Florent Mangeot
Nowhere in Moravia – Jan Daňhel
Fair play – Jakub Hejna
Hostage – Alois Fišárek
The Three Brothers – Alois Fišárek
BEST SOUND
The Way Out – Daniel Němec, Ivan Horák
Nowhere in Moravia – Viktor Ekrt, Marek Hart
Fair play – Daniel Němec
Storyteller – Radim Hladík
The Three Brothers – Jakub Čech, Claus Lynge
BEST MUSIC
Angels – Michal Novinski
Fair play – David Solař, Miro Žbirka
Krasno – Jan P. Muchow
Storyteller – Roman Holý
The Three Brothers – Jaroslav Uhlíř, Michal Novinski
BEST STAGE DESIGN
The Way Out – Jan Pfeiffer
Nowhere in Moravia – Jan Vlček
Fair play – Petr Fořt, Viera Dandová
Hostage – Pavol Andraško
The Three Brothers – Jan Vlasák
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Way Out – Tereza Kučerová
Nowhere in Moravia – Katarína Hollá
Fair play – Simona Rybáková
Hany – Zuzana Krejzková
The Three Brothers – Simona Rybáková
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Nowhere in Moravia – Lukáš Král
Fair play – Anett Weber, Katarína Horská
Krasno – Lucie Lišková
Tender Waves – Jiřina Pahlerová
The Three Brothers – Zdeněk Klika
BEST FILM POSTER – non-statutory award
Byeway – Ex Lovers
Fair Play – Tomáš Machek, Marius Corradini - winners
Intimity – Roman Werner
Olga – Ondřej Matyáš
In Silence – Helena Jiskrová
OVERVIEW OF THE NUMBER OF NOMINATIONS
Fair Play – 15 nominations
Nowhere in Moravia – 13 nominations
The Way Out – 10 nominations
The Three Brothers – 10 nominations
Angels – 4 nominations
Hostage – 4 nominations
Storyteller – 4 nominations
Krasno – 3 nominations
To See the Sea – 3 nominations
Tender Waves – 2 nominations
Hany – 1 nomination
To the Clouds We Gaze – 1 nomination
The Magic Voice of a Rebel – 1 nomination
US 2 – 1 nomination
Olga – 1 nomination
The Old Man And The World – 1 nomination
Life by Václav Havel – 1 nomination
About the Czech Film and Television Academy:
The Czech Film and Television Academy was founded in 1999 and in 2013 it was transformed into a registered association. Its main aim is to support and promote Czech cinematographic art in the Czech Republic as well as abroad and create conditions for the development of Czech film. Since 1993 it has been awarding the most prestigious Czech film award – the Czech Lion and nominates Czech films or documentary features for foreign film awards. The CFTA consists of 242 members at the moment.
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