The European Film Academy announced the nominations for the 2026 European Film Awards in the crafts categories on Wednesday, with Yorgos Lanthimos‘ dark comedy Bugonia, Olivier Laxe’s post-apocalyptic road movie Sirāt, and Mascha Schilinski’s multi-generational German period drama Sound of Falling leading the pack with five nominations each.
Bugonia, a deeply weird reinterpretation of Jang Joon Hwan’s deeply weird 2003 Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet!, picked up nominations for best original score, editing, hair and makeup, production design and sound design.
Sirāt, an oddly hopeful look at death and the end of the world, set to a throbbing techno beat, was nominated for best casting, cinematography and editing, as well as best production and best sound design.
Sound of Falling, which cross-cuts the stories of four young women growing up on the same small farm in four different generations, was nominated for best casting, cinematography, original score, costume, hair and makeup.
Both Sirāt and Sound of Falling are also up for best European Film at the EFAs. Bugonia has a single nomination in the main EFA categories, a best European director nom for Lanthimos.
Joachim Trier’s Norwegian melodrama Sentimental Value, which leads the main EFA categories with five nominations, including for best European film, picked up three arts and craft noms: for best casting, best original score and best production design. The only other multiple crafts nominee was Agnieszka Holland’s Franz Kafka biopic Franz, which garnered noms for costumes and hair and makeup.
The 2026 European Film Awards will be held in Berlin on Jan. 17.
A full list of the 2026 European Film Award Arts and Crafts nominees follows.
EUROPEAN CASTING DIRECTOR
Nadia Acimi, Luís Bértolo & María Rodrigo, for Sirāt
Karimah El-Giamal & Jacqueline Rietz, for Sound of Falling
Yngvill Kolset Haga & Avy Kaufman, for Sentimental Value
EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
Manu Dacosse, for The Stranger
Fabian Gamper, for Sound of Falling
Mauro Herce, for Sirāt
EUROPEAN COMPOSER (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Jerskin Fendrix, for Bugonia
Michael Fiedler & Eike Hosenfeld, for Sound of Falling
Hania Rani, for Sentimental Value
EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER
Michaela Horáčková Hořejší, for Franz
Sabrina Krämer, for Sound of Falling
Ursula Patzak, for Duse
EUROPEAN EDITOR
Cristóbal Fernández, for Sirāt
Toni Froschhammer, for Die My Love
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, for Bugonia
EUROPEAN MAKE-UP & HAIR ARTIST
Gabriela Poláková, for Franz
Irina Schwarz & Anne-Marie Walther, for Sound of Falling
Torsten Witte, for Bugonia
EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Laia Ateca, for Sirāt
James Price, for Bugonia
Jørgen Stangebye Larsen, for Sentimental Value
EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER
Johnnie Burn, for Bugonia
Laia Casanovas, for Sirāt
Gwennolé Le Borgne, Marion Papinot, Lars Ginzel, Elias Boughedir & Amal Attia, for The Voice of Hind Rajab
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