Nominations for the 30th annual Chlotrudis Awards were finalized by the film group’s nominating committee this past weekend, ahead of its March 17th awards ceremony. We are thrilled to announce that beloved Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda will be present to receive the society’s Hall of Fame award at the historic Brattle Theater in Harvard Square.
Aki Kaurismaki’s FALLEN LEAVES earned the most nominations with 6, including Best Director and Lead Performance. Like the Finnish film, rounding out the top five vote-getters with 4 nominations piece were also films in predominantly foreign languages: AFIRE from Christian Petzold, Colombia’s THE KINGS OF THE WORLD, Celine Song’s PAST LIVES and Ireland’s THE QUIET GIRL. All told, out of 47 films nominated, 25 countries were represented. Women made a strong showing this year. Almost half of the films nominated were female-led, including 2 Best Director nods. The Society made its performance categories gender-neutral and added a new category, Breakout. Women dominated here, as well.
Special Guest Hirokazu Kore-eda, arguably Japan’s most honored living director, has been a regular among Chlotrudis Award nominees and winners ever since 1998’s AFTER LIFE. His distinctive and affecting stories of families (chosen or by birth) navigating life’s unknowns large and small have made a mark on the world of film over the past two decades. The Society is greatly honored to host him, and the ceremony will include a conversation with Mr. Kore-eda.
In the Society’s most prestigious category, Buried Treasure, the nominees are: THE ARTIFICE GIRL, a thought-filled scifi about AI; Spain’s THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE, a magical realist take on family and climate change; FULL TIME, which follows the workweek of a French maid; GIVE ME PITY!, a surrealistic take on fame, femininity, and suffering for art; THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY starring Lily Gladstone on an emotional road trip; and the Bolivia-set UTAMA, a poignant story of keeping tradition and family in the face of changing land conditions.
The Buried Treasure is the only category with eligibility requirements: films must not have been nominated in two other categories, or earned significant box office. Members submit 3 films they feel strongly were given distributional short shrift and deserve a wider audience. Once the final ballot is set, all members voting in the category must verify that they have watched all or at least 5 of the nominated films.
Details and tickets for the 30th annual Chlotrudis Awards are available at the Brattle Theatre’s website.
Here follows the complete list of the nominations for the 30th Annual Chlotrudis Awards:
BEST MOVIE
Afire
The Kings of the World
Monster
Past Lives
The Quiet Girl
R.M.N.
BURIED TREASURE
The Artifice Girl
The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
Full Time
Give Me Pity!
The Unknown Country
Utama
BEST DIRECTOR
Colm Bairéad for The Quiet Girl
Hong Sang-soo for The Novelist’s Film
Aki Kaurismäki for Fallen Leaves
Hirokazu Koreeda for Monster
Laura Mora Ortega for The Kings of the World
Celine Song for Past Lives
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A LEAD ROLE
Lily Gladstone for The Unknown Country
Greta Lee for Past Lives
Alma Pöysti for Fallen Leaves
Catalina Saavedra for Rotting in the Sun
Joanna Scanlan for After Love
Kristine Kujath Thorp for Sick of Myself
BEST BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE
Lola Campbell for Scrapper
Carlos Andrés Castañeda for The Kings of the World
Catherine Clinch for The Quiet Girl
Pahoa Mahagafanau for Pacifiction
Rosy McEwen for Blue Jean
Anaita Wali Zada for Fremont
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jamie Bell for All of Us Strangers
Hong Chau for Showing Up
Adèle Exarchopoulos for Passages
John Magaro for Past Lives
Charles Melton for May December
Aimee Lou Wood for Living
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
BlackBerry
The Quiet Girl
The Zone of Interest
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST
Afire
All of Us Strangers
The Kings of the World
May December
Theater Camp
You Hurt My Feelings
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Afire
Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Past Lives
R.M.N.
Rotting in the Sun
BEST USE OF MUSIC IN FILM
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
BlackBerry
Fallen Leaves
The Five Devils
Polite Society
Unicorn Wars
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Afire
All Dirt Road Taste of Salt
Anatomy of a Fall
Full Time
Godland
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Fallen Leaves
Linoleum
Rye Lane
We Might As Well Be Dead
The Zone of Interest
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Maria von Hausswolff for Godland
David Gallego for The Kings of the World
Artur Tort for Pacifiction
Kate McCullough for The Quiet Girl
Tudor Vladimir Panduru for R.M.N.
Barbara Alvarez for Utama
BEST EDITING
Bettina Böhler for Afire
Samu Heikkilä for Fallen Leaves
Hirokazu Koreeda for Monster
Hilda Rasula for American Fiction
Laurent Sénéchal for Anatomy of a FalL
BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Days in Mariupol
After the Bite
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Turn Every Page: the Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
BEST KARAOKE PERFORMANCE*
Bank of Dave
Fallen Leaves
The Five Devils
Fremont
Rotting in the Sun
Rye Lane
BEST FILM WHERE THERE MIGHT BE BEARS*
No Bears
R.M.N.
* categories based on 2023 film trendspotting, made tongue-in-cheek
Even with 6 nominees the new lead/supporting categories feel reductive. No male actors deserved in lead? C’mon!
The karaoke/bear award are just silly. Thought you were serious people.
There were many deserving male actors in leading roles, but apparently this was a good year for women in independent and international film. And while we are very serious about film, we are not serious people. We like to have a little fun with out nominations as well, especially when we see trends over the course of the year… like the karaoke performances.