It’s hard to be a “Nike” – New News

Yesterday the results of the first qualifying round for the national film award “Nika”. In the main category “Best Film” at the prize claim five Russian paintings in 2014. This is “Leviathan” by Andrei Zvyagintsev, “It’s hard to be a god” Alexis Herman, Sr., “White Nights postman Alexei Tryapitsyna” Andrei Konchalovsky, “Test” by Alexander Kott and “Fool” Yuri Bykov.

Leader in the number of nominations has become “Leviathan” – they had 11. Next comes the film “Hard to Be God”, presented in 10 categories. In the category “Best Director” declared Herman Sr., Andrey Zvyagintsev and Andrei Konchalovsky. For “Best screenplay” will compete Yuri Bykov, Andrey Zvyagintsev with his co Oleg Negin and tandem Svetlana Karmalita and Alexis Herman.

In the category “Best Cinematography” presented Vladimir Ilyin, deceased during the many years of filming “Hard to Be God “, and surviving classic Yuri Klimenko, complete the picture, as well as Levan Kapanadze with the” test “and Michael Krichman with” Lefiafanom ».

« Best music for the film “, according to academics wrote to Alex Aygi “test”, Eduard Artemyev to the “white nights postman Alexei Tryapitsyna” Viktor Lebedev to “Hard to Be God».

For the award in the category “Best Actor” will fight Artem Bystrov (“Fool”) Alexander Zbruev (“Movies about Alexeyev”), Alexei Serebryakov (“Leviathan”) and Leonid Yarmolnik (“It’s hard to be a god”). For an award in the category “Best Actress” nominated Agnes Kuznetsova (“Yes and yes”), Elena Liadov (“Leviathan”) and North Yanushauskayte (“Star»).

In the category “Best film of the CIS and the Baltic States “declared the tape from Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan. Ukraine is the acclaimed film “The Tribe”. Discovery of the year may be the writers of the film “Combine” Hope “, the director of” Class correction “Ivan Tverdovskiy and actress of the North Yanushauskayte.

President of the Russian Academy of Motion Picture Arts director Andrei Konchalovsky said that holders of honorary awards are already known. In the nomination “The honor and dignity” prize was awarded to the actress Lia Akhedzhakova. For his contribution to science – the founder of the Museum of Cinema Naum Kleiman, for his outstanding contribution to cinema – writer Yuri Klepikov.

This year, the award was made 114 paintings, including 43 feature films, 40 and 28 non-fiction animation. As usual, the voting takes place in two rounds, noted at the Directorate. The first round of voting took place before February 19 of this year, and then formed a “short list”. The second stage began yesterday and will end at the end of March.

The award ceremony in the twenty-eighth time held March 31 at the theater “Russian song” Hope Babkin.