The names of the nominees for the national film award “Nika” – New News

Russian Academy of Motion Picture Arts has announced the nominees for the old domestic film award “Nika”. Contenders for victory in the category “Best Film” began: “Leviathan” by Andrei Zvyagintsev, “Hard to Be God” Alexis Herman, Sr., “White Nights postman Alexei Tryapitsyna” Andrei Konchalovsky, “Test” by Alexander Kott and “Fool” Yuri Bykov.

Also Zvyagintsev, Herman (posthumously) and Konchalovsky nominated for the prize for best director. A “Leviathan” and “Hard to Be God” can receive the award for the best paper writers, cameramen, sound designers and art directors, writes TASS .

In the category “Best Actor” presented by Artem Bystrov (“Fool”), Alexander Zbruev (“Movies about Alexeyev”), Alexei Serebryakov (“Leviathan”) and Leonid Yarmolnik (“It’s hard to be a god”). For the title, the actress will compete Elena Liadov (“Leviathan”), Agnes Kuznetsova (“Yes and yes”) and North Yanushauskayte (“Star»).

Also Yanushauskayte nominated in the category “Discovery of the Year”, where its competitors will be directed by “Class correction” Ivan I. Tverdovskiy and screenwriters “Combine” Hope “” Natalia Meschaninova Love Mulmenko and Ivan Ugarov.

President of the Academy Konchalovsky also announced the names of the winners of the honorary awards “Nika”. “These prizes will be awarded in recognition of the lives of these people, their creativity and purity of principle,” – he said, writes «Rossiyskaya Gazeta» . This actress Leah Akhedzhakova (nomination – “honor and dignity”), the former head of the Cinema Museum Nahum Kleiman (for his contribution to the science of cinema) and screenwriter Yuri Klepikov (for his contribution to cinema).

Recall that the statues ” Niki “will be awarded on March 31. Note that the ceremonial presentation of the award (and awarded it 28 times) will be held this time in a new place – not in the Operetta Theater, where the statuettes were awarded in recent years, and the newly opened spacious Moscow State Musical Theatre “Russian Song”.

In this year nominated for the award 114 paintings, including 43 feature films, 40 and 28 non-fiction animation. Among the nominees was not Nikita Mikhalkov’s film “Sunstroke”. This film in 2015 received the “Golden Eagle” in the category best picture of the year.

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