Joachim Trier’s film leads with 12 accolades, including Best Film, Best Director. Erik Poppe’s U-July 22 comes second with 7 nominations.

Trier’s psycho-thriller produced by Motlys, is running as well for Best Actress (Eili Harboe), Best Actor (Henrik Rafaelsen) Best Screenplay (Trier/Eskil Vogt), Best Editing (Olivier Bugge Coutté) and Best Cinematography (Jakob Ihre) among others.

The film opened last year’s Norwegian Film Festival where it won the Critics Prize. It was then selected as Norway’s Oscar entry 2018 and won another 12 local and international awards.

Poppe’s drama U-July 22 produced by Paradox Film, is running head to head against Thelma for Best Norwegian Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay (Siv Rajendram Eliasse/Anna Bache-Wiig), Best Actress (Andrea Berntzen), Best Cinematography (Martin Otterbeck) and Best Supporting Actress (Solveig Koløen Birkeland). Sound Designer Gisle Tveito is nominated both for U-July 22 and Thelma. Poppe’s film had its world premiere in competition at the last Berlinale where it won a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury.

Iram Haq’s drama What Will People Say has a chance to win Best Norwegian Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay (Haq), Best Actress (Maria Mozhdah), Best Actor (Adil Hussain), and Best Editing (Janus Billeskov Jansen & Anne Østerud). The film produced by Mer Film has been a festival hot pick since its World premiere at Toronto last September.

Standout nominations in technical categories include the Norwegian blockbuster film The 12th Man by Harald Zwart (640,000 admissions), running for Best Art Direction, Best Sound Design and Best Visual Effects, as well as Thea Hvistendahl’s musical film The Monkey and the Mouth about the Karpe Diem band, running for Best Visual Effects, Art Direction, Music as well as Editing.

Three titles are competing for Best Children’s film: the animation film Anchors Up-Boats to the Rescue by Simen Alsvik and Will Ashurst (Sigurd Slåttebrekk Production), Los Bando by Christian Lo (Filmbin) and the franchise film Twigson the Explorer by Andreas J. Riiser (Paradox Film).

In the Documentary category are Per Fugelli-I Die by Erik Poppe (Paradox Film), My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Sofia Haugan (Indie Film) and Bjarne Hates the Camera by Weronica Nitsch.

A total of 30 Norwegian films were eligible for the 34th Amanda awards. The awards ceremony on August 18 will be transmitted live on TV2 from the Scandic Maritim Hall in Haugesund, one day before the opening of the Norwegian International Film Festival.

Nordisk Film & TV Fond is associated to 29 Amanda nominations for the films Thelma, U-July 22, What Will People Say, The 12th Man and My Heart Belongs to Daddy.

For the full list of Amanda nominations, check: www.filmfestivalen.no