3 times MOIN at the Oscars

24.01.2023 | Academy Awards 2023

Ruben Östlund can hope to win three Oscars with his mega-hit "Triangle of Sadness". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that the MOIN-funded production has been nominated in the categories "Best Director", "Best Film" and "Best Original Script". The 95th Academy Awards will take place in Hollywood on 12 March 2023.

Alongside "Triangle of Sadness", the anti-war film "Nothing New in the West" by Edward Berger is also in the running for the Oscar for Best Film. A total of nine nominations went to the drama produced by Malte Grunert, whose company "Amusement Park" is based in Hamburg, among other places.

Helge AlbersCEO of MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein: "The run of luck for Ruben Östlund and his team shows no sign of abating - after the shower of prizes at the European Film Awards and the Palme d'Or in Cannes, there are now three Oscar nominations on top of that. Our fingers remain firmly crossed until Oscar night in March. This also applies to Edward Berger and Malte Grunert, who are in the running with an incredible nine nominations for 'Nothing New in the West'. Congratulations also go to Lukas Dhont, who is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film with his film 'Close'."

"Triangle of Sadness" has received a total of 230,000 euros in Fundings for Production and Distribution from MOIN Film Fund. Part of the post production and the team comes from Hamburg - including Hair & Make Up artist Stefanie Gredig, who was honoured with the prize for the best film at the Swedish film award Guldbagge on Monday evening.best make-up award was.

The drama "Close" by Lukas Dhont won the Arthouse Cinema Award of the International Association of Art House Cinemas (C.I.C.A.E.) at Filmfest Hamburg 2022. The prize money was provided by MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.

In addition to "Triangle of Sadness", three other subsidised productions were shortlisted for Oscar nominations, which were published in December: The Cannes-winning thriller "Holy Spider" by Iranian-Danish Director Ali Abbasi (produced by One Two Films), the production "War Sailor" by Gunnar Vikene (Rohfilm Factory and Letterbox Filmproduktion), which was shot in Hamburg and Lübeck, and the animated short film "Steakhouse" by Director Špela Čadez and the Hamburg-based company Fabian&Fred.

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