Sandra Hüller has been nominated twice in the same European Film Award category. The European Film Academy put her forward for best European actress for “Vaterland” and “Rose”. It is an unusual outcome and a concrete recognition of two distinct performances, but it is not a verdict on the eventual winner.
According to Der Spiegel, Hüller plays a 17th-century woman who presents herself as a man and resists social constraints in Markus Schleinzer’s historical drama “Rose”. In Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Vaterland”, she portrays Erika Mann, travelling through divided postwar Germany with her father Thomas Mann in 1949. The two nominations therefore point to sharply different characters and settings.
Unusual does not mean unprecedented for Hüller. She also received two nominations in 2023, for “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest”. She has previously won the European Film Award for best actress for “Toni Erdmann” in 2016 and “Anatomy of a Fall” in 2023. That record underlines her standing in European cinema, but it cannot settle this year’s contest in advance.
The category remains competitive. Der Spiegel names Penélope Cruz for “Bunker” and Renate Reinsve for “Fjord” among the other nominees. What the announcement establishes is narrower and more meaningful: Hüller has two entries in one acting race. The awards gala is scheduled for 16 January 2027 in Athens.
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- Der Spiegel · Source date: 2026-11-14
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