Czech Lion has revealed the nominations and the most successful were the films Brothers and We Have Never Been Modern

Monday, 15th January, 2024

The Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) has today announced the nominations for the 31^st Czech Lion annual awards. In the first round the academics have been choosing from altogether 86 movies including television works of art, all of which have been premiered in 2023. The total of 26 titles in 19 categories proceeded to the final competition for the statuette of the Czech Lion. The highest numbers of nominations have been proudly obtained by the films Brothers, We Have Never Been Modern, Restored Point, She Came at Night, Suppressed and Waltzing Matilda and also the television series Volga.

The ceremonial presentation of the Czech Lion Awards at the gala evening will take place on 9^th March at 20.10 p.m. and will be broadcast live by Czech Television on the CT1 channel from Rudolfinum in Prague. The evening will be hosted by Marek Eben.

More information on  www.ceskylev.cz.

Altogether 195 film professionals were voting about the nominations for the 31^st Czech Lion annual awards and they were assessing 33 feature actors’ films, 15 documentary features that had been shortlisted by the preselection committee consisting of the members of the academy out of the total number of 31 documentary features, 8 animated films and also 10 short films that had been shortlisted by another committee of academics  from the total of 18 enrolled short films. Furthermore, the academics were assessing 6 television films and miniseries and 14 series that had been released either on television screens or on the Internet. The voting had been taking place from 1^st Dec 2023 to 7^th January 2024. The academics attributed altogether 15 nominations to the drama by Tomáš Mašín called Brothers, which tells one of the greatest stories of the cold war – the story of the Mašín brothers, who had decided to leave communist Czechoslovakia with arms in their hands. 12 nominations were given by the academics to the epic detective drama from the thirties in Czechoslovakia called We Have Never Been Modern directed by Matěj Chlupáček. In this film the life in a modern first republic town gets turned upside down by a mysterious and horrible finding. The feature film debut of Robert Hloz called Restore Point is a sci-fi thriller asking the question if technology can provide us with a better life and the academics gave it 8 nominations. The black comedy She Came at Night directed by Tomáš Pavlíček and Jan Vejnar enters the competition for the lion statuettes with the same number of nominations. This film is about a couple in their thirties whose quiet life has been disturbed by the invasion of one of their mothers. The director Tomáš Mašín has been successful once more and his psychological film with a criminal plot called Suppressed got seven nominations. Seven nominations went also to the tragicomedy Waltzing Matilda directed by Petr Slavík. The television miniseries directed by Jan Pachl called Volga obtained six nominations.

In the category of the best feature actors’ film of the year 2023 the Czech Lion can be awarded to these films: Brothers (directed by Tomáš Mašín, producer Petr Bílek), Suppressed (directed by Tomáš Mašín, producer Jiří Tuček), She Came at Night (directed by Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar, producers Eva Pavlíčková, Pavel Vácha, Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar, Šimon Dvořáček), Waltzing Matilda (directed by Petr Slavík, producer Nataša Slavíková), We Have Never Been Modern (directed by Matěj Chlupáček, producers Maja Hamplová, Matěj Chlupáček).

The best documentary feature of last year could be one of the following five films: BLIX NOT BOMBS (directed by Greta Stocklassa, producers Radovan Síbrt, Alžběta Karásková), My Paradise Is Worse Than Your Hell (directed by Kateřina Dudová, producer Vojtěch Komrzý), The Visitors (directed by Veronika Lišková, producers Kristýna Michálek Květová, Martina Netíková), The Great Nothing (directed by Vít Klusák, Marika Pecháčková, producers Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Pavla Klimešová) or All Ends Well (directed by Miroslav Janek, producer Jan Macola).

 

31^st CZECH LION – NOMINATIONS

BEST FEATURE ACTORS’ FILM

Bratři (Brothers) – producer Petr Bílek

Němá tajemství (Suppressed) – producer Jiří Tuček

Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – producers Eva Pavlíčková, Pavel Vácha, Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar,

Šimon Dvořáček

Tancuj Matyldo (Waltzing Matilda) – producer Nataša Slavíková

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – producers Maja Hamplová, Matěj Chlupáček

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

BLIX NOT BOMBS (BLIX NOT BOMBS) – directed by Greta Stocklassa – producers Radovan Síbrt, Alžběta Karásková

Moje nebe je horší než tvoje peklo (My Paradise Is Worse Than Your Hell) – directed by Kateřina Dudová – producer Vojtěch Komrzý

Návštěvníci (The Visitors) – directed by Veronika Lišková – producers Kristýna Michálek Květová, Martina Netíková

Velké nic (The Great Nothing) – directed by Vít Klusák, Marika Pecháčková – producers Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Pavla Klimešová

Všechno dobře dopadne (All Ends Well) – directed by Miroslav Janek – producer Jan Macola

 

BEST DIRECTOR

Bratři (Brothers) – Tomáš Mašín

Němá tajemství (Suppressed) – Tomáš Mašín

Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar

Tancuj Matyldo (Waltzing Matilda) – Petr Slavík

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Matěj Chlupáček

 

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Bratři (Brothers) – Tatiana Dyková Vilhelmová

Němá tajemství (Suppressed) – Jana Plodková

Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – Simona Peková

Tancuj Matyldo (Waltzing Matilda) – Regina Rázlová

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Eliška Křenková

 

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Bratři (Brothers) – Oskar Hes

Bratři (Brothers) – Jan Nedbal

Citlivý člověk (Sensitive Person) – David Prachař

Tancuj Matyldo (Waltzing Matilda) – Karel Roden

Volha (Volga) – Kryštof Hádek

 

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Bratři (Brothers) – Karolína Lea Nováková

Její tělo (Her Body) – Denisa Barešová

Němá tajemství (Suppressed) – Milena Steinmasslová

Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – Annette Nesvadbová

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Martha Issová

 

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – Václav Neužil

Bratři (Brothers) – Stefan Konarske

Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – Jiří Rendl

Tancuj Matyldo (Waltzing Matilda) – Antonio Šoposki

Volha (Volga) – Tomáš Jeřábek

 

BEST SCREENPLAY

Bratři (Brothers) – Marek Epstein

Němá tajemství (Suppressed) – Alice Nellis

Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – Tomáš Pavlíček, Jan Vejnar

Tancuj Matyldo (Waltzing Matilda) – Nataša Slavíková, Petr Slavík

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Miro Šifra

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – Filip Marek
Bratři (Brothers) – Friede Clausz

Citlivý člověk (Sensitive Person) – Dušan Husár

Němá tajemství (Suppressed) – Anna Smoroňová

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Martin Douba

 

BEST FILM EDITING

Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – Jarosław Kamiński
Bratři (Brothers) – Petr Turyna

Němá tajemství (Suppressed) – Michal Hýka, Filip De Pina

Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – Jakub Vansa

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Pavel Hrdlička

 

BEST SOUND

Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – Lukáš Ujčík, Samuel Jurkovič, Jan Šulcek
Bratři (Brothers) – David Titěra, Viktor Ekrt

Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – Michaela Patríková

Tonda, Slávka a kouzelné světlo (Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light) – Péter Benjámin Lukács

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Pavel Rejholec, Peter Hilčanský, Tomáš Zůbek

 

BEST MUSIC

Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – Jan Šléška
Bratři (Brothers) – Karel Havlíček

Citlivý člověk (Sensitive Person) – Jonatan Pjoni Pastirčák

Tancuj Matyldo (Waltzing Matilda) – Michal Pavlíček

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Simon Goff

 

BEST STAGE DESIGN

Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – Ondřej Lipenský
Bratři (Brothers) – Milan Býček

Citlivý člověk (Sensitive Person) – Stella Šonková

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Henrich Boráros

Volha (Volga) – Jan Vlasák

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – Ivan Stekla, Eliška Krejzová

Bratři (Brothers) – Ján Kocman

Služka (Chambermaid) – Katarína Štrbová Bieliková

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Jarmila Dunděrová

Volha (Volga) – Vladimíra Pachl Fomínová

 

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – Vladimír Wittgruber

Bratři (Brothers) – Adéla Anděla Bursová

Citlivý člověk (Sensitive Person) – Andrea Štrbová

Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – Lenka Nosková, Martin Jankovič

Volha (Volga) – Martin Valeš, Jana Bílková, Martin Větrovec

 

BEST TELEVISION FILM OR MINISERIES

Cesta do tmy (Into the Darkness) – main creator Jiří Svoboda – main producer Veronika Slámová

Docent (The Professor) – main creator Jiří Strach – main producer Jiřina Budíková

Matematika zločinu (Mathematics of Crime) – main creator Peter Bebjak – main producers Iva Kašpárková Jestřábová, Rastislav Šesták, Peter Bebjak

 

BEST TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES

#annaismissing (#annaismissing) – main creator Pavel Soukup ml. – main producers Vratislav Šlajer, Jakub Košťál, Milan Kuchynka

Dobré ráno, Brno! (Good Morning, Brno!) – main creator Jan Prušinovský – main producers Michal Reitler, Matěj Stehlík

Volha (Volga) – main creator Jan Pachl – main producer Josef Viewegh

 

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Deniska umřela (Dede Is Dead) – director, artist Philippe Kastner – producer Tomáš Šimon

Electra (Electra) – director Daria Kashcheeva – producers Zuzana Křivková, Martin Vandas – artist Marek Špitálský

Tonda, Slávka a kouzelné světlo (Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light) – director, artist Filip Pošivač – producers Jakub Viktorín, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková

 

BEST SHORT FILM

Atestace – directed by Jan Hecht – producer Marek Dusil

Jsme v tom spolu – directed by Anna Wowra – producer Alžběta Málková

Osmý den – directed by Petr Pylypčuk – producers Kryštof Burda, Tomáš Pertold

 

MAGNESIA AWARD FOR THE BEST STUDENT FILM – non-statutory award

Deniska umřela – directed by Philippe Kastner

Doprovázení – directed by Vojtěch Konečný

Electra – directed by Daria Kashcheeva

Jsme v tom spolu – directed by Anna Wowra

Osmý den – directed by Petr Pylypčuk

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE NUMBER OF NOMINATIONS

Bratři (Brothers) – 15 nominations
Úsvit (We Have Never Been Modern) – 12 nominations
Bod obnovy (Restore Point) – 8 nominations
Přišla v noci (She Came at Night) – 8 nominations
Němá tajemství (Suppressed) – 7 nominations
Tancuj Matyldo (Waltzing Matilda) – 7 nominations
Volha (Volga) – 6 nominations
Citlivý člověk (Sensitive Person) – 5 nominations
Tonda, Slávka a kouzelné světlo (Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light) – 2 nominations
#annaismissing (#annaismissing) – 1 nomination
Atestace (Credentialing) – 1 nomination
BLIX NOT BOMBS (BLIX NOT BOMBS) – 1 nomination
Cesta do tmy (Into the Darkness) – 1 nomination
Deniska umřela (Dede Is Dead)