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The German performer was described as “Actress of the Year!
It was an acknowledgment that Hüller had given two of the most outstanding performances in film in 2023.
First, as a novelist accused of murder in Justine Triet’s mystery thriller Anatomy of a Fall, and then as a domestic Nazi in Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest.
On Tuesday, Jan 23, Hüller scored a nod for the 2024 Oscars in the best actress category for Anatomy of a Fall.
Both Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest were also nominated in the best picture and best director categories.
In Anatomy of a Fall, Hüller plays Sandra Voyter, a successful German novelist living in the French Alps who may or may not have murdered her less-successful French writer husband Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis). Her sensational performance is a masterclass in ambiguity, with audiences uncertain of Sandra’s guilt or innocence, until the final frame.
Hüller won the best actress honor at last year’s European Film Awards for Anatomy of a Fall and was nominated in the best actress categories at the BAFTAs.
First German Actress Since Marlene Dietrich and Luise Rainer
Her Oscar nom makes her the first German actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in the best actress category since Luise Rainer, who won back-to-back best actress Oscars in 1936 and 1937. She’s only the third German actress ever to be nominated, alongside Rainer and Marlene Dietrich.
