Alexander Nanau

Cristi Puiu's film "Malmkrog" won the Grand Prize and the Trophy of the Romanian Filmmakers Union (UCIN) for for 2020, at the 50th edition of the UCIN Awards Gala, that took place on Monday evening, at the National Opera in Bucharest.

The documentary "colectiv/Collective" by Alexander Nanau - Romania's 2021 Oscar nomination for Best Documentary and Best Foreign Language Film - received the Gopo Award for Best Feature at the gala that took place on Tuesday evening at the "Mihai Eminescu" amphitheater in Bucharest.

Romanian film director Alexander Nanau, addressing today the 2021 LUX Audience Award ceremony in Strasbourg after winning the prize for his documentary Collective that depicts the aftermath of the October 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire that ultimately killed 64 people, said that "the award is, most of all, for the victims and the families for whom justice has still not been served in Romania five

Feature film "Colectiv" directed by Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau has won the LUX 2021 Audience Award, according to an announcement made by the president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, at the plenary session of the European body in Strasbourg.

Film critic Irina Margareta Nistor said that after the Romanian documentary colectiv/Collective, directed, written, produced and edited by Alexander Nanau, became on Monday the first Romanian film nominated for the Oscars, where it will compete in Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film, that this is the first time that a Romanian film receives two nominations.

The US Motion Picture Academy on Monday confirmed its nomination list for the 93rd Oscars Awards, which includes two movies from southeastern European countries competing in the category of Best International Feature Film. A Bulgarian actress has also been nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award.

Alexander Nanau, the director of "colectiv" (Collective), a documentary shortlisted in two categories of the 93rd Academy Awards, says the nomination is the result of the work of a team that has made a film that can compete with the world's best.

Two stories from the Balkans, told by a Romanian-born man and a Bosnian woman have been put on a shortlist of 15 films in the Best International Feature category for the upcoming Oscars, the US Academy Awards said in a statement on Tuesday evening.

"colectiv", directed by Alexander Nanau, was designated on Saturday evening as the best documentary in the European Film Awards, during a ceremony taking place online due to the pandemic. The "colectiv" documentary tells the story of the first year after the Colectiv club fire that took place on October 30, 2015.

In the days and months that followed, another 38 succumbed to their injuries or to bacterial infections picked up in the hospitals where they were treated.

On the streets, a wave of popular anger gripped Romania, forcing the resignation of then Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his cabinet over systematic state failings exposed by the tragedy.