22 jan 2026 mk2 Films Celebrates 3 Golden Globe Wins and 15 Academy Awards Nominations

Paris, January 22, 2026

mk2 Films, one of Europe’s leading independent film studios, has secured a strong showing at this year’s Academy Awards, with 3 films from its slate nominated across key categories. The recognition marks a landmark awards season for the company and reinforces its position as a leading force in prestige cinema worldwide.

The European powerhouse, mk2 Films has sold and/or co-produced and overseen the global rollout of several of this season’s most talked-about titles, including Palme d’Or-winner and France’s Oscar candidate It Was Just An Accident, Sound of Falling, The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value, with the latter two also co-produced by the company. Today’s Academy Awards nominations represent further recognition for these films across performance and key creative categories.

At the Academy Awards, mk2 films received 15 nominations across 10 categories:

Best Picture
The Secret Agent – by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value – by Joachim Trier

Actor in a Leading Role
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Actress in a Leading Role
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value – by Joachim Trier

Directing
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value 

Original Screenplay
Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi

Supporting Actress
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value – by Joachim Trier
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value – by Joachim Trier

Supporting Actor
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value – by Joachim Trier

Casting
The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho

International Feature Film
The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi
Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier

Film Editing
Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier

Earlier this month, mk2 Films-backed titles were honoured at the Golden Globe Awards with three major wins: Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent), Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value), and Best Foreign Language Film for The Secret Agent.

The company’s awards season recognition was further reflected at the European Film Awards. Sentimental Value received the European Film award and was also honoured for European Director (Joachim Trier), European Actress (Renate Reinsve), European Actor (Stellan Skarsgård), European Screenwriter (Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier), and European Composer (Original Score) for Hania Rani. Sound of Falling was also recognised, with Sabrina Krämer receiving the award for European Costume Designer.

These achievements build on mk2’s strong presence at Cannes 2025, where the company’s films received nine prizes across the main sections, including the Palme d’Or for It Was Just an Accident, the Grand Prix for Sentimental Value, Best Director and Best Actor (Wagner Moura) for The Secret Agent, the Jury Prize for Sound of Falling, and Best Actress (Nadia Melliti) for The Little Sister.

Together, these nominations and awards highlight the breadth of mk2’s slate, reflecting a strong focus on auteur-driven storytelling, performance, and craft.

About mk2 Films

mk2 Films is a Paris-based independent film studio active in international sales, production and distribution, dedicated to curating and supporting films that matter. From the Palme d’Or-winners It was Just An Accident by Jafar Panahi and Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet, to Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma, and Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski.

Founded in 1974, mk2 Films is a home for both established and emerging talent, driven by filmmakers who tell stories that resonate universally, who offer reflections on the world we live in, and who are both politically and artistically engaged.

A collection of over 1,000 titles forms a singular body of fiction, animation, and documentary, bringing together the timeless and the trailblazing: from Charlie Chaplin, François Truffaut and Agnès Varda, to Krzysztof Kieślowski, Abbas Kiarostami and David Lynch. These works have been meticulously restored, preserving the power and beauty of cinema across generations. The collection traces a lineage from the earliest pioneers of the medium — Alice Guy-Blaché, D.W. Griffith — through Buster Keaton, Jacques Demy, and Claude Lanzmann, to some of today’s most vital contemporary voices, including Xavier Dolan, Bruno Dumont, Leos Carax and Jia Zhang-Ke.