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= The Zone of Interest (film) =
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Introduction
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'The Zone of Interest' is a 2023 historical drama film written and
directed by Jonathan Glazer, co-produced among the United Kingdom, the
United States, and Poland. Loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin
Amis, the film focuses on the life of German Auschwitz commandant
Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family in a home
in the "Zone of Interest" next to the German concentration camp.
Christian Friedel stars as Rudolf Höss alongside Sandra Hüller as
Hedwig Höss.
Development of the film began in 2014 around the publication of the
Amis novel, which is itself based partially on real events. Glazer
opted to tell the story of the Hösses rather than the characters they
inspired and conducted extensive research into the family, as he
sought to make a film that demystifies the perpetrators of the
Holocaust as "mythologically evil". The project was formally announced
in 2019, with A24 confirmed to distribute the film. Filming took place
primarily around the Auschwitz concentration camp in summer 2021.
Additional filming took place in Jelenia Góra in January 2022.
'The Zone of Interest' premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on
19 May 2023 and was theatrically released in the United States on 15
December 2023. The film received critical acclaim and grossed over $52
million. Among its accolades, 'The Zone of Interest' received five
nominations (including Best Picture) at the 96th Academy Awards,
winning two: Best International Feature (the first for a non-English
British film) and Best Sound. The film also won the Grand Prix at
Cannes and three British Academy Film Awards, becoming the first film
to win both Best Film Not in the English Language and Outstanding
British Film; received three nominations at the Golden Globe Awards;
and was named one of the top five international films of 2023 by the
National Board of Review.
Plot
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In 1943, Rudolf Höss, commandant of the German Auschwitz concentration
camp, lives with his wife Hedwig and their five children in an idyllic
home next to the camp. Höss takes the children out to swim and fish,
and Hedwig spends time tending the garden. Non-Jewish inmates handle
the chores, and the murdered Jews' belongings are given to the family.
Beyond the garden wall, gunshots, screaming, and the sounds of trains
and furnaces are often audible.
Höss approves the design of a new crematorium created by Topf and
Sons. One day, he notices human remains in the river and gets his
children out of the water where they have been playing. He sends a
coded message to SS personnel, chastising them for their carelessness.
At night, while Höss reads the German fairytale of "Hansel and Gretel"
to his daughters, a Polish girl sneaks out and hides food at the
prisoners' work sites.
Hedwig's mother comes to stay, and is impressed and pleased by the
material status her daughter has achieved. Höss receives word that he
is being promoted to deputy inspector of concentration camps and must
move to Oranienburg, near Berlin. He objects, and withholds the news
from Hedwig for several days. Hedwig asks him to convince his
superiors to let her and the children remain in their home; the
request is approved. Before Höss leaves, a woman comes to his office
and prepares herself for sex. Meanwhile, the Polish girl finds sheet
music composed by a prisoner, which she plays on the piano at her
home. Hedwig's mother departs unannounced after seeing and smelling
the burning crematorium at night. She leaves a note that upsets
Hedwig, causing Hedwig to lash out and threaten her servants.
In Berlin, in recognition of Höss's work, Oswald Pohl tells him he
will be heading 'Aktion Höss' that will transport 700,000 Hungarian
Jews to his camp to be killed. This will allow him to move back to
Auschwitz and reunite with his family. He vacantly attends a party
organised by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.
Afterwards, he tells Hedwig over the phone that he spent his time at
the party thinking about the most efficient way to gas the attendees.
As Höss leaves his Berlin office and descends a stairway, he stops,
retches repeatedly and stares into the darkness of the building
corridors. In the present day, a group of janitors clean the
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Back in 1944, Höss continues
downstairs, descending into darkness.
Development
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Development of 'The Zone of Interest' began in 2014. After completing
'Under the Skin', Jonathan Glazer came across a newspaper preview of
the then-upcoming Martin Amis novel 'The Zone of Interest' and became
intrigued. He optioned the novel after reading it. Paul and Hannah
Doll, the novel's two main characters, were loosely based on Rudolf
Höss, the longest-serving German commandant of Auschwitz concentration
camp, and his wife Hedwig. Glazer opted to use the historical figures
instead and conducted two years of extensive research into the Hösses.
He made several visits to Auschwitz and was profoundly affected by the
sight of the Höss residence, which was separated from the camp by a
mere garden wall. He collaborated with the Auschwitz Museum and other
organisations, and obtained special permission to access the archives,
where he examined testimonies provided by survivors and individuals
who had been employed in the Höss household. By piecing together these
testimonies, Glazer gradually constructed a detailed portrayal of the
individuals connected to the events. He also consulted historian
Timothy Snyder's 2015 book 'Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and
Warning' during his research.
Glazer wished to make a film that demystifies the perpetrators of the
Holocaust, which he noted are often portrayed as "almost
mythologically evil". He sought to tell the story of the Holocaust not
"as something safely in the past", but "a story of the here and now".
He compared his approach to the writing of philosopher Gillian Rose,
who envisioned a film "that could make us feel 'unsafe', by showing
how we're emotionally and politically closer to the perpetrator
culture than we'd like to think" and a film seen through the "dry eyes
of grief" that is unsentimental and "forensic".
Glazer confirmed development of the project in 2019, with A24, Film4,
Access Entertainment and House Productions co-financing and producing.
Christian Friedel first met Glazer and producer James Wilson in London
in 2019 for the role of Rudolf Höss. Despite his own unwillingness to
play Nazi figures, he was intrigued by Glazer's approach, which aimed
to "give this monstrous person a human face".
Friedel recommended Hüller for the role of Rudolf's wife Hedwig,
having first met her in 2013 while acting together in the historical
drama 'Amour Fou'. Hüller was first sent an excerpt of the script, an
argument between Rudolf and Hedwig presented out of context, before
learning the project's nature as a film about the Holocaust. Although
she had resolved never to play a Nazi, Hüller was convinced after
reading the full script and meeting with Glazer, believing that he
shared and addressed her concerns about how to properly depict Nazism
on screen. Hüller's own dog, a black Weimaraner, plays Dilla, the Höss
family dog in the film.
The young Polish girl in the film is inspired by Aleksandra
Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, whom Glazer met during his research. As a
16-year-old member of the Polish Home Army, she used to cycle to the
camp to leave apples for the starving prisoners. As in the film, she
discovered a piece of music written by a prisoner. The prisoner,
Joseph Wulf, worked at Auschwitz III-Monowitz. He survived the camp
and was one of the first people to document the atrocities of the
Holocaust, a cause to which he dedicated his life.
Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk died shortly after she met Glazer. The bike the
film uses and the dress the actress wears both belonged to her. Glazer
dedicated the film to her while accepting the award for Best
International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
The film's final scene, in which Höss retches repeatedly while walking
down a flight of stairs, was inspired by the ending of the 2012
documentary 'The Act of Killing' by Joshua Oppenheimer. In that film,
Anwar Congo, a gangster and former far-right paramilitary enforcer,
retches repeatedly while visiting the scene of several of his murders.
Filming
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The original Höss house has been a private residence since the end of
the war. Wear and tear in the subsequent eight decades made it a poor
location for the shoot, which required the house to appear brand new.
Production designer Chris Oddy ultimately chose a derelict building a
few hundred yards away, built after the war but in a similar
architectural style. He spent several months converting the home into
a replica of the Höss residence, and started planting the garden in
April 2021 so that it would be in bloom when filming began. As the
camp buildings have aged significantly over the years, they were
recreated through the use of computer-generated graphics. Principal
photography began around Auschwitz in summer 2021 and lasted
approximately 55 days. Additional filming took place in Jelenia Góra
in January 2022.
The film was shot on Sony Venice digital cameras equipped with Leica
lenses. Glazer and cinematographer Łukasz Żal embedded up to 10
cameras in and around the house and kept them running simultaneously,
with no crew on set. Żal and his team were stationed in the basement,
while Glazer and the rest of the crew were in a container on the other
side of the wall, away from the actors. Each take would last 10
minutes. The approach, which Glazer dubbed "'Big Brother' in the Nazi
house", allowed the actors to improvise and experiment extensively
during filming. Glazer and Żal aimed for a modern look and did not
wish to "aesthetize" Auschwitz. As a result, only practical and
natural lighting was used. The nighttime sequences involving the
Polish girl, where there was no natural light available, were shot
using a thermal imaging camera provided by the Polish military. The
low-resolution thermal imagery was then upscaled using AI during
post-production.
Glazer did not want the atrocities occurring inside the camp to be
seen, only heard. He described the film's sound as "the other film"
and "arguably, 'the' film". To that end, sound designer Johnnie Burn
compiled a 600-page document containing relevant events at Auschwitz,
testimonies from witnesses, and a large map of the camp so that the
distance and echoes of the sounds could be properly determined. He
spent a year building a sound library before filming began, which
included sounds of manufacturing machinery, crematoria, furnaces,
boots, period-accurate gunfire and human sounds of pain. He continued
building the library well into the shoot and post-production. As many
of the new arrivals at Auschwitz at the time were French, Burn sourced
their voices from protests and riots in Paris in 2022. The sounds of
drunken Auschwitz guards were sourced at the Reeperbahn in Hamburg.
English musician Mica Levi started working on the score as early as
2016, and later spent a year in the studio alongside Glazer and editor
Paul Watts. "No stone was left unturned" said Levi in a 'Sight and
Sound' interview, as the team explored every possible avenue for how
music could work in the film. "It couldn't just work on a subliminal
level," Levi said, "it had to be technical rather than emotive." In
the end Levi wrote dense and "formally inventive", vocal-based
compositions accompanied by a pitch black screen for the prologue and
the epilogue, plus soundscapes created for the sequences involving the
Polish girl and montages of garden flowers. The compositions combine
human voices with a synthesizer, which Levi described as a pairing of
"the oldest, most primordial instrument" with "the most modern".
Release
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'The Zone of Interest' was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at
the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 19
May, and received a six-minute standing ovation. It won the Grand
Prix, the Cannes Soundtrack Award, and the FIPRESCI Prize.
The North American premiere was held on 1 September 2023, at the 50th
Telluride Film Festival. 'The Zone of Interest' was also screened at
the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. In the US, after being
delayed from its initial release date of 8 December, 'The Zone of
Interest' had a limited theatrical release on 15 December. It was
released in the UK on 2 February 2024, and released in Poland a week
later on 9 February. It was released for digital platforms on 20
February.
Oscars acceptance speech
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The film's release coincided with the ongoing war between Israel and
Hamas. In his Oscar acceptance speech at the 96th Academy Awards,
Glazer said 'The Zone of Interest' shows where dehumanisation leads at
its worst, saying: "Right now, we stand here as men who refute their
Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has
led to conflict for so many innocent people." He expressed criticism,
as a Jewish person, by referring to the dehumanisation of both the
"victims of October the 7th in Israel" and "the ongoing attack on
Gaza".
Glazer's speech led to a significant reaction in the news media,
especially after a widely circulated quotation truncated his remarks,
suggesting that Glazer had simply refuted his Jewish identity, rather
than refuting said identity "being hijacked by an occupation".
Producer James Wilson said at the British Academy Film Awards: "I had
a friend that texted me the other day. He said he couldn't stop
thinking about the walls we build in our daily lives that we don't
choose... There's obviously things going on in the world, in Gaza,
that remind us starkly of the sort of selective empathy, that there
seems to be groups of innocent people being killed that we care about
less than other innocent people."
On March 18, an open letter denouncing the speech as blood libel was
signed by more than 1,000 "Jewish creatives, executives, and Hollywood
professionals", including Amy Pascal, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julianna
Margulies, Debra Messing, Eli Roth, and Michael Rapaport. On April 5,
a second open letter defending Glazer was signed by over 150 Jewish
creatives in the film industry. Eventually, over 450 Jewish creatives
signed the letter, including Joel Coen, Todd Haynes, Joaquin Phoenix,
Elliott Gould, and Wallace Shawn; the film's composer, Mica Levi, was
also a signatory. The playwrights Tony Kushner and Zoe Kazan were
among the speech's earlier supporters. That month, Glazer donated
seven signed 'Zone of Interest' posters to a Medical Aid for
Palestinians fundraiser.
Box office
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, 'The Zone of Interest' has grossed $8.6 million in the United States
and Canada, and $43.4 million in other territories, for a total
worldwide gross of $52 million.
In its opening weekend in the United States, the film made $124,000
from four theatres. Following its five Oscar nominations, it expanded
from 215 theatres to 333 in its seventh week of release and made $1.08
million, an increase of 141% from the previous weekend, and a running
total of $3 million.
Critical response
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'The Zone of Interest' premiered to critical acclaim. On the review
aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 344 reviews are positive,
with an average rating of 8.7/10. The website's critics consensus
states, "Dispassionately examining the ordinary existence of people
complicit in horrific crimes, 'The Zone of Interest' forces us to take
a cold look at the mundanity behind an unforgivable brutality." On
Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 92 out of 100,
based on 58 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Kevin Maher of 'The Times' called it a "landmark movie, hugely
important, that's unafraid of difficult ideas". David Rooney of 'The
Hollywood Reporter' called it a "devastating Holocaust drama like no
other, which demonstrates with startling effectiveness [director
Jonathan Glazer]'s unerring control of tonal and visual storytelling".
Donald Clarke of 'The Irish Times' wrote, "Glazer may yet get in some
trouble for taking such a formal approach to sensitive material. But,
if anything, that self-imposed discipline - and utter lack of
sentimentality - speaks to the profound respect he has for the
subject." Raphael Abraham of the 'Financial Times' wrote, "Glazer has
achieved something much greater than just making the monstrous mundane
-- by rendering such extreme inhumanity ordinary he reawakens us to
its true horror." Jonathan Romney of 'Screen International' wrote that
the film "eschews false rhetoric, leaving maximum space for the
audience's imaginative and emotional response".
David Ehrlich of 'IndieWire' praised Glazer's camera process for
instilling "a flattening evenness into a film where the lack of drama
becomes deeply sickening unto itself". Robbie Collin of 'The Daily
Telegraph' wrote, "Through painstaking framing and sound design, its
horrors gnaw at the edge of every shot." In a four-star review, Peter
Bradshaw of 'The Guardian' called it "a film which for all its
artistry is perhaps not entirely in control of its (intentional) bad
taste", while also praising the "superb score by Mica Levi and sound
design by Johnnie Burn".
Writing for Worldcrunch, the German critic Hanns-Georg Rodek wrote
that the film “concentrates in one garden the attitude of an entire
nation that wanted to know nothing."
Conversely, the Italian film critic Davide Abbatescianni's review
published by Cineuropa was less positive. He criticised the film for
its disturbing atmosphere, which he found to be well-crafted but
monotonous, and for the performances, which he felt could not bring
any change to the concept presented in a film that he thought lacked
variety and remained stagnant for two hours. Among the other rare
negative reviews, 'Cahiers du Cinéma' found, "The problem is not only
the weakness of (the film's) formal lurches, which are much more
derisory than those of 'Under The Skin', and remain here at the stage
of mannerisms (why dispense them in such a furtive manner, if not to
frustrate needlessly?). It's also that this fantastic idea of
off-camera poisoning the frame without ever showing the forbidden
image ends up running empty and looking at itself." 'The Irish Times'
commented that German reviews were generally less favorable than
English language reviews.. Writing for the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung', however, Andreas Klib stated that "Here the camera
repeatedly jumps over the axis between the characters -a deadly sin in
illusion cinema- to show the back of the event. Because we are not
supposed to take part in it, but rather pay attention to details: the
clouds of steam from a locomotive on the horizon. The smoke rising
from the crematorium into the evening air. The reddish glow of the
night sky. The ash that fertilizes the rose beds. At Cannes, where
'The Zone of Interest' won the Grand Jury Prize, some critics
criticized the film for its lack of storytelling. But that's exactly
the point of Glazer's film: it doesn't paint a story, but a world."
'Sight and Sound' put the film at 2 and 14 on their lists of the best
50 movies of 2023 and 2024, respectively.
Additional reactions
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The film was publicly praised by many filmmakers, including Steven
Spielberg who said 'The Zone of Interest' was the best film about the
Holocaust since his film 'Schindler's List' (1993), "It's doing a lot
of good work in raising awareness, especially about the banality of
evil." Alfonso Cuarón described 'The Zone of Interest' as "probably
the most important film in this century." Other filmmakers who praised
the film include Allison Anders, Robert Eggers, Reinaldo Marcus Green,
Bill Hader, Andrew Haigh, Don Hertzfeldt, Zoe Lister-Jones, Karyn
Kusama, Rachel Morrison, James Ponsoldt, Jonathan Vinel and Adam
Wingard.
In a 'Variety' essay expressing his admiration for the film Todd Field
wrote: Upon its release in Japan on 24 May 2024, video game designer
Hideo Kojima hailed the work, "The sounds that plead to the audience
through the wall and the torture of deliberately not showing anything
at all are used to draw images from the audience's minds. The film
tests your 'zone of interest' and paradoxically questions the
present's fading memory of the Holocaust."
Gaza war
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Since the film's release, it has been referenced in relation to the
Gaza war. Several authors, including Ghassan Hage and Naomi Klein,
have written about how watching the film made them think of Gaza. Hage
wrote: "this is all of us now in the shadow of the mass murders
committed in Gaza, living in cultures that have banalized evil".
Juliet Jacques wrote that: "In the age of the internet, we are all the
Höss family". Gideon Levy referred to a wellness spa built for IDF
troops in Gaza as a "Zone of Interest". 'Haaretz' journalist David
Issacharoff stated that the Israeli "Zone of Interest" includes the
mainstream news and settlers but not the peace activists who died in
the October 7 Hamas-led attack. The phrase "Zone of Interest" has also
been referenced in viral social media posts, including a photo of
Israeli soldiers taking a selfie in Gaza and a photo of sunflowers in
Israel with destroyed Gazan buildings in the background.
Accolades
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Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards rowspan="1"| 17 January 2024 Best
Foreign Language Film 'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="1"
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Academy Awards rowspan="5" | 10 March 2024 Best Picture James Wilson
rowspan="5" align="center" |
|Best Director rowspan="2" |Jonathan Glazer |
|Best Adapted Screenplay |
|Best International Feature Film |United Kingdom |
|Best Sound |Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn |
Alliance of Women Film Journalists rowspan="8" |4 January 2024 Best
Film |'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="8" align="center" |
Best Director Jonathan Glazer
Best Actress in a Supporting Role rowspan="2"| Sandra Hüller
Most Daring Performance
Best Screenplay, Adapted Jonathan Glazer
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Best Editing Paul Watts
Best Non-English-Language Film 'The Zone of Interest'
Astra Film Awards rowspan="3"| 6 January 2024 Best International
Feature 'The Zone of Interest' align="center" rowspan="3"|
Best International Filmmaker Jonathan Glazer
Best International Actor Christian Friedel
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 10 January 2024 Best
International Film rowspan="4" | 'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="1"
align="center"|
Bodil Awards 15 March 2025 Best Non-English Language Film
|rowspan="1" align="center"|
British Academy Film Awards rowspan="9" |18 February 2024 Outstanding
British Film rowspan="9" align="center" |
Best Film Not in the English Language
Best Director rowspan="2" |Jonathan Glazer
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Sandra Hüller
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Best Editing Paul Watts
Best Production Design Chris Oddy
Best Sound Johnnie Burn & Tarn Willers
Belgian Film Critics Association 4 January 2025 Grand Prix 'The Zone
of Interest' align="center" |
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards rowspan="5" | 10 December 2023
Best Film 'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="5" align="center" |
Best Director rowspan="2"| Jonathan Glazer
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Score Mica Levi
Best Foreign Language Film rowspan="2"| 'The Zone of Interest'
Camerimage 18 November 2023 FIPRESCI Award align="center"|
Cannes Film Festival rowspan="5"| 27 May 2023 Palme d'Or rowspan="3"
| Jonathan Glazer
Grand Prix
FIPRESCI Prize
Soundtrack Award Mica Levi
CST Award for Best Artist-Technician Johnnie Burn
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards rowspan="5"| 12 December
2023 Best Supporting Actress Sandra Hüller rowspan="5"
align="center"|
Best Adapted Screenplay Jonathan Glazer
Best Original Score Mica Levi
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Best Foreign Language Film rowspan="4"| 'The Zone of Interest'
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 14 January 2024 Best Foreign Language
Film align="center"|
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association rowspan="2"| December 18,
2023 Best Foreign Language Film rowspan="2" align="center"|
Russell Smith Award
Denver Film Critics Society rowspan="2"| 12 January 2024 Best
Original Score Mica Levi rowspan="2" align="center"|
Best Non-English Language Feature rowspan="2"| 'The Zone of Interest'
European Film Awards rowspan="6" | 9 December 2023 |Best European
Film rowspan="5" align="center"|
|Best European Director rowspan="2" | Jonathan Glazer
|Best European Screenwriter
|Best European Actor Christian Friedel
|Best European Actress Sandra Hüller
Best European Sound Designer Johnnie Burn & Tarn Willers
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards rowspan="4"| December 21, 2023
Best Director Jonathan Glazer rowspan="4" align="center"|
Best Foreign Language Film rowspan="2"| 'The Zone of Interest'
Best Art Direction / Production Design
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Cinema for Peace Awards |February 19, 2024 |Most Valuable Film of
the Year 2024 |Jonathan Glazer | |
Gaudí Awards rowspan="1"| 18 January 2025 Best European Film 'The
Zone of Interest' rowspan="1" align="center"|
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards rowspan="2"| 5 January 2024
Best Original Score Mica Levi rowspan="2" align="center"|
Best International Film rowspan="3"|'The Zone of Interest'
Golden Globe Awards |rowspan="3"|7 January 2024 Best Motion Picture -
Drama rowspan="3" align="center"|
Best Picture - Non-English Language
Best Original Score Mica Levi
Golden Reel Awards 3 March 2024 Outstanding Achievement in Sound
Editing - Foreign Language Feature Johnnie Burn, Simon Carroll, Max
Behrens, Joe Mount, Brendan Feeney, Ewa Mazurkiewicz, Natalia
Lubowiecka, Dawid Konecki, Kamil Kwiatkowski align="center"|
Gotham Independent Film Awards |rowspan=3|27 November 2023 Best
International Feature 'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="3"
align="center"|
Best Screenplay Jonathan Glazer
Outstanding Supporting Performance Sandra Hüller
Goya Awards 8 February 2025 Best European Film 'The Zone of
Interest'
Hollywood Music in Media Awards 15 November 2023 Best Original Score
-- Independent Film Mica Levi align="center"|
Houston Film Critics Society 22 January 2024 Best Foreign Language
Feature rowspan="3"| 'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="1"
align="center"|
Independent Spirit Awards 25 February 2024 Best International Film
align="center"|
Indiana Film Journalists Association rowspan="2"| 17 December 2023
Best Foreign Language Film rowspan="2" align="center"|
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
IndieWire Critics Poll rowspan="5"| 11 December 2023 Best Film 'The
Zone of Interest' rowspan="5" align="center"|
Best Director rowspan="2"| Jonathan Glazer
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Best International Film 'The Zone of Interest'
Ivor Novello Awards 22 May 2025 Best Original Film Score Mica Levi
align="center"|
Kansas City Film Critics Circle 27 January 2024 Best Foreign
Language Film rowspan="3"| 'The Zone of Interest' align="center"|
Las Vegas Film Critics Society 13 December 2023 Best International
Film align="center"|
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards rowspan="4" | 10
December 2023 Best Film rowspan="4" align="center" |
Best Director Jonathan Glazer
Best Lead Performance Sandra Hüller
Best Music Mica Levi
Montclair Film Festival 29 October 2023 Breakthrough Performer Award
Christian Friedel align="center"|
National Board of Review 6 December 2023 Top Five International
Films 'The Zone of Interest' align="center"|
National Society of Film Critics rowspan="4"|6 January 2024 Best
Director Jonathan Glazer align="center"|
Best Actress Sandra Hüller align="center"|
Best Film 'The Zone of Interest' align="center"|
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal align="center"|
North Texas Film Critics Association 18 December 2023 Best Foreign
Language Film rowspan="3"| 'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="1"
align="center"|
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle rowspan="3"| January 3, 2024 Top 10
Films rowspan="3" align="center"|
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Body of Work Sandra Hüller
Producers Guild of America Awards 25 February 2024 Outstanding
Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures rowspan="2"| 'The Zone of
Interest' align="center"|
Robert Awards 1 February 2025 |Best Non-English Language Film
align="center"|
San Diego Film Critics Society rowspan="4"| 19 December 2023 Best
Supporting Actress Sandra Hüller rowspan="4" align="center"|
Best Adapted Screenplay Jonathan Glazer
Best Foreign Language Film rowspan="3"| 'The Zone of Interest'
Best Sound Design
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards rowspan="8"|
January 9, 2024 Best Film rowspan="8" align="center"|
Best Director Jonathan Glazer
Best Supporting Actress Sandra Hüller
Best Adapted Jonathan Glazer
Best International Feature Film 'The Zone of Interest'
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Best Film Editing Paul Watts
Best Original Score Mica Levi
Satellite Awards rowspan="3"| 18 February 2024 Best Director
Jonathan Glazer rowspan="3" align="center"|
Best Screenplay, Adapted Jonathan Glazer and Martin Amis
Best Motion Picture - International rowspan="2"| 'The Zone of
Interest'
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards rowspan="5"| 8 January 2024 Best
Picture of the Year rowspan="5" align="center"|
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Sandra Hüller
Best International Film 'The Zone of Interest'
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Best Original Score Mica Levi
Society of Composers & Lyricists 23 February 2024 Outstanding
Original Score for an Independent Film Mica Levi align="center"|
Southeastern Film Critics Association December 18, 2023 Top 10 Films
'The Zone of Interest' align="center"|
St. Louis Film Critics Association rowspan="5"| 17 December 2023
Best Film rowspan="2"| 'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="5"
align="center"|
Best International Film
Best Adapted Screenplay Jonathan Glazer
Best Cinematography Łukasz Żal
Best Score Mica Levi
Vancouver Film Critics Circle rowspan="3"| 12 February 2024 Best
Picture 'The Zone of Interest' rowspan="3" align="center"|
Best Director Jonathan Glazer
Best International Film in a Non-English Language rowspan="2"| 'The
Zone of Interest'
Toronto Film Critics Association rowspan="3"| 17 December 2023 Best
Picture rowspan="3" align="center"|
Best Director Jonathan Glazer
Best International Feature rowspan="2"| 'The Zone of Interest'
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 10 December
2023 Best Foreign Language Film align="center"|
See also
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* Independent cinema in the United Kingdom
* Slow cinema
* Minimalist film
* List of submissions to the 96th Academy Awards for Best
International Feature Film
* List of British submissions for the Academy Award for Best
International Feature Film
* List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain
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*[
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidffnGzlQQ The Sound of Cruelty - a
podcast episode about the Oscar-winning sound design for the film on
The Atlantic's official YouTube channel]
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