Sandra Hüller is having a great award season this year with two of her films receiving a total of ten nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for her. While Hüller earned her nomination for Anatomy of a Fall, she also played the lead in the historical drama, The Zone of Interest, which is also up for nominations. She revealed that she almost missed the news of her nomination due to a situation with the garbage disposal at her home.
Hüller played a writer, Sandra Voyter, trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death in Justine Triet’s French legal drama, Anatomy of a Fall. She played Hedwig Höss, wife of the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, in Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama, The Zone of Interest.
Sandra Hüller Almost Missed Her Nomination News Due To A Garbage Disposal Situation
The 96th Academy Awards will be Sandra Hüller’s second time at the prestigious awards ceremony. Earlier, her 2016 comedy film, Toni Erdmann, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Oscars. Hüller is currently among the five actresses nominated for Best Actress Oscar alongside Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone, Carey Mulligan, and Annette Bening.
The Sisi & I actress recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and opened up about her nomination for Anatomy of a Fall. During the interview, she revealed how she almost missed the announcement streaming of her nomination. Hüller explained that she had to take out the piling trash from her home and arrived only at the moment when her nomination was announced. Hüller told Jimmy Kimmel Live!:
“I almost missed it. I wanted to watch it. I wanted to watch the stream and I had to bring away a lot of trash from my house. Because things are piling up sometimes and everybody’s really busy. So I went to a place where I could bring it and I almost missed it. I literally arrived in the minute.”
Jimmy Kimmel was confused by the whole situation and asked Hüller whether she couldn’t wait for the announcement streaming to be over to take out the garbage. When she replied that she couldn’t wait, Kimmel humorously asked her how bad the garbage situation was. She revealed that she had to go someplace else to manage the garbage disposal situation, which really couldn’t wait. When asked if she was a tidy person, the Requiem actress responded that some would say so.
Sandra Hüller’s Two Movies Have A Total Of Ten Oscar Nominations
Sandra Hüller’s Anatomy of a Fall premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2023, while her other film The Zone of Interest also premiered at Cannes on May 19, 2023. The former won the Palme d’Or and the Palm Dog Award, while the latter won the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI Prize.
Anatomy of a Fall won two Golden Globes for Best Picture in the Non-English Language category and Best Screenplay. The film was nominated for five Oscars including Best Actress for Sandra Hüller. The film earned the major nominations of Best Picture and Best Director for Justine Triet along with the Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing nominations.
The Zone of Interest received three Golden Globes nominations but didn’t win any. It was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Director for Jonathan Glazer. The film was loosely based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis and Glazer received another Oscar nomination for adapting the screenplay for the film. The film also earned nominations for Best International Feature Film and Best Sound.
The Zone of Interest will hit digital storefronts on February 20, while Anatomy of a Fall is now available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
