Awards and Nominations
Eastern Promises won the Audience Prize for best film on September 15, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film received three Golden Globe nominations for the 65th Golden Globe Awards, being nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Original Score and a Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama nomination for Mortensen, but the film failed to win any. Eastern Promises was nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama. Viggo Mortensen was nominated for Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama. And Howard Shore was nominated for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture.
The film was nominated in five different categories in the British Independent Film Awards for 2007, and won in one category, gaining a Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film award for Mortensen.
Mortensen was also nominated for Best Actor at the 80th Academy Awards, but told the Associated Press, "If there's a strike I will not go." — a reference to the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike. On February 12, 2008 the strike ended, and he attended the ceremony, although he lost the Academy Award to Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood.
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