Germany's Hüller, Wenders and Catak score Oscar nominations

German actress Sandra Hüller won an Oscar nomination for starring role in the drama "Anatomy of a Fall," and German directors Wim Wenders and Ilke Catak were both nominated for an Oscar for Best International Feature.

The prestigious Oscar nominations, announced on Tuesday, show a major international footprint for German cinema talent.

Hüller's star turn in the drama by French director Justine Triet has already won her the European Film Award for Best Actress in December and a nomination for a Golden Globe, although she lost out there to Lily Gladstone from "Killers of the Flower Moon."

Hüller, who is from eastern Germany and lives in Leipzig, portrays a successful writer suspected of murder in the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture.

Hüller also appeared in another Best Picture and Best International Feature nominee, the Holocaust drama "Zone of Interest."

Catak's nomination for Best International Feature comes for the German film "The Teachers' Lounge," about a young teacher trying to solve a series of thefts at a school, while Wenders directed the largely Japanese production "Perfect Days," about a man named Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), who works as a toilet cleaner, seems content with his simple life and lives very much in the moment.

In addition to Germany and Japan, three other countries are represented in the Best International Feature category: Italy ("Io Capitano"), United Kingdom ("The Zone of Interest") and Spain ("The Snow Society").

Wenders, an icon of German cinema, has three previous Oscar nominations in the Best Documentary Feature category but has never won.

Catak won a student Oscar in 2015 for his film, "Sadakat," which he made while studying at the Hamburg Media School.

Only four German productions have ever won the award for Best International Feature, including last year's "All's Quiet on the Western Front" and the 2007 East German drama "The Lives of Others."

In 1980, Volker Schlöndorff's adaptation of the novel "The Tin Drum" won the foreign-language Oscar, as did Caroline Link's "Nowhere in Africa" in 2003.

The 96th Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood is scheduled for March 10.