Last year's most popular film with Danish audiences and most critics - Per Fly's drama The Inheritance -has bagged nine nominations for the Danish Film Academy's ROBERT awards, which will be handed out in Copenhagen on Feb 1.

They include best film, best director, best script and best actor as well as most technical categories.

Lars von Trier's Dogville and Anders Thomas Jensen's The Green Butchers both secured eight nominations.

Surprisingly Jensen's dark comedy was not nominated as best film - a category which included Dogville, Morten Arnfred's Move Me as well as the feature debuts Jannik Johansen's Stealing Rembrandt and Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction. Jensen did, however, get a best director nomination instead of veteran Arnfred.

This year more films were nominated in the best children's-family film category, and among them were three newcomers Carsten Myllerup (Midsummer), Giacomo Campeotto (Brats) and Anders Gustafsson (Scratch).

Like last year, the English-language Danish films received few or no nominations from the Academy. Among the few exceptions were best supporting actors Ewen Bremner and Bronagh Gallagher from Skagerrak. That film also won a best actress nomination for Iben Hjejle, while Dogville's all-star cast only got a nod for Stellan Skarsgaard as best supporting actor.

Other acting talents nominated include Ulrich Thomsen (Inheritance), Birthe Neumann (Move Me), Lars Brygmann (Stealing Rembrandt), Sidse Babett Knudsen (Old, New, Borrowed And Blue), Nicolai Coster Waldau (Bouncer) and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (The Green Butchers). As usual audiences pick their favorite film over the internet.