Other top nominees include The Artist, The Kid With A Bike, The King’s Speech, Le Havre and In A Better World.

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia leads the nominations for the 24th European Film Awards, with 7 nods.

Following with four nominations each are Michel Haznavicius’ The Artist, the Dardenne brothers’ The Kid With A Bike, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre and Susanne Bier’s In A Better World.

Those six films also comprise the nominees for Best European Film.

More than 2,500 EFA members will now vote for the winners. The awards are handed out at the EFA ceremony on Dec 3 in Berlin.  

The nominees are:

EUROPEAN FILM 2011
The Artist
The Kid With A Bike
In A Better World
The King’s Speech
Le Havre
Melancholia

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011
Susanne Bier for In a Better World
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for The Kid with a Bike
Aki Kaurismäki for Le Havre
Béla Tarr for The Turin Horse
Lars von Trier for Melancholia

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011
Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia
Cécile de France in The Kid with a Bike
Charlotte Gainsbourg in Melancholia
Nadezhda Markina in Elena
Tilda Swinton in We Need To Talk About Kevin

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011
Jean Dujardin in The Artist
Colin Firth in The King’s Speech
Mikael Persbrandt in In A Better World
Michel Piccoli in Habemus Papam
André Wilms in Le Havre

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2011
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for The Kid with a Bike      
Anders Thomas Jensen for In a Better World
Aki Kaurismäki for Le Havre
Lars von Trier for Melancholia

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2011
Manuel Alberto Claro for Melanholia
Fred Kelemen for The Turin Horse
Guillaume Schiffman for The Artist
Adam Sikora for Essential Killing

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2011
Tariq Anwar for The King’s Speech
Mathilde Bonnefoy for Three
Molly Malene Stensgaard for Melancholia

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2011
Paola Bizzarri for Habemus Papam
Antxón Gómez for The Skin I Live In
Jette Lehmann for Melancholia

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2011
Ludovic Bource for The Artist
Alexandre Desplat for The King’s Speech
Alberto Iglesias for The Skin I Live in
Mihály Vig for The Turin Horse

 

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