07/11/2011

Despite being declared persona non grata at the Cannes Film Festival (news), Lars von Trier’s Melancholia [+see also:
film review
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interview: Lars von Trier
film profile] garnered him a nomination for Best Director at the 24th European Film Awards – and his apocalyptic drama is also nominated in six other categories including Best Film, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design and two nominations for Best Actress (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg).

Another two Scandinavian films are competing for Best European Film: Danish director Susanne Bier’s Golden Globe and Oscar winner, In a Better World [+see also:
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film review
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interview: Aki Kaurismäki
film profile], both with four nominations.

Also in the leading field are French director Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist [+see also:
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interview: Michel Hazanavicius
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interview: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
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interview: Tom Hooper
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This year’s European Film Awards will return to Berlin for a star-studded ceremony under the 30m dome of The Tempodrom near Potsdamer Platz, with 1,000 guests – winners, nominees and academy members – welcomed by German comedian-actress Anke Engelke and hosted by Academy President Wim Wenders, the German director.

Here is the complete list of nominees:

EUROPEAN FILM 2011
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
The Kid with a Bike - Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
In a Better World - Susanne Bier
The King’s Speech - Tom Hooper
Le Havre - Aki Kaurismäki
Melancholia - Lars von Trier

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011
Susanne Bier for In a Better World
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne for The Kid with a Bike
Aki Kaurismäki for Le Havre
Béla Tarr for The Turin Horse [+see also:
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interview: Béla Tarr
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Lars von Trier for Melancholia

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011
Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia
Cécile de France - The Kid with a Bike
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Melancholia
Nadezhda Markina - Elena
Tilda Swinton - We Need To Talk About Kevin [+see also:
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interview: Lynne Ramsay
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EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Colin Firth - The King’s Speech
Mikael Persbrandt - In a Better World
Michel Piccoli - Habemus Papam [+see also:
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interview: Nanni Moretti
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André Wilms - Le Havre

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

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2011
Manuel Alberto Claro - Melancholia
Fred Kelemen - The Turin Horse
Guillaume Schiffman - The Artist
Adam Sikora - Essential Killing [+see also:
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interview: Jerzy Skolimowski
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EUROPEAN EDITOR 2011
Tariq Anwar for The King’s Speech
Mathilde Bonnefoy - Three [+see also:
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Molly Malene Stensgaard - Melancholia

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2011
Paola Bizzarri - Habemus Papam
Antxón Gómez - The Skin I Live in [+see also:
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interview: Pedro Almodóvar
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Jette Lehmann - Melancholia

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