Il Divo and Gomorrah top European Film Academy nominations

"Gomorrah", de Mateo Garrone

Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo and Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah have picked up five nominations for this year's European Film Academy Awards.

The Italian hits, which both played in competition in Cannes, compete for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor and best cinematography. Toni Servillo is nominated as best actor for his parts in both films.

Another Cannes competitor Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir has four mentions as does Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage.

Laurent Cantet will be hopeful of adding an EFA to his Palme d'Or win with nominations for best film and best director for The Class.
UK films also get strong recognition with multiple nominations for Steve McQueen's Hunger, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky and Joe Wright's Atonement.

Andreas Dresen's Cloud 9 and Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree are both nominated in two categories.

The nominations for the 21st EFAs were announced at the Seville European Film Festival.

The 1,800 EFA Members will now vote for the winners which will be presented during the Awards Ceremony on 6 December in Copenhagen.

NOMINATIONS

EUROPEAN FILM 2008

Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
The Class (Laurent Cantet)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2008

Laurent Cantet (The Class)
Andreas Dresen (Cloud 9)
Ari Folman (Waltz With Bashir)
Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah)
Steve McQueen (Hunger)
Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo)

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2008

Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
Thure Lindhardt & Mads Mikkelsen (Flame & Citron)
James McAvoy (Atonement)
Toni Servillo (Gomorrah and Il Divo)
Jürgen Vogel (The Wave)
Elmar Wepper (Cherry Blossoms)

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2008

Hiam Abbass (Lemon Tree)
Arta Dobroshi (Lorna's Silence)
Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)
Belen Rueda (The Orphanage)
Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long)
Ursula Werner (Cloud 9)

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2008

Suha Arraf & Eran Riklis (Lemon Tree)
Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso & Roberto Saviano (Gomorrah)
Ari Folman (Waltz With Bashir)
Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo)

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2008

Luca Bigazzi (Il Divo)
Oscar Faura (The Orphanage)
Marco Onorato (Gomorrah)
Sergey Trofimov & Rogier Stoffers (Mongol)

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY PRIX D’EXCELLENCE 2008

Marton Agh for production design (Delta)
Magdalena Biedrzycka for costume design (Katyn)
Laurence Briaud for editing (Un Conte De Noel)
Petter Fladeby for sound design (O' Horten)

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2008

Tuur Florizoone (Moscow, Belgium)
Dario Marianelli (Atonement)
Max Richter (Waltz With Bashir)
Fernando Velázquez (The Orphanage)