'Melancholia' leads EFA noms

SEVILLE, The country-- Lars von Trier's finish-of-the-world drama "Melancholia" tops nominations with this year's European Film Honours -- Europe's same as the Academy awards -- with eight mentions."Melancholia's" noms include best pic, director, actress (both Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte now Gaingsbourg) and film writer.Von Trier's film vies for that pic prize with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "The Little One Having a Bike," Susanne Bier's "Inside a Better World," Aki Kaurismaki's "Le Havre," Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" and Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist." "Melancholia's" rivals within the category all snagged four nominations. Introduced Saturday at Spain's Seville Film Festival, noms claim that EFA people haven't let Von Trier's episode and prohibit at Cannes in Damages "Melancholia's" likelihood of a best pic award, a minimum of only at that nomination stage.The Cannes fest declared Von Trier "persona non grata" after he declared he felt "sympathy" for Adolf Hitler at "Melancholia's" press conference. "Hopefully nominations free audiences from prejudices from the film plus they view it as only a film," stated Golem's Josetxo Moreno, who releases "Melancholia" a few days ago in The country.The lion's share of EFA noms visited box office hits or auteurs who command worldwide audiences. Inside a obvious wager on established European helmers, the director award sees exactly the same rivals because the pic prize, changing Hazanavicius with Hungarian Bela Tarr ("The Turin Equine").The 24th EFA those who win is going to be revealed 12 ,. 3 in Berlin. And also the nominees are: EUROPEAN FILM 2011-"The Artist," France directed by Michel Hazanavicius created by Thomas Langmann & Emmanuel Montamat -"Le gamin au velo" (The Little One having a Bike) Belgium, France, Italia directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne created by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd and Andrea Occhipinti -"Haevnen" (Inside a Better World), Denmark Susanne Bier created by Sisse Graum Jorgensen -"The King's Speech," U.K. directed by Tom Hooper created by Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin -"Le Havre," Finland, France, Germany directed by Aki Kaurismaki created by Aki Kaurismaki and Karl Baumgartner -"Melancholia," Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany directed by Lars von Trier created by Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011-Susanne Bier for "Inside a Better World"-Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for "The Little One having a Bike"-Aki Kaurismaki for "Le Havre"-Bela Tarr for "A Torinoi Lo" (The Turin Equine)-Lars von Trier for "Melancholia" EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011-Kirsten Dunst in "Melancholia"-Cecile p France in "The Little One having a Bike"-Charlotte now Gainsbourg in "Melancholia"-Nadezhda Markina in "Elena"-Tilda Swinton in "We have to Discuss Kevin" EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011-Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"-Colin Firth in "The King's Speech"-Mikael Persbrandt in "Inside a Better World"-Michel Piccoli in "Habemus Papam"-Andre Wilms in "Le Havre" EUROPEAN Film writer 2011-Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for "The Little One having a Bike"-Anders Thomas Jensen for "Inside a Better World"-Aki Kaurismaki for "Le Havre"-Lars von Trier for "Melancholia" CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2011-Manuel Alberto Claro for "Melancholia"-Fred Kelemen for "The Turin Equine"-Guillaume Schiffman for "The Artist"-Adam Sikora for "Essential Killing" EUROPEAN EDITOR 2011-Tariq Anwar for "The King's Speech"-Mathilde Bonnefoy for "Drei" (Three)-Molly Marlene Stensgaard for "Melancholia" EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2011-Paola Bizzarri for "Habemus Papam"-Antxon Gomez for "La piel que habito" (Your Skin My home is)-Jette Lehmann for "Melancholia" EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2011-Ludovic Bource for "The Artist"-Alexandre Desplat for "The King's Speech"-Alberto Iglesias for "Your Skin My home isInch-Mihaly Vig for "The Turin Equine" Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com