De film Melancholia is de grote kanshebber bij de European Film Awards, die op 3 december worden uitgereikt in Berlijn. De film van Lars von Trier maakt kans op 8 beeldjes, waaronder die voor beste film, regisseur en actrice (Kirsten Dunst).

Melancholia neemt het in de categorie beste film op tegen het Britse The King's Speech, het Franse The Artist, het Belgische Le Gamin au Velo, het Finse Le Havre en het Deense In A Better World.

De Nederlandse inzending Tirza sleepte geen nominaties in de wacht. Hieronder zie je alle nominaties:

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