Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner leads with six nominations; The Hunt and Shame get five nominations.

Michael Haneke’s Amour leads the nominations for the 2012 European Film Awards with six nods. The Hunt and Shame follow closely behind with five nominations each.

More than 2700 EFA members will now vote for the winners. The awards will be handed out at the 25th annual ceremony in Malta on Dec 1.

The nominees are:

European Film 2012
AMOUR, dir Michael Haneke (Austria/France/Germany)
BARBARA, dir Christian Petzold(Germany)
CAESAR MUST DIE, dirs. Paolo & Vittorio Taviani (Italy)
INTOUCHABLES, dirs. Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano 
(France)
THE HUNT dir Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
SHAME, dir Steve McQueen (UK)

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2012
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
Michael Haneke for AMOUR
Steve McQueen for SHAME
Paolo & Vittorio Taviani for CAESAR MUST DIE
Thomas Vinterberg for THE HUNT

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2012
Emilie Dequenne in OUR CHILDREN (A PERDRE LA RAISON)
Nina Hoss in BARBARA
Emmanuelle Riva in AMOUR
Margarethe Tiesel in PARADISE: LOVE
Kate Winslet in CARNAGE

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2012
François Cluzet & Omar Sy in INTOUCHABLES
Michael Fassbender in SHAME
Mads Mikkelsen in THE HUNT
Gary Oldman in TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Jean-Louis Trintignant in AMOUR

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2012
Michael Haneke for AMOUR
Tobias Lindholm & Thomas Vinterberg for THE HUNT
Cristian Mungiu for BEYOND THE HILLS
Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano for INTOUCHABLES
Roman Polanski & Yasmina Reza for CARNAGE

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2012
Sean Bobbitt for SHAME
Bruno Delbonnel for FAUST
Darius Khondji for AMOUR
Gökhan Tiryaki for ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
Hoyte Van Hoytema for TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2012
Janus Billeskov Jansen & Anne Østerud for THE HUNT
Roberto Perpignani for CAESAR MUST DIE
Joe Walker for SHAME

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2012
Maria Djurkovic for TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Niels Sejer for A ROYAL AFFAIR
Elena Zhukova for FAUST

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2012
Cyrille Aufort & Gabriel Yared for A ROYAL AFFAIR
François Couturier for SHUN LI AND THE POET
George Fenton for THE ANGELS’ SHARE
Alberto Iglesias for TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2012 – Prix FIPRESCI
TEDDY BEAR dir Mads Matthiesen (Denmark)
BROKEN, dir Rufus Norris (UK)
KAUWBOY, dir Boudewijn Koole (Netherlands)
TWILIGHT PORTRAIT, dir Angelina Nikonova (Russia)
REPORTED MISSING, dir Jan Speckenbach (Germany)

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2012
WINTER NOMADS, dir Manuel von Stürler (Switzerland)
LONDON THE MODERN BABYLON, dir Julien Temple (UK)
TEA OR ELECTRICITY, dir Jerome le Maire (Belgium-France-Morocco)

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2012
ALOIS NOBEL, dir Tomas Lunak (Czech Republic-Germany-Slovakia)
WRINKLES, dir Ignacio Ferreras (Spain)
THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS, dir Peter Lord (UK-US)