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

NOMINATIONS

EUROPEANFILM 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)

EUROPEANDIRECTOR 2008

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

EUROPEANACTOR 2008

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

EUROPEANACTRESS 2008

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

EUROPEANSCREENWRITER 2008

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

CARLODI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD 2008

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

EUROPEANFILM ACADEMY PRIX D'EXCELLENCE 2008

MartonAgh 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)

EUROPEANCOMPOSER 2008

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

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