Two major Italian films are in the running to pick up a European Film Award, whose fifth ceremony will be held on December 6 in Copenhagen. And on a personal note, I'd say that one of them, "Gomorrah", stands a pretty good chance of walking away with it. Roberto Saviano is also nominated as scriptwriter of the year.
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)
