European Film Award nominations revealed

Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Blancanieves and The Great Beauty head up the list of films nominated for Best Picture at this year's European Film Awards, with the winners due to be announced at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin on December 7. It's the first year that the event will include a comedy award, with Pedro Almodóvar's I'm So Excited the front runner.

The full set of nominations is as follows:

Best European Film

• Blue Is The Warmest Colour
• Blancanieves
• The Best Offer
• The Great Beauty
• The Broken Circle Breakdown
• Oh Boy!

Best European Comedy

• I'm So Excited
• Love Is All You Need
• The Priest's Children
• Welcome Mr President!

Best European Director

• Pablo Berger, Blancanieves
• Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue Is The Warmest Colour
• François Ozon, In The House
• Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty
• Giuseppe Tornatore, The Best Offer
• Felix Van Groeningen, The Broken Circle Breakdown

Best European Actress

• Veerle Batens, The Broken Circle Breakdown
• Kiera Knightley, Anna Karenina
• Naomi Watts, The Impossible
• Luminita Gheorghiu, Child's Pose
• Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Arendt

Best European Actor

• Johan Heldenbergh, The Broken Circle Breakdown
• Jude Law, Anna Karenina
• Fabrice Luchini, In The House
• Tom Schilling, Oh Boy!
• Toni Servillo, The Great Beauty

Best European Screenwriter

• François Ozon, In The House
• Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, The Great Beauty
• Tom Stoppard, Anna Karenina
• Giuseppe Tornatore, The Best Offer
• Felix Van Groeningen, Carl Joos, The Broken Circle Breakdown

Discovery Award (Prix Fipresci)

• Call Girl
• Eat Sleep Die
• Miele
• Oh Boy!
• The Plague

Best European Documentary

• The Act Of Killing
• The Missing Image
• Stop-Over

European Film Academy Animated Feature Film

• The Congress
• Jasmine
• Pinocchio

Best European Short Film

• Butter Lamp
• Cut
• Death Of A Shadow
• Houses With Small Windows
• Jump
• Letter
• Morning
• Mystery
• Nuclear Waste
• Orbit Ever After
• A Story For The Modlins
• Sunday 3
• Though I Know The River Is Dry
• The Waves
• Zima