Short Film News (SFN) - European Film Academy (EFA) announced the nominees of the 21st European Film Awards, and two Italian films topped with nomination at five categories.

Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo and Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah which both screened in 61st Cannes film festival, compete for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor and best cinematography awards.

Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir and Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage nominated for four awards, while Palme d'Or-winner The Class by Laurent Cantet compete for best film and best director.

The nominations for the European Film Awards were announced at Seville European Film Festival.

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

The Nominated are:

European Film 2008
Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino
The Class by Laurent Cantet
Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone
Happy-go-lucky by Mike Leigh
The Orphanage by Juan Antonio Bayona
Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman

European Director 2008
Laurent Cantet for The Class
Andreas Dresen for Cloud 9
Ari Folman Waltz With Bashir
Matteo Garrone for Gomorrah
Steve Mcqueen for Hunger
Paolo Sorrentino for Il Divo

European Actress 2008
Hiam Abbass for Lemon Tree
Arta Dobroshi for Lorna's Silence
Sally Hawkins for Happy-go-lucky
Belen Rueda for The Orphanage
Kristin Scott Thomas for I've Loved You so Long
Ursula Werner for Cloud 9

European Actor 2008
Michael Fassbender for Hunger
Thure Lindhardt & Mads Mikkelsen for Flame & Citron
James Mcavoy for Atonement
Toni Servillo for Gomorrah and Il Divo
Jurgen Vogel for The Wave
Elmar Wepper for Cherry Blossoms

European Screenwriter 2008
Suha Arraf & Eran Riklis for Lemon Tree
Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni Di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso & Roberto Saviano for Gomorrahh
Ari Folman for Waltz With Bashir
Paolo Sorrentino for Il Divo

Carlo di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2008
Luca bigazzi for Il Divo
Oscar Faura for The Orphanage
Marco Onorato for Gomorrah
Sergey Trofimov & Rogier Stoffers for 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 for Moscow, Belgium
Dario Marianelli for Atonement
Max Richter for Waltz With Bashir
Fernando Velazquez for The Orphanage