Lars Von Trier's Melancholia leads the nominations for the 24th European Film Awards

Filmmaker Lars von Trier appears to have brushed aside the controversy over his Hitler comments at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year as his apocalyptic drama Melancholia leads the field at the European Film Awards with nominations in eight categories. Melancholia will compete for the Best European Film award against In a Better World, Le Havre, The Artist, The Kid with the Bike and 2010's awards darling, The King's Speech.

Von Trier will also contest the awards for Best European Director and European Screenwriter, while stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg have both received nominations in the Best European Actress category. Take a look the full list of nominations here...

EUROPEAN FILM

THE ARTIST (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
IN A BETTER WORLD (dir. Susanne Bier)
THE KID WITH A BIKE (dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
THE KING'S SPEECH (dir. Tom Hooper)
LE HAVRE (dir. Aki Kaurismaeki)
MELANCHOLIA (dir. Lars von Trier)

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

Susanne Bier - IN A BETTER WORLD
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne - THE KID WITH A BIKE
Aki Kaurismaeki - LE HAVRE
Bela Tarr - THE TURIN HORSE
Lars von Trier - MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN ACTOR

Jean Dujardin - THE ARTIST
Colin Firth - THE KING’S SPEECH
Mikael Persbrandt - IN A BETTER WORLD
Michel Piccoli - HABEMUS PAPAM
Andre Wilms - LE HAVRE

EUROPEAN ACTRESS

Kirsten Dunst - MELANCHOLIA
Cecile de France - THE KID WITH A BIKE
Charlotte Gainsbourg - MELANCHOLIA
Nadezhda Markina - ELENA
Tilda Swinton - WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne - THE KID WITH A BIKE
Anders Thomas Jensen - IN A BETTER WORLD
Aki Kaurismaeki - LE HAVRE
Lars von Trier - MELANCHOLIA

CARLO DI PALMA EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD

Manuel Alberto Claro - MELANCHOLIA
Fred Kelemen - THE TURIN HORSE
Guillaume Schiffman - THE ARTIST
Adam Sikora - ESSENTIAL KILLING

EUROPEAN EDITOR

Tariq Anwar - THE KING’S SPEECH
Mathilde Bonnefoy - THREE
Molly Malene Stensgaard - MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Paola Bizzarri - HABEMUS PAPAM
Antxon Gomez - THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Jette Lehmann - MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN COMPOSER

Ludovic Bource - THE ARTIST
Alexandre Desplat - THE KING’S SPEECH
Alberto Iglesias - THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Mihaly Vig - THE TURIN HORSE

The winners will be announced on December 3rd when the 24th European Film Awards ceremony takes place in Berlin.