European Film Awards 2000 - The Nominations
Paris, December 2

The European Film Academy announced the nominations in the major categories for the European Film Awards 2000. Cannes films lead the way, with seven out of eight films from Cannes in competition for the Best European Film Award. The winners will be announced during the gala ceremony at the Théatre National de Chaillot in Paris, which will be broadcast across the world.

1. European Film 2000

Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry (UK)
Chicken Run by Peter Lord & Nick Park (UK)
Dancer In The Dark by Lars von Trier (Denmark/Sweden/France)
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien - Harry, He is Here to Help by Dominik Moll (France)
Le gout des autres - It Takes all Kinds by Agnès Jaoui (France)
Pane e tulipani - Bread and Tulips by Silvio Soldini (Italy)
Trolössa - Faithless by Liv Ullmann (Sweden)

2. European Actor 2000

Jamie Bell in Billy Elliot
Bruno Ganz in Bread and Tulips
Sergi Lopez in Harry, He is Here to Help
Ingvar E. Sigurdsson in Angels of the Universe
Krzysztof Siwczyk in Wojaczek
Stellan Skarsgård in Aberdeen

3. European Actress 2000

Bibiana Beglau in The Legends of Rita
Björk in Dancer in the Dark
Lena Endre in Faithless
Sylvie Testud in La Captive
Julie Walters in Billy Elliot

4. European Screenwriter 2000
Rafael Azcona for Butterfly's Tongue
Agnes Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri for It Takes all Kinds
Wolfgang Kohlhaase for The Legends of Rita
Irakli Kvirikadze & Maria Svereva & Nana Djordjadze for 27 Missing Kisses
Doriana Leondeff & Silvio Soldini for Bread and Tulips
Dominik Moll & Gilles Marchand for Harry, He is Here to Help

5. European Cinematographer 2000

Alexandre Burov for The Wedding
Eric Guichard & Jean-Paul Meurisse for Caravan
Agnes Godard for Beau Travail
Yury Klimenko for The Barracks
Edgar Moura for Jaime
Vittorio Storaro for Goya in Bordeaux

6. European Documentary 2000 - Prix Arte

Calle 54, Spain, by Fernando Trueba
Goulag, France, by Iossif Pasternak & Hélène Chatelain
Heimspiel (Home Game), Germany, by Pepe Danquart
Les Glaneurs Et La Glaneuse (The Gleaners and I), France, by Agnès Varda
One Day In September, UK/Switzerland, by Kevin Macdonald
Ouvrieres Du Monde (Working Women of the World), Belgium, by Marie-France Collard

7. Screen International European Film Award 2000

Gladiator (US), by Ridley Scott
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/Wu Hu Zang Long (China), by Ang Lee
Erin Brockovich (US), by Steven Soderbergh In the Mood for Love (France/Hong Kong), by Wong Kar-Wai
A One and a Two/Yi Yi (Taiwan/Japan), by Edward Yang
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (US), by Joel Coen

8. European Short Film Award 2000

A mi gólyánk (Our Stork), Hungary, by Livia Gyarmathy
De Zone (The Zone), Netherlands, by Ben van Lieshout
Ferment, UK, by Tim MacMillan
I nie opuszcze cie az do smierci (And I Will Not Leave You Until I Die), Poland, by Maciej Adamek
Kovat miehet (A Stone Left Unturned), Finland, by Maarit Lalli