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'Melancholia,' which opened at Cannes, nabbed eight Euro Film award nominations, including two for helmer Lars von Trier.Kirsten Dunst gives Lars von Trier a withering consider the infamous 'Melancholia' presser in Cannes. Dunst continued to win best actress in the fest.The Ecu Film Honours unabashadly holds auteurs, such as the Dardennes' siblings 'Kid having a Bike.'On 12 ,. 3 the curtain rises around the European Film Honours in Berlin, but individuals TV audiences looking to visit a stream of Celebrities coming onstage is going to be disappointed, because this is a evening once the leading gamers from the European arthouse scene obtain moment within the limelight.True, you will see some faces the multiplex crowd will recognize -- Kirsten Dunst, Tilda Swinton and Colin Firth are nominees, along with other thesps who're well-known within their home nations, for example French thesps Cecile p France, Charlotte now Gainsbourg and Jean Dujardin -- however the true stars of the event are usually the auteurs, with Aki Kaurismaki, Susanne Bier and Bela Tarr one of the nominees this season. The live broadcast is going to be obtainable in a lot more than 100 nations on four continents.However the helmer that everybody is going to be keeping the nearest eye about this year -- if he appears -- is going to be Lars von Trier, and for the wrong reasons.Captured at Cannes, von Trier sabotaged his likelihood of winning a significant award by joking he would be a Nazi which he sympathized with Adolf Hitler. He's since apologized, however it was still being an unexpected to discover the 2,600 people from the European Film Academy had given his latest film, "Melancholia," eight nominations -- a lot more than every other film -- including two for von Trier themself, for director and scriptwriter."It had been an unexpected for all of us too," states von Trier's business partner Peter Aalbaek Jensen, who's professional producer on "Melancholia." "You may already know, the film has already established an unusual career. I had been expecting there to become a little of bitterness available."The academy hasn't shied from making questionable options. This past year it granted Roman Polanski awards for director and scriptwriter (distributed to Robert Harris) for "The Ghost Author," that also nabbed the very best film award in addition to three other honors. It was only several weeks after he was free of house arrest in Europe following a failure from the U.S. government bodies to possess him extradited for sentencing on charges he had sex having a 13-year-old girl in 1977.Aalbaek Jensen states the noms reveal that the academy people could separate the film and also the comments produced by von Trier.Not too Aalbaek Jensen needs to distance themself from uncle. He feels the EFA recognition vindicates his belief in von Trier, however problematic that relationship has demonstrated sometimes.The 2 males created their production company, Zentropa, in 1992, and also the past couple of years happen to be as tough every. So the truth that the organization has two films nommed for the best film in the EFAs -- Zentropa also created Bier's foreign-language Oscar-winning film, "Inside a Better World," which in fact had four noms -- proves that it's been a useful journey.Aalbaek Jensen has labored with Bier for nearly as lengthy just like von Trier, and that he states such loyalty is unusual for that film business."It certainly proves it pays to stay together and also to be loyal. I am so proud they have come to date."RELATED LINKS: Nominees reflect robust film business Contact Leo Barraclough at leo.barraclough@variety.com