The European Film Award nominations have been announced with "Ida" and "Leviathan" topping the nominees.

"Ida" scored five nominees including Best Film. The movie also scored two actress nominations for Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza and also a director nomination for Paweł Pawlikowski. Pawlikowski and his screenwriting partner Rebecca Lenkiewicz also scored a nomination for Best Screenplay. "Ida" is Poland's Official selection for the Academy Award and is currently the front-runner to win the Foreign Film category.

"Leviathan," which is Russia's Oscar selection scored four nominations. The feature was shortlisted in the Best Film, Best Actor for Alexei Serebryakov and Best Director for Andrey Zvyagintsev categories.

Other Best Film nominees included Sweden's "Force Majeure," Turkey's "Winter Sleep" and "Lars Von Trier's "Nymphomaniac Director's Cut- Volume 1 and 2."

Sweden and Turkey's films are also official selections for the Academy Awards and have been making headlines throughout the festival circuit. Both film's premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and "Winter Sleep" won the Palm D'Or.

"Nymphomaniac" also scored nominations for Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgard.

One of the biggest surprises when the nominations were revealed was the omission of Belgium's foreign-language Oscar entry "Two Days, One Night." The movie scored rave reviews out of Cannes, and while it was nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Actress for Marion Cotillard, it was surprisingly shut out of best picture and director shortlists.

Other films that were nominated but missed the Bes Film nomination included Italy's "Human Capital," "Mr. Turner" and "Calvary."

"Locke" surprisingly scored three nominations for Best Director for Steven Knight, Best Actor for Tom Hardy and Best Screenplay..

Along with the nominations, the EFA also announced the craft award winners. "Locke" won the Best Editing award, and "Ida" won Best Cinematography. "Under the Skin" won for Best Composer, "Stared Up" won the Best Sound Design, and "The Dark Valley," which is Austria's Oscar selection, won two awards for Costume Design and Production Design.

In its second year, the EFA announced that Spain's "Carmina & Amen," the U.K.'s "Le Week-End" and Italy's "The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer" will compete for Best Comedy.

The organization also announced that the French New Wave director Agnes Varda will receive a European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. Meanwhile, Steve McQueen ("Shame," "12 Years a Slave") will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema.

The European Film Awards are known as the Oscars of Europe and sometimes give boosts to foreign film contenders. "Ida," "Winter Sleep," "Force Majeure" and "Leviathan" definitely received boosts and confirmed their status as possible Oscar contenders.

Last year, "The Great Beauty" won the Best Picture Award while in 2012 "Amour" took home Best Film. "The Lives of Others" also won the EFA back in 2006. All three films went on to win the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars. "The White Ribbon" also won the EFA and was later nominated for the Academy Awards.

However, the European Film Awards are not the best predictors for Oscars. Numerous Best Picture winners have been shunned from the Academy Awards, even though they were official selections from their respective countries. Such winners included Italy's "Gomorrah," Romania's "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days," and Austria's "Cache."

"The Ghost Writer" by Roman Polanski and "Melancholia" also got snubbed from the Oscars even though they won the Best Picture at the European Film Awards.

The European Film Awards ceremony will be held Dec. 13 in Riga, Latvia.

Full List of Nominees:

EUROPEAN FILM
Force Majeure
Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway

Ida
Poland/Denmark

Leviathan
Russia

Nymphomaniac Director's Cut - Volume I & II
Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium

Winter Sleep
Turkey/France/Germany

EUROPEAN COMEDY
Carmina & Amen
Spain

Le Week-End
U.K.

The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer
Italy

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Winter Sleep
Steven Knight for Locke
Ruben Ostlund for Force Majeure
Paweł Pawlikowski for Ida
Paolo Virzì for Human Capital
Andrey Zvyagintsev for Leviathan

EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Marian Alvarez in WOUNDED
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in HUMAN CAPITAL
Marion Cotillard in TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
Charlotte Gainsbourg in NYMPHOMANIAC DIRECTOR'S CUT - VOLUME I & II
Agata Kulesza in IDA
Agata Trzebuchowska in IDA

EUROPEAN ACTOR
Brendan Gleeson in Calvary
Tom Hardy in Locke
Alexey Serebryakov in Leviathan
Stellan Skarsgard in Nymphomaniac Director's Cut - Volume I & II
Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan for WINTER SLEEP
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
Steven Knight for LOCKE
Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev for LEVIATHAN
Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz for IDA

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