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Romantic comedy Love Actually is up for best musical or comedy movie, while writer and director Richard Curtis is nominated for best film screenplay.

Ricky Gervais' The Office is competing for best musical or comedy series, and Gervais is shortlisted for his acting.

Jude Law, Helen Mirren, Albert Finney and Maggie Smith are also nominated.

Law is competing for best actor for his role in civil war drama Cold Mountain. He is up against fellow Brit Ben Kingsley, nominated for House of Sand and Fog, as well as Russell Crowe, Sean Penn and Tom Cruise.

Gervais (left) and The Office are competing for awards

Dame Helen is competing as best comedy or musical film actress for her role in Calendar Girls, the true story of a Women's Institute group who strip for charity.

She is also up for best actress in a TV mini-series or made- for-TV movie for Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone. Dame Maggie Smith is also nominated in the same category for My House in Umbria.

Finney is up for best supporting actor in a film for Big Fish, while Tom Wilkinson competes in the TV mini-series best actor category for Normal.

Joely Richardson has a nomination for best TV drama actress for her part in plastic surgery series Nip/Tuck.

Music stars

Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director of The English Patient, is nominated for best director and best screenplay for Cold Mountain.

And comedy Bend it Like Beckham competes for best musical or comedy film.

Musicians nominated include Sir Elton John and his lyricist Bernie Taupin for their song The Heart Of Every Girl from the film Mona Lisa Smile.