BAFTA Awards
2012 BAFTA Awards Winners; The Artist (Almost) Takes It All
The BAFTAs, the British version of the Oscars, were handed out on Sunday giving us a possible indicator of those who could take home Academy Awards statuettes in just a couple of weeks.
The black-and-white film The Artist was not only won Best Film at the BAFTAs, but took home awards for director, screenplay, cinematography, music and costume design by voters from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
2012 BAFTA Nominations Aannounced
BAFTA, aka The British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations are announced guys!
I’m looking at this full list and can’t help but wonder is this going to be a Golden Globe remake?
BAFTA Winners 2011
We know whose night has just begun and who’s going to celebrate all night long!
Tom Hooper’s King took almost everything (check out the list below if you don’t trust me), and when I say that I mean that the movie actually won half the 14 awards (or seven, if you prefer) it was up for, including Best Film, Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter and Best Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush!
This royal drama also took best British Film, the first film to take both best film and best British film honors in decades.
Ok, what’s also interesting…hm, let me see. Tom Hardy, yes, Inception star was crowned as a big winner at the Ceremony!
In raking in the Rising Star honor, Mr Hardy ended up beating out fellow nominees including Gemma Arterton, Andrew Garfield, Aaron Johnson and Emma Stone. That’s nice. But, it’s not interesting, it’s actually funny.
Hardy should have been selected for the rising star back in 2008 after RocknRolla or Bronson. But, whatever…
I suppose this time next year it will all be about The Iron Lady?
Check out the full list of nominees here
Complete list of winners:
Best Film
The King’s Speech
Outstanding British Film
The King’s Speech
Director
David Fincher – The Social Network
Made In Dagenham for Outstanding British Film and 3 More Bafta Awards
2010 British film titled Made In Dagenham and directed by Nigel Cole is definitely something that deserves our full attention.
If you’re asking why – then let me remind you that the movie was nominated for four awards at the 2010 British Academy Film Awards and at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival premiere, the movie was described as “combination of Milk and Mad Men.” Sounds good?
So, when we’re here at the beginning, let’s take a look at the above mentioned nominations. Here are categories: Outstanding British Film, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair Design and Supporting Actress – Miranda Richardson.
Not bad, but if you ask the actress Rosamund Pike (also stars in the movie) she believes that Made in Dagenham deserved greater recognition.
In an interview with the BBC, Pike said British films were being unfairly overlooked in favour of Hollywood rivals as voters “watch them over Christmas.”
Will Oscar Winner The Secret in Their Eyes/El secreto de sus ojos Win BAFTA and Cesar Awards?
Today we’re here to have a little chat (actually a reminder) about the movie that definitely deserves our attention, especially after winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, making Argentina the first country in Latin America to win it twice!
So, you already guess the title: The Secret In Their Eyes or, if you prefer El Secreto de sus Ojos directed by Juan José Campanella, premiered at Toronto Film Festival (September 2009).
But, when it comes to this project, this is not the end of the award-list. It also won the award for best Hispanic-American Film of the Year from the Spanish Film Academy, beating out rival film, Peru’s, The Milk of Sorrow.
Beside that, this crime drama has been nominated as Best Film Not in the English Language for the Orange British Academy Film Awards – BAFTA (February 13, 2011), as well as for the Cesar Awards (February 25, 2011) in the same category.
BAFTA 2011 Film Award Nominees
And what do we have now, after Golden Globes? The King’s Speech, The Social Network, Black Swan, Inception…?
But will the results be the same? We’ll see at BAFTA ceremony on February 13, two weeks before the Oscar.
Ok, we must notice that BAFTA offers more movie titles and names such as The Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Noomi Rapace (finally), The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos ), True Grit and Jeff Bridges and much more if we dare to compare recent Golden Globes with Bafta’s decency.
Ricky Gervais showed us that he enjoyed his job and jokes. Perhaps, he offended just a couple of individuals, but one thing is for sure – he made the Golden Globes relevant at least for a while.
It will be interesting to find out who will get the Rising Star Award, voted for by the public, but i’m already amused with the names of the rising stars that managed to get the nomination.
If you ask me Tom Hardy already IS the star as well as Aaron Johnson and …all of them?
Ok, ok…nobody asked me…
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the nominees for the 2011, so take a look at the list below.
Best film
- Black Swan
- True Grit
- Inception
- The King’s Speech
- The Social Network
Best director
- Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
- David Fincher – The Social Network
- Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech
- Christopher Nolan – Inception
- Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
BAFTA 2010 Winners
Looks like we are not the only one that got caught up in Oscar night fever. British had their own BAFTA fever!
The 63rd British Academy of Film and Television Arts, equivalent of our Academy Awards, hosted by Jonathan Ross, was held the 21st of February at the Royal Opera House. It was a special night for those who worked hard during the preceding year, and gave their best effort to justify British cinema confidence.
The Hurt Locker is the big winner with 6 wins. Maybe this could be the good indicator for our upcoming show?
Enjoy the list bellow, because here are the awarded ones:
Best Film:
The Hurt Locker
Outstanding British Film:
Fish Tank
Director:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Leading Actor:
Colin Firth – A Single Man
2010 BAFTA Nominations
The 2010 BAFTA nominations have been announced. The British film awards, celebrating talent both homegrown and international has become the main precursor to The Oscars.”The Hurt Locker,” “An Education” and “Avatar” leading the way with eight nods
The surprise on this year’s list is the Peter Jackson-produced and South Africa-set sci-fi film “District 9,” which secured seven nominations, one more than “Inglourious Basterds” and “Up in the Air.”
BAFTA 2009 Winners; “Slumdog Millionaire” Won Seven
“Slumdog Millionaire” from British director Danny Boyle won leading seven prizes at the British Academy Film Awards including best film and director honors at London’s Royal Opera House. “Slumdog” also won prizes for best original screenplay, music, cinematography, editing and sound. “Slumdog Millionaire” now bounds into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards boosted by major wins at the DGA, PGA, SAG, WGA and Golden Globes.
