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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
Hereafter, Eastwood and Bond vs Mercury – 3 in 1
Hereafter, Eastwood and Freddie Mercury instead of James Bond were most exclusive excerpts from the interview with Peter Morgan, the writer of The Queen, The Last King of Scotland and The Special Relationship.
In 2006 his work on the film ‘The Queen’ awarded him a Golden Globe from the Hollywood Foreign Press. In 2007 he won a BAFTA Film Award for ‘The Last King of Scotland.’ In May 2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival honored Morgan with the year’s Kanbar Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.
Morgan has since finished the script for ‘Hereafter’, a supernatural thriller “in the vein of The Sixth Sense“. DreamWorks bought the screenplay in March 2008.The development was later transferred to Warner Bros., and filming began in October 2009 under the direction of Clint Eastwood. Morgan has recently started writing the screenplay for an upcoming biopic about rock musician Freddie Mercury, who was famous for being the lead vocalist, and songwriter, for the rock band Queen.
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 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.
BAFTA Unveiled Rising Star Nominees
The Rising Star nominees were unveiled at BAFTA’s London headquarters on Thursday.
The nominees are Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Hall, Michael Cera, Noel Clarke and Toby Kebbell.
A jury, led by producer and chair of BAFTA, David Parfitt, and industry figures including casting director Fiona Weir, and actors James McAvoy and Kelly Macdonald, selected the five nominees from a long list of recommendations put forward by the film industry and BAFTA members. The Rising Star nominees must have featured in a film that has been entered for this year’s British Academy Film Awards.
British Actor Matt Lucas Joins Astro Boy
Imagi Studios (creator of TMNT), today announced that multiple BAFTA Awards winner Matt Lucas (for the popular BBC comedy series “Little Britain”) has joined the cast of its CG-animated motion picture “Astro Boy.” Lucas joins Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy and Eugene Levy with Freddie Highmore in the title role.
