BAFTA Nominations are out!!
Due to our blackout in protest against the US Congress potentially allowing censorship of the internet, our BAFTA nominations list has arrived a little later than we’d have liked – but here it is anyway! The BAFTA’s will take place on February 12th (UK time), and we’ll announce the winners here….
BEST FILM
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
My Week With Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need To Talk About Kevin
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Attack The Block – Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)
Black Pond – Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director),
Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer)
Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes (Director)
Submarine – Richard Ayoade (Director/Writer)
Tyrannosaur – Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Incendies
Pina
Potiche
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
DOCUMENTARY
George Harrison: Living In The Material World
Project Nim
Senna
ANIMATED FILM
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Arthur Christmas
Rango
DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay – We Need To Talk About Kevin
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig – Bridesmaids
John Michael McDonagh – The Guard
Abi Morgan – The Iron Lady
Woody Allen – Midnight In Paris
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash – The Descendants
Tate Taylor – The Help
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon – The Ides Of March
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin – Moneyball
Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
LEADING ACTOR
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Clooney – The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Michael Fassbender – Shame
LEADING ACTRESS
Berenice Bejo – The Artist
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis – The Help
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Jim Broadbent – The Iron Lady
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Ides of March
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan – Drive
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Judi Dench – My Week with Marilyn
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Octavia Spencer – The Help
ORIGINAL MUSIC
The Artist – Ludovic Bource
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Hugo – Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
War Horse – John Williams
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo – Robert Richardson
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Hoyte van Hoytema
War Horse – Janusz Kaminski
EDITING
The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
Drive – Mat Newman
Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
Senna – Gregers Sall, Chris King
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Dino Jonsater
PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Artist – Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Hugo – Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald
War Horse – Rick Carter, Lee Sandales
COSTUME DESIGN
The Artist – Mark Bridges
Hugo – Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre – Michael O’Connor
My Week With Marilyn – Jill Taylor
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Jacqueline Durran
MAKE UP & HAIR
The Artist – Julie Hewett, Cydney Cornell
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
Hugo – Morag Ross, Jan Archibald
The Iron Lady – Marese Langan
My Week With Marilyn – Jenny Shircore
SOUND
The Artist – Nadine Muse, Gérard Lamps, Michael Krikorian
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – James Mather, Stuart Wilson,
Stuart Hilliker, Mike Dowson, Adam Scrivener
Hugo – Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Casali, Howard Bargroff, Doug Cooper,
Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley
War Horse – Stuart Wilson, Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson,
Richard Hymns
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn – Joe Letteri
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – Tim Burke, John Richardson,
Greg Butler, David Vickery
Hugo – Rob Legato, Ben Grossman, Joss Williams
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White
War Horse – Ben Morris, Neil Corbould
SHORT ANIMATION
Abuelas
Bobby Yeah
A Morning Stroll
SHORT FILM
Chalk
Mwansa The Great
Only Sound Remains
Pitch Black Heist
Two And Two
Who wrote this?
Shocking that The Tree of Life got absolutely nothing!
You and I are gonna disagree on tree of Life, I think Castor. I watched the first twenty minutes of that twaddle and thought it was pretentious garbage. I'm glad TOL didn't get a gong – although I tend to think I'm in the minority on this, unfortunately.
Maybe one day, when I'm feeling suicidal or something, I'll try getting all the way through it!
…I haven't seen The Artist yet and I'm sure it's very well made and I'll enjoy but one radio presenter in the UK called in groundbreaking a few days ago. How is a black and white silent movie "groundbreaking"…I'm guessing the radio presenter in question is unaware of film before 1980 then…!
Dan – ha ha, that would have been funny. I wonder how many people rang up to point that out to him! LOL!!
i'm kind of over The Artist already, especially as the most successful French Film last year, Intouchables, was heaps better and yet largely unrecognized.
Al – There was a film called Intouchables? 😉
Honestly, I'm just glad to see Drive getting recognition here. After the Golden Globes it's nice to see a list of nominees that are ACTUALLY the most accomplished films of the year.
Thanks for stopping by dude, glad to have you along. I think the BAFTA's are a more rounded and contemplative selection of awards, to be honest. The Brits don't strike me as being swept up in all the hype of Hollywood, so their choice of films is always less hysterical than the HFPA or the Academy.
I'd like to see Shame, or Tyrannosaur win some kind of award. I'm really tired of watching The Artist dance its way into every award cabinet.
Somehow, I don't think the critical acclaim for The Artist is going to give up so easily….
Tyrannosaur deserves an award. In fact, I'm surprised it isn't up for Best British Film.
Of the other Best Films, it is good to see Drive on there which was brilliant, as was Tinker Tailor. But I'd like The Descendants to win because I think Alexander Payne is a genius.
Drive needs to win Best Film. The End.
Am I the only one that is bored with the Award season? I really did not know there were so many!
Dude, you're not the only one who's bored a bit. The only one I'm really interested in is the Oscars, the rest are all just like an entree nobody wants to eat….
For me the biggest question here is, does this mean Drive and The Help get Oscar nods for Best Picture as well?
Matty – Haven't seen The Help, but Drive better get a look in, or so help me I'll swear off the Academy for good. Fracking Saving Private Ryan haters.
I'm very excited about the BAFTAs, partly because it's the only one that I can watch as it happens! I'm excited for the Special Visual Effects award. I think that one will be hotly contested at the Oscars as well.
I never thought of that: the rest of the major Hollywood awards are broadcast in the middle of the night in the UK! Have fun watching it live!!!
I wonder if The Artist will sweep the BAFTAs this year. I'm glad to see Gary Oldman's name amongst the noms, he was snubbed by the party people that are the Hollywood Foreign Press!! I hope the Academy will recognize him as well.
A silent film mainstream audiences aren't going to see, in the running for all the gongs? Of course it'll win…. if only to justify the critical praise it's been getting.