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2012/13 Nominee and Winner information
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OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Presented by Ben Affleck and Bradley Cooper
This award is presented in honour of Alexander Korda. It is presented to the producer, director and writer(s) of the film.
This award was created to recognise initiative and endeavour in British film, aiming to reward outstanding and original British filmmaking which shows exceptional creativity and innovation. To be eligible, a film must have significant British creative involvement and be certified as British under one of the UK Film Council’s three definitions (http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/qualifying). Only exceptionally will a non - certified film be considered. The nominees and winner are decided by a special chapter of BAFTA members.
SKYFALL - Sam Mendes, (Director) Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli (Producers), Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan (Writers)
Skyfall is the twenty-third James Bond film produced by Eon productions, about a plot by a former agent to get his revenge on M, the head of MI6.
Mendes was nominated for Director for American Beauty in 1999; his other credits include Road to Perdition as well as extensive work in theatre.
Wilson and Broccoli have produced all the Bond films together since Goldeneye in 1995; Wilson also produced Licence to Kill, Living Daylights and A View to A Kill, and both have worked in other roles on earlier Bond films. They were nominated in this category for Casino Royale in 2007.
Wade and Purvis have written the previous 4 Bond films, and were nominated in this category and for Adapted Screenplay for Casino Royale.
Logan has been nominated for Original Screenplay twice, for Gladiator in 2000 and The Aviator in 2004.
Previous nominations: Mendes – 1, Wilson – 1, Broccoli – 1, Purvis – 2, Wade – 2, Purvis – 2, Logan - 2
Skyfall is the second Bond film to be nominated for this category, after Casino Royale in 2007, and the first to win a BAFTA for the film as a whole; earlier Bond films had received BAFTA nominations in craft categories.
ANNA KARENINA - Joe Wright (Director), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, (Producers) Tom Stoppard (Writer)
Anna Karenina is an unconventional adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel staged almost entirely in a dilapidated theatre.
Wright won the Outstanding Debut award and was nominated for Outstanding British Film for Pride & Prejudice in 2005; he was then nominated for Director and Outstanding British Film in 2007 for Atonement (which won Best Film). He has three British Academy Television Award nominations (including a win for Charles II in 2003), and was also nominated for the Short Film Award in 1997.
Bevan and Fellner co-founded Working Title Films in the 1980s. They are both nominated three times this year (for Les Misérables in Best Film and Outstanding British Film, and Anna Karenina in Outstanding British film; this takes their total British Academy Film Award nominations to 17 and 16 respectively, and makes them the second most nominated individuals in the Film Award’s history (after Woody Allen who has 23 nominations). They won two awards at last year’s ceremony (Outstanding British Film for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Documentary for Senna); their other wins for Atonement (Best Film 2008) and Elizabeth (Outstanding British Film 1999).
Webster has been nominated in this category on three previous occasions, for Pride & Prejudice in 2005, and Atonement and Eastern Promises, both 2007; he also won Best Film for Atonement.
Stoppard has been previously nominated for Empire of the Sun (Adapted Screenplay 1988) and Shakespeare in Love (Original Screenplay 1998), and was a given a special award for television writing in 1977. He has written for film, television, radio and theatre; his plays include Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead, Jumpers and Travesties. He was knighted in 1997.
Previous nominations: Wright – 8 (2 wins), Bevan – 15 (4 wins), Fellner – 15 (4 wins), Webster -4 (1 win), Stoppard – 3 (1 win).
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL - John Madden (Director), Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin (Producers), Ol Parker (Writer)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is about a disparate group of British pensioners who move into a retirement home in India, based on the novel by Deborah Moggach.
Madden was nominated in this category for Mrs Brown in 1997, and then for Director for Shakespeare in Love in 1998. He was also nominated for a British Academy Television Award for The Widowmaker in 1990.
Broadbent and Czernin were nominated in this category for In Bruges in 2008; they are also nominated this year for Seven Psychopaths.
Parker won a British Academy Children’s Award for a school’s drama in 1996; his other screenplays include Imagine Me & You and Now is Good.
Previous nominations: Madden – 3, Broadbent – 1, Czernin – 1, Parker – 1 (1 win)
LES MISÉRABLES - Tom Hooper (Director), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh (Producers), William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer (Writers)
Les Misérables is the film adaptation of the long running musical based on Victor Hugo’s epic novel set in early-19th century France.
Hooper won this category in 2010 for The King’s Speech, for which he was also nominated for Director; the film also won Best Film. He has three other BAFTA nominations for his work on television dramas Longford and Prime Suspect.
Bevan and Fellner co-founded Working Title Films in the 1980s. They are both nominated three times this year (for Les Misérables in Best Film and Outstanding British Film, and Anna Karenina in Outstanding British film; this takes their total British Academy Film Award nominations to 17 and 16 respectively, and makes them the second most nominated individuals in the Film Award’s history (after Woody Allen who has 23 nominations). They won two awards at last year’s ceremony (Outstanding British Film for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Documentary for Senna); their other wins for Atonement (Best Film 2008) and Elizabeth (Outstanding British Film 1999).
Hayward joined Working Title in 1989, eventually becoming Head of Film; she has been Executive Producer on a number of the company’s films, but this is her first credit as Producer.
Mackintosh is the producer of a number of successful stage musicals including Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Miss Saigon and Cats; the film adaptation of Les Misérables is his first film credit.
Nicholson has been BAFTA nominated three times, for Gladiator (Original Screenplay, 2000), Shadowlands (Adapted Screenplay, 1993) and Sweet As You Are (Single Drama, Television Awards 1988).
Boubil and Schönberg are the writers of the original stage musical, which was originally released as a concept album in French; Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for the English language version.
Previous nominations: Hooper – 5 (1 win), Bevan – 15 (4 wins), Fellner – 15 (4 wins), Nicholson – 3, Hayward, Mackintosh, Boubil, Schönberg, Kretzmer - None.
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS - Martin McDonagh (Director/Writer), Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin (Producers)
Seven Psychopaths is a black comedy about a screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friend kidnaps a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
All three nominees were nominated in this category for In Bruges in 2008. McDonagh also won Original Screenplay for In Bruges, and was nominated for Short Film in 2004.
Broadbent and Czernin are also nominated for Best Exotic Marigold Hotel this year.
Previous nominations: McDonagh – 3 (1 win), Broadbent – 1, Czernin - 1
SHORT FILM and SHORT ANIMATION
Presented by Rafe Spall and Helen McCrory
The Short Film Awards are open to entries from the UK only and provide an opportunity for British filmmakers to demonstrate their skills to the world. This Award encourages the essential growth and development of new talent within the British film industry. Films are only eligible if they demonstrate a substantial British contribution in the majority of the following areas: production company, finance, director, producer, writer, key animation talent, principal cast and crew. Films must be no more than 40 minutes in duration. Nominations for these awards are decided by a jury, and the winners voted for by a special chapter of BAFTA members.
SHORT ANIMATION
THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD - Will Anderson (Director/Writer), Ainslie Henderson (Co-Writer)
Will works as a freelance director and animator working on film and television productions; this is his first film.
Henderson is a stop frame animator and received a BAFTA New Talent Award for his first short film It’s About Spending Time Together
The Making of Longbird won a British Academy Scotland Award in November 2012
Previous nominations: None
HERE TO FALL - Kris Kelly (Director/Writer), Evelyn McGrath (Producer/Writer)
Kelly has spent the last ten year creating animated sequences for films and documentaries as well as directing commercials and short films; he recently won a Royal Television Society award for his work on the BBC children’s series Newsround.
Originally trained as an artist, McGrath had a fifteen-year career in digital creative production in interactive, learning, film and television and has worked with some of the biggest global brands including Facebook, BBC and Discovery.
They have been developing projects together since 2007.
Previous nominations: None.
I’M FINE THANKS - Eamonn O'Neill
OʼNeill studied animation at the National Film School in Dublin, Ireland. In 2012 he graduated with an Animation MA from the Royal College of Art and is a director at Studio AKA.
Previous nominations: None
SHORT FILM
SWIMMER - Lynne Ramsay (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer), Peter Carlton (Producer)
Ramsay was nominated for this award for Gasman in 1997; she then won the Outstanding Debut category and was nominated for Outstanding British Film for Ratcatcher in 1999. Last year, she was nominated for Outstanding British Film and Director for We Need to Talk About Kevin, becoming the sixth woman to be nominated for the Director category in BAFTA’s history.
Scrimshaw won this award for producing Paddy Considine’s short film Dog Altogether in 2007; the film was then developed into the feature Tyrannosaur, for which Scrimshaw and Considine won the Oustanding Debut category last year.
Carlton has been Head of Warp Films Europe since 2009, having been Senior Commissioning Editor for Film Four for six years prior to that; his credits as Executive Producer include Tyrannosaur, Neds, Submarine, Four Lions and Hunger.
Previous nominations: Ramsay- 5 (1 win), Scrimshaw- 2 (2 wins)
THE CURSE - Fyzal Boulifa (Director), Gavin Humphries (Producer)
Boulifa is a British filmmaker of Moroccan descent. His previous short films include Burn My Body and Whore.
Humphries has run Quark Films since it was founded in 2006 after completing the Producing MA at the NFTS. He has produced 28 short films.
Previous nominations: None
GOOD NIGHT - Muriel d'Ansembourg (Writer/Director), Eva Sigurdardottir (Producer)
Good Night is d’Ansembourg’s graduation film from the London Film Academy; her previous film Play won 9 awards and screened at over 30 festivals worldwide.
Sigurdardottir studied Television Production at the University of Westminster. She worked for the BBC Children's Department for three years and is currently working for the charity Save the Children.
Previous nominations: None.
TUMULT - Johnny Barrington (Writer/Director), Rhianna Andrews (Producer)
Barrington trained at Glasgow School of Art and and Göteborg School of Photography & Film, Sweden. He has written and directed four short films, as well as a number of music promos and commercials.
Andrews worked with film and TV producer Christopher Young for 6 years and was an associate producer for Young Films on The Inbetweeners Movie; her other short films include Believe.
Previous nominations: None
THE VOORMAN PROBLEM - Mark Gill (Director), Baldwin Li (Producer)
Gill won a Royal Television Society Award for his graduation film; The Voorman Problem is his second film.
Li studied English at Balliol College, Oxford, and then worked as a sound engineer and cameraman at Granada Studios, before setting up Honlodge Productions to produce short films.
Previous nominations: None.
COSTUME DESIGN
Presented by Ben Whishaw and Alice Eve
ANNA KARENINA - Jacqueline Durran
Durran won this award for Vera Drake in 2004, and was also nominated for Atonement and Pride & Prejudice (both directed by Anna Karenina director, Joe Wright), as well as for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last year. Her other credits include Another Year, The Soloist, Happy Go Lucky and All or Nothing.
Previous nominations: 4 (1 win)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
Pasztor’s previous credits include Vanity Fair, Wonder Boys, Good Will Hunting, To Die For and My Own Private Idaho.
Previous nominations: None
LES MISÉRABLES - Paco Delgado
Delgado’s previous work includes The Skin I Live In, Biutiful, The Oxford Murders and Bad Education.
Previous nominations: None
LINCOLN - Joanna Johnston
Johnston’s previous work includes War Horse, Munich, Love Actually, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Previous nominations: None.
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN - Colleen Atwood
Atwood is a frequent collaborator with Tim Burton, and has won this category for her work on Sleepy Hollow and Alice on Wonderland, as well as nominations for Sweeney Todd, Planet of the Apes and Edward Scissorhands. Her other BAFTA win was for Memoirs of a Geisha, and her other nominations were Chicago and Little Women.
Previous nominations: 8 (3 wins)
MAKE UP & HAIR
Presented by Ben Whishaw and Alice Eve
LES MISÉRABLES - Lisa Westcott (Hair and Make Up Designer)
Westcott won this award in 1995 for The Madness of King George, and was also nominated for her work on Mrs Brown and Shakespeare in Love. She has also worked on a number of BBC Costume Dramas, winning British Academy Television Craft Awards for her work on Wives & Daughters, Our Mutual Friend and the 1985 version of Bleak House, as well as a nominations for Portrait of a Marriage.
Previous nominations: 7 (4 wins).
ANNA KARENINA - Ivana Primorac (Hair and Make Up Designer)
This is Primorac’s sixth nomination in this category, having been previously nominated for The Hours in 2002, Cold Mountain in 2003, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (2005), Atonement and Sweeney Todd (both 2007). Her other work includes Brighton Rock, The Other Boleyn Girl, and The Reader.
Previous nominations: 5
HITCHCOCK - Julie Hewett (Department Head Make Up), Martin Samuel (Department Head Hair), Howard Berger (Prosthetic Makeup Department Head)
Hewett was nominated in this category for The Artist last year. Her other credits include Magic Mike, The Descendants, the Ocean’s Eleven trilogy, and Pearl Harbor.
Samuel won this award for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film in 2003, and was also nominated for the second Pirates film in 2006 and for Evita in 1996. His other work includes Burlesque, Elegy, and Domino.
Berger won this award in 2005 for The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. He has been working in Special Effects make-up since the mid 1980s; his other recent work includes the zombie television series, The Walking Dead.
Previous nominations: Hewett – 1, Samuel – 3 (1 win), Berger – 1 (1 win)
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY - Peter Swords King (Hair and Make Up Design), Richard Taylor (Special Make Up Designer), Rick Findlater (Make Up & Hair Supervisor)
King has been nominated in this category on 7 previous occasions, including for all three of the Lord of the Rings films; he won the award for The Fellowship of the Ring; his other nominations were for Velvet Goldmine, An Ideal Husband, Quills, and Nine.
Taylor is the creator and head of the New Zealand based prop and special effects company Weta Workshop. He was knighted in 2010. He has been nominated across a range of categories for his work on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, including wins for Make Up & Hair and Special Visual Effects on Fellowship of the Ring, and Costume Design for The Two Towers; he also won the Special Visual Effects category for King Kong.
Findlater also worked on The Lord of the Rings Trilogy as well as King Kong, The Last Samurai and The Impossible.
Previous nominations: King – 7 (1 win), Taylor – 9 (4 wins), Findlater (none)
LINCOLN - Lois Burwell (Make Up Designer), Kay Georgiou (Hair Department Head)
Burwell has previously been nominated in this category for Saving Private Ryan and Braveheart. Her other work includes War Horse, The Last Samurai, The Green Mile, Mission Impossible and the Muppet’s Christmas Carol.
Georgiou was previously nominated for Titanic in 1997; her other work includes True Grit, The Lovely Bones and The Talented Mr Ripley.
Previous nominations: Burwell- 2, Georgiou- 1
ANIMATED FILM
Presented by Nicholas Hoult
This award is presented to the key creative talent behind the film, usually the Director(s).
BRAVE - Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman (Directors)
Set in the Scottish Highlands, Brave is the story of a skilled archer named Mirida who is unwilling to conform to the life set out for her as the Princess of her clan.
This is Andrew’s feature debut as a director, having previously directed several shorts for Pixar; he also worked in other roles on Cars, Ratatouille, and The Incredibles.
Chapman previously directed The Prince of Egypt, but has worked in other roles on a number of other animated films including Chicken Run, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Previous nominations: None.
Since this category was introduced in 2007, four Pixar films have previously won this award (Toy Story 3, Up, WALL-E and Ratatouille); Cars was also nominated in 2006.
FRANKENWEENIE - Tim Burton (Director)
Frankenweenie is the story of a boy who loses his dog, and uses the power of science to resurrect him; it is a feature remake of a short film Burton made in 1984.
Burton was nominated for the Director category for Big Fish in 2003, and for the Feature Film category at the British Academy Children’s Awards for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. His other films include Edward Scissorhands,, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman and Corpse Bride.
Previous nominations: 2
PARANORMAN - Sam Fell, Chris Butler (Directors)
Paranorman is the story of a young boy who can communicate with ghosts.
Fell was nominated in this category and for Feature Film at the British Academy Children’s Awards for Flushed Away in 2007; he also directed The Tale of Despereaux.
Butler also wrote Paranorman; he has previously worked as a Storyboard artist on films including Coraline and Corpse Bride.
Previous nominations: Fell – 2, Butler - None
SOUND
Presented by Jeremy Irvine and Olga Kurylenko
The Sound award is presented to up to five of the film’s key sound team members, usually the Sound Designer and/or Supervising Sound Editor, the Re - Recording Mixer(s) and the Production Mixer(s)
LES MISÉRABLES - Simon Hayes (Production Sound Mixer), Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson (Re-Recording Mixers), Lee Walpole, John Warhurst (Supervising Sound Editors), Jonathan Allen (Music recorded and mixed by)
Unusually for a screen musical, the actors’ singing was recorded live on set with piano accompaniment played through earpieces as a guide, with the orchestral accompaniment then recorded in post-production; the usual method would be to record both the orchestra and the singing in advance and have the actor mime on set. Many of the actors featured in the film have said in interviews that they felt this method gave them more creative freedom in their performances.
Andy Nelson is one of BAFTA’s most nominated crafts people, and is one of only nine people with 13 or more British Academy Film nominations; he also has two British Academy Television Craft Award nominations. He has won this category four times, for Braveheart, L.A.Confidential, Saving Private Ryan and Moulin Rouge.
Walpole was nominated in this category in 2010 for The King’s Speech, and for a British Academy Television Craft Award for Cranford in 2009.
Previous nominations: Nelson- 14 (4 wins), Walpole – 2, Warhurst, Hayes, Paterson, Allen - None
DJANGO UNCHAINED - Mark Ulano (Production Sound Mixer), Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti (Re-Recording Mixers), Wylie Stateman (Supervising Sound Editor)
The sound team for Django Unchained have 10 previous nominations between them: Ulano has been previously nominated for Kill Bill Vol 1 and Titanic; Minkler has won for Chicago and JFK, and also been nominated for Black Hawk Down, Kill Bill and Collateral; Stateman has been nominated for Kill Bill, Shrek and The Perfect Storm.
Previous nominations: Ulano – 2, Minkler – 5 (2 wins), Lamberti – None, Stateman – 3
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY - Tony Johnson (Production Sound Mixer), Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick (Re-recording Mixers), Brent Burge, Chris Ward (Supervising Sound Editors)
The sound team for The Hobbit have 20 previous nominations between them (but none of them have won this award): Johnson was previously nominated for Avatar and The Piano; Boyes for Avatar, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, two Pirates of the Caribbean films and King Kong; Hedges for the last two Lord of the Rings films and District 9; Semanick for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, There Will Be Blood, WALL-E and UP; Burge and Ward for District 9.
Previous nominations: Johnson - 2, Boyes - 7, Hedges - 3, Semanick- 6, Burge- 1, Ward- 1
LIFE OF PI - Drew Kunin (Production Sound Mixer), Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill (Re-Recording Mixers), Eugene Gearty (Sound Designer), Philip Stockton (Dialogue Editor)
Gearty and Stockton were part of the sound team which won this award for Hugo last year. They were also both nominated for Gangs of New York in 2002; Gearty was also nominated for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in 2000, and Stockton also for The Aviator in 2004.
Previous nominations: Gearty – 3 (1 win) Stockton – 3 (1 win), Kunin, Bartlett, Hemphill - None
SKYFALL - Stuart Wilson (Sound Recordist), Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell (Re-Recording Mixers), Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers (Supervising Sound Editors)
The sound team for Skyfall have 18 previous nominations between them, and several of them have won this award for their work on the same films in the past.
Millan and Hallberg have won this award together three times (for The Bourne Ultimatum, Ray and Braveheart); Baker Landers was also on the winning sound teams for The Bourne Ultimatum and Ray.
Millan and Hallberg were both also nominated for Gladiator; Millan has three other nominations (for American Beauty, Apollo 13 and Schindler’s List) and Hallberg was also nominated for Black Hawk Down. Wilson was previously nominated for The Constant Gardener, War Horse and the final Harry Potter film; Russell for Spider-Man 2.
Previous nominations: Wilson – 3, Millan – 7 (3 wins), Russell- 1, Hallberg – 5 (3 wins), Baker Landers – 2 (2 wins)
Two Bond films have previously been nominated in this category; Goldeneye in 1995, and Casino Royale which won the award in 2007
EDITING
Presented by Jeremy Irvine and Olga Kurylenko
ARGO - William Goldenberg
Goldenberg is also nominated this year for Zero Dark Thirty. Goldenberg is also nominated this year for Argo. His other credits include Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Gone Baby Gone, Seabiscuit, Pleasantville and Heat.
Previous nominations: None
DJANGO UNCHAINED - Fred Raskin
Raskin’s previous credits as Editor include three films in the Fast & Furious, The Lazarus Project and Annapolis. He was also an assistant editor on the Kill Bill films with Tarantino’s long time collaborator, Sally Menkes (Django Unchained is the first film Tarantino has made since Menke passed away in 2010; she edited all of his previous films).
Previous nominations: None
LIFE OF PI - Tim Squyres
Squyres was nominated in this category for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in 2000, and has edited all but one of Ang Lee’s films, including Brokeback Mountain, Sense and Sensibility, and Lust Caution. His other credits include Gosford Park, Syriana and Rachel Getting Married.
Previous nominations: 1
SKYFALL - Stuart Baird
Baird was previously nominated for his work on Daniel Craig’s first Bond film, Casino Royale. His other work as an editor includes Vantage Point, The Last Boy Scout, Gorillas in the Mist, Lethal Weapon, Superman and Tommy; he also directed Star Trek: Nemesis.
Previous nominations: 1
ZERO DARK THIRTY - Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg
Tichenor was nominated in this category in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain; his other credits include Lawless, Doubt, There Will Be Blood, The Royal Tenenbaums, Magnolia and Boogie Nights.
Goldenberg is also nominated this year for Argo. His other credits include Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Gone Baby Gone, Seabiscuit, Pleasantville and Heat.
Previous nominations: Tichenor – 1, Goldenberg – None.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Presented by Mark Strong
LIFE OF PI - Claudio Miranda
Miranda was previously nominated in this category for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008. His other credits as Director of Photography include TRON: Legacy and Failure to Launch; earlier credits as Gaffer include Fight Club, Seven and Crimson Tide.
Previous nominations: 1
The award was collected by the film's director Ang Lee
ANNA KARENINA - Seamus McGarvey
McGarvey was previously nominated in this category for Atonement. This year he also shot Avengers Assemble; his previous credits include We Need to Talk About Kevin, Nowhere Boy, The Hours and High Fidelity.
Previous nominations: 1
LES MISÉRABLES - Danny Cohen
Cohen was previously nominated in this category for The King’s Speech in 2010, and has also been nominated for two British Academy Television Craft Awards for Joe’s Palace in 2007 and Longford in 2006. His other credits include This Is England, Festival, Dead Man’s Shoes, and Pierrepoint.
Previous nominations: 3
LINCOLN - Janusz Kaminski
Kaminski has been Director of Photography on all of Spielberg’s films since Schindler’s List, for which he won this award in 1993 for Schindler’s List. He has been nominated on two other occasions, for Saving Private Ryan in 1998 and War Horse in 2011. His other credits as cinematographer include The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Jerry Maguire, and he also directed the 2000 film Lost Souls.
Previous nominations: 3 (1 win)
SKYFALL - Roger Deakins
Deakins is particularly known for his work with the Coen Brothers, and won this award for True Grit (2010), No Country For Old Men (2007), and The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), as well as nominations for O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) and Fargo (1996). He was also nominated for The Reader in 2008, and his other credits include Revolutionary Road (also directed by Skyfall director, Sam Mendes) and The Shawshank Redemption.
Previous nominations: 6 (3 wins)
Two other Bond films have been nominated in this category, Casino Royale in 2007 and From Russia With Love which won the award in 1964
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Presented by David Morissey & Paloma Faith
Films are eligible for this category if more than 50% of the music in them was written specifically for the film. This award is presented in honour of Anthony Asquith.
SKYFALL - Thomas Newman
Newman won this award in 1999 for American Beauty, and was also nominated in 2008 for WALL-E. His other credits include The Good German, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Finding Nemo, Road to Perdition and The Shawshank Redemption.
Previous nominations: 2 (1 win)
This is the third time a Bond film has been nominated for its score; the others were The Spy Who Loved Me and Casino Royale.
ANNA KARENINA - Dario Marianelli
Marianelli was previously nominated in this category for Atonement in 2007. His other credits include Quartet, Pride and Prejudice, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Jane Eyre.
Previous nominations: 1
ARGO - Alexandre Desplat
Desplat won this award in 2010 for The King’s Speech. He has been nominated on four other occasions, for Fantastic Mr Fox (2009), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Queen (2006) and Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003).
Previous nominations: 5 (1 win)
LIFE OF PI - Mychael Danna
Danna’s other credits as composer include Moneyball, The Whistleblower, Little Miss Sunshine and Capote.
Previous nominations: None.
LINCOLN - John Williams
This is William’s thirteenth nomination in this category, and he has won it 7 times; his BAFTA winning scores include Jaws, Star Wars, ET, and Schindler’s List. He has composed the music for all but two of Steven Spielberg’s films. He is one of only 9 people to receive 13 or more British Academy Film Award nominations, and celebrated his 81st birthday on 8 February.
Previous nominations: 12
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Presented by Sally Field
DJANGO UNCHAINED - Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino won this category in 1995 for Pulp Fiction, for which he was also nominated for Best Film and Director; he was nominated again for both Director and Original Screenplay for Inglourious Basterds, and he is also nominated for Director for Django Unchained this year. His other films include Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill.
Previous nominations: 5 (1 win)
AMOUR - Michael Haneke
Haneke is also nominated for Director and Film Not in the English Language for Amour; he has been previously been nominated in the Film Not in the English Language category for The Piano Teacher in 2001 and The White Ribbon in 2009. His other films include Hidden and Funny Games, which he made originally in German and then remade in English.
Previous nominations: 2
THE MASTER - Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson was nominated in this category for Boogie Nights in 1997. He was also nominated for Director and Best Film for There Will Be Blood in 2007. He also directed The Master; his other credits as Writer/Director include Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love.
Previous nominations: 3
MOONRISE KINGDOM - Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Anderson was nominated in this category for The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001. He was also nominated twice for Fantastic Mr Fox, for Animated Film at the 2009 British Academy Film Awards and for Feature Film at the British Academy Children’s Awards. He also directed Moonrise Kingdom; his other films as writer/director include Rushmore, The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited.
Coppola also wrote The Darjeeling Limited with Anderson; his other credits include producing Somewhere (directed by his sister Sophia Coppola. He is the son of director Francis Ford Coppola, and as a child appeared in several of his father’s films, including playing the young Sonny Corleone in The Godfather Part 2.
Previous nominations: Anderson – 3, Coppola - None
ZERO DARK THIRTY - Mark Boal
Boal won this category and Best Film for The Hurt Locker in 2010. He is also nominated for Best Film this year as the producer of Zero Dark Thirty.
Previous nominations: 2 (2 wins)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Presented by Jennifer Lawrence
CHRISTOPH WALTZ - Django Unchained
Waltz plays Dr King Schultz, a German dentist turned frontier bounty hunter in pre-civil war USA.
Waltz won this award in 2009 for his role as Nazi officer Hans Landa in Tarantino’s previous film, Inglorious Basterds. Prior to this, he was best known for roles on German television; his recent English-language film roles inc Carnage, Water for Elephants and The Green Hornet. He was born in Vienna, and is a dual citizen of Austria and Germany.
Previous nominations: 1 (1 win).
ALAN ARKIN - Argo
Arkin plays Lester Siegel, a film producer who becomes involved in a CIA mission to rescue six US diplomats from Tehran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
Although Argo is loosely based on a true story, Siegel is a fictional character.
Arkin won this category in 2007 for his role in Little Miss Sunshine; he was also BAFTA nominated for Most Promising Newcomer for The Russians Are Coming in 1967. His other films include Wait Until Dark, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch 22, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross and Grosse Point Blank.
Previous nominations: 2 (1 win)
JAVIER BARDEM - Skyfall
Bardem plays Raoul Silva, a former M16 operative turned cyber-terrorist, seeking revenge on M, the head of M16 (played by Supporting Actress nominee Judi Dench).
Bardem won this award in 2008 for his role as another memorable villain in No Country For Old Men. He was also nominated for Leading Actor for Biutiful in 2011. His other films include Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Sea Inside, Jamon Jamon and Live Flesh.
Previous nominations: 2 (1 win).
Dench and Bardem are the second and third actors to be nominated for appearing in a Bond film; the first was Daniel Craig for his first appearance as Bond in Casino Royale in 2007.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN - The Master
Hoffman plays Lancaster Dodd, the leader of a philosophical movement known as “The Cause”.
Hoffman won a BAFTA for Leading Actor for his role as Truman Capote in 2006; he was nominated for Leading Actor again in 2008 for Charlie Wilson’s War. This is his third nomination in this category, having been nominated for Doubt in 2009 and The Ides of March in 2012.
Previous nominations: 4 (1 win)
TOMMY LEE JONES - Lincoln
Jones plays Thaddeus Stevens, the Radical Republican Congressional leader and fervent abolitionist.
This is Jones’ fourth nomination in this category, having previously been nominated for JFK (1993), The Fugitive (1994) and No Country for Old Men (2008). His other credits include the Men In Black films, In the Valley of Elah, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and Coal Miner’s Daughter.
Previous nominations: 3
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Presented by Billy Connolly
This award is presented in honour of Carl Foreman.
This award is for a writer, director or producer‘s first feature film; they may have film credits in other roles prior to this film
BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer) - The Imposter
Previous nominations: None
DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) – McCullin
Previous nominations: None
DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer)- Wild Bill
Previous nominations: None
JAMES BOBIN (Director) - The Muppets
Previous nominations: 2
TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) - I Am Nasrine
Previous nominations: None
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SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Presented by Chris Tucker
This category rewards excellence both in Special Effects (physical effects created during filming, like explosions, models etc.) and Visual Effects (computer generated imagery added in post-production).
LIFE OF PI - Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron (Visual Effects Supervisors), Erik-Jan De Boer (Senior Animation Supervisor), Donald R Elliot (Special Effects Coordinator)
All the animals in Life of Pi, including Richard Parker the tiger, were created entirely with CGI; all of the ocean scenes were shot on a custom built wave tank that was enhanced and extended with digital water and cloudscapes, ranging from glassy-smooth sunrises, to full category 12 storm surge with wind, rain and mist effects.
Westenhofer won this award in 2007 for The Golden Compass, and was also nominated for The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe and Babe: Pig in the City.
Previous nominations: Westenhofer – 3 (1 win), Rocheron , De Boer, Elliot - None
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES - Chris Corbould (Special Effects Supervisor), Paul Franklin, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley (Visual Effects Supervisors)
As he had done with the earlier films in the Dark Knight Trilogy, director Christopher Nolan chose to ground the world of Batman in photographic reality, shooting much of the production on location and striving to capture the action - when possible - in-camera with extensive use of practical SFX. Shots of New York City were augmented with additional CG architecture to create the stunning aerial shots of Gotham.
This team won this award in 2010 for Inception; Franklin and Corbould were also nominated for Christopher Nolan’s previous two Batman films. Corbould has also worked on every Bond film since A View To A Kill, and has been BAFTA nominated for his work on GoldenEye, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, as well as The Mummy.
Previous nominations: Franklin – 3 (1 win), Corbould – 7 (1 win), Bebb – 1 (1 win), Lockley – 1 (1 win),
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY - Joe Letteri (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor), Eric Saindon, R. Christopher White (Visual Effects Supervisors), David Clayton (Animation Supervisor)
The nominees all work for Weta Digital, and have worked previously on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, Avatar and a number of other films. The Hobbit was shot at 48 frames per second (the standard for cinema is 24), which created a range of additional challenges for the effects team, including developing a new camera technique for filming characters which needed to appear in different scales. Clayton led the team which created the digital characters (including Gollum, the Trolls and the Goblin King) through animated performance capture.
Letteri has won this award four times, for the last two Lord of the Ring films, King Kong and Avatar, and was nominated in this category twice last year for Tintin and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. White was also in the nominated team for Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Previous nominations: Letteri – 6 (4 wins), White – 1 (1 win), Saindon, Clayton (none)
MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE - Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams (Visual Effects Supervisors), Dan Sudick (Special Effects Supervisor)
Avengers Assemble required careful coordination between several effects facilities to ensure that the individual Avengers, already familiar to audiences from previous films, were each showcased in a way that wouldn't dominate the film. The climatic scenes in New York were created through combining footage of special effects created during a brief location shoot with a digital recreation of the city with the mammoth Stark Tower added in.
Sirrs was nominated in this category for Batman Begins in 2005.
Previous nominations: Sirrs - 1, White, Williams, Sudick - None
PROMETHEUS - Richard Stammers, Charley Henley (Visual Effects Supervisors), Trevor Wood (Special Effects and Vehicles Supervisor), Paul Butterworth (Visual Effects Supervisor & Lead Designer)
The visual and special effects teams worked in tandem to bring realism and scale to the alien landscapes in Prometheus; many scenes required dust, debris and explosions, with much of this being achieved in camera by the Special Effects team, with the Visual Effects team adding scale and detail.
Wood won this award in 2007 for The Golden Compass.
Previous nominations: Wood – 1 (1 win), Stammers, Henley, Butterworth – None.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Presented by George Clooney
ANNE HATHAWAY - Les Miserables
Hathaway plays Fantine, a factory worker who turns to prostitution when she falls on hard times.
She has also appeared this year as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises; her other credits include Rachel Getting Married, Brokeback Mountain and The Devil Wears Prada.
Previous nominations: None
AMY ADAMS - The Master
Adams plays Peggy Dodd, wife of the leader of a philosophical movement known as “The Cause”.
This is Adams’ third nomination in this category, having previously been nominated for The Fighter in 2011 and Doubt in 2009. Her other credits include The Muppets, Julie & Julia, Enchanted and Junebug.
Previous nominations: 2
HELEN HUNT - The Sessions
Hunt plays Cheryl Cohen Greene, a “sex surrogate”, a specialist sex therapist who works with disabled people.
Her previous film roles include As Good As it Gets, Twister, Cast Away and What Women Want, and she also starred in seven season of the sitcom Mad About You on television.
Previous nominations: None.
JUDI DENCH - Skyfall
Dench plays M, the head of M16.
This is Dench’s 14th Film Awards nomination, and she has also received 12 British Academy Television Award nominations, making her the most nominated performer in BAFTA’s history. She has won 10 times, and her previous film wins include her roles as poet Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, and Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown, as well as Most Promising Newcomer in 1965. She was awarded the Fellowship of the Academy in 2001.
Previous nominations: 26 (10 wins)
Dench and Javier Bardem are the second and third actors to be nominated for appearing in a Bond film; the first was Daniel Craig for his first appearance as Bond in Casino Royale in 2007.
SALLY FIELD - Lincoln
Field plays Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of the US president.
She was nominated in this category in 1994 for her role as Forrest Gump’s mother. She also appeared this year as Aunt May in The Amazing Spiderman; her other film roles include Mrs Doubtfire, Steel Magnolias, Norma Rae and Smokey & The Bandit, and on television she appeared as Nora Walker in five seasons of Brothers and Sisters, and had a recurring role in ER.
Previous nominations: 1
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Presented by Simon Pegg and Jennifer Garner
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK - David O. Russell
Silver Linings Playbook is based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quick.
Russell also directed Silver Linings Playbook. He also directed The Fighter; his other credits as writer and director include I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings and Spanking the Monkey.
Previous nominations: None
ARGO - Chris Terrio
Argo is based on the books The Master of Disguise by Tony Mendez (played by Affleck in the film) and The Great Escape by Joshua Bearman.
Terrio is a writer/director whose first feature length film, Heights, was released in 2005; his other credits as director include an episode of Damages, and several short films.
Previous nominations: None.
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD - Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
Beasts of the Southern Wild is based on Alibar’s one-act play Juicy and Delicious; it is the debut feature for both Alibar and Zeitlin; Zeitlin also directed the film.
Previous nominations: None
LIFE OF PI - David Magee
Life of Pi is based on the Booker prize winning novel by Yann Martel.
Magee was nominated in this category for his adaptation of Finding Neverland in 2004; he also wrote the screenplay for Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day in 2008.
Previous nominations: 1
LINCOLN - Tony Kushner
Lincoln is based on Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Kushner also wrote the screenplay for Munich, also directed by Stephen Spielberg. He is best known for his epic two-part play about the Aids epidemic, Angels in America, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and two Tonys, as well as an Emmy for the television adaptation.
Previous nominations: None
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Presented by Danny Boyle
This award is presented in honour of Michael Balcon. The award is in the gift of the Academy
TESSA ROSS
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FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Presented by Gemma Arterton and Tim Roth
This award is presented to the Producer(s) and Director of the film.
AMOUR - Michael Haneke (Director/Writer), Margaret Ménégoz (Producer)
Amour is a portrait of an elderly French couple, Anne and George, after Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses one side of her body.
Haneke is also nominated for Original Screenplay and Film Not in the English Language for Amour; he has been previously been nominated in the Film Not in the English Language category for The Piano Teacher in 2001 and The White Ribbon in 2009. His other films include Hidden and Funny Games, which he made originally in German and then remade in English.
Menegoz was nominated in this category with Haneke for his last film The White Ribbon; she won this category in 1983 for Danton, and has been nominated on two other occasions, for Swann in Love in 1984 and Europa Europa in 1992.
Previous nominations: Haneke: 2, Margaret Menegoz: 2 (1 win)
HEADHUNTERS - Morten Tyldum (Director), Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn (Producers)
Headhunters is a Norwegian crime thriller about a corporate recruitment consultant with a sideline in art theft, based on the best selling novel by Jo Nesbo.
Tyldum’s previous credits include Fallen Angels and Buddy. Gray’s previous work has mainly been Swedish television drama; Vatn previous films as a producer include Upperdog and Uro.
Previous nominations: None.
THE HUNT - Thomas Vinterberg (Director/Writer), Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann
The Hunt is a Danish film about a nursery teaching assistant who is wrongly accused of abusing the children in his care.
Vinterberg was previously nominated for Festen, the first film made under the rules of the Dogme 95 movement. His other films include It’s All About Love and Dear Wendy.
Jørgensen produced Dear Wendy, as well as Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, In a Better World and A Royal Affair. Kaufman was a Line Producer on Festen and It’s All About Love; his recent credits as Producer include Prague and The Escape.
Previous nominations: Vinterberg- 1, Jørgensen, Kaufman- None.
RUST AND BONE - Jacques Audiard (Director/Writer), Pascal Caucheteux (Producer)
Rust and Bone is a French film which tells the story of an unlikely romance between an unemployed man and a killer whale trainer, after she loses both her legs in an accident.
Audiard and Caucheteux have won this award for their last two films together: The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2005 and A Prophet in 2010. Caucheteux was also nominated in this category for Of Gods and Men last year.
Previous nominations: Audiard -2 (2 wins), Caucheteux – 3 (2 wins)
UNTOUCHABLE - Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache (Directors/Writers), Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun (Producers)
Untouchable is a French film about the unlikely friendship between a severely disabled man and a former convict who becomes his carer, inspired by a true story.
Toledano and Nakache have been making films together since 1995; their previous features include Je Prefere Qu’on Reste Amis, Those Happy Days and Tellement Proches.
Adassovksy produced Toledano and Nakache’s earlier features, as well as producing Heartbreaker with Zeitoun and Zenou.
Previous nominations: None
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (this award is voted for by the public)
Presented by Sarah Silverman and John C Reilly
JUNO TEMPLE
ELIZABETH OLSEN
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH
SURAJ SHARMA
ALICIA VIKANDER
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DOCUMENTARY
Presented by Martin Freeman and Henry Cavill
This award is presented to the key creative talent behind the film, usually the Director(s) and Producer(s).
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN - Malik Bendjelloul (Director), Simon Chinn (Producer)
Searching for Sugar Man details the efforts of two South African fans to trace the American folk musician Rodriguez after he is rumoured to have died.
This is Bendjelloul’s deby feature; his previous work is on Swedish current affairs television.
Chinn won Outstanding British Film, and was nominated for Outstanding Debut, for Man on Wire in 2008; he was also nominated in this category last year for Project Nim. He also produced Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 and was Executive Producer on The Imposter this year.
Previous nominations: Bendjelloul – None, Chinn – 3 (1 win)
THE IMPOSTER - Bart Layton (Director), Dimitri Doganis (Producer)
The Imposter is the story of French con-man Frédéric Bourdin who claimed to be Nicholas Barclay, a Texan boy who had disappeared 3 years previously.
Layton and Doganis are also nominated for the Outstanding Debut Award for The Imposter this year; both have previously worked as producer/directors in British factual television.
Previous nominations: None
MARLEY - Kevin Macdonald (Director), Steve Bing, Charles Steel (Producers)
Marley documents the life of Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician Bob Marley.
Macdonald has won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film twice, for Touching the Void in 2003 and The Last King of Scotland in 2006. His other films include The Eagle, Life in A Day and State of Play.
Bing is the founder of the Shangri-La business group; his film credits include directing Every Breath, writing Kangaroo Jack and Executive Producing the Get Carter remake.
Steel won Outstanding British Film and was nominated for Best Film for The Last King of Scotland; he was also nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Top Boy in 2011. His other credits as producer include Goodbye Charlie Bright, Fire in Babylon and the Channel 4 drama Poppy Shakespeare.
Previous nominations: Macdonald -2 (2 wins), Bing – None, Steel – 3 (1 win).
McCULLIN - David Morris (Director), Jacqui Morris (Director/Producer)
McCullin is a portrait of the photojournalist Donald McCullin. David and Jacqui are also nominated for the Outstanding Debut Award this year for McCullin; they are brother and sister, and both worked in casting before directing their television debut film Mr Right together in 2009.
Previous nominations: None
WEST OF MEMPHIS - Amy Berg (Director/Producer)
West of Memphis records the case of the West Memphis Three, three teenagers who were found innocent after spending more than a decade in prision for child murder.
Berg has previously directed and produced the feature documentary Deliver Us From Evil and produced the 2010 feature documentary about Benazir Bhutto.
Previous nominations: None.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Presented by Tom Hiddleston and Saoirse Ronan
This award is presented to the Production Designer and the Set Decorator.
LES MISÉRABLES - Eve Stewart (Production Designer), Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decorator)
Stewart has been previously nominated in this category for Vera Drake in 2004 and The King’s Speech in 2010, as well as a British Academy Television Award nomination for Elizabeth I in 2005. Her other film credits include The Damned United, Becoming Jane, De-Lovely and Topsy Turvy.
Lynch-Robinson’s previous work includes An Education, In Bruges, and Bridget Jones 2.
Previous nominations: Stewart- 3, Lynch-Robinson - None
ANNA KARENINA - Sarah Greenwood (Production Designer) , Katie Spencer (Set Decorator)
Greenwood and Spencer won this category for Atonement in 2007; Greenwood has also been nominated for two British Academy Television Craft Awards. Their other film credits together include the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films, Hanna, Starter for Ten, and Pride & Prejudice.
Previous nominations: Greenwood – 3, Spencer - 1
LIFE OF PI - David Gropman (Production Designer) , Anna Pinnock (Set Decorator)
Gropman was previously nominated for Chocolat in 2000; his other credits include Hairspray, The Shipping News, and The Cider House News.
Pinnock is also nominated for Skyfall this year; her other credits include Quantum of Solace, The Golden Compas, Gosford Park, The Beach and Four Weddings & a Funeral.
Previous nominations: Gropman – 1, Pinnock - None
LINCOLN - Rick Carter, Jim Erickson
Carter won this award in 2009 for Avatar, and was nominated for War Horse in 2011. He has worked extensively with both Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, on films including Amistad, AI, Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, Jurassic Park and the Back to the Future sequels.
Erickson was previously nominated for There Will Be Blood in 2007; his other credits include Watchmen, Ali, Independence Day, Last of the Mohicans, and Mississippi Burning.
Previous nominations: Carter – 2 (1 win), Erickson - 1
SKYFALL - Dennis Gassner (Production Designer), Anna Pinnock (Set Decorator)
Gassner has won this award twice, for The Truman Show in 1998 and for Road to Perdition in 2002; he has been nominated on two other occasions for O Brother Where Art Thou? in 2000 and Big Fish in 2003.
Pinnock is also nominated for Life of Pi this year; her other credits include Quantum of Solace, The Golden Compas, Gosford Park, The Beach and Four Weddings & a Funeral.
Previous nominations: Gassner – 4 (1 win), Pinnock - None
Skyfall is the sixth Bond film to be nominated for its Production Design; the others were Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Love Me and Casino Royale.
DIRECTOR
Presented by Ian McKellen
This award is presented in honour of David Lean.
ARGO - Ben Affleck
Affleck is also nominated for Leading Actor and Best Film for Argo this year. This is his fourth film as a director, after Gone Baby Gone, Gimme Shelter and The Town. His acting roles include State of Play, The Sum of All Fears, Pearl Harbor and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with Matt Damon.
Previous nominations: None
AMOUR - Michael Haneke
Haneke is also nominated for Original Screenplay and Film Not in the English Language for Amour; he has been previously been nominated in the Film Not in the English Language category for The Piano Teacher in 2001 and The White Ribbon in 2009. His other films include Hidden and Funny Games, which he made originally in German and then remade in English.
Previous nominations: 2
DJANGO UNCHAINED - Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino won a BAFTA for Original Screenplay category in 1995 for Pulp Fiction, for which he was also nominated for Best Film and Director; he was nominated again for both Director and Original Screenplay for Inglourious Basterds, and he is also nominated for Original Screenplay for Django Unchained this year. His other films include Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill.
Previous nominations: 5 (1 win)
LIFE OF PI - Ang Lee
Lee is also nominated for Best Film as the producer of Life of Pi this year. In 1996 he won Best Film and was nominated for Best Director for Sense and Sensibility. In 2001, he won Director and Film Not in the English Language and was nominated for Best Film for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. He then won Best Director again for Brokeback Mountain in 2006. His other nominations are for Film Not in the English Language, for Eat Drink Man Woman in 1995 and Lust Caution in 2008.
Lee has won this category twice; only 7 other directors have done this (Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Peter Weir, Louis Malle, John Schlesinger, Joel Coen and Alan Parker). No director has won this category three times.
This is Lee’s fourth nomination for Best Director: he is one of only eight directors to be nominated in this category four or more times; the others are Martin Scorsese (8 nomination), Steven Spielberg (5), Richard Attenborough (5), Alan Parker (5), Woody Allen (4), Robert Altman (4), and James Ivory (4).
Previous nominations: 8 (4 wins)
ZERO DARK THIRTY - Kathryn Bigelow
Bigelow won Best Director and Best Film for the Hurt Locker in 2010. Her other credits include K-19: The Widowmaker, Strange Days and Point Break.
Bigelow is the only woman to have won this category, and the only woman to have been nominated in this category twice.
Five other women have been nominated in this category: Jane Campion (The Piano, 1994), Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation, 2004), Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine, joint nomination with Jonathan Dayton, 2007), Lone Scherfig (An Education, 2010), Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, 2012).
Previous nominations: 2 (2 wins)
LEADING ACTRESS
Presented by Jeremy Renner
EMMANUELLE RIVA - Amour
Riva plays Anne, a retired music teacher who is paralysed down one side of her body by a stroke.
Riva was BAFTA nominated for Best Foreign Actress for Hiroshima Mon Amour in 1960. Her other roles in her 56 year career include Leon Morin, Priest, and Juliette Binoche’s mother in Three Colours: Blue.
At 85, Riva is the oldest actor of either sex to win a British Academy Film Award
Previously the oldest actor to win a British Academy Film Awards was Christopher Plummer, who took the Supporting Actor award last year for his role in Beginners aged 82; the oldest actress to win was previously Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy in 1990.
The oldest ever nominee in a BAFTA acting category is John Gielgud, who was 92 when he was nominated for Supporting Actor for Shine in 1996.
Previous nominations: 1
HELEN MIRREN - Hitchcock
Mirren plays Alma Reville Hitchcock, the wife and collaborator of the famous film director.
Mirren won this award in 2007 for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen; she was also nominated for playing Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George in 1996, as well as for Cal in 1985, and for Supporting Actress for Gosford Park in 2002. She also received three British Academy Television awards and three other nominations for her role as DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect.
Previous nominations: 11 (4 wins)
JENNIFER LAWRENCE - Silver Linings Playbook
Lawrence plays Tiffany Maxwell, a young widow with mental health issues, who embarks on an unconventional romance with a fellow sufferer.
Lawrence also appeared as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games this year; her other roles include Mystique in X-Men: First Class, The Beaver and Winter’s Bone.
Previous nominations: None
JESSICA CHASTAIN - Zero Dark Thirty
Chastain plays Maya, a CIA operative involved in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Chastain was nominated for Supporting Actress last year for her role in The Help. Her other credits include Lawless, Coriolanus and Take Shelter.
Previous nominations: 1
MARION COTILLARD - Rust and Bone
Cotillard plays Stephanie, a killer whale trainer who begins an unconventional romance after losing her legs in an accident.
She won this award in 2007 for her role as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. She also appeared this year in The Dark Knight Rises; her other English-language roles include Contagion, Inception, Midnight in Paris and Public Enemies.
Previous nominations: 1 (1 win)
LEADING ACTOR
Presented by Sarah Jessica Parker
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS - Lincoln
Day-Lewis plays Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA.
This is the sixth time, Day-Lewis has been nominated for this award, and he has won it on three previous occasions, for My Left Foot in 1989, Gangs of New York in 2002, and There Will Be Blood in 2007. His other nominations were for The Last of the Mohicans in 1992 and In the Name of the Father in 1993.
Previous nominations: 5 (3 wins)
BEN AFFLECK - Argo
Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA operative on a mission to rescue six US diplomats from Tehran during the 1979 Iran Hostage crisis.
Affleck is also nominated for Director and Best Film for Argo this year. This is his fourth film as a director, after Gone Baby Gone, Gimme Shelter and The Town. His acting roles include State of Play, The Sum of All Fears, Pearl Harbor and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with Matt Damon.
Previous nominations: None
BRADLEY COOPER - Silver Linings Playbook
Cooper plays Pat Solitano, who embarks on an unconventional romance while trying to get his life back on track after spending eight months in a mental health facility.
Cooper’s other credits include The Hangover films, Limitless and The A-Team, as well as a number of television roles, including a recurring role in Alias.
Previous nominations: None
HUGH JACKMAN - Les Misérables
Jackman plays Jean Valjean, a former convict who becomes mayor of a small town after breaking his parole and changing his identity, and then goes back on the run to fulfil his promise to a dying woman.
Jackman has appeared in a number of stage musicals on Broadway and the West End, including Sunset Boulevard, Oklahoma and The Boy From Oz, for which he won a Tony in 2004. His other film roles include Australia, The Prestige and Wolverine in the X-Men films; this year he also provided the voice of the Easter Bunny in Rise of the Guardians.
Previous nominations: None.
JOAQUIN PHOENIX - The Master
Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran struggling to adjust to post-war life, who becomes involved with the leader of a philosophical movement known as “The Cause”.
Phoenix was nominated in this category for his portrayal of Johnny Cash in Walk the Line in 2006; he was also nominated for Supporting Actor for his role as the Roman Emperor, Commodus, in Gladiator in 2001. A former child actor, his first television role was at the age of 8; his other credits include The Village, Signs, To Die For and Parenthood.
Previous nominations: 2
BEST FILM
Presented by Samuel L Jackson
This award is presented to the producers of the film
ARGO - Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Argo is a thriller loosely based on the true story of a CIA operation to rescue six US diplomats from Tehran during the 1979 Iran Hostage crisis.
Heslov
Affleck is also nominated for Leading Actor and Director for Argo this year. This is his fourth film as a director, after Gone Baby Gone, Gimme Shelter and The Town. His acting roles include State of Play, The Sum of All Fears, Pearl Harbor and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with Matt Damon.
This is Clooney’s first nomination as a Producer, having been BAFTA nominated eight times previously for acting, directing and writing.
Heslov was previously nominated for Best Film and Original Screenplay for Good Night and Good Luck, and for Adapted Screenplay last year for The Ides of March; his other credits as a producer include Leatherheads, The Men Who Stare at Goats and The American, as well as a number of film and television acting credits.
Previous nominations: Heslov (3), Affleck (none), Clooney (8)
LES MISÉRABLES - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Les Misérables is the film adaptation of the long running musical based on Victor Hugo’s epic novel set in early-19th century France.
Bevan and Fellner co-founded Working Title Films in the 1980s. They are both nominated three times this year (for Les Misérables in Best Film and Outstanding British Film, and Anna Karenina in Outstanding British film; this takes their total British Academy Film Award nominations to 17 and 16 respectively, and makes them the second most nominated individuals in the Film Award’s history (after Woody Allen who has 23 nominations). They won two awards at last year’s ceremony (Outstanding British Film for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Documentary for Senna); their other wins for Atonement (Best Film 2008) and Elizabeth (Outstanding British Film 1999).
Hayward joined Working Title in 1989, eventually becoming Head of Film; she has been Executive Producer on a number of the company’s films, but this is her first credit as Producer.
Mackintosh is the producer of a number of successful stage musicals including Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Miss Saigon and Cats; the film adaptation of Les Misérables is his first film credit.
Previous nominations: Bevan – 15 (4 wins), Fellner – 15 (4 wins), Hayward, Mackintosh- None.
Les Misérables is the first musical to be nominated for Best Film since Chicago in 2003; a number of musicals have been nominated in this category, but the only musicals to win Best Film are Cabaret in 1973 and My Fair Lady in 1966.
LIFE OF PI - Ang Lee, Gill Netter, David Womark
Life of Pi is the story of a 16 year old boy who is stranded with a Bengal tiger on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean following a shipwreck.
Lee is also nominated for Director for Life of Pi this year. In 1996 he won Best Film and was nominated for Best Director for Sense and Sensibility. In 2001, he won Director and Film Not in the English Language and was nominated for Best Film for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. He then won Best Director again for Brokeback Mountain in 2006. His other nominations are for Film Not in the English Language, for Eat Drink Man Woman in 1995 and Lust Caution in 2008.
Netter’s previous producing credits include Water For Elephants, The Blind Side, Marley & Me, and Dude Where’s My Car?
This is Womark’s first credit as Producer, having been Executive Producer on G.I.Joe: Rise of the Cobra, Stardust and The Chronicles of Rebuck. His earlier credits are as Associate Producer and Assistant Director, including working in both roles on Ang Lee’s earlier film, Hulk.
Parker (5), Woody Allen (4), Robert Altman (4), and James Ivory (4)._
Previous nominations: Lee- 8 (4 wins), Netter, Womark - None
LINCOLN - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Lincoln depicts the last few months of the life of the 16th President of the United States, as he tries to manage the conflicting demands of bringing an end to the Civil War and seeing through his commitment to end slavery.
Spielberg won Best Film and Best Director for Schindler’s List in 1994; he has also won a British Academy Games Award for his work on Boom Blox. His other nominations were for Jaws (Director, 1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director and Screenplay 1979), ET (Film and Director 1983), Saving Private Ryan (Film and Director 1999), and Tintin (Animated Film, 2012).
Kennedy has been nominated for Best Film on three previous occasions, for ET in 1982, The Sixth Sense in 1999 and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008. She was also nominated for Film Not in the English Language for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly in 2007.
Previous nominations: Spielberg – 11 (3 wins), Kennedy – 4
ZERO DARK THIRTY - Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison
Zero Dark Thirty is a thriller about the decade-long US mission to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. The title is military slang for 30 minutes after midnight.
Bigelow and Boal won Best Film for the Hurt Locker in 2010; Bigelow also won Director and Boal also won Original Screenplay, and both are also nominated in these categories this year.
Bigelow’s other credits include K-19: The Widowmaker, Strange Days and Point Break.
Ellison also produced The Master this year; her other producing credits include Lawless, and she was Executive Producer on Killing Them Softly and True Grit.
Previous nominations: Bigelow – 2 (2 wins), Boal – 2 (2 wins), Ellison – None.
FELLOWSHIP
Presented by Kevin Spacey
SIR ALAN PARKER
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EE British Academy Film Awards: Press Information
05 January 12
Collated press information for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2013.
