[DONE] Film Awards Press Information Pages 2011
10 February 10
Find out more about this year's Orange British Academy Film Awards nominees. Categories are listed in order of presentation in the ceremony.
Winner information will be updated live during the ceremony as categories are announced.
Click on a Category Title for more information on the Nominees.
RESULTS SO FAR:
The King's Speech has won 7 awards (including Best Film, Outstanding Britsh Film and three performance awards)
The Social Network has won 3 awards (including Original Screenplay and Director)
Inception has won 3 awards.
Alice in Wonderland has won 2 awards.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Four Lions, True Grit, Black Swan and Toy Story 3 have won 1 award each.
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Presented by Sir Paul McCartney
In a change to the rules this year, films are only 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.
WINNER THE KING’S SPEECH - Alexandre Desplat
Desplat has been nominated four times in this category for Fantastic Mr Fox, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Queen and Girl With A Pearl Earring.
Previous nominations: 4
127 HOURS - AR Rahman
Rahman won this award in 2008 for Slumdog Millionaire. He is a musician and singer as well as a prolific composer for Indian film; he also composed the musical, Bombay Dreams.
Previous nominations: 1 (1 win)
ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Danny Elfman
Elfman was nominated in this category for his contributions to Chicago in 2002. This is his twelfth collaboration with Tim Burton, and his other credits include Milk, Spiderman, and Men in Black.
Previous nominations: 1
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - John Powell
Powell has been nominated twice before in this category, for Shrek and Happy Feet. His other credits include Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, The Bourne Ultimatum and United 93.
Previous nominations: 2
INCEPTION - Hans Zimmer
Zimmer has been nominated four times in this category for The Dark Knight, Gladiator, The Lion King and Thelma & Louise, as well as for Best Score at the 2009 British Academy Video Games Awards for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Previous nominations: 5
SHORT FILM and SHORT ANIMATION
Presented by Paddy Considine
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 have 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 Chapter members.
SHORT FILM
WINNER UNTIL THE RIVER RUNS RED - Paul Wright (Director), Poss Kondeatis (Producer)
Wright was previously nominated in this category in 2006 for his film Hikikomori, which also won a BAFTA in Scotland award; Kondeatis originally trained as a new media designed before moving into post production and then producing. Both are recent graduates of the National Film and Television School.
Previous nominations: Wright 1, Kondeatis none
CONNECT - Samuel Abrahams (Director), Beau Gordon (Producer)
Abrahams is a graduate in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art; his other credits include the Channel 4 comedy Hung Out, which was developed from his short Documates. Gordon is an assistant to Kevin Spacey, Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theatre and has produced a number of music videos.
Previous nominations: None
LIN - Piers Thompson (Writer/Director), Simon Hessel (Producer)
This is Thompson’s third short film; he has previously worked with directors Peter Kosminsky and Michael Winterbottom. Hessel is a former MD of a software company now involved in film finance.
Previous nominations: None
RITE - Michael Pearce (Director), Ross McKenzie, Paul Welsh (Producers)
Pearce is a graduate of the Directing courses at the Bournemouth Art Institute and National Film and Television School; his graduation films have won several awards, including an Royal Television Society award. Pierce has extensive experience as a production coordination, and has also worked for Pathe Films, The Weinstein Company, Paramount Pictures and the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund. Welsh founded DigiCult, a talent development programme financed by Scottish Screen, UK Film Council and BBC Scotland, which has now grown into an independent production company; he also produced Skeletons, whose director, Nick Whitfield, is nominated for the Outstanding Debut category.
Previous nominations: None
TURNING - Karni Arieli, Saul Freed (Directors), Alison Sterling, Kat Armour-Brown (Producers)
Arieli and Freed are a couple and directing duo originally from Israel (usually known as karni+saul); they also work in animation, and they have also made music videos for artists including Beth Orton, Turing Brakes and Micah P Hinson. Sterling is a RADA trained actress who has produced nine short films and several documentaries and commercials since starting her own company in 2000. Armour-Brown has extensive experience as a producer of commercials and music videos.
Previous nominations: None
SHORT ANIMATION
WINNER THE EAGLEMAN STAG - Michael Please
By coincidence, the three nominees in this category are all recent graduates of the Royal College of Art, and completed the nominated films whilst completing their MA in Animation there. All three live in East London and are good friends.
Previous nominations: None
MATTER FISHER - David Prosser
Previous nominations: None
THURSDAY - Matthias Hoegg
Previous nominations: None
SOUND
Presented by Max Irons & Felicity Jones
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)
WINNER INCEPTION - Richard King (Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor), Lora Hirschberg (Re-recording Mixer), Gary A Rizzo (Re-recording Mixer), Ed Novick (Production Mixer)
All four nominees were previously nominated for their work with director Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight in 2008; King also won this category for Master and Commander in 2003.
Previous nominations: King 2 (1 win), Hirshberg 1, Rizzo 1, Novick 1
127 HOURS - Glenn Freemantle (Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor), Ian Tapp (Re-recording mixer), Richard Pryke (Re-recording mixer), Steven C Laneri (Production Sound Mixer), Douglas Cameron (Production Sound Mixer)
Freemantle, Tapp and Pryke were part of the Sound team who won this category for Slumdog Millionaire 2008; Freemantle was also nominated for Backbeat in 1994
Previous nominations: Freemantle 2 (1 win), Tapp 1 (1 win), Pryke 1 (1 win) Laneri none, Cameron none
BLACK SWAN - Ken Ishii (Production Sound Mixer), Craig Henighan (Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer), Dominick Tavella (Re-Recording Mixer)
Tavella won in this category in 2002 for his work on Chicago, and previously worked with director Darren Aronofsky on The Wrestler; Henighan and Ishii both worked on Aronofsky’s earlier film Requiem for a Dream.
Previous nominations: Ishii none, Henighan none, Tavella 1 (1 win)
THE KING’S SPEECH - John Midgley (Production Mixer), Lee Walpole (Supervising Sound Editor), Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen (Re-recording Mixers)
Hamblin is one of BAFTA’s most nominated craftspeople, having been nominated for 14 Television Sound Awards, winning five (including two for his work on detective series Wallander); he was also nominated in this category at the 2007 Film Awards for Atonement. Midgley has been nominated four times (for the fist two Harry Potter films, The Phantom Menace, and the Dennis Potter series, Lipstick on Your Collar. Walpole has been nominated at the Television Awards for his work on the BBC costume drama, Cranford.
Previous nominations: Midgley 4, Cranford 1, Hamblin 15 (5 wins), Jensen none.
TRUE GRIT - Skip Lievsay (Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer), Craig Berkey (Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer), Greg Orloff (Re-recording Mixer), Peter F Kurland (Production Mixer), Douglas Axtell (Production Mixer)
Lievsay, Berkey, Kurland and Orloff were all nominated in this category for their work on the earlier Coen brothers Film, No Country for Old Men: Orloff has five other nominations including wins for Terminator 2; Lievsay was also nominated for The Silence of the Lambs, and Ray Kurland also won this category for Walk the Line.
Previous nominations: Lievsay 2, Orloff 6 (2 wins), Berkey 1, Kurland 2 (1 win), Axtell none
EDITING
Presented by Max Irons and Felicity Jones
WINNER THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
Wall and Baxter were both nominated in this category for director David Fincher’s previous film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Wall was also nominated at the 2005 British Academy Television Awards for designing the titles for the HBO/BBC series, Rome; his other credits include Zodiac and Panic Room (both also with Fincher).
Previous nominations: Wall 2, Baxter 1
127 HOURS - Jon Harris
Harris’ previous film credits include Kick-Ass, Eden Lake, The Descent, and Snatch.
Previous nominations: None
BLACK SWAN - Andrew Weisblum
Weisblum also edited director Darren Aronofsky’s previous film, The Wrestler; his other credits include Fantastic Mr Fox and The Darjeeling Limited.
Previous nominations: None
INCEPTION - Lee Smith
Smith was nominated in this category for his work on director Christopher Nolan’s previous film The Dark Knight, and also for The Piano in 1993. His other credits include Batman Begins, Master and Commander, and The Truman Show
Previous nominations: 2
THE KING’S SPEECH - Tariq Anwar
Anwar won this category in 1999 for American Beauty, and was nominated for The Madness of King George in 1995. He has also been nominated for 3 British Academy Television Awards for Sound, winning once in 1980. His other credits include Revolutionary Road and The Wings of the Dove.
Previous nominations: 5 (2 wins)
MAKE UP & HAIR
Presented by Hailee Steinfeld
WINNER ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Paul Gooch (Key Hairstylist), Valli O’Reilly (Make Up Designer)
Gooch’s previous credits as a key make up artist include The Wolfman, The Other Boleyn Girl and Sweeney Todd, while O’Reilly’s include Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Perfume and Mars Attacks.
Previous nominations: None
BLACK SWAN - Judy Chin (Make-Up Designer), Geordie Sheffer (Hair Department Head)
Chin won this award in 2002 for Frida, and her other credits include The Wrestler, Sex and the City, Requiem for a Dream and The Royal Tenenbaums. Sheffer’s previous credits include No Country for Old Men, The Road and Arlington Road.
Previous nominations: Chin 1 (1 win), Sheffer none
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 - Amanda Knight (Make Up Designer), Lisa Tomblin (Hair Designer) Nick Dudman (Special Effects Make Up Designer)
Amanda Knight has been Make Up Designer on all of the Harry Potter films, and was nominated in this category for them three times; Tomblin has worked on five Harry Potter films, and her other credits include Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Dudman has done special make up effects and animatronic work on all the Harry Potter films, and has been nominated three times in this category, and once in Special Visual Effects; he also won Special Visual Effects for The Fifth Element in 1997, and was nominated for Make Up for Batman in 1989.
Previous nominations: Knight 3, Tombin 0, Dudman 7 (1 win).
THE KING’S SPEECH - Frances Hannon (Hair and Make Up Designer)
Hannon has won two British Academy Television Awards for Make Up and Hair (for The Singing Detective and The Gathering Storm). Her other film credits include Gulliver’s Travels, The Da Vinci Code and The Life Acquatic With Steve Zissou.
Previous nominations: 2 (2 wins)
MADE IN DAGENHAM - Lizzie Yianni Georgiou (Make Up and Hair Designer)
Yianni Georgiou was nominated in the category last year for An Education, and her other credits include Notting Hill, The Golden Compass and Inkheart.
Previous nominations: 1
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Presented by Mark Kermode
This award is presented to the Producer(s) and Director of the film.
WINNER THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Søren Stærmose (Producer), Niels Arden Oplev (Director)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a thriller about a journalist and a computer hacker trying to solve an unexplained disappearance from thirty years ago. It is the first in a trilogy of films all released last year, and is currently being remade in English by David Fincher.
Previous nomination: None
BIUTIFUL - Alejandro González Iñárritu (Director), Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira (Producers)
Biutiful tells the story of an underworld figure and devoted single father and his attempts to secure a future for his children as his own death draws near. Iñárritu won this category for Amores Perros; he was also nominated for Director and Best Film for Babel in 2006. Jon Kilik was also nominated for Best Film as the producer of Babel, and in this category for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly in 2007. Bovaira’s previous credits include The Sea Inside, Open Your Eyes and Sex and Lucia.
Previous nominations: Iñárritu 3 (1 win), Kilik 2, Bovaira none
I AM LOVE - Luca Guadagnino (Director/Producer), Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Marco Morabito, Massimiliano Violante (Producers)
I Am Love follows a wealthy Italian family thrown into turmoil by the forces of passion. Guadagnino developed the film with star and co-producer Tilda Swinton over an eleven year period.
Previous nominations: None
OF GODS AND MEN - Xavier Beauvois (Director/Writer), Pascal Caucheteux, Etienne Comar (Producers)
Of Gods and Men is based on the true story of a group of Trappist monks in Algeria who were kidnapped by an Islamic extremist group in 1996. Caucheteux has won this award twice before, for A Prophet last year and for The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2005.
Previous nominations: Beauvois none, Caucheteux 2 (2 wins), Comar none
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES - Mariela Besuievsky (Producer), Juan José Campanella (Director/Producer/Writer)
The Secret in their Eyes is a thriller about a retired public prosecutor going back to a long unsolved case. Campanella has directed several other films in his native Argentina, but more recently has worked as a TV director in the US on series including House, 30 Rock and Law & Order.
Previous nominations: None
COSTUME DESIGN
Presented by Dev Patel and Talulah Riley
WINNER ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Colleen Atwood
Atwood has previously been nominated seven times in this category, winning twice for Memoirs of A Geisha and Sleepy Hollow. This is her eighth collaboration with director Tim Burton.
Previous nominations: 7 (2 wins)
BLACK SWAN - Amy Westcott
Westcott’s previous credits include The Wrestler and The Squid and the Whale.
Previous nominations: None
THE KING’S SPEECH - Jenny Beavan
Beaven has been nominated six times in this category at the Film Awards, winning twice for Gosford Park and A Room With A View; she has also been nominated twice at the British Academy Television Craft Awards for her work on BBC series Cranford.
Previous nominations: 6 (2 wins)
MADE IN DAGENHAM - Louise Stjernsward
Stjernsward’s previous credits include Creation, Wimbledon, The Dreamers and Sexy Beast.
Previous nominations: None
TRUE GRIT - Mary Zophres
Zophres was nominated in this category for Catch Me if You Can in 2002. This is her ninth collaboration with the Coen brothers.
Previous nominations: 1
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Presented by Minnie Driver & Sam Claflin
This award is usually presented to the Production Designer and the Set Decorator.
WINNER INCEPTION - Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Designer), Larry Dias, Doug Mowat (Set Decorators)
Hendrix Dyas was also nominated in this category for Elizabeth: The Golden Age in 2007; his other credits include Superman Returns and X-Men 2. Dias’ previous credits include Transformers, The Village and Pirates of the Caribbean; Mowat’s include Fast & Furious and The Sixth Sense.
Previous nominations: Hendrix Dyas 1, Dias none, Mowat none
ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Robert Stromberg (Production Designer), Karen O’Hara (Set Decorator)
Stromberg won this award for Avatar last year, and was also nominated in the Special Visual Effects category for Master and Commander in 2003; he works mainly as a visual effects designer. O’Hara’s previous credits include Spiderman, Cast Away, Philadelphia and Silence of the Lambs.
Previous credits: Stromberg 2 (1 win), O’Hara none
BLACK SWAN - Thérèse DePrez (Production Designer), Tora Peterson (Set Decorator)
DePrez’s previous credits include High Fidelity, Summer of Sam and Arlington Road; Peterson’s include A Prairie Home Companion and The Business of Strangers.
Previous nominations: None
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THE KING’S SPEECH - Eve Stewart (Production Designer), Judy Farr (Set Decorator)
Stewart was previously nominated in this category for Vera Drake in 2004, and at the 2005 Television Awards for her work on the Channel 4 series Elizabeth I; her other credits include Topsy-Turvy and The Damned United. Farr’s include The Brothers Grimm, Bright Young Things and I Capture the Castle
Previous nominations: Stewart 2, Farr 0.
TRUE GRIT - Jess Gonchor (Production Designer), Nancy Haigh (Set Decorator)
This is Gonchor’s fourth collaboration with the Coen brothers, and Haigh’s ninth; Gonchor’s other credits include The Devil Wears Prada and Capote, Haigh’s include Forrest Gump, The Truman Show and Road to Perdition.
Previous nominations: None
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Presented by Jennifer Lawrence & Jesse Eisenberg
This category rewards excellence both in Special Effects (physical effects created during filming, like explosions, models, prosthetics etc.) and Visual Effects (computer generated imagery added in post-production).
WINNER INCEPTION - Chris Corbould (Special Effects Supervisor), Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb (Visual Effects Supervisors)
All four nominees worked on both of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, and Corbould and Franklin were nominated in this category for their work. Corbould has also been nominated for three of the James Bond films, as well as for The Mummy.
Previous nominations: Corbould 6, Franklin 2, Lockley none, Bebb none.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Ken Ralston (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor), Carey Villegas, Sean Phillips (Visual Effects Supervisors) David Schaub (Animation Supervisor)
Most of the characters in the film were created by the seemless blending of real actors and costumes, make-up effects, motion capture computer graphics and keyframe animation, and the world of Wonderland is almost entirely computer generated. Ralston has been nominated for this category five times previously, and won it for Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Return of the Jedi.
Previous nominations: Villegas none, Ralston 5 (4 wins), Schaub none, Phillips none
BLACK SWAN - Dan Schrecker (Visual Effects Supervisor), Henrik Fett (Additional Visual Effects Supervisor), Michael Capton (2D Supervisor), William 'Brad' Kalinoski (3D Supervisor)
Schrecker has worked on all of director Darren Aronofsky’s films; his other credits include Precious, The Darjeeling Limited and The Producers. In Black Swan, a mixture of 2D and 3D digital effects were mixed with prosthetic and make up work to create the transformation sequences.
Previous nominations: None
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 - John Richardson (Special Effects Supervisor), Tim Burke, Nicolas Aithadi, Christian Manz (Visual Effects Supervisors)
All of the nominees have worked on several of the Harry Potter films. Richardson has been Special Effects Supervisor (and-BAFTA nominated) for all of them, and also won this award in 1986 for Aliens. Burke has been nominated three times for his work on Harry Potter, as well as for Gladiator in 2000. Aithadi was nominated last year for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
Previous nominations: Richardson 7 (1 win), Burke 4, Aithadi 1, Manz none.
TOY STORY 3 - David Ryu (Global Technology Lead), Guido Quaroni (Supervising Technical Director), Michael Fong (Simulation and Effects Supervisor)
Toy Story 3 is the first animated film to be nominated in this category since Shrek in 2001; the effects sequence in the film utilised computer simulations designed to mimic real physics. The nominees have all previous worked on a number of other Disney/Pixar films.
Previous nominations: None
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Presented by James McAvoy
WINNER HELENA BONHAM CARTER - The King’s Speech
Bonham Carter plays Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI, and mother of the present Queen. She was nominated for this category for The Wings of the Dove in 1997, and for Supporting Actress for Howards End in 1992, as well as in the Actress category at last year’s Television Awards for her portrayal of Enid Blyton.
Previous nominations: 3
AMY ADAMS - The Fighter
Adams plays Charlene Fleming, who encourages her boyfriend, boxer Micky Ward to distance himself from his family. She was previously nominated in this category in 2008 for Doubt, and her other credits include Junebug, Enchanted, Sunshine Cleaning and Julie & Julia.
Previous nominations: 1
BARBARA HERSHEY - Black Swan
Hershey plays Erica Sayers, the mother of troubled ballerina Nina. She was previously nominated in this category in 1986 for Hannah and her Sisters, and her other credits include The Last Temptation of Christ, Portrait of a Lady and Beaches.
Previous nominations: 1
LESLEY MANVILLE - Another Year
Manville plays Mary, a lonely alcoholic who becomes over-reliant on her happily married colleague. This is her sixth role for director Mike Leigh, having already appeared in Secrets & Lies, Topsy-Turvy, All Or Nothing, High Hopes and the BBC play, Grown-Ups. She is well known for theatre roles, and her other television credits include Cranford, Other People’s Children, Holding On and David Copperfield.
Previous nominations: None
MIRANDA RICHARDSON - Made in Dagenham
Richardson plays Secretary of State, Barbara Castle, who intervened to resolve the Dagenham Ford plant strike in 1968. She won this award in 1992 for Damage; she has two other Film Award nominations (for Tom & Viv and The Crying Game) and three Television Award nominations. Her other film credits include The Young Victoria, The Hours and Sleepy Hollow, and her TV roles include Queen Elizabeth I in Blackadder.
Previous nominations: 6 (1 win)
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Presented by Kevin Spacey
This award is presented in honour of Carl Foreman.
WINNER FOUR LIONS - Chris Morris (Director/Writer)
THE ARBOR - Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP - Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
MONSTERS - Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
SKELETONS - Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer)
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OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Presented by Emma Watson
This award is presented in honour of Alexander Korda. It is presented to the producer, director and writer 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 are decided by non-conflicted members of BAFTA’s Film Committee, who use the results of the members’ first round vote to inform their decisions. The winner is decided by an expanded jury of the non-conflicted members of BAFTA’s Film Committee plus a range of British writers, producers, directors and technicians.
WINNER THE KING’S SPEECH - Tom Hooper (Director) , David Seidler (Writer), Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin (Producers)
The producers are also nominated for Best Film; Hooper and Seidler are nominated for Director and Original Screenplay respectively.
Previous nominations: Hooper 3, Seidler none, Canning none, Sherman none, Unwin none
127 HOURS - Danny Boyle (Director/Writer), Simon Beaufoy (Writer), Christian Colson, John Smithson (Producers)
Boyle, Beaufoy and Colson all worked together on Slumdog Millionaire, which was nominated for this category in 2008, for which Beaufoy also won Adapted Screenplay, Boyle won Director and Colson won Best Film. Smithson won this category in 2003 as Producer of Touching the Void, and has also been nominated at the Television Awards.
Previous nominations: Boyle 5 (2 wins), Smithson 3 (1 win), Beaufoy 3 (1 win), Colson 2 (1 win)
ANOTHER YEAR - Mike Leigh (Director/Writer), Georgina Lowe (Producer)
Leigh has been nominated four times previously in this category, and won in 1996 for Secrets & Lies. Lowe was nominated at the British Academy Television Awards for the BBC costume drama Fingersmith in 2005; this is her first feature film as producer, although she has worked in various roles on all of Leigh’s films since Naked in 1993.
Previous nominations: Leigh 12 (3 wins), Lowe 1
FOUR LIONS - Chris Morris (Director/Writer), Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain (Writers), Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger (Producers)
Morris’s television comedy credits include The Day Today, Brass Eye, Jam and Nathan Barley. He has been BAFTA-nominated three times for his television work and won a BAFTA (with Mark Herbert) in 2002 for the short film My Wrongs 8245-8249 & 117; he also nominated for the Outstanding Debut category this year. Armstrong & Bain write Peep Show, for which they won a Television Award in 2003; Armstrong was also nominated in this category last year for In the Loop. Herbert was nominated for this category for Dead Man’s Shoes in 2004, and won it for This is England in 2007. Schlesinger was nominated at the 2006 Television Awards for producing Channel 4 sit-com, The IT Crowd.
Previous nominations: Morris 3 (1 win), Armstrong 2 (1 win), Bain 1 (1 win), Herbert 3 (2 wins), Schlesinger 1
MADE IN DAGENHAM - Nigel Cole (Director), William Ivory (Writer), Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley (Producers)
Cole’s other credits include Calendar Girls and Saving Grace. Ivory has been nominated in the Drama Series category at the Television Awards three times. Woolley has been nominated three times for Best Film (for The End of the Affair, The Crying Game, and Mona Lisa), and twice in this category (which he won in 1992 for The Crying Game. Karlsen was nominated in the category for Little Voice in 1998.
Previous nominations: Cole none, Ivory 3, Woolley 5 (1 win), Karlsen 1
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Presented by Jessica Alba
WINNER GEOFFREY RUSH - The King’s Speech
Rush plays speech therapist, Lionel Logue, who helped King George VI overcome his stammer. He has been nominated for this category twice before, winning in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love; he has also been nominated twice in the Leading Actor category, winning in 1996 for his role as troubled pianist, David Helfgott, in Shine.
Previous nominations: 4 (2 wins)
CHRISTIAN BALE - The Fighter
Bale plays washed-up boxer and drug addict, Dicky Eklund. He began his career aged 13 in Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun, and his other film credits include Velvet Goldmine, American Psycho, The Machinist, and Batman in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
Previous nominations: None
ANDREW GARFIELD - The Social Network
Garfield plays Eduardo Savarin, who sued Mark Zuckerberg in order to be recognised as the co-founder of Facebook. Garfield is also nominated for the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award this year, and has previously won a Television Award for his role in Boy A. His other credits include Never Let Me Go, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus and the title role in the forthcoming reboot of the Spiderman franchise.
Previous nominations: 1 (1 win)
PETE POSTLETHWAITE - The Town
Postlethwaite plays Fergie the Florist, a crime boss in Charlestown, an area of Boston, Massachussetts. He has been nominated for three British Academy Television Awards, and his other film credits include Romeo + Juliet, The Usual Suspects, Brassed Off, The Constant Gardener and In the Name of the Father. He passed away on 2 January 2011.
Previous nominations: 3
MARK RUFFALO - The Kids Are All Right
Ruffalo plays Paul, a laid-back restaurant owner who is unexpectedly contacted by two teenagers who were conceived using his donated sperm. His other film credits include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Zodiac and Shutter Island.
Previous nominations: None
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Presented by Rosamund Pike & Dominic Cooper
WINNER THE KING’S SPEECH - David Seidler
Seidler’s previous credits include the 1999 animated version of The King and I; he was attracted to the subject matter as he had a profound stutter himself as a child. He is also nominated for Outstanding British Film this year.
Previous nominations: None
BLACK SWAN - Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin
This is Heyman’s first produced feature screenplay; he was co-producer on director Darren Aronofsky’s previous film, The Wrestler, and his assistant on The Fountain. Heinz’s previous credits include directing the 1998 film Origin of the Species; McLaughlin’s include writing the 2005 action comedy, Man of the House.
Previous nominations: None
THE FIGHTER - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
The Fighter is based on the true story of boxers Micky Ward and Dick Eklund. Silver’s previous credits include 8 Mile. Tamasy’s previous credits include the Disney film Air Bud. This is Johnson’s first produced feature screenplay.
Previous nominations: None
INCEPTION - Christopher Nolan
Nolan pitched the first treatment of Inception to Warner Bros in 2001, and originally envisioned it as a horror film. He also directed and produced Inception, and is nominated this year for Director and Best Film.
Previous nominations: None
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT - Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
Cholodenko also directed The Kids Are All Right; she began outlining the script, which is based on aspects of her life, with Blumberg in 2004. Her previous credits include directing episodes of Homicide, Six Feet Under and The L Word. Blumberg’s previous writing credits include The Girl Next Door and Keeping the Faith.
Previous nominations: None
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Presented by Stephen Fry
This award is presented in honour of Michael Balcon. The award is in the gift of the Academy
THE HARRY POTTER FILM SERIES
Collected by J K Rowling (Author of the Harry Potter books) and David Heyman (Producer)
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ANIMATED FILM
Presented by Neve Campbell & Nicholas Hoult
This award is presented to the key creative talent behind the film, usually the Director(s).
WINNER TOY STORY 3 - Lee Unkrich
Toy Story 3 was also nominated for Children’s Feature Film at last year’s British Academy Film Awards; as was Finding Nemo (also co-directed by Unkrich) in 2004. Unkrich was also co-director on Toy Story 2 and Monsters Inc.
Previous nominations: 2
DESPICABLE ME - Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Renaud has previously worked as an amimator on the Ice Age series; Coffin is a French animator, whose previous credits include the French children’s series, Pat & Stan. The directors also provided the voices of the many minions in the film.
Previous nominations: None
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Sanders and De Blois previously directed and wrote Lilo and Stitch. Sanders previously worked as an animator on Disney films including Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and Mulan. De Blois co-wrote Mulan, and also made Heima, a documentary about Icelandic band Sigur Ros.
Previous nominations: None
THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD (this award is voted for by the public)
Presented by Tom Ford & Eva Green.
WINNER TOM HARDY
GEMMA ARTERTON
ANDREW GARFIELD
AARON JOHNSON
EMMA STONE
For more information about this award and this year’s nominees, see here.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Presented by Julianne Moore
WINNER THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Aaron Sorkin
Based on the non-fiction book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. Sorkin’s film credits include A Few Good Men (based on his own play) and he is the creator of US TV series The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Previous nominations: None
127 HOURS - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
127 Hours is based on the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston’s autobiographical account of his remarkable survival after his arm was trapped in a remote canyon. Beaufoy won this category for Slumdog Millionaire in 2008 and was also nominated for Original Screenplay for The Full Monty in 1997. Boyle is also nominated for the Director category, and both are nominated for Outstanding British Film.
Previous nominations: Boyle 5 (2 wins), Beaufoy 3 (1 win)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
Based on the novel by Stieg Larsson, published posthumously in 2004. This is the first in the Millenium trilogy. Heisterberg and Arcel are a Danish writing team; Arcel is also a director.
Previous nominations: None
TOY STORY 3 - Michael Arndt
This is the third in the hugely successful trilogy about toys who come to life when no-one’s around NB Sequels are only eligible for Adapted Screenplay.
Arndt has previously won Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine in 2006, and was also nominated for Children’s Feature Film for Toy Story 3 at last year’s British Academy Children’s Awards.
This is only the third time a fully animated film has been nominated for its screenplay, following Shrek (Adapted 2001) and Finding Nemo (Original 2003). The partially animated Who Framed Roger Rabbit? won Adapted Screenplay in 1988.
Previous nominations: 2 (1 win)
TRUE GRIT - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Based on the novel by Charles Portis, and aims to be a more faithful adaptation than the 1969 adaptation starring John Wayne. The Coens also produced and directed the film and are also nominated for Best Film; this is their sixth screenplay nomination.
Previous nominations: Joel Coen 9 (2 wins), Ethan Coen 8 (1 win).
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Presented by Thandie Newton & Mark Ruffalo
WINNER TRUE GRIT - Roger Deakins
Deakins has been nominated in this category five times previously, and won twice, in 2007 for No Country for Old Men, and in 2001 for The Man Who Wasn’t There. He has been cinematographer on 11 of the Coen Brothers’ 15 films; his other credits include The Reader, A Beautiful Mind, and The Shawshank Redemption.
Previous nominations: 5 (2 wins)
127 HOURS - Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
Dod Mantle won this award in 2008 for Slumdog Millionaire, and also won the Television Award for editing in the same year for the BBC detective series, Wallander; his other credits include The Last King of Scotland, Dogville, and 28 Days Later. Chediak’s previous credits include 28 Weeks Later and The Good Girl.
Previous nominations: Dod Mantle 2 (2 wins), Chediak none
BLACK SWAN - Matthew Libatique
Black Swan is Libatique’s fourth collaboration with director Darren Aronofsky, following Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain. His other credits include Iron Man, Phone Booth and Everything is Illuminated.
Previous nominations: None
INCEPTION - Wally Pfister
Pfister has been cinematographer on all of Christopher Nolan’s films since Memento in 2000, and was nominated in 2008 for his work on The Dark Knight.
Previous nominations: 1
THE KING’S SPEECH - Danny Cohen
Cohen has been nominated twice in the Photography category at the British Academy Television Awards for his work on the C4 film Longford and Stephen Poliakof’s Joe’s Palace. His other film credits include The Boat That Rocked, This Is England and Dead Man’s Shoes.
Previous nominations: 2
DIRECTOR
Presented by Tilda Swinton
This award is presented in honour of David Lean.
WINNER THE SOCIAL NETWORK - David Fincher
Fincher was nominated in this category in 2008 for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. His other credits include Zodiac, Panic Room, Fight Club and Seven.
Previous nominations: 1
127 HOURS - Danny Boyle
Boyle won this category in 2008 for Slumdog Millionaire, and also won Outstanding British Film for Shallow Grave in 1994. His other credits include Trainspotting, The Beach and 28 Days Later. He is also nominated this year for Outstanding British Film and Adapted Screenplay.
Previous nominations: 5 (2 wins)
BLACK SWAN - Darren Aronofsky
Aronofsky’s previous credits include The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream and Pi.
Previous nominations: None
INCEPTION - Christopher Nolan
Nolan’s previous credits include The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, and Memento.
Nolan is also nominated for Best Film and Original Screenplay this year.
Previous nominations: None
THE KING’S SPEECH - Tom Hooper
Hooper has been nominated for three British Academy Television Awards, for Prime Suspect in 2003 and twice for Longford in 2006 (Single Drama and Director). He has previously directed two features (Red Dust and The Damned United), and his other television credits include Love in a Cold Climate, Daniel Deronda, Elizabeth I and John Adams.
Previous nominations: 3
LEADING ACTRESS
Presented by Gerard Butler
WINNER NATALIE PORTMAN - Black Swan
Portman plays Nina Sayers, a ballerina who discovers a dark side of herself while preparing to play the lead in Swan Lake. She was previously nominated for Supporting Actress for her role in Closer, and her other credits include The Other Boleyn Girl, Leon and Queen Amidala in the Star Wars prequels.
Previous nominations: 1
ANNETTE BENING - The Kids Are All Right
Bening plays Nic, a lesbian doctor whose teenage children decide to track down the sperm donor who is their biological father. She won this award in 1999 for American Beauty, and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Grifters in 1991.
Previous nominations: 2 (1 win)
JULIANNE MOORE - The Kids Are All Right
Moore plays Jules, a lesbian landscape gardener whose teenage children decide to track down the sperm donor who is their biological father. She was nominated for this award for The End of the Affair in 1999, and for Supporting Actress for the Hours in 2002; her other credits include A Single Man, Far From Heaven, Magnolia and The Big Lebowski.
Previous nominations: 2
NOOMI RAPACE - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Rapace plays the troubled computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels, which all came out this year. Her previous credits include the Danish film, Daisy Diamond, and various Swedish TV roles. She is currently filming a role in Sherlock Holmes 2, directed by Guy Ritchie.
Previous nominations: None
HAILEE STEINFELD - True Grit
14 year old Steinfeld plays courageous teenager, Mattie Ross, who sets off on a dangerous mission to track down the outlaws who killed her father. She has been acting since the age of 8, but this is her first major film role; she was cast following open auditions in Texas from a pool of 15,000 applicants.
At 14 years and two months, Steinfeld is the youngest actor to be nominated for a BAFTA for a leading role (this was previously Jamie Bell who was nearly 15 when he was won for Billy Elliot in 2001). She is not the youngest ever nominee; this was Drew Barrymore (nominated for Best Newcomer for ET, aged 7). The youngest person ever to win a BAFTA was Salvatore Cascio (won Supporting Actor for Cinema Paradiso, aged 11).
Kim Darby was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles at the 1969/70 ceremony for her performance as Mattie in the earlier adaptation of True Grit.
Previous nominations: None
LEADING ACTOR
Presented by Amy Adams
WINNER COLIN FIRTH - The King’s Speech
Firth plays King George VI as he struggles to overcome his stammer. He won this award last year for his performance in A Single Man; he was previously nominated for Supporting Actor for Bridget Jones Diary and twice in the Acting category at the Television Awards (for Tumbledown and for playing Mr Darcy in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice).
Firth is the first actor to win a Film Award for a leading performance in consecutive years since Jane Fonda in 1979, and the first man to do so since Rod Steiger in 1968.
Previous nominations: 4 (1 win)
JAVIER BARDEM - Biutiful
Bardem plays Uxbal, an underworld figure and devoted single father who attempts to reconcile with a past love and secure a future for his children as his own death draws near. He won the Supporting Actor award in 2007 for his role as a psychopathic killer in No Country for Old Men. His other credits include Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Sea Inside and Live Flesh.
If Bardem wins, he will be the first male actor to win a Film Award for a leading non-English speaking role since Roberto Benigni in 1999. Marion Cotillard was the last actress to do this (for La Vie en Rose in 2007); the last male actor to be nominated for a leading non-English speaking role was Gael Garcia Bernal in 2004 for The Motorcycle Diaries.
Previous nominations: 1 (1 win)
JEFF BRIDGES - True Grit
Bridges plays the curmudgeonly US Deputy Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. He was nominated in this category last year for his performance in Crazy Heart. His other credits include The Big Lebowski, The Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker Boys and The Last Picture Show.
Previous nominations: 1
JESSE EISENBERG - Social Network
Eisenberg plays idiosyncratic Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. He was nominated for the audience award, the Orange Rising Star Award at last year’s ceremony, and his other credits include Zombieland, Adventureland and The Squid And The Whale.
Previous nominations: None
JAMES FRANCO - 127 Hours
Franco plays Aron Ralston in this true story of his remarkable escape after a fallen boulder traps his arm while hiking in an isolating canyon in Utah. His other credits include Milk, Pineapple Express and the Spiderman franchise.
Previous nominations: None
BEST FILM
Presented by Samuel L Jackson
This award is presented to the producers of the film
WINNER THE KING’S SPEECH - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Canning was the Executive Producer on Hunger and Control; Sherman produced the film adaptation of J M Coetzee’s Damage, and Unwin produced the British film Exam (whose director Stuart Hazeldine was nominated for Outstanding Debut last year). The King’s Speech is also nominated for Outstanding British Film.
Previous nominations: None
BLACK SWAN - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Director Darren Aronofsky has said that he views Black Swan as a companion piece to his previous film The Wrestler, as both concern people emotionally and physically damaged by the demands of the extremes of performance. Franklin also produced The Wrestler; Medavoy’s previous credits include Shutter Island, Zodiac and Miss Potter.
Previous nominations: None
INCEPTION - Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
Nolan first pitched the idea for Inception in 2001, but didn’t feel ready for making a film on such a large scale; after making his two Batman films, he returned to the idea. Thomas has worked as producer on all of Nolan’s films; they married in 1997.
Previous nominations: None
THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
Rudin is also nominated for True Grit; he has been previously nominated for Best Film three times for No Country For Old Men, The Hours and The Truman Show. Chaffin was previously nominated for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. De Luca’s previous credits include The Love Guru and Brothers, as well as producing 21 with Brunetti.
Previous nominations: Rudin 7, Brunetti none, De Luca none, Chaffin 1
TRUE GRIT - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
True Grit is now the Coen Brothers’ highest grossing film so far. Rudin is also nominated for The Social Network; he has been previously nominated for Best Film three times for No Country For Old Men, The Hours and The Truman Show. The Coen Brothers are also nominated for screenplay this year; this is their third best film nomination (after No Country For Old Men and Fargo).
Previous nominations: Rudin 7, Joel Coen 9 (2 wins), Ethan Coen 8 (1 win)
FELLOWSHIP
Presented by Tim Burton
SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE
For more information about Sir Christopher, and the BAFTA Fellowship, see here (65 KB).
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