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Results summary:
The Artist has won seven BAFTAs including Best Film, Leading Actor for Jean Dujardin and Director and Original Screenplay for Michel Hazanavicius
Meryl Streep wins Leading Actress.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Hugo, The Iron Lady and Senna win two BAFTAs each
2012 Nominee information
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SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Presented by Cuba Gooding Jnr
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).
WINNER HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 - Tim Burke (Visual Effects Supervisor), John Richardson (Special Effects Supervisor), Greg Butler, David Vickery (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 four times for his work on Harry Potter, as well as for Gladiator in 2000. Vickery’s other credits include Cloverfield, Sherlock Holmes and The Bourne Ultimatum; Butler’s previous work includes GI Joe, King Kong and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Previous nominations: Richardson 8 (1 win), Burke 5, Butler & Vickery: None.
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN - Joe Letteri (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor), Keith F. Miller, Wayne Stables (Visual Effects Supervisors), Jamie Beard (Animation Supervisor)
Letteri has won this award on four previous occasions, for Avatar, King Kong, and the last two Lord of the Rings films, and is also nominated for his work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes this year; he is currently the Director of Weta Digital, the New Zealand based digital effects company founded by Peter Jackson. Miller, Stable and Beard all work for Weta and have contributed effects to a number of their previous projects, including those for which Letteri has been previously nominated.
Several animated films have been nominated in this category over the years, including Shrek in 2001 and Toy Story 2 last year
Previous nominations: Letteri: 4 (4 wins), others: None.
HUGO - Rob Legato, Ben Grossmann (Visual Effects Supervisors), Alex Henning (Digital Effects Supervisor), Joss Williams (Special Effects Supervisor)
Legato was previously nominated in this category for The Aviator, and his earlier credits include Shutter Island, Avatar, Titanic, Apollo 14 and the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Williams has been nominated twice before for The Bourne Ultimatum and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and his other credits include Sweeney Todd, Munich, Troy and Sleepy Hollow. Grossmann and Henning are experienced visual effects artists and both worked on Shutter Island and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
Previous nominations: Legato: 1, Williams: 2, Grossmann: None
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES - Joe Letteri (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor), Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White (Visual Effects Supervisors), Daniel Barrett (Animation Supervisor)
Letteri has won this award on four previous occasions, for Avatar, King Kong, and the last two Lord of the Rings films, and is also nominated for his work on The Adventures of Tintin this year; he is currently the Director of Weta Digital, the New Zealand based digital effects company founded by Peter Jackson. Lemmon, White and Barrett all work for Weta and have contributed effects to a number of their previous projects, including those for which Letteri has been previously nominated.
Previous nominations: Letteri: 4 (4 wins), others none.
WAR HORSE - Ben Morris (Visual Effects Supervisor), Neil Corbould (Special Effects Supervisor)
Morris won this award for The Golden Compass in 2007; his other credits include Prince of Persia and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Neil Corbould has been nominated in this category six times, winning on three occasions for The Day After Tomorrow, Saving Private Ryan and The Fifth Element.
Previous nominations: Morris: 1 (1 win), Corbould: 6 (3 wins)
SHORT FILM and SHORT ANIMATION
Presented by Joseph Mawle & Holliday Grainger
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 FILM
WINNER PITCH BLACK HEIST - John Maclean (Director, Writer), Gerardine O’Flynn (Producer)
John Maclean was a founder member of British group The Beta Band, and after their split in 2004 joined The Aliens until 2010, when he turned to film - making; this is his second short film.
O’Flynn is Production Manager at Film 4, working on all shorts and low budget features: this is her second short as producer; she also line produced the BAFTA nominated short Cubs in 2006. Her feature credits as Production Manager include This Is England and Venus.
Pitch Black Heist stars Leading Actor nominee Michael Fassbender.
Previous nominations: None.
CHALK - Martina Amati (Director), Gavin Emerson, James Bolton (Producers), Ilaria Bernardini (Writer)
Amati has previously directed the short films A’Mare and I Do Air, which won this award last year. Emerson attended the Royal College of Art Film Course before teaming up with Lynne Ramsay on her her shorts 'Kill The Day' & 'Gasman' followed by Lynne's first feature, 'Ratcatcher'. Bolton started out in the production offices of films such as To Kill a King and Love Actually before going on to work as the Producer’s Assistant on Paramount’s remake of Alfie. Since then he has produced various commercials and music videos as well as I Do Air. Bernardini contributes to Rolling Stone magazine and writes for the MTV programme ‘Very Victoria’. She has also published several novels, the most recent of which is based on Chalk.
Previous nominations: Amati and Bolton: 1, Emerson and Bernardini: None.
MWANSA THE GREAT - Rungano Nyoni (Director, Writer, Producer), Gabriel Gauchet (Writer, Producer)
Nyoni is a graduate of the Drama Centre London, and her first short film won a BAFTA in Wales award in 2010. Since then she has taken part in the Emerging Directors scheme with BBC Wales, and her film 20 Questions won several awards. Gauchet is currently studying Directing at the National Film and Television School, and has made a number of short films, including Efecto Domino, which has won several festival awards.
Previous nominations: None
ONLY SOUND REMAINS - Arash Ashtiani (Director, Writer), Anshu Poddar (Producer)
Ashtiani made his first short film in his native Iran before moving to the UK to study at the London Film School; this is his graduation film. He has since made two documentaries. Poddar came to the UK from India initially to work as costume designer, but then went to the London Film School, while also working at a post - production house and as a projectionist. She has since relocated back to India, where she has worked on several music videos and is developing feature ideas.
Previous nominations: None
TWO AND TWO - Babak Anvari (Director, Writer, Producer), Kit Fraser (Producer, Director of Photography), Gavin Cullen (Writer)
Anvari and Fraser are graduates of the Westminster Film School: Anvari has made several short films, and currently works for MTV UK & Ireland; Fraser has shot a number of music videos, short films and commercials, as well as the second series of the Channel 4 programme Dubplate Drama. Cullen is also a producer and multi-camera director for MTV, and a composer and musician who records as The Last Post.
Previous nominations: None.
SHORT ANIMATION
WINNER A MORNING STROLL - Grant Orchard (Director), Sue Goffe (Producer)
Orchard joined Studio AKA in 1997 and his currently Senior Animation Director there; he has made television commercials for clients including Compaq, Barclays and Orange, and has won 2 D&AD awards for his commercial work. Goffe is the Managing Director and Head of Production at Studio AKA. In this role she has produced two films which have been nominated in this category including JoJo in the Stars, which won in 2004; she has also won a British Academy Children’s Award for the short film Lost and Found.
Previous nominations: Orchard: None, Goffe: 3 (2 wins)
ABUELAS - Afarin Eghbal (Director, Animator, Writer), Kasia Malipan (Producer), Francesca Gardiner (Writer)
All three nominees are graduates of the National Film and Television School. Abuelas is Eghbal's graduation film for her MA in Animation Direction; she has previously won Kodak Awards for her commercial work. Gardiner graduated with a Masters in Screenwriting, and is currently working as a Writing Apprentice on a new show for the BBC/Kudos. Malipan recently completed a diploma in Production Management, and since then has completed internships at Ruby Films and Academy Films.
Previous nominations: None
BOBBY YEAH - Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan studied Animation at The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, before making a series of highly-acclaimed short films (both live action and animated) which have won over 30 international awards. In addition to his filmmaking, he teaches film & animation practice at The University of Westminster.
Previous nominations: None
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Presented by Jamie Campbell Bower
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.
WINNER THE ARTIST - Ludovic Bource
Bource is a French composer, whose previous credits include Here to Stay and two other of Michel Hazanavicius’ films.
Previous nominations: None
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Reznor is an American singer/songwriter, best known as the founder member of the rock group Nine Inch Nails; he has also produced albums for other artists including Marilyn Manson and Saul Williams. Ross is a British composer and music producer, who has collaborated with Reznor on a number of projects, including producing four Nine Inch Nails albums; his other composing credits include The Book of Eli, New York I Love You and the television series, Touching Evil. Ross and Reznor previously collaborated on the score to David Fincher’s previous film, The Social Network.
Previous nominations: None
HUGO - Howard Shore
This is Shore’s sixth nomination in this category, following nominations for Silence of the Lambs, The Aviator, Gangs of New York and two of the Lord of the Rings films. He is a consistent collaborator with David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and has composed an opera based on The Fly; his other film credits include The Departed, Seven, Mrs Doubtfire and Big.
Previous nominations: 5
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Alberto Iglesias
Iglesias is a Spanish composer, who has been nominated for this award twice before (for The Kite Runner and The Constant Gardener). His other film credits include Che, Sex and Lucia, and a number of collaborations with Pedro Almodovar, including The Skin I Live In, Broken Embraces, Volver, Bad Education, Talk to Her and All About My Mother.
Previous nominations: 2
WAR HORSE - John Williams
Williams is one of only eleven people to receive 12 or more nominations at the Film Awards, and has won this category 7 times (for Memoirs of A Geisha, Schindler’s List, Empire of the Sun, ET, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Jaws/The Towering Inferno*), making him the second most successful individual in the history of the Film Awards (only Woody Allen has won more than him). He celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this week.
*Note: this joint award for Jaws/The Towering Inferno was given at a time when individuals could be nominated for their work over the year rather than their work in a particular film
Previous nominations: 12 (7 wins)
SOUND
Presented by Jessica Brown Findlay and Tom Hiddleston
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 HUGO - Philip Stockton (Supervising Sound Editor), Eugene Gearty (Sound Designer), Tom Fleischman, John Midgley (Sound Re-Recording Mixers)
Stockton and Fleischman were both nominated for their work on the Scorsese films The Aviator and Gangs of New York. Gearty was also nominated for Gangs of New York, as well as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. John Midgeley has four previous Film Award nominations (for The Phantom Menace, The King’s Speech and the first two Harry Potter films) as well as a Television Award nomination for Lipstick on Your Collar in 1993.
Previous nominations: Stockton (2), Gearty (2), Fleischman (2), Midgley (5)
THE ARTIST - Nadine Muse (Sound Editor), Gérard Lamps (Sound Mixer), Michael Krikorian (Production Sound Mixer)
Muse and Lamps have both been working on French films since the mid - seventies; her previous credits include Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train, Intimacy and The Piano Teacher, and his include I’ve Loved You So Long, Tell No One, and March of the Penguins. Krikorian’s previous credits include Where the Wild Things Are and a number of US television programmes, including Grey’s Anatomy.
Previous nominations: None
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - James Mather (Supervising Sound Editor), Stuart Wilson (Production Sound Mixer), Stuart Hilliker, Mike Dowson, Adam Scrivener (Re-recording Mixers)
Mather and Wilson have worked on the last four Harry Potter films; Hilliker and Dowson on the last three, and Scrivener on both parts of The Deathly Hallows. All five have a number of film and television credits; Wilson was nominated in this category in 2005 for The Constant Gardener and is also nominated this year for War Horse; Hilliker has two British Academy Television Award nominations, including a win for State of Play in 2003.
Previous nominations: Mather (None), Wilson (1), Hilliker (2, 1 win), Dowson (None), Scrivener (None).
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley (Supervising Sound Editors), John Casali (Production Sound Mixer), Howard Bargroff, Doug Cooper (Re-recording mixers)
The previous credits for this team include: Griffith - Senna, Patagonia, and a number of television dramas including the BBC’s Bleak House. Shelley - Senna, The Debt, The Special Relationship. Casali - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, One Day. Bargroff – Easy Virtue, Alien Vs Predator, Topsy Turvy and television including Sherlock and Luther. Cooper - Arthur Christmas, Paul, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Kick - Ass.
Previous nominations: None
WAR HORSE - Richard Hymns (Supervising Sound Editor), Stuart Wilson (Production Sound Mixer), Gary Rydstrom (Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer), Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson (Re-recording Mixers)
The sound team on War Horse have 27 previous nominations between them. Nelson is one of only eleven people to receive 12 or more BAFTA Film Award nominations, and has won four times (for Moulin Rouge, Saving Private Ryan, LA Confidential and Braveheart); he also has two Television Award nominations. Hymns has been nominated three times (for Jurassic Park, Wild at Heart and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). Wilson was nominated in 2005 for The Constant Gardener, and is also nominated this year for Harry Potter. Rydstrom and Johnson both won BAFTAs for Terminator 2; Rydstrom also won for Saving Private Ryan.
Previous nominations: Hymns 3, Wilson 1, Rydstrom 5 (1 win), Nelson 14 (4 wins), Johnson 4 (1 win)
EDITING
Presented by Jessica Brown Findlay and Tom Hiddleston
WINNER SENNA - Gregers Sall, Chris King
Both editors of Senna are well experienced in documentaries. King has been nominated three times for the British Academy Television Awards, winning the Factual Series category in 2007 for Meet the Natives; his other credits include Exit Through the Gift Shop and Young@Heart. Sall’s other credits include McLibel and a film about Meredith Kercher for Channel 4’s Cutting Edge strand.
Previous nominations: King: 3, Sall: None.
THE ARTIST - Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
This is Bion’s first credit as Editor, having been Assistant Editor on various French films including Mesrine, I Want to See and Regarde-Moi. Hazanavicius also wrote and directed The Artist and is nominated for both; please see the Directing category section for more information about him.
Previous nominations: None
DRIVE - Mat Newman
Newman also edited Nicolas Winding Refn’s previous films, Bronson and Valhall Rising. His television credits include Marple, Housewife 49 and Doctor Who.
Previous nominations: None
HUGO - Thelma Schoonmaker
Schoonmaker has edited all of Martin Scorsese’s films since Raging Bull, for which she won her first BAFTA in 1981; she won again in 1990 for Goodfellas, and was also nominated for The King Of Comedy, Cape Fear, Gangs of New York, The Aviator and the Departed. She was married to the British film director Michael Powell from 1984 until his death in 1990.
Previous nominations: 7 (2 wins).
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Dino Jonsäter
Jonsater also edited Tomas Alfredson’s previous film, Let the Right One In, as well as other Swedish films and television, including the original Swedish Wallander.
Previous nominations: None.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Presented by Tom Hooper
WINNER THE ARTIST - Guillaume Schiffman
Schiffman’s previous credits include Michel Hazanavicius’ OSS 117 spy parodies, Gainsbourg, Regarde-Moi, and Catherine Breillat’s Anatomy of Hell.
Previous nominations: None
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Jeff Cronenweth
Cronenweth was director of photography on David Fincher’s previous films Fight Club and The Social Network; his other credits include One Hour Photo, K - 19: The Widowmaker and Down With Love.
Previous nominations: None
HUGO - Robert Richardson
Richardson has collaborated with Martin Scorsese on a number of occasions, including Casino, Shutter Island and The Aviator, for which he was BAFTA-nominated; he has also frequently worked with Oliver Stone, including on Nixon, Natural Born Killers, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and Platoon, for which he won this category in 1987. He was nominated for Inglourious Basterds, and his other credits include Kill Bill, The Good Shepherd and The Horse Whisperer.
Previous nominations: 3 (1 win)
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Hoyte van Hoytema
Van Hoytema was also director of photography on Tomas Alfredson’s previous film, Let The Right One In. His other credits include The Fighter and a number of Swedish films.
Previous nominations: None
WAR HORSE - Janusz Kaminski
Kaminski has been director of photography of all of Spielberg’s films since Schindler’s List, for which he won this category in 1993; he was also nominated in 1998 for Saving Private Ryan. 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: 2 (1 win)
COSTUME DESIGN
Presented by Hayley Atwell and Chris Hemsworth
WINNER THE ARTIST - Mark Bridges
Bridges’ previous credits include Boogie Nights, Magnolia, 8 Mile, There Will Be Blood and The Fighter.
Previous nominations: None
HUGO - Sandy Powell
Powell is the most nominated costume designer in the Film Awards’ history: she was first nominated in 1993 for Orlando, and this is her eleventh nomination in this category; she has won the award twice for Velvet Goldmine in 1998 and for The Young Victoria in 2009. This is her fifth collaboration with Scorsese, having also worked on Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed and Shutter Island.
Previous nominations: 11 (2 wins)
JANE EYRE - Michael O’Connor
This is O’Connor’s second BAFTA nomination, having won this award in 2008 for The Duchess. His other credits include The Last King of Scotland, Brick Lane and The Eagle.
Previous nominations: 1 (1 win)
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN - Jill Taylor
Taylor was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for the BBC’s adaptation of The Mill on the Floss in 1997. Her other film work includes Priest, Sliding Doors, Johnny English, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Match Point.
Previous nominations: 1
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Jacqueline Durran
Durran won this award for Vera Drake in 2004, and has been nominated twice since then for Pride & Prejudice and Atonement. Her other credits include Young Adam, Happy Go Lucky and Another Year.
Previous nominations: 3 (1 win)
MAKE UP & HAIR
Presented by Hayley Atwell and Chris Hemsworth
WINNER THE IRON LADY - Marese Langan (Make Up & Hair Designer), J Roy Helland (Meryl Streep’s Make Up & Hair), Mark Coulier (Prosthetic Make Up Designer)
Langan’s previous credits include The Promise, Fish Tank, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and A Mighty Heart. Helland has been Streep’s stylist and collaborator for over 20 years, acting as her personal hair and make up artist on nearly all of her films since Sophie’s Choice; Coulier is a prosthetics specialist who has worked on the Harry Potter series, X - Men First Class, and on television, Little Britain, Come Fly With Me and Merlin.
Previous nominations: None
THE ARTIST - Julie Hewett (Make Up Designer), Cydney Cornell (Hair Designer/Head Hairstylist)
Hewett’s other credits include The Descendants, The Ides of March, the Ocean’s Eleven trilogy, and Pearl Harbor. Cornell’s previous film work includes The Kids Are Alright and A Single Man.
Previous nominations: None
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 - Amanda Knight (Make Up Designer), Lisa Tomblin (Hair Designer), Nick Dudman (Special Make Up Effects)
All three nominees were also nominated on their work for The Deathly Hallows Part 1. Knight has been Make Up Designer on all of the Harry Potter films, and was nominated in this category for them on three other occasions; 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 four times previously 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 4, Tombin 1, Dudman 8 (1 win).
HUGO - Morag Ross (Make Up Designer), Jan Archibald (Hair Designer)
Ross has won this category twice, for Orlando and The Aviator, and was also nominated for Sense and Sensibility. Archibald has won twice for La Vie en Rose and The Wings of the Dove, and was also nominated for Sense and Sensibility, as well as Interview with the Vampire, Gosford Park and The Duchess.
Previous nominations: Ross: 3 (2 wins), Archibald: 6 (2 wins)
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN - Jenny Shircore (Make Up and Hair Designer)
Shircore has won this award twice, for The Young Victoria and Elizabeth, and has been nominated on a further three occasions (for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Girl With A Pearl Earring and Dreamchild).
Previous nominations: 5 (2 wins)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Presented by Anil Kapoor
This award is presented to the Producer(s) and Director of the film.
WINNER THE SKIN I LIVE IN - Pedro Almodóvar (Director), Agustin Almodóvar (Producer)
The Skin I Live In is a film about a plastic surgeon, which the director describes as “horror story without screams or frights”. It is the first collaboration in 21 years between Almodóvar and his former regular cast member, Antonio Banderas.
Pedro Almodóvar also writes his films, and his brother Agustin has produced all of his films. They have been nominated in this category seven times previously* and have won it twice, for All About My Mother (for which Pedro also won the Directing category and was nominated for Original Screenplay) and Talk to Her (for which Pedro also won Original Screenplay)
*The first nomination was for Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown in 1989; at that time, the rules of the category did not allow the producer to be nominated, so Agustin was not a named nominee and this is therefore not included in his previous nominations
Previous nominations: Pedro Almodóvar: 11 (4 wins), Agustin Almodóvar: 6 (2 wins)
INCENDIES - Denis Villeneuve (Director), Luc Déry, Kim McCraw (Producers)
Incendies is a Canadian film in French and Arabic, about a twin brother and sister who travel to the Middle East to fulfill the last requests of their mother.
Villeneuve also wrote the film, and his previous credits include Polytechnique and Maelstrom. Dery and McCraw had produced a number of films together including Monsieur Lazhar, Congorama and Familia.
Previous nominations: None
PINA - Wim Wenders (Director), Gian-Piero Ringel (Producer)
Pina is a documentary about the German dancer and choreographer, Pina Bausch, who died in 2009 during the preparation for the film. The film presents new performances of some of her most noted pieces.
Wenders won a BAFTA for Directing for Paris, Texas in 1984, and has been nominated in this category twice (for Wings of Desire and Buena Vista Social Club). Ringel produced Wenders’ previous film Palermo Shooting, and has also produced two films with the director Angela Schanelec.
Previous nominations: Wenders: 3 (1 win), Ringel: None.
POTICHE - Francois Ozon (Director), Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer (Producers)
Potiche stars Catherine Deneuve as a submissive wife in seventies France who finds new confidence when she has to take over the running of her husband’s factory (“potiche” is the French for decorative vase but is also used in the same sense as one might say a “trophy wife” in English).
Ozon also writes his films, and his previous films include Swimming Pool, 5x2, 8 Women and Sitcom. The Altmayer brothers created the company Mandarin cinema in the late 90's, and Michel Hazanavicius’ OSS117 films are among their previous producing credits.
Previous nominations: None.
A SEPARATION - Asghar Farhadi (Director/Producer)
A Separation focuses on an Iranian middle-class couple who separate, and the intrigues which follow when the husband hires a young pregnant woman to look after his elderly father.
Farhadi also writes his films, and his earlier credits include About Elly, Fireworks Wednesday, Beautiful City and Dancing in the Dust.
Previous nominations: None
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Presented by Chris O'Dowd and Kristen Wiig
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
WINNER PADDY CONSIDINE (Director) DIARMID SCRIMSHAW (Producer)
Tyrannosaur
JOE CORNISH (Director/Writer)
Attack the Block
WILL SHARPE (Director/Writer)
TOM KINGSLEY (Director)
SARAH BROCKLEHURST (Producer)
Black Pond
RALPH FIENNES (Director)
Coriolanus
RICHARD AYOADE (Director/Writer)
Submarine
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PRODUCTION DESIGN
Presented by Viola Davis
This award is presented to the Production Designer and the Set Decorator.
WINNER HUGO - Dante Ferretti (Production Designer), Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decorator)
Ferretti has won this award three times (for The Aviator, Interview with the Vampire and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) and been nominated on three other occasions. He began his career as a protégé of Federico Fellini, and also made five films with Pier Paolo Pasolini; Hugo is his eighth collaboration with Martin Scorsese. Schiavo is Ferretti’s wife and they frequently work together.
Previous nominations: Ferretti: 6 (3 wins), Schiavo: None
THE ARTIST - Laurence Bennett (Production Designer), Robert Gould (Set Decorator)
Bennett’s previous credits include The Next Three Days, In the Valley of Elah and Crash, as well as the television drama Grey’s Anatomy. Gould’s previous work includes The Expendables, Angels and Demons, Master and Commander, Total Recall, RoboCop, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Carrie.
Previous nominations: None
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 - Stuart Craig (Production Designer), Stephenie McMillan (Set Decorator)
Craig is one of the Academy’s most nominated individuals. His first nomination was for Gandhi in 1982, and others include Dangerous Liaisons, Chaplin, The English Patient and six of the seven previous Harry Potter films; he won the award for The Goblet of Fire in 2005. McMillan has worked with Craig on all the Harry Potter films, and was nominated with him on the last two occasions.
Previous nominations: Craig: 13 (1 win), McMillan 2.
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Maria Djurkovic (Production Designer), Tatiana Mcdonald (Set Decorator)
Djurkovic’s previous credits include Mamma Mia, The Hours, and Wilde. Mcdonald has worked with Djurkovic on a number of occasions including on Billy Elliot, Sliding Doors and the 2002 ITV adaptation of Doctor Zhivago.
Previous nominations: None
WAR HORSE - Rick Carter (Production Designer), Lee Sandales (Set Decorator)
Carter won this award in 2009 for Avatar; his other credits include Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, and Amistad. Sandales was previously nominated for his work on Casino Royale, and his other credits include Green Zone and Sex and the City 2.
Previous nominations: Carter 1 (1 win), Sandales 1
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Presented by Helena Bonham Carter
WINNER CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER - Beginners
Plummer plays Hal, a character based on writer/director Mike Mill’s father, who came out as gay at the age of 75, five years before his death.
Plummer is best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in the Sound of Music; his other roles include Oedipus the King, The Man Who Would Be King, The Return of the Pink Panther, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Star Trek VI, 12 Monkeys, The Insider, Up, Syriana and The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.
Plummer was 82 on 13 December 2011. He is the oldest person to win a BAFTA for acting in a competitive category.
This record was previously held by Jessica Tandy who was 81 when she won the Leading Actress award for Driving Miss Daisy; the oldest male winner was formerly Fred Astaire who won Supporting Actor for The Towering Inferno aged 76; the oldest ever nominee for an acting category was John Gielgud who was 92 when he was nominated for his role in Shine in 1996.
Previous nominations: None
KENNETH BRANAGH - My Week With Marilyn
Branagh plays legendary actor/director Lawrence Olivier, who is exasperated by Marilyn Monroe’s unpredictable behaviour and unconventional acting methods.
Branagh is also an actor and director; he was previously nominated for both Director and Leading Actor for Henry V, and his other films include his unedited version of Hamlet (in which he played the title role), Frankenstein, Peter’s Friends, As You Like It, Sleuth and Thor. He has also been nominated for five British Academy Television Awards, and won two as the Producer and Lead Actor of the BBC’s adaptation of the Wallander detective stories.
Previous nominations: 7 (3 wins).
JIM BROADBENT - The Iron Lady
Broadbent plays Margaret Thatcher’s husband, Denis.
Broadbent won this category for his role in Moulin Rouge, and has been nominated for Leading Actor twice, for his roles as John Bayley in Iris and WS Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy. He has been twice nominated for British Academy Television Awards, and won in 2006 for his title role as Lord Longford in Channel 4’s drama about the Moors Murders.
Previous nominations: 5 (2 wins)
JONAH HILL - Moneyball
Hill plays Peter Brand, a young Yale economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess the value of baseball players. Although Moneyball is based on a true story, the character Hill plays is a fictional character, partly based on several people who appear in the book
Hill is best known for his roles in comedy films including Knocked Up, Superbad, Get Him to the Greek and The Sitter.
Previous nominations: None
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN - The Ides of March
Hoffman plays Paul Zara, a cynical campaign manager for a prospective US presidential candidate.
Hoffman has twice been nominated for Supporting Actor (for Doubt and Charlie Wilson’s War), and won the Leading Actor in 2005 for his performance as Truman Capote. His other roles include Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Big Lebowski and The Talented Mr Ripley.
Previous nominations: 3 (1 win)
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Presented by Naomie Harris and Bérénice Marlohe
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 are decided by a special chapter; all voting members then decide the winner.
WINNER TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Tomas Alfredson (Director), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo (Producers), Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan (Writers)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a spy drama about a hunt for a Soviet mole in the British Intelligence Service during the 1970s; it is also nominated for Best Film.
Alfredson is the director of a number of Swedish television programmes and films including Let The Right One In, which was nominated for Film Not in the English Language in 2009. He is also nominated in the Directing category.
Bevan and Fellner are the producing partnership behind the UK’s largest production company, Working Title; they have three nominations each this year, taking their nominations total to 15 each, making them among the most nominated individuals in the history of the Film Awards. They have been nominated in this category on 7 previous occasions, including winning for Elizabeth (which was also nominated for Best Film in 1998), and Atonement (which also won Best Film in 2007).
Slovo’s previous work includes producing Lynn Ramsay’s Movern Callar, as well as other credits as a script editor.
Straughan’s previous credits include The Debt, The Men Who Stare at Goats and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, as well as Sixty Six and Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution, which were written with his wife, O’Connor; she passed away from cancer in September 2010, shortly before filming on Tinker Tailor began.
Previous nominations: Alfredson: 1, Fellner : 11 (2 wins), Bevan: 11 (2 wins), Slovo, O’Connor and Straughan: None
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN - Simon Curtis (Director), David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein (Producers), Adrian Hodges (Writer)
My Week With Marilyn is based on the memoirs of Colin Clark, and tells the story of Marilyn Monroe’s visit to England to film The Prince and the Showgirl with Lawrence Olivier.
Curtis is a very successful British television director and producer who has been nominated for five British Academy Television Awards; his credits include The Virgin Queen, Cranford, Five Days, and A Short Stay in Switzerland; this is his first feature film.
Parfitt and Weinstein won Best Film in 1998 for their previous collaboration Shakespeare in Love: Parfitt also won this award in 1995 for The Madness of King George (which was also nominated for Best Film); Weinstein has also been nominated for Best Film for Gangs of New York in 2002 and Film Not in the English Language for Malena in 2000.
Hodges won a British Academy Television Award in 2003 for Charles II, and was also nominated in 1998 for Amongst Women.
Previous nominations: Curtis: 5, Parfitt: 3 (2 wins), Weinstein: 3 (1 win), Hodges: 2 (1 win)
SENNA - Asif Kapadia (Director), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, James Gay-Rees (Producers), Manish Pandey (Writer)
Senna is a documentary about the life and career of Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna.
Kapadia won the Outstanding Debut and Outstanding British Film category, and was nominated for Film Not in the English Language for his first feature film, The Warrior, in 2001.
Bevan and Fellner are the producing partnership behind the UK’s largest production company, Working Title; they have three nominations each this year, taking their nominations total to 15 each, making them among the most nominated individuals in the history of the Film Awards. They have been nominated in this category on 7 previous occasions, including winning for Elizabeth (which was also nominated for Best Film in 1998), and Atonement (which also won Best Film in 2007).
Gay-Rees’ previous work includes the British comedy, Blackball and an executive producer credit on the Banksy documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop; he was inspired to make the film having been told stories about Senna by his father who had worked for a sponsor of Senna’s Lotus team. Pandey came on board as a Formula One expert and enthusiast; this is his feature debut.
Previous nominations: Kapadia: 3 (2 wins), Fellner : 11 (2 wins), Bevan: 11 (2 wins), Gay - Ress & Pandey: None.
SHAME - Steve McQueen (Director, Writer), Ian Canning, Emile Sherman (Producers), Abi Morgan (Writer)
Shame is an intense drama about a man struggling with a compulsive addiction to sex, whose insular life spirals out of control when the arrival of his sister stirs up painful memories of their shared past.
McQueen is a Turner prize-winning artist, best known for his video installations; he won Outstanding Debut and was nominated in this category for his first feature film, Hunger, about the 1981 hunger strike by IRA prisoners.
Canning first worked with McQueen as the executive producer of Hunger, and also executive produced Control, before setting up See Saw Films with Sherman; their credits together include Candy, Oranges and Sunshine, and The King’s Speech for which they won both Best Film and Outstanding British Film last year.
Previous nominations: McQueen: 1 (1 win), Canning and Sherman: 2 each (both wins).
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN - Lynne Ramsay (Director, Writer), Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno (Producers), Rory Stewart Kinnear (Writer)
We Need to Talk About Kevin is adapted from the best - selling book by Lionel Shriver, about a mother tortured by the idea that she may have been responsible for her son’s psychotic behaviour.
Ramsay was BAFTA-nominated for Short Film in 1997, and then won Outstanding Debut, and was nominated for Outstanding British film for her first feature film, Ratcatcher, in 1999. This is her third feature film.
Roeg’s previous credits include Hotel Paradise, Mr Nice, New Town Killers and Oliver Parker’s version of Othello; he is the son of director Nicolas Roeg. Fox has previously produced Duplicity and Michael Clayton, and was the Executive Producer of Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana and A Scanner Darkly. Salerno’s previous credits include the Coen Brothers’ A Single Man and 21 Grams.
Kinnear is Ramsay’s partner; this is his first credit.
Previous nominations: Ramsay: 3
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Presented by Daniel Radcliffe
WINNER OCTAVIA SPENCER - The Help
Spencer plays Minny Jackson, one of the maids who agrees to contribute her experiences to a book, and who befriends Celia (played by fellow nominee Jessica Chastain), when no-one else will employ her.
Spencer became an actress when she was hired as a casting assistant on Joel Schumacher’s A Time to Kill, and then asked if she could audition for a small part. Her previous films include Seven Pounds, Never Been Kissed, Big Momma’s House, Bad Santa and Spider - Man, and her television roles include the sitcom Halfway Home and a recurring character in Ugly Betty.
Previous nominations: None
CAREY MULLIGAN - Drive
Mulligan plays Irene, a young mother who befriends the mysterious Driver, who takes part in a heist to repay her husband’s debt to an Albanian gangster.
Mulligan won a BAFTA for Leading Actress for her role in An Education in 2009; in the same year, she was nominated for the Orange Rising Star Award. Her roles since then have included Public Enemies, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, and Michael Fassbender’s sister in Shame. In 2012 she will star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann’s new adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Previous nominations: 1 (1 win).
JESSICA CHASTAIN - The Help
Chastain plays Celia Foote, a young woman who has married into money, but finds herself ostracised by the wives of her husband’s friends.
Chastain has appeared in a number of films this year, including The Tree of Life, The Debt, Texas Killing Fields, Take Shelter and her role as the title character’s wife in Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus. Her previous television work includes ER, Law and Order and a role in ITV’s adaptation of the Poirot story, Murder on the Orient Express.
Previous nominations: None.
JUDI DENCH - My Week With Marilyn
Dench plays Dame Sybil Thorndike, the veteran actress who co-starred with Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl.
This is Dench’s 13th Film Awards nomination, and she has also received 12 British Academy Television Award nominations, making her the most nominated individual 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.
Dench met Thorndike several times; the first time when Dench was playing Juliet at the Old Vic. Dench recently told the Radio Times “I think they got very very close to how Dame Sybil was in the script”.
Previous nominations: 24 (10 wins)
MELISSA MCCARTHY - Bridesmaids
McCarthy plays Megan, the brash tomboy sister of the groom.
Prior to Bridesmaid’s McCarthy was best known for her television roles, including seven seasons of The Gilmore Girls, Samantha Who? and the sitcom Mike and Molly, for which she won an Emmy in 2011. Her previous film credits include The Nines, The Back - Up Plan and Life as We Know It.
Previous nominations: None.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Presented by Jeremy Irvine and Christina Ricci
WINNER THE ARTIST - Michel Hazanavicius
French writer/director Hazanavicius’ previous films include Mes Amis, and two spy parodies about Agent 0SS 117, featuring the male lead of the Artist, Jean Dujardin. He is married to The Artist’s leading lady, Bérénice Bejo, and is also nominated for both directing and editing The Artist.
Previous nominations: None
BRIDESMAIDS - Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
Wiig is an actress and comedian well-known to US television audiences for her appearances on Saturday Night Live. As well as the lead character of Annie in Bridesmaids, her other film roles include Ghost Town, Adventureland, Whip It, Paul and Knocked Up. Following her role in Knocked Up, producer Judd Apatow asked her if she had any ideas for a screenplay of her own. Mumolo is also an actress whose credits include a number of guest appearances on US television, and has a brief role in Bridesmaids as a nervous airplane passenger. Wiig and Mumolo met each other as members of The Groundlings, a Los Angeles based improvisational comedy troupe.
Previous nominations: None
THE GUARD - John Michael McDonagh
McDonagh’s previous credits include the screenplay to the 2003 film Ned Kelly; The Guard is his debut as a director. He is the brother of the playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh.
Previous nominations: None
THE IRON LADY - Abi Morgan
Morgan has been nominated for three British Academy Television Awards, and won twice for Sex Traffic and White Girl; her other television credits include Tsunami: The Aftermath, The Hour and the BBC’s recent adaptation of Birdsong. She is also nominated for Outstanding British Film this year for Shame.
Previous nominations: 3 (2 wins)
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS - Woody Allen
Allen is the most nominated individual in the history of the Film Awards, having received 23 previous nominations across the Directing, Performance, Screenplay and Best Film categories, and has also won more Film Awards than anyone else. His first wins were for Directing and Screenplay for Annie Hall in 1977, and his most recent nomination was for the screenplay of Bullets Over Broadway in 1995. He has won this category 5 times, for Annie Hall, Manhattan, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Husbands and Wives in 1992 (his most recent win). He was awarded the Academy Fellowship in 1997.
Previous nominations: 23 (11 wins)
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Presented by Billy Bob Thornton
This award is presented in honour of Michael Balcon. The award is in the gift of the Academy
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THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD (this award is voted for by the public)
Presented by Christina Hendricks
WINNER: ADAM DEACON
CHRIS HEMSWORTH
TOM HIDDLESTON
CHRIS O’DOWD
EDDIE REDMAYNE
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DOCUMENTARY
Presented by Paul Bettany
This category was introduced to the British Academy Film Awards this year.
Although documentaries have always been eligible for most categories of the Film Awards, there hasn’t been a dedicated category for theatrical documentaries since the Film Awards were split from the Television Awards in 1998; since then the Television Awards have presented an award for Single Documentary.
This award is presented to the key creative talent behind the film, usually the Director(s) and Producer(s).
WINNER SENNA - Asif Kapadia (Director), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, James Gay-Rees (Producers), Manish Pandey (Writer)
Senna is a documentary about the life and career of Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna.
Kapadia won the Outstanding Debut and Outstanding British Film category, and was nominated for Film Not in the English Language for his first feature film, The Warrior, in 2001.
Bevan and Fellner are the producing partnership behind the UK’s largest production company, Working Title; they have four nominations each this year, taking their nominations total to 15 each, making them among the most nominated individuals in the history of the Film Awards.
Gay-Rees’ previous work includes the British comedy, Blackball and an executive producer credit on the Banksy documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop; he was inspired to make the film having been told stories about Senna by his father who had worked for a sponsor of Senna’s Lotus team. Pandey came on board as a Formula One expert and enthusiast; this is his feature debut.
Previous nominations: Kapadia: 3 (2 wins), Fellner : 11 (2 wins), Bevan: 11 (2 wins), Gay-Rees & Pandey: None.
GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD - _Martin Scorsese (Director/Producer), Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair (Producers)
This is a documentary about the life and career of musician George Harrison.
Scorsese won three BAFTAs (Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay) for Goodfellas in 1990; his other nominations include British Academy Television Award nomination for his documentary, No Direction Home, about Bob Dylan. This year he is also nominated in the Directing category for Hugo, and will be presented with the Academy Fellowship.
Olivia Harrison married George Harrison in 1978, and contributed many of the materials which feature in the film from their personal archive.
Sinclair produced (and was BAFTA-nominated for ) No Direction Home and his other credits as an Executive Producer include The Ides of March, Terminator 3, K - 19: The Widowmaker, Enigma, Hilary and Jackie, and Sliding Doors.
Previous nominations: Scorsese: 11 (3 wins), Harrison: None, Sinclair: 1
PROJECT NIM - James Marsh (Director), Simon Chinn (Producer)
Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human by a family in New York in the 1970s.
Marsh and Chinn previously collaborated on the documentary, Man on Wire, which won Outstanding British Film in 2008; Chinn was also nominated for Outstanding Debut that year. His other work includes Searching for Sugar Man, and co - producing Peter Kosminsky’s television drama The Government Inspector.
Marsh was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for the film Wisconsin Death Trip which was broadcast in the BBC’s Arena strand in 2000; his other credits include the feature documentaries The King and The Team, as well as one of the films in Channel 4’s television adaptation of The Red Riding books.
Previous nominations: Marsh: 2 (1 win), Chinn: 2 (1 win).
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Presented by Jon Hamm
WINNER TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan
Based on the 1974 novel of the same name by best-selling author John Le Carré.
Straughan’s previous credits include The Debt, The Men Who Stare at Goats and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, as well as Sixty Six and Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution, which were written with his wife, O’Connor.
O'Connor passed away from cancer in September 2010, shortly before filming on Tinker Tailor began.
Previous nominations: None
THE DESCENDANTS - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings, who has a cameo in the film as the secretary of George Clooney’s character.
Writer/Director Payne won this category in 2004 for Sideways; his other credits include About Schmidt and Election.
Faxon and Rash are a writing partnership who met each other as part of the Groundlings, an LA - based improvisational comedy troupe; this is their first produced feature screenplay. Faxon’s acting credits include Orange County, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and a number of appearances on US television comedies, including providing the voice of Raymond the Bear in The Cleveland Show. Rash has appeared as recurring characters in the US sitcoms That 70’s Show and Community, and appeared in the final episode of Friends.
Previous nominations: Payne: 1 (1 win), Faxon & Nash: None.
THE HELP - Tate Taylor
Based on the best-selling first novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett.
Taylor is a close friend of Stockett’s, having known her since pre- chool, and she gave him the film rights before the book was published; he also produced and directed this film, which his is second feature after 2008’s Pretty Ugly People.
Previous nominations: None
THE IDES OF MARCH - George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
Based on the play Farragut North by Willimon, which ran on Broadway in 2008, The Ides of March is inspired by his experiences as a campaign aide during his senior college year; it is his first screenplay.
This is Clooney’s second nomination for a screenplay category, having been nominated for Original Screenplay (as well as Director and Supporting Actor) for Good Night and Good Luck in 2005; in the same year he was also nominated for Supporting Actor for Syriana. Since then, he has also been nominated for Leading Actor three times, for Michael Clayton, Up in the Air and this year for The Descendants.
Heslov also co- wrote and produced Good Night and Good Luck, and was also nominated for Original Screenplay and Best Film alongside Clooney. 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: Clooney: 8, Heslov: 2,
MONEYBALL - Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
Based on Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, a 2003 non-fiction book by Michael Lewis about the Oakland Athletics baseball team.
Zaillian won this category in 1993 for Schindler’s List, and has since been nominated for Original Screenplay on two occasions for Gangs of New York and American Gangster. His other credits include Awakenings, Clear and Present Danger and the US version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Sorkin won this category last year for The Social Network. His other 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: Zaillian: 3 (1 win), Sorkin: 1 (1 win)
ANIMATED FILM
Presented by Gillian Anderson
This award is presented to the key creative talent behind the film, usually the Director(s).
WINNER RANGO - Gore Verbinski
Rango is an ordinary chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
Verbinski’s previous directing credits include Mousehunt, The Mexican, the US version of the horror film The Ring, and the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films. He was previously nominated in the Feature Film category at the British Academy Children’s Awards for the second Pirates of the Caribbean Film. Rango is his first animated film.
Previous nominations: 1
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN - Steven Spielberg
Spielberg first acquired the film rights to Tintin following the death of Tintin’s creator Herge in 1983, and it has taken over 25 years for the project to reach the screen. It is his first animated film.
Spielberg has 10 previous Film Award nominations, and won Director and Best Film in 1993 for Schindler’s List; he also won a Video Games Awards in 2009 for his collaboration with Electronic Arts on the Wii game, Boom Blox. He was awarded the Academy Fellowship in 1986.
Previous nominations: 11 (3 wins)
ARTHUR CHRISTMAS - Sarah Smith
Arthur Christmas tells the story of Santa’s son who undertakes a perilous mission to make sure one little girl has her presents by Christmas morning. It is the first computer-animated theatrical feature from British studio Aardman Animations.
The film is Smith’s first feature as a director; she also wrote the screenplay with Peter Baynham, with whom she had previously collaborated on the animated television series, I Am Not an Animal. Her previous credits are as a producer of British television comedy including The Armando Iannucci Show, The Friday Night Armistice and the first series of The League of Gentlemen, which won a British Academy Television Award.
Previous nominations: None
DIRECTOR
Presented by Brad Pitt
This award is presented in honour of David Lean.
WINNER THE ARTIST - Michel Hazanavicius
French director Hazanavicius’ previous films include Mes Amis, and two spy parodies about Agent 0SS 117, featuring the male lead of the Artist, Jean Dujardin. He is married to The Artist’s leading lady, Bérénice Bejo, and is also nominated for both writing and editing The Artist.
Previous nominations: None
DRIVE - Nicolas Winding Refn
Winding Refn’s previous films include Valhalla Rising, Bronson and the Danish films Pusher and Bleeder, all of which he also wrote.
Previous nominations: None
HUGO - Martin Scorsese
Scorsese won three BAFTAs (Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay) for Goodfellas in 1990. He has been nominated in this category eight times, more than any other director. This year he is also nominated for Documentary for George Harrison: Living in the Material World, and will be presented with the Academy Fellowship.
Previous nominations: 11 (3 wins)
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Tomas Alfredson
Alfredson is the director of a number of Swedish television programmes and films including Let The Right One In, which was nominated for Film Not in the English Language in 2009. His father is the Swedish comedian Hasse Alfredson, and his older brother Daniel directed the second two films in the Swedish versions of The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Previous nominations: 1
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN - Lynne Ramsay
Ramsay was BAFTA nominated for Short Film in 1997, and then in 1999 won Outstanding Debut and was nominated for Outstanding British film for her first feature film, Ratcatcher. This is her third feature film.
She is the sixth female director to be nominated for a BAFTA in this category (although many others have been nominated in other categories).
The first, and to date, only woman to win a BAFTA for this category was Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2009.
Previous nominations: 3
LEADING ACTRESS
Presented by Colin Firth
WINNER MERYL STREEP - The Iron Lady
Streep plays British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in this biopic about her political career and later life.
This is Streep’s 14th nomination; she is the most nominated actress (and one of the most nominated individuals) in the history of the Film Awards, but has only won on one previous occasion, for The French Lieutenant’s Woman in 1981. She was first nominated in 1979, when she was nominated both for Leading Actress (in The Deerhunter) and Supporting Actress (for Manhattan), and her most recent nomination was for Julie and Julia in 2009; other nominated performances include Sophie’s Choice, Out of Africa, The Hours, The Devil Wears Prada and Doubt.
Previous nominations: 13 (1 win)
BÉRÉNICE BEJO - The Artist
Bejo plays Peppy Miller, a Hollywood starlet who gets her big break just as talkies take over from silent films. Her previous films include A Knight’s Tale, 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman and 0SS 177: Cairo, Nest of Spies. She is married to the director of The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius, and is the daughter of Argentinian filmmaker Miguel Bejo.
Previous nominations: None
VIOLA DAVIS - The Help
Davis plays Aibileen Clark, a middle-aged maid who agrees to contribute her experiences of discrimination to a book.
Until recently Davis was known primarily as a stage actress; she has won two Tony awards, and was the second African-Amercian to win a Tony for Leading Actress. Her film roles include Traffic, Antwone Fisher, Solaris, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and a brief but extremely memorable scene with Meryl Streep in Doubt.
Previous nominations: None
TILDA SWINTON - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Swinton plays Eva Khatchadourian, a mother tortured by the idea that she may have been responsible for her son’s psychotic behaviour.
Swinton won the Supporting Actress category in 2007 for Michael Clayton, and was nominated again in the same category the following year for Burn After Reading. Her other roles include I Am Love, The White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Beach, Young Adam, Orlando, and a number of films with the British filmmaker, Derek Jarman.
Previous nominations: 2 (1 win).
MICHELLE WILLIAMS - My Week With Marilyn
Williams plays troubled actress Marilyn Monroe in a film about her visit to England to film The Prince and the Showgirl. She was previously nominated for Supporting Actress for Brokeback Mountain in 2005, and was also nominated for the Orange Rising Star Award in 2006. She first rose to prominence in the US teen drama Dawson’s Creek, and her other film roles include Blue Valentine, Shutter Island, Meek’s Cutoff and Synecdoche, New York.
Previous nominations: 1
LEADING ACTOR
Presented by Penelope Cruz
WINNER JEAN DUJARDIN - The Artist
Dujardin plays George Valentin, a silent movie star who falls on hard times after the introduction of talkies. He has previously worked with The Artist’s director Michel Hazanavicius on a series of French language spy parodies playing Agent OSS 117, which earned him a Cesar award in 2007. Other French language roles include Brice de Nice, 99F, Little White Lies and the television series Un gars, une fille with his wife Alexandra Lamy.
Previous nominations: None.
GEORGE CLOONEY - The Descendants
Clooney plays Matt King, a Honolulu-based lawyer wrestling with a decision to sell the land his family has inherited from Hawaiian royalty, while re-examining both his marriage and his relationship with his daughters after his wife is left comatose in a boating accident.
Clooney was nominated for Supporting Actor twice in 2005 for Syriana and Good Night and Good Luck, (for which he was also nominated for Director and Adapted Screenplay) Since then, he has also been nominated for Leading Actor on two other occasions (for Michael Clayton and Up in the Air); he is also nominated for Adapted Screenplay this year for The Ides of March. His other roles include the Ocean’s Eleven trilogy, O Brother Where Art Thou, Burn After Reading and Solaris.
Previous nominations: 8
MICHAEL FASSBENDER - Shame
Fassbender plays Brandon Sullivan, a man with a compulsive addiction to sex, whose insular life spirals out of control when the arrival of his sister stirs up painful memories of their shared past.
Fassbender has had several major film roles this year, including Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, Magneto in X Men: First Class, and Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre. His earlier roles include Inglourious Basterds, Fish Tank, 300 and Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen’s previous film, Hunger.
Previous nominations: None
GARY OLDMAN - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Oldman plays George Smiley, a former British Intelligence Sevice officer brought out of retirement to track down a Soviet mole. He won 2 Film Awards in 1997 (Outstanding British Film and Original Screenplay) for his directorial debut Nil By Mouth; he was also nominated in 1987 for playing writer Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears. His other film roles include Sid and Nancy, JFK, Leon, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Commissioner Gordon in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and Sirius Black in the Harry Potter films.
Previous nominations: 3 (2 wins)
BRAD PITT - Moneyball
Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the baseball manager whose innovative style led the Oakland Athletics team to a record-breaking winning streak.
Pitt has been nominated on three previous occasions: for Leading Actor for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and for Supporting Actor for Burn After Reading (both in 2008), and for Best Film as the producer of The Departed in 2006. His other roles include Tree of Life, Inglourious Basterds, the Ocean’s Eleven trilogy, Fight Club and Seven.
Previous nominations: 3
BEST FILM
Presented by Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe
This award is presented to the producers of the film
WINNER THE ARTIST - Thomas Langmann
The Artist takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932, as talkies take over from silent films, and tells the story of the relationship between a declining male star and a rising actress. It is presented in the style of a silent film from the period, and contains almost no dialogue.
No silent feature film has ever been nominated for a BAFTA; the last black and white film to be nominated by BAFTA was The White Ribbon (Film Not in the English Language in 2009) and the last to be nominated for Best Film was Good Night and Good Luck in 2005; the last black and white film to win Best Film was Schindler’s List in 1993.
Langmann’s previous credits include Mesrine and Asterix at the Olympic Games.
Previous nominations: None
THE DESCENDENTS - Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
The Descendents is a comedy - drama about a Honolulu - based lawyer wrestling with a decision to sell the land his family has inherited from Hawaiian royalty, while re - examining both his marriage and his relationship with his daughters after his wife is left comatose in a boating accident.
Payne also wrote and directed the film. He won a BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay in 2004 for Sideways and his other credits include About Schmidt and Election; all three of these previous films were co-written with Taylor. Marsh has previously produced Cedar Rapids and Walking Tall, was co-producer on Election, and an Executive Producer on The Savages.
Previous nominations: Payne: 1 (1 win), Burke and Taylor: None.
DRIVE - Marc Platt, Adam Siegel
Drive is a thriller about a mysterious Driver who works as a mechanic and Hollywood stuntman while moonlighting as a getaway driver. Described by the director as “a Los Angeles fairy tale”, the look of the film refers back to hardboiled 80’s thrillers of Michael Mann and Walter Hill.
Platt’s previous credits include Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Nine and Rachel Getting Married. This is Siegel’s first film as a producer; his previous credits as an Executive Producer include Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, The Death and Life of Charlie Cloud, and Wanted.
Previous nominations: None
THE HELP - Chris Columbus, Brunson Green, Michael Barnathan
The Help is a (pre-dominently female) ensemble piece about a young white woman and her relationship with two black maids as they collaborate on a book about the discrimination faced by domestic workers during the early 1960s.
Columbus directed the first two Harry Potter films, and produced the third; he received 5 BAFTA nominations for his work on them, including winning the Feature Film category at the 2004 British Academy Children’s Awards. His other work as a director includes Home Alone, Mrs Doubtfire, and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief which he also produced. Barnathan has worked with Columbus on a number of projects including Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, as well as Rent, Fantastic Four, Bicentennial Man, Stepmom and Jingle all the Way. Green’s other producing credits include Tate Taylor’s previous film Pretty Ugly People.
Previous nominations: Columbus: 5 (1 win),
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a spy drama about the hunt for a Soviet mole in the British Intelligence Service during the 1970s; it is also nominated for Outstanding British Film.
Bevan and Fellner are the producing partnership behind the UK’s largest production company, Working Title; they have three nominations each this year, taking their nominations total to 15 each, making them among the most nominated individuals in the history of the Film Awards. They have been nominated in this category on 7 previous occasions, including winning for Elizabeth (which won and was also nominated for Best Film in 1998), and Atonement (which won Best Film in 2007). Slovo’s previous work includes producing Lynn Ramsay’s Movern Callar, as well as other credits as a script editor.
Previous nominations: Fellner: 11 (2 wins), Bevan: 11 (2 wins), Slovo: None
FELLOWSHIP
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MARTIN SCORSESE
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The Orange British Academy Film Awards: Press Information
05 January 12
Collated press information for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2011.
