The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) will reveal their winners on Sunday. Below are our predictions for the winners of this year’s awards.

BAFTA Awards

Best Film:

Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)
Precious
Up in the Air

Best Animated Film:

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)

Best Director:

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)
Neill Blomkamp – District 9
James Cameron – Avatar
Lone Scherfig – An Education
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor:

Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart (Wesley, Peter)
George Clooney – Up in the AIr
Colin Firth – A Single Man (Tripp)
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Andy Serkis – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Best Actress:

Carey Mulligan – An Education (Wesley)
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia (Peter, Tripp)
Audrey Tautou – Coco Before Chanel

Best Supporting Actor:

Alec Baldwin – It’s Complicated
Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
Alfred Molina – An Education
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)

Best Supporting Actress:

Anne-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)
Kristin Scott Thomas – Nowhere Boy

Best Original Screenplay:

The Hangover
The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter)
Inglourious Basterds (Tripp)
A Serious Man
Up

Best Adapted Screenplay:

District 9 (Tripp)
An Education
In the Loop (Wesley)
Precious
Up in the Air (Peter)

Best Music:

Avatar
Crazy Heart
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wesley)
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Up (Peter, Tripp)

Best Editing:

Avatar (Tripp)
District 9
The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter)
Inglourious Basterds
Up in the Air

Best Cinematography:

Avatar (Tripp)
District 9
The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter)
Inglourious Basterds
The Road

Best Art Direction:

Avatar (Wesley)
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Tripp)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds (Peter)

Best Costume Design:

Bright Star (Peter, Tripp)
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
A Single Man
The Young Victoria (Wesley)

Best Makeup:

Coco Before Chanel
An Education
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Tripp)
Nine
The Young Victoria (Wesley, Peter)

Best Sound:

Avatar (Wesley, Tripp)
District 9
The Hurt Locker (Peter)
Star Trek
Up

Best Visual Effects:

Avatar (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek

Best Foreign Language Film:

Broken Embraces (Tripp)
Coco Before Chanel
Let the Right One In
A Prophet (Wesley)
The White Ribbon (Peter)

Best Short Animation:

The Happy Duckling (Wesley, Peter)
Mother of Many
The Gruffalo

Short Film:

14 (Peter)
I Do Air
Jade
Mixtape
Off Season (Wesley)

Best British Film:

An Education (Wesley, Tripp)
Fish Tank (Peter)
In the Loop
Moon
Nowhere Boy

Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer:

Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson – Mugabe and the White African
Eran Creevy – Shifty
Stuart Hazeldine – Exam
Duncan Jones – Moon (Tripp)
Sam Taylor-Wood – Nowhere Boy (Wesley, Peter)

Orange Rising Star:

Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan (Peter)
Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart (Wesley)

Commentary

Wesley Lovell

Blending their love for the British style in films along with their Oscar prognostication capabilities, I predict a blend of these. As for the Orange Rising Star, they placed voting for the award online, so I’m thinking that Kristen Stewart will end up winning just because of all the Twilight junkies out there.

Peter J. Patrick

Since BAFTA fancies itself an Oscar precursor now instead of the independent body it used to be, I anticipate all except the stand alone Best British Film, Best British Debut and Orange Rising Star will be geared toward what we can expect to see on Oscar night two weeks hence.