Precursor: 54th British Academy Awards Nominations (2012)

The BAFTA nominations are out one day ahead of the Oscar nominations with some surprises. The awards will be handed out two weeks ahead of Oscar.

The surprises include the failure of directors Tom Hooper and (!) Steven Spielberg from Best Director, Ben Affleck as Best Actor, Denzel Washington and John Hawkes NOT in Best Actor. The rest seem to be largely expected with the strong performance of Skyfall‘s actors, but considering these are the Brits, it’s not a surprise.

Nomination Tallies

(10) Lincoln
(9) Life of Pi
(9) Les Misérables
(8) Skyfall
(7) Argo
(6) Anna Karenina
(5) Django Unchained
(5) Zero Dark Thirty

The Nominations

Best Film

Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Animated Film

Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman

Best Director

Ben Affleck – Argo
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke – Amour
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained

Best Actor

Ben Affleck – Argo
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin – Argo
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – The Master
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions

Best Original Screenplay

Amour
Django Unchained
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Adapted Screenplay

Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook

Best Original Music

Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Editing

Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Cinematography

Anna Karenina
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Skyfall

Best Production Design

Anna Karenina
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Skyfall

Best Costume Design

Anna Karenina
Great Expectations
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Makeup & Hair

Anna Karenina
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lincoln
Les Misérables

Best Sound

Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Les Misérables
Skyfall

Best Special Visual Effects

The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Prometheus

Best Foreign Language Film

Amour
Headhunters
The Hunt
The Intouchables
Rust and Bone

Best Documentary

The Imposter
Marley
McCullin
Searching for Sugar Man
West of Memphis

Best Short Animation

Here to Fall
I’m Fine Thanks
The Making of Longbird

Best Short Film

The Curse
Good Night
Swimmer
Tumult
The Voorman Problem

Best British Film

Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall

Best Rising Star

Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Suraj Sharma
Juno Temple
Alicia Vikander

Best Debut of a British Writer, Director or Producer

Thina Garavi (writer/director) – I Am Nasrine
Bart Layton (writer) and Dimitri Doganis (producer) – The Imposter
David Morris (director) and Jacqui Morris (director/producer) – McCullin
James Bobin (director) The Muppets
Dexter Fletcher (writer/director) and Danny King (writer) – Wild Bill