Precursor: British Academy Award Nominations

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January 18, 2011

Wesley Lovell

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The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced it’s nominees for this year’s awards. According to the last information I got directly from their site a month or so ago, they weren’t supposed to announce until later this week, so I have no idea why these are out now, but here they are.

Nomination Tallies

(14) The King’s Speech
(12) Black Swan
(9) Inception
(8) 127 Hours, True Grit
(6) The Social Network
(5) Alice in Wonderland
(4) The Kids Are All Right, Made in Dagenham
(3) The Fighter, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Toy Story 3

The Nominations

Best Film

Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
True Grit

Best Animated Film

Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Toy Story 3

Best Director

Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
David Fincher – The Social Network
Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech
Christopher Nolan – Inception

Best Actor

Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
James Franco – 127 Hours

Best Actress

Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit

Best Supporting Actor

Christian Bale – The Fighter
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
Pete Postlethwaite – The Town
Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
Lesley Manville – Another Year
Miranda Richardson – Made in Dagenham

Best Original Screenplay

Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech

Best Adapted Screenplay

127 Hours
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit

Best Original Music

127 Hours
Alice in Wonderland
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
The King’s Speech

Best Editing

127 Hours
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network

Best Cinematography

127 Hours
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Grit

Best Production Design

Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Grit

Best Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
The King’s Speech
Made in Dagenham
True Grit

Best Makeup & Hair

Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
The King’s Speech
Made in Dagenham

Best Sound

127 Hours
Black Swan
Inception
The King’s Speech
True Grit

Best Special Visual Effects

Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Inception
Toy Story 3

Best Film Not in the English Language

Biutiful
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I Am Love
Of Gods and Men
The Secret in Their Eyes

Best Short Animation

The Eagleman Stag
Matter Fisher
Thursday

Best Short Film

Connect
Lin
Rite
Turning
Until the River Runs Red

Best Rising Star

Gemma Arterton
Andrew Garfield
Tom Hardy
Aaron Johnson
Emma Stone

Best Debut of a British Writer, Director or Producer

The Arbor
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Four Lions
Monsters
Skeletons

Best British Film

127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King’s Speech
Made in Dagenham

Comments

7 responses to “Precursor: British Academy Award Nominations”

Almasy

January 18, 2011

Finally some guys recognise 127 hours for direction and cinematography.

I really like many of these nominations, including the girl with the dragon tatoo for adapted screenplay.

I regret not seeing the social network for best score. And thank the british for not including the fighter for best movie and director.

the Pete Postlethwaite nomination was crearly posthumous.

But, so far so good, next tuesday we’ll see what surprises the academy has for us.

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Peter J Patrick

January 18, 2011

Pete Postlethwaite was on BAFTA’s long list, but he did not place in the top five names as submitted by the actors’ branch. In order to nominate him they had to bump Bob Hoskins in Made in Dagenham. I doubt that would have happened if he hadn’t died.

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Wesley Lovell

January 18, 2011

I think Ruffalo is a pretty solid nominee at this point. If anyone gets bounced, it will be Jeremy Renner.

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bette streep

January 18, 2011

I actually like the fact that BAFTA has placed Steinfeld in the LEAD actress category and Manville in supporting.

Wonder if the Academy will do the same.

As for Pete Postlethwaite – of course sympathy played a part in his nom. And if Michael Douglas gets a nom at the Oscars – it’s more for his cancer than the actual performance.

Douglas might still get a nom – but which more deserving actor will be snubbed as a result? Ruffalo I guess.

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Wesley Lovell

January 18, 2011

I don’t think Postlethwaite’s nomination is any indication of broad support. He’s a Brit, so his consideration was already amplified for BAFTA voters.

I think Social Network’s haul here suggests that the film doesn’t play as well outside the U.S. Of course, it could also mean that support in general is softer for the film. And no Score nomination is somewhat telling, though I’d have to go back and research their other Score nominees to see if it’s indicative.

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1. Tarek
  
  January 18, 2011
  
  good to see Social Network isn´t nominated for the music. But I am happy to see “How to train your Dragon” made it….I really liked Powells work.
  
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Peter J Patrick

January 18, 2011

Interesting. True Grit seems to have traveled well across the pond; The Fighter less so.

I had been thinking that Pete Postlethwaite’s death might put him in better stead than Jeremy Renner for an Oscar nomination for The Town, but hadn’t been thinking BAFTA.

I hadn’t thought of 127 Hours as a British film, but I guess it is.

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