BAFTA winners 2010, some real shocks here! Winners marked*
BEST FILM
AVATAR – James Cameron, Jon Landau
AN EDUCATION – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
*THE HURT LOCKER – Nominees TBC
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
UP IN THE AIR – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki
MUSIC
AVATAR – James Horner
CRAZY HEART – T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
FANTASTIC MR FOX – Alexandre Desplat
SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL – Chaz Jankel
*UP – Michael Giacchino
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
AN EDUCATION – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
*FISH TANK – Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
IN THE LOOP – Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
MOON – Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
NOWHERE BOY – Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
LUCY BAILEY, ANDREW THOMPSON, ELIZABETH MORGAN HEMLOCK, DAVID PEARSON – Directors, Producers – Mugabe and the White African
ERAN CREEVY – Writer/Director – Shifty
STUART HAZELDINE – Writer/Director – Exam
*DUNCAN JONES – Director – Moon
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD – Director – Nowhere Boy
DIRECTOR
AVATAR – James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 – Neill Blomkamp
AN EDUCATION – Lone Scherfig
*THE HURT LOCKER – Kathryn Bigelow
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Quentin Tarantino
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
DISTRICT 9 – Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
AN EDUCATION – Nick Hornby
IN THE LOOP – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE – Geoffrey Fletcher
*UP IN THE AIR – Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BROKEN EMBRACES – Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
COCO BEFORE CHANEL – Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN - Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
*A PROPHET – Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
THE WHITE RIBBON – Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE HANGOVER – Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
*THE HURT LOCKER – Mark Boal
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Quentin Tarantino
A SERIOUS MAN – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
UP – Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
ANIMATED FILM
CORALINE – Henry Selick
FANTASTIC MR FOX – Wes Anderson
*UP – Pete Docter
LEADING ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES – Crazy Heart
GEORGE CLOONEY – Up in the Air
*COLIN FIRTH – A Single Man
JEREMY RENNER – The Hurt Locker
ANDY SERKIS – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
LEADING ACTRESS
*CAREY MULLIGAN – An Education
SAOIRSE RONAN – The Lovely Bones
GABOUREY SIDIBE – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
MERYL STREEP – Julie & Julia
AUDREY TAUTOU – Coco Before Chanel
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
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ANNE-MARIE DUFF – Nowhere Boy
VERA FARMIGA – Up in the Air
ANNA KENDRICK – Up in the Air
*MO’NIQUE – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – Nowhere Boy
CINEMATOGRAPHY
AVATAR – Mauro Fiore
DISTRICT 9 – Trent Opaloch
*THE HURT LOCKER – Barry Ackroyd
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Robert Richardson
THE ROAD – Javier Aguirresarobe
EDITING
AVATAR – Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 – Julian Clarke
*THE HURT LOCKER – Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Sally Menke
UP IN THE AIR – Dana E. Glauberman
PRODUCTION DESIGN
*AVATAR – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
DISTRICT 9 – Philip Ivey, Guy Poltgieter
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE – Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS – Nominees TBC
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco
COSTUME DESIGN
BRIGHT STAR – Janet Patterson
COCO BEFORE CHANEL – Catherine Leterrier
AN EDUCATION – Odile Dicks-Mireaux
A SINGLE MAN – Arianne Phillips
*THE YOUNG VICTORIA – Sandy Powell
SOUND
AVATAR – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
DISTRICT 9 – Nominees TBC
*THE HURT LOCKER – Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer
STAR TREK- Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
UP – Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
*AVATAR – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
DISTRICT 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE – John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi
THE HURT LOCKER – Richard Stutsman
STAR TREK – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton
MAKE UP & HAIR
COCO BEFORE CHANEL - Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Jane Milon
AN EDUCATION – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS – Sarah Monzani
NINE – Peter ‘Swords’ King
*THE YOUNG VICTORIA – Jenny Shircore
SHORT ANIMATION
THE HAPPY DUCKLING - Gili Dolev
*MOTHER OF MANY – Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby
THE GRUFFALO – Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
SHORT FILM
14 – Asitha Ameresekere
*I DO AIR – James Bolton, Martina Amati
JADE – Samm Haillay, Daniel Elliott
MIXTAPE – Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin
OFF SEASON – Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan van Tulleken
ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD
JESSE EISENBERG
NICHOLAS HOULT
CAREY MULLIGAN
TAHAR RAHIM
*KRISTEN STEWART
Lots of more than worth films have beaten the main competitors, much to my approval of course. The Hurt Locker is a clear winner here, racking up an unbelievable 6 awards. Any other fans of The Gruffalo feeling very disappointed? I do love Disney Pixar, but Up isn’t the best and that stylistic qualities of The Fantastic Mr Fox really has been overlloked here. I’m quite happy that Avatar received a recognisable and respectable two awards, but wasn’t overplayed in celebrations. Kristen Stewarts win was a little sickly sweet considering her recent explosion into the industry, but in light of promoting upcoming stars, Carey Mulligan was a modest win. As always, the issue of awards considerations branching out more is favourable, but do you think that this year has been fair? Or are there lots of by-passed gems that were perhaps more deserving?
