Tonight, Britain's acting aristocracy will be gathering at Royal Opera House in London for the Bafta awards ceremony. Bafta tonight is hosted by favourite court jester, Jonathan Ross, which is brought back after the BBC suspended him last year for insulting the actor Andrew Sachs. The King’s Speech has received 14 nominations following actor Colin Firth's win at the Golden Globes. But for us here at ScifiWood there is no film other than Inception.
The 64th British Academy Film Awards (or BAFTAs), given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, takes place tonight. The ceremony honours the best films of 2010 and was first awarded in 1947. Many see the BAFTAs as the British version of the Oscars, which take place later in the year. Each winner receives a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, which was first commissioned in 1955.
This year’s nominations are as predictable as the ending of Titanic. The King’s Speech leads the way with 14, closely followed by Black Swan with 12. These 2 films alone summarise exactly what makes the BAFTAs so frustrating. The King’s Speech highlights how voters find a half-decent British film and nominate it in every possible category; Black Swan shows how they are desperate for the ceremony to be as respected as the Oscars, giving a tipped-for-glory American film a heap of nominations. How embarrassing to find out a week later that it has been nominated for just 5 Oscars.
Both Toy Story 3 and Inception didn’t have to try very hard to stand out from the crowd. Both are brilliant, but we are sure that in the tradition of both Bafta and Oscar, more people would rather see films making political statements win; Inception is too much of a love it or hate it film and Toy Story did not win this year's Annie Awards.
Therefore, the chances of Inception winning Best Film is not good like last year when the most popular film of all time Avatar lost to a Irrelevant Iraq War Story that was no better than a good episode of TV serial 24. Today I noticed that they cannot even sell the DVD with by one and get one free at only £10 GBP. it is merely this year’s nominated-for-more-than-most blockbuster. As happens every year with popular films, it has been nominated to spark interest, but it will only walk away with a couple of unwanted technical awards.
Film
BLACK SWAN - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
INCEPTION - Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
THE KING’S SPEECH - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
TRUE GRIT - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Best Director
- 127 HOURS - Danny Boyle
- BLACK SWAN - Darren Aronofsky
- INCEPTION - Christopher Nolan
- THE KING’S SPEECH - Tom Hooper
- THE SOCIAL NETWORK - David Fincher
Leading Actor
- JAVIER BARDEM - Biutiful
- JEFF BRIDGES - True Grit
- JESSE EISENBERG - The Social Network
- COLIN FIRTH - The King’s Speech
- JAMES FRANCO - 127 Hours
Leading 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
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
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
Outstanding British Film
- 127 HOURS - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
- ANOTHER YEAR - Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
- FOUR LIONS - Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
- THE KING’S SPEECH - Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
- MADE IN DAGENHAM - Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley
Film not in the English Language
- BIUTIFUL - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira
- THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Søren Stærmose, Niels Arden Oplev
- I AM LOVE - Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Marco Morabito, Massimiliano Violante
- OF GODS AND MEN - Xavier Beauvois
- THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES - Mariela Besuievsky, Juan José Campanella
Animated Film
- DESPICABLE ME - Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
- HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
- TOY STORY 3 - Lee Unkrich
Original Screenplay
- BLACK SWAN - Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin
- THE FIGHTER - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
- INCEPTION - Christopher Nolan
- THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT - Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
- THE KING’S SPEECH - David Seidler
Adapted Screenplay
- 127 HOURS - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
- THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
- THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Aaron Sorkin
- TOY STORY 3 - Michael Arndt
- TRUE GRIT - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Outstanding Debut by British Writer
- THE ARBOR - Director, Producer - Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan
- EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP - Director, Producer – Banksy, Jaimie D’Cruz
- FOUR LIONS - Director/Writer - Chris Morris
- MONSTERS - Director/Writer – Gareth Edwards
- SKELETONS - Director/Writer – Nick Whitfield
Cinematography
- 127 HOURS - Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
- BLACK SWAN - Matthew Libatique
- INCEPTION - Wally Pfister
- THE KING’S SPEECH - Danny Cohen
- TRUE GRIT - Roger Deakins
Editing
- 127 HOURS - Jon Harris
- BLACK SWAN - Andrew Weisblum
- INCEPTION - Lee Smith
- THE KING’S SPEECH - Tariq Anwar
- THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
Production Design
- ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
- BLACK SWAN - Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
- INCEPTION - Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
- THE KING’S SPEECH - Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
- TRUE GRIT - Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
Costume
- ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Colleen Atwood
- BLACK SWAN - Amy Westcott
- THE KING’S SPEECH - Jenny Beavan
- MADE IN DAGENHAM - Louise Stjernsward
- TRUE GRIT - Mary Zophres
Sound
- 127 HOURS - Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri, Douglas Cameron
- BLACK SWAN - Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan, Dominick Tavella
- INCEPTION - Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick
- THE KING’S SPEECH - John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin
- TRUE GRIT - Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell
Special Effects
- ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Nominees TBC
- BLACK SWAN - Dan Schrecker
- HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 - Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait'Hadi, Christian Manz
- INCEPTION - Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb
- TOY STORY 3 - Nominees TBC
Make-up & hair
- ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Nominees TBC
- BLACK SWAN - Judy Chin, Geordie Sheffer
- HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 - Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
- THE KING’S SPEECH - Frances Hannon
- MADE IN DAGENHAM - Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
Short Animation
- THE EAGLEMAN STAG - Michael Please
- MATTER FISHER - David Prosser
- THURSDAY - Matthias Hoegg
Short Film
- CONNECT - Samuel Abrahams, Beau Gordon
- LIN - Piers Thompson, Simon Hessel
- RITE - Michael Pearce, Ross McKenzie
- TURNING - Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Alison Sterling, Kat Armour-Brown
- UNTIL THE RIVER RUNS RED - Paul Wright, Poss Kondeatis
Orange Wednesday Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
- GEMMA ARTERTON
- ANDREW GARFIELD
- TOM HARDY
- AARON JOHNSON
- EMMA STONE
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