Last night as, Britain's acting aristocracy gathered at Royal Opera House in London for the Bafta awards ceremony. The second star of the night came in the form of Inception after securing four awards, leaving hit films The Social Network and Black Swan in its shadow.
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.
As we said before, this year’s nominations was as predictable as the ending of Titanic. The King’s Speech led the way with 14, closely followed by Black Swan with 12 and Inception with 9. At Scifiwood we criticise the Oscars for rewarding the earnest dramas, and most of us can spot an Academy Award-seeking movie a country mile off. The Golden Globes seem to put forward anything in amongst the good stuff. Even they go for high profile flops, as opposed to searching out genuine stinkers.
Now in BAFTAs if the film is British, then they get to start a lap ahead of everyone else in the race. Therefore, I feel that the gathering in London where the main purpose was to give as much praise as possible on ‘The King's Speech’. Luckily this year the King's Speech was actually very good indeed with excellent acting performances from Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
However, BAFTA was not happy just with picking up prizes for the well deserved amazing performances by Colin/Georfrey but also gave the prizes for the Best Film, Best Screenplay, Outstanding British Film, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Music. Seven gongs in all. However, giving the Best Film, and Best Screenplay! is a going a little too far.
Screen scripts for the Movies like of Black Swan and Inception were just out of this world and should the folks at BAFTA not think that by favouritism for British movies they actually demean the rightly given awards for Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
And for Best Film, sadly, the British blinkers were on, because it was an exceptionally strong field this year. Amongst the nominees we would have given it to Inception and Black Swan second. The King's Speech should have been behind the Social Network.
The second star of the night came in the form of Inception after securing four awards, leaving hit films The Social Network and Black Swan in its shadow. But let’s not forgot the others, here’s the full list of BAFTA winners:
BEST FILM
BLACK SWAN
INCEPTION
THE KING’S SPEECH (WINNER)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
TRUE GRIT
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
127 HOURS
ANOTHER YEAR
FOUR LIONS
THE KING’S SPEECH (WINNER)
MADE IN DAGENHAM
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
THE ARBOR Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
FOUR LIONS Chris Morris (Director/Writer) (WINNER)
MONSTERS Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
SKELETONS Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer)
DIRECTOR
127 HOURS Danny Boyle
BLACK SWAN Darren Aronofsky
INCEPTION Christopher Nolan
THE KING’S SPEECH Tom Hooper
THE SOCIAL NETWORK David Fincher (WINNER)
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 (WINNER)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 HOURS Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
THE SOCIAL NETWORK Aaron Sorkin (WINNER)
TOY STORY 3 Michael Arndt
TRUE GRIT Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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 (WINNER)
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 (WINNER)
LEADING ACTOR
JAVIER BARDEM Biutiful
JEFF BRIDGES True Grit
JESSE EISENBERG The Social Network
COLIN FIRTH The King’s Speech (WINNER)
JAMES FRANCO 127 Hours
LEADING ACTRESS
ANNETTE BENING The Kids Are All Right
JULIANNE MOORE The Kids Are All Right
NATALIE PORTMAN Black Swan (WINNER)
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 (WINNER)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS The Fighter
HELENA BONHAM CARTER The King’s Speech (WINNER)
BARBARA HERSHEY Black Swan
LESLEY MANVILLE Another Year
MIRANDA RICHARDSON Made in Dagenham
ORIGINAL MUSIC
127 HOURS AR Rahman
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Danny Elfman
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON John Powell
INCEPTION Hans Zimmer
THE KING’S SPEECH Alexandre Desplat (WINNER)
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 (WINNER)
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 (WINNER)
PRODUCTION DESIGN
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
BLACK SWAN Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
INCEPTION Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat (WINNER)
THE KING’S SPEECH Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
TRUE GRIT Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
COSTUME DESIGN
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Colleen Atwood (WINNER)
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 (WINNER)
THE KING’S SPEECH John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin
TRUE GRIT Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
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 (WINNER)
TOY STORY
MAKE UP & HAIR
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (WINNER)
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 (WINNER)
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 (WINNER)
THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD
GEMMA ARTERTON
ANDREW GARFIELD
TOM HARDY (WINNER)
AARON JOHNSON
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