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“Lincoln” Leads BAFTA Nominations

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Best Film:

  • Argo
  • Les Miserables
  • Life Of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Best British Film:

  • Anna Karenina
  • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • Les Miserables
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • Skyfall

Best Director: 

  • Michael Haneke, Amour
  • Ben Affleck, Argo
  • Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
  • Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
  • Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor: 

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

Best Actress:

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

Best Supporting Actor:

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

Best Supporting Actress:

  • Amy Adams, The Master
  • Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
  • Helen Hunt, The Sessions
  • Judi Dench, Skyfall
  • Sally Field, Lincoln

Rising Star Award (voted by the public):

  • Elizabeth Olsen
  • Andrea Riseborough
  • Suraj Sharma
  • Juno Temple
  • Alicia Vikander

Best Original Screenplay: 

  • Michael Haneke, Amour
  • Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
  • Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
  • Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty

Best Adapted Screenplay:

  • Chris Terrio, Argo
  • Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
  • David Magee, Life Of Pi
  • Tony Kushner, Lincoln
  • David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Film Not in the English Language:

  • Amour
  • Headhunters
  • The Hunt
  • Rust and Bone
  • Untouchable

Best Animated Film:

  • Brave
  • Frankenweenie
  • ParaNorman

Best Documentary:

  • The Imposter
  • Marley
  • McCullin
  • Searching For Sugar Man
  • West Of Memphis

BAFTA Nominations Are In!

I’m glad to see Hailee Steinfeld in the Lead Actress category. We’ll have to wait another 8 days to see if the Academy will follow suit.

BEST FILM

  • BLACK SWAN
  • INCEPTION
  • THE KING’S SPEECH
  • THE SOCIAL NETWORK
  • TRUE GRIT

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
  • ANOTHER YEAR
  • FOUR LIONS
  • THE KING’S SPEECH
  • MADE IN DAGENHAM

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

  • 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

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

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

ANIMATED FILM

  • DESPICABLE ME
  • HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
  • TOY STORY 3

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

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 DESIGN

  • 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
  • BLACK SWAN
  • INCEPTION
  • THE KING’S SPEECH
  • TRUE GRIT

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND
  • BLACK SWAN
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1
  • INCEPTION
  • TOY STORY 3

MAKE UP & HAIR

  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND
  • BLACK SWAN
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1
  • THE KING’S SPEECH
  • MADE IN DAGENHAM

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 WEDNESDAYS RISING AWARD

  • GEMMA ARTERTON
  • ANDREW GARFIELD
  • TOM HARDY
  • AARON JOHNSON
  • EMMA STONE

 

Oscars potentially moving to January?

This news won’t change the date for the 83rd ceremony, which has its date firmly set for February 27th, 2011. Organizers say the earliest it would happen would be for the 2012 ceremony.

Sasha over at AwardsDaily has a pretty great post, pretty much explaining that all this would do would create a shift in all of the precursors and not do anything to fix “awards season fatigue.” I also like what she said about how if the Academy really wants to get more viewers they should think about adding a people’s choice awards, a la the Orange Rising Star Award that the BAFTAs have. If American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, etc has taught us anything it’s that American’s like to vote on pop culture related things.

What really irks me about this move is that for people who don’t live in Los Angeles, or any city for that matter, this has the potential of making it even harder to watch all the movies that will be up for Oscar before the actual ceremony. I was barely able to do it when I lived in San Francisco, let alone now that I live in the middle of nowhere.

What do you guys think about this potential move in the date?

“The Hurt Locker” takes top prize at the Producers Guild Awards

This is a wonderful sign for The Hurt Locker. The winner at the PGA has gone on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards 13 times out of the last 20 years.

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For Your Consideration – The Hangover

I had this thought that perhaps The Hangover should win Best Picture at the Oscars this year.

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BAFTA Nominations Are In

There are a few odd things in this list, but keep in mind these are for Britain, so some films that are eligible for Oscar haven’t been released there yet. 

The one thing that is certain is Jeremy Renner is closer now to being a lock for a Best Actor nomination by the Academy.

Full list of nominees and my analysis after the cut.

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