Sunday, February 13, 2011
BAFTAs They know how's it's done ;)
Today was the "British version" of the Academy Awards and I am certainly not surprised by any of the results. If this reflects how the Oscars are gonna go, I will be one happy lady. :)

Ze results! :

Best Film

WINNER- The King's Speech

Other Nominees:

Black Swan
Inception
The Social Network
True Grit

Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year

WINNER- The King's Speech

Other Nominees: 

127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions

Made in Dagenham

Best Actor

WINNER- Colin Firth for The King's Speech

Other Nominees:

Javier Bardem for Biutiful
Jeff Bridges for True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
James Franco for 127 Hours

Best Actress

WINNER- Natalie Portman for Black Swan

Other Nominees:

Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right
Noomi Rapace for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit

Best Supporting Actor

WINNER- Geoffrey Rush for The King's Speech

Other Nominees:

Christian Bale for The Fighter
Andrew Garfield for The Social Network
Pete Postlethwaite for The Town
Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER- Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech

Other Nominees:

Amy Adams for The Fighter
Barbara Hershey for Black Swan
Lesley Manville for Another Year
Miranda Richardson for Made in Dagenham

David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction

WINNER- David Fincher for The Social Network

Other Nominees:

Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Danny Boyle for 127 Hours
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan for Inception

Best Screenplay (Original)

WINNER- The King's Speech: David Seidler

Other Nominees:

Black Swan: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John J. McLaughlin
The Fighter: Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
Inception: Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right: Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg

Best Screenplay (Adapted)

WINNER- The Social Network: Aaron Sorkin

Other Nominees:

127 Hours: Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
Toy Story 3: Michael Arndt
True Grit: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Best Cinematography

WINNER- True Grit: Roger Deakins

Other Nominees:

127 Hours: Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
Black Swan: Matthew Libatique
Inception: Wally Pfister
The King's Speech: Danny Cohen

Best Editing

WINNER- The Social Network: Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter

Other Nominees:

127 Hours: Jon Harris
Black Swan: Andrew Weisblum
Inception: Lee Smith
The King's Speech: Tariq Anwar

Best Production Design

WINNER- Inception: Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Douglas A. Mowat

Other Nominees:

Alice in Wonderland: Robert Stromberg, Karen O'Hara
Black Swan: Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
The King's Speech: Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
True Grit: Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

Best Costume Design

WINNER- Alice In Wonderland: Colleen Atwood

Other Nominees:

Black Swan: Amy Westcott
The King's Speech: Jenny Beavan
Made in Dagenham: Louise Stjernsward
True Grit: Mary Zophres

Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music

WINNER- The King's Speech: Alexandre Desplat

Other Nominees:

127 Hours: A.R. Rahman
Alice in Wonderland: Danny Elfman
How to Train Your Dragon: John Powell
Inception: Hans Zimmer

Best Make Up/Hair

WINNER- Alice In Wonderland

Other Nominees:

Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
The King's Speech
Made in Dagenham

Best Sound

WINNER- Inception

Other Nominees:

127 Hours
Black Swan
The King's Speech
True Grit

Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects

WINNER- Inception

Other Nominees:

Alice In Wonderland
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Toy Story 3

Best Film not in the English Language

WINNER- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Other Nominees:

Biutiful
I Am Love
Of Gods and Men
The Secret in Their Eyes

Best Animated Feature Film

WINNER- Toy Story 3

Other Nominees:

Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon

Orange Rising Star Award

WINNER- Tom Hardy 

Other Nominees:

Gemma Arterton
Andrew Garfield
Aaron Johnson
Emma Stone

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

WINNER- Four Lions: Christopher Morris-Director/Writer

Other Nominees:

The Arbor: Clio Barnard, Tracy O'Riordan (Director, Producer)
Exit Through the Gift Shop: Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz (Director, Producer)
Monsters: Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
Skeletons: Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer)

Best Short Animation

WINNER- The Eagleman Stag

Other Nominees:

Matter Fisher
Thursday

Best Short Film

WINNER- Until the River Runs Red

Other Nominees:

Connect
Lin
Rite
Turning

 WAY TO GO King's Speech...Britain's not biased or anything... Just kiddin. Well deserved wins on all counts. ;)

Poor How To Train Your Dragon...so, so very good...and yet, no wins at the Globes, or BAFTAs. :( 

AND YES! Inception winning stuff!! Not the best film of the year, but definitely deserves visual effects for sure!

*sigh* I love Awards season. <3