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2011 BAFTA Winners: ‘The King’s Speech’ Sweeps 7 Awards Including Best Film; David Fincher, Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter

By TIM ADLER in London | Sunday February 13, 2011 @ 11:14am PSTTags: BAFTA, BAFTA Awards, Chancellor George Osborne, Colin Firth, David Fincher, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Movies, Natalie Portman, Orange British Academy Film Awards, The King's Speech, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, UK Films

Tonight Oscar favorite Colin Firth won a second consecutive Lead Actor BAFTA (the British Oscars) at this year’s awards ceremony held at the Royal Opera House in London. He won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize for his role in A Single Man last year and this time was honoured for playing George VI in The King’s Speech. The late Rod Steiger was the last star to win the best actor BAFTA two years’ running (for The Pawnbroker in 1967 and In The Heat Of The Night in 1968). The King’s Speech nearly swept with 7 awards (it had 14 nominations in all). The Social Network won 3 awards including Best Director for David Fincher. Black Swan won one award for Natalie Portman in Lead Actress. Inception won 3 awards, Alice In Wonderland capured 2 awards, and both True Grit and Toy Story 3 took 1 each. The Orange Wednesdays Rising Star award, voted by the public, went to actor Tom Hardy. Jonathan Ross hosted this year’s ceremony. Sir Christopher Lee was honoured with the British Academy’s prestigious Fellowship while the Harry Potter films was given BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema:

2011 BAFTA WINNERS (keep refreshing for updates)

BEST FILM

THE KING’S SPEECH – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin

LEADING ACTOR

COLIN FIRTH – The King’s Speech

LEADING ACTRESS

NATALIE PORTMAN – Black Swan

DIRECTOR

THE SOCIAL NETWORK – David Fincher

SUPPORTING ACTOR

GEOFFREY RUSH – The King’s Speech

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

HELENA BONHAM CARTER – The King’s Speech

ANIMATED FILM

TOY STORY 3 – Lee Unkrich

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

THE SOCIAL NETWORK – Aaron Sorkin

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

THE KING’S SPEECH – David Seidler

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

THE KING’S SPEECH – Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Søren Stærmose, Niels Arden Oplev

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

FOUR LIONS – Chris Morris (Director/Writer)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

TRUE GRIT – Roger Deakins

PRODUCTION DESIGN

INCEPTION – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat

EDITING

THE SOCIAL NETWORK – Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter

SOUND

INCEPTION – Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

INCEPTION – Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb

ORIGINAL MUSIC

THE KING’S SPEECH – Alexandre Desplat

COSTUME DESIGN

ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Colleen Atwood

MAKE UP & HAIR

ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Valli O’Reilly, Paul Gooch

SHORT ANIMATION

THE EAGLEMAN STAG – Michael Please

SHORT FILM

UNTIL THE RIVER RUNS RED – Paul Wright, Poss Kondeatis

THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD (voted by the public)

TOM HARDY

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OSCAR: Documentary On ‘Social Network’

By PETE HAMMOND | Saturday February 12, 2011 @ 3:41pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, David Fincher, Movies, Oscar Best Picture Category, Oscar Campaigning, Oscars, Sony Pictures, The Social Network
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Sony Pictures is looking for any way to focus attention back on the reasons why The Social Network was the early Best Picture frontrunner for most of the season until it got gobsmacked in the Guild awards by a certain … Read More »

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BAFTA Awards Harry Potter Film Franchise

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 11:29pm PSTTags: BAFTA Awards, BAFTA Nominations, David Heyman, Harry Potter BAFTA Award, Harry Potter Franchise, Movies, UK Film Making, UK Films

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is delighted to announce that the Harry Potter film series will receive the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema at this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards. JK Rowling and David

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Emma Stone,Tom Hardy, Andrew Garfield Among Nominees For BAFTA Rising Star

By TIM ADLER in London | Monday January 10, 2011 @ 2:19am PSTTags: Aaron Johnson, Andrew Garfield, BAFTA Awards, Emma Stone, Gemma Arterton, Tom Hardy

Today at BAFTA Headquarters, jury member, film director, actor, and award-winning singer-songwriter Ben Drew announced the hotly anticipated nominees for the newly named Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award 2011. The nominations recognise five international actors and actresses whose talent has captured … Read More »

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BAFFLING BAFTA: Explaining British Oscar

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday November 26, 2010 @ 6:14pm PSTTags: Awards, BAFTA, BAFTA Awards, BAFTA Nominations, Movies

Extravagant film producer Alexander Korda first broached the idea of establishing a British equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over a suitably lavish dinner he was hosting for his fellow film swells at swank Claridge’s Hotel on May 13, 1947. Those sitting round the table included directors David Lean and Carol Reed and Ealing Comedies creator Michael Balcon. Having worked their way through sole with Liebfraumilch followed by steak and kidney pie, Korda compared their dessert of hot whipped meringue concealing a frozen ice cream heart to Russian women of his acquaintance. That’s when the conversation abruptly turned to why didn’t Britain have its own film academy giving awards? There had never been a British equivalent of the Oscars, so Lean was appointed the first chairman and donated his royalties. At the inaugural awards on May 29, 1949, Laurence Olivier presented just four categories. Now the British Academy Of Film & Television Arts presents 22 at its televised film–only awards show.

If you think the Oscars are overly complicated, then the BAFTAs will positively baffle. That’s because the current push is for their increasing democratization. Only the 6,350 film members are allowed to vote for the motion picture awards. They used to wade through every film released in Britain but that changed in 2005 when it became the responsibility of each pic’s producer and distributor to decide submissions which close on November 18 for the 2011 BAFTAs. The longlist will be published on December 3.

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SHOCKER! Academy Discusses Moving Oscars To January; Moguls See Plusses

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday June 22, 2010 @ 9:23pm PDTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, ABC, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, AMPAS, BAFTA Awards, SAG Awards, Tom Sherak

Osc2BREAKING NEWS!… EXCLUSIVE… 2ND UPDATE: Latest news is that it’s more likely to be the plan for 2012. But outside chance it could be for the next Oscars. Also, Academy executive director Bruce Davis sent out an email scolding AMPAS board members … Read More »

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