BAFTA Winners Announced

The Orange British Academy Film Awards took place tonight in London’s Covent Garden with nominees like Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet, and Mickey Rourke joining presenters as diverse as Sharon Stone, Goldie Hawn and, to the surprise of a packed BAFTA crowd, Mick Jagger. Not surprisingly given home field advantage, the big winner of the night was Slumdog Millionaire, while Benjamin Button was the best represented American hopeful, picking up plenty of technical gongs. But, as always with the British Academy, there were plenty of surprises amongst the results…

Best Film

Outstanding British Film

The Carl Foreman Award

Director

Leading Actor

Leading Actress

Supporting Actor

Supporting Actress

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Original Screenplay	Adapted Screenplay
Burn After Reading (77%)	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (71%)
Changeling (60%)	Frost/Nixon (91%)
I’ve Loved You So Long (91%)	The Reader (60%)
In Bruges (81%)	Revolutionary Road (70%)
Milk (93%)	Slumdog Millionaire (94%)
Film Not in the English Language	Animated Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex from Germany (82%)	Persepolis (96%)
Gomorrah (92%)	WALL-E (96%)
I’ve Loved You So Long (91%)	Waltz With Bashir (96%)
Persepolis (96%)
Waltz With Bashir (96%)
Music	Cinematography
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (71%)	Changeling (60%)
The Dark Knight (94%)	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (71%)
Mamma Mia! (53%)	The Dark Knight (94%)
Slumdog Millionaire (94%)	The Reader (60%)
WALL-E (96%)	Slumdog Millionaire (94%)
Editing	Production Design
Changeling (60%)	Changeling (60%)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (71%)	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (71%)
The Dark Knight (94%)	The Dark Knight (94%)
Frost/Nixon (91%)	Revolutionary Road (70%)
In Bruges (81%)	Slumdog Millionaire (94%)
Slumdog Millionaire (94%)
Costume Design	Sound
Changeling (60%)	Changeling (60%)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (71%)	The Dark Knight (94%)
The Dark Knight (94%)	Quantum of Solace (65%)
The Duchess (60%)	Slumdog Millionaire (94%)
Revolutionary Road (70%)	WALL-E (96%)
Special Visual Effects	Make-Up and Hair
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (71%)	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (71%)
The Dark Knight (94%)	The Dark Knight (94%)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (77%)	The Duchess (60%)
Iron Man (93%)	Frost/Nixon (91%)
Quantum of Solace (65%)	Milk (93%)
Short Animation	Short Film
Codswallop	Kingsland #1 The Dreamer
Varmints	Love You More
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death	Ralph
	September
	Voyage d’Affaires
Orange Rising Star Award	Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
Michael Cera	Pinewood/Shepperton Studios
Noel Clarke
Michael Fassbender
Rebecca Hall
Toby Kebbell
Academy Fellowship
Terry Gilliam

The British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) held their annual awards presentation on February 21st, and they managed to dole out some love for an interesting variety of films and filmmakers — most of which have been on the receiving end of other awards already, but they’re good choices anyway, if it’s me you’re asking.

Best Film — Brokeback Mountain

The Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year — Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film — Joe Wright, Pride & Prejudice

The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction — Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain

Original Screenplay — Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, Crash

Adapted Screenplay — Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain

Film Not in the English Language — The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Actor in a Leading Role — Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

Actress in a Leading Role — Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Actor in a Supporting Role — Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain

Actress in a Supporting Role — Thandie Newton, Crash

The Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music — John Williams, Memoirs of a Geisha

Cinematography — Dion Beebe, Memoirs of a Geisha

Editing — Claire Simpson, The Consant Gardener

Production Design — Stuart Craig, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Costume Design — Colleen Atwood, Memoirs of a Geisha

Sound — Walk the Line

Achievement in Special Visual Effects — King Kong

Make-up & Hair — The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Short Animation Film — Fallen Art

Short Film — Antonio’s Breakfast

The Orange Rising Star Award — James McAvoy

BAFTA is a charity with principal objects to promote and advance education through its events and to cultivate and improve public taste in the film, television and games industries. Its principal activities are the staging of UK and international awards ceremonies, special tribute evenings and an ever-expanding events and education programme. BAFTA has approximately 6,500 members worldwide.