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Atonement named best at BAFTAs

Favourite wins, but hotly contested awards means no film dominates.

by Amber Wilkinson

The British big-screen adaptation of Ian McEwan's atonement has walked away with the top award at the BAFTAs.

But despite being nominated in 14 categories - including best actor and actress, it only picked up one more gong, for its production design.

In fact, there was an award of some sort for virtually all of the bookies' favourites, although no one film dominated.

Daniel Day-Lewis - hotly tipped to add an Oscar to his award collection later this month - was declared Best Actor for his role as an oil tycoon in There Will Be Blood. Marion Cotillard, meanwhile, was a surprise winner of the Best Actress award, for her portayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, fighting off fierce opposition from Keira Knightley (Atonement) and veteran Actress Julie Christie (Away From Her).

The supporting actor gongs went to Javier Bardem for his role as a psychopathic killer in No Country For Old Men and Tilda Swinton for her portrayal of a fragile corporate lawyer in Michael Clayton.

This Is England pipped Control, Atonement and Eastern Promises to be named Best British Film, although writer Matt Greenhalgh won the Carl Foreman Award for special achievement in a first film for his screenplay to Anton Corbijn's Joy Division biopic.

This Is England director Shane Meadows dedicated his award to the young star of his film Thomas Turgoose.

He said: "I was quite a naughty boy at his age and my life turned around over 20 years, a very steady progression. I took him from a worse place than I had ever been in and he turned his life around in six weeks."

The full winners and nominees list is:

Best film




Best British film





Leading actor
Daniel Day-Lewis -
George Clooney -
James McAvoy -
Viggo Mortensen -
Ulrich Muehe -

Leading actress
Marion Cotillard -
Cate Blanchett -
Julie Christie -
Keira Knightley -
Ellen Page -

Supporting actor
Javier Bardem -
Paul Dano -
Tommy Lee Jones -
Philip Seymour Hoffman -
Tom Wilkinson -

Supporting actress
Tilda Swinton -
Cate Blanchett -
Kelly Macdonald -
Samantha Morton -
Saoirse Ronan -

Director
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen -
Joe Wright -
Paul Greengrass -

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck -
Paul Thomas Anderson -

Original screenplay
Diablo Cody -
Steven Zaillian -
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck -
Tony Gilroy -
Shane Meadows -

Adapted screenplay
Ronald Harwood -
Christopher Hampton -
David Benioff -
Joel Coen/Ethan Coen -
Paul Thomas Anderson -

Film not in the English language




Animated film


Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film
Matt Greenhalgh (writer) -
Chris Atkins (director/writer) -
Mia Bays (producer) -
Sarah Gavron (director) -
Andrew Piddington (director/writer) -

Music Christopher Gunning -
Marc Streitenfeld -
Dario Marianelli -
Alberto Iglesias -
Jonny Greenwood -

Cinematography Roger Deakins -
Harris Savides -
Seamus McGarvey -
Oliver Wood -

Robert Elswit -

Editing
Christopher Rouse -

Pietro Scalia -
Paul Tothill -
John Gilroy -
Roderick Jaynes -

Production design
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer -
Guy Hendrix Dyas, Richard Roberts -
Stuart Craig, Stepheanie McMillan -
Jack Fisk, Jim Erickson -
Olivier Raoux -

Costume design
Marit Allen -
Jacqueline Durran -
Alexandra Byrne -
Pan Lai -
Colleen Atwood -

Sound
Kirk Francis, Scott Millan, Dave Parker, Karen Baker Landers, Per Hallberg -

Danny Hambrook, Paul Hamblin, Catherine Hodgson, Becki Ponting -
Peter Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff -
Christopher Scarabosio, Matthew Wood, John Pritchett, Michael Semanick, Tom Johnson -
Laurent Zeilig, Pascal Villard, Jean-Paul Hurier, Marc Doisne -

Special visual effects
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, Trevor Wood -
Peter Chiang, Charlie Noble, Mattias Lindahl, Joss Williams -

Tim Burke, John Richardson, Emma Norton, Chris Shaw -
John Knoll, Charles Gibson, Hal Hickel, John Frazier -
Scott Stokdyk, Peter Nofz, John Frazier, Spencer Cook -

Make-up and hair
Jan Archibald, Didier Lavergne -
Ivana Primorac -
Jenny Shircore -
Judi Cooper Sealy, Jordan Samuel -
Ivana Primorac, Peter Owen -

The Pearce Sisters - Jo Allen, Luis Cook
Head Over Heels - Osbert Parker, Fiona Pitkin, Ian Gouldstone
The Crumblegiant - Pearse Moore, John McCloskey

Short film
- Diarmid Scrimshaw, Paddy Considine
Hesitation - Julien Berlan, Michelle Eastwood, Virginia Gilbert
- Charlie Henderson, James Griffiths, Tim Key, Tom Basden
- Jane Hooks, Simon Ellis
The Stronger - Dan McCulloch, Lia Williams, Frank McGuinness

The Orange Rising Star award (voted for by the public)
Shia LaBeouf
Sienna Miller
Ellen Page
Sam Riley
Tang Wei

Academy Fellowship
Sir Anthony Hopkins

Outstanding British contribution to cinema
Barry Wilkinson

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