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| Colin Firth on red carpet before winning BAFTA for A Single Man |
The Hurt Locker was the big winner at this year’s BAFTAs, scooping six awards including best film, director and original screenplay.
Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq war drama left ex-hubby James Cameron’s Avatar trailing, with the 3D adventure picking up just two gongs for special visual effects and production design, despite being nominated in eight categories.
Colin Firth picked up the leading actor award for his powerful performance in A Single Man, and made an amusing speech saying that he was about to turn down the role when a fridge repair man persuaded him otherwise. “I don't know what's best for me so I would like to thank the fridge guy,” he joked.
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| Kristen Stewart, looking frozen! |
Carey Mulligan was named best leading actress for her role in An Education, despite losing out to Twilight’s Kristen Stewart for the Orange rising star award. However An Education lost all of the other categories for which it was nominated, including Outstanding British film, which went to Fish Tank.
Mo’Nique bagged the supporting actress gong for her part in Precious, though she was not there in person to collect it, while Christoph Waltz waltzed off with the supporting actor award for Inglourious Basterds. Speaking at an exclusive after-show event, he hailed the film’s director Quentin Tarantino as “Precise, focused, supportive, sensitive, considerate, quiet – everything we wouldn’t expect.”
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| The immaculately dressed Vera Farmiga |
If there was a best-dressed prize for the night, it would have to go to Up In The Air’s Vera Farmiga, who looked stunning in a white floor-length Grecian-style gown, though she faced stiff competition from the always-elegant Kate Winslet and a rather dashing Tom Ford. Least-stylish would be harder to call, though Mickey Rourke’s scruffy ponytail would certainly make him a contender.
The biggest cheer of the night was reserved for man-of-the-moment R-Patz – surely a possible nominee for next year’s Rising Star award? Meanwhile, the swiftest-walk-up-the-red-carpet honours should go to Prince William, whose security team whisked him past EFF quicker than you could blink, though he did find time to greet a few fans on route. He later presented the BAFTA fellowship to an emotional Vanessa Redgrave, who sweetly bowed before him before taking to the microphone.
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| James Cameron with wife Suzy Amis |
Overall, Avatar’s low haul aside, it was a night of relatively few shocks. Will this pave the way for next month’s Oscars, or are there some big surprises in store?
BEST FILM
Avatar - James Cameron, Jon Landau
An Education - Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire - Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
Up In The Air - Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
An Education - Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
Fish Tank - Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
In The Loop - Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
Moon - Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
Nowhere Boy - Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson - Directors, Producers : Mugabe And The White African
Eran Creevy - Writer/Director : Shifty
Stuart Hazeldine - Writer/Director : Exam
Duncan Jones - Director : Moon
Sam Taylor-Wood - Director : Nowhere Boy
DIRECTOR
Avatar - James Cameron
District 9 - Neill Blomkamp
An Education - Lone Scherfig
The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Hangover - Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
A Serious Man - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up - Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
District 9 - Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
An Education - Nick Hornby
In The Loop - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire - Geoffrey Fletcher
Up In The Air - Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Broken Embraces - Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
Coco Before Chanel - Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
Let The Right One In - Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
A Prophet - Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
The White Ribbon - Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke
ANIMATED FILM
Coraline - Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr Fox - Wes Anderson
Up - Pete Docter
LEADING ACTOR
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
George Clooney - Up In The Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker
Andy Serkis - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
Audrey Tautou - Coco Before Chanel
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alec Baldwin - It’s Complicated
Christian McKay - Me And Orson Welles
Alfred Molina - An Education
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy
Vera Farmiga - Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air
Mo'nique - Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Kristin Scott Thomas - Nowhere Boy
MUSIC
Avatar - James Horner
Crazy Heart - T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
Fantastic Mr Fox - Alexandre Desplat
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Chaz Jankel
Up - Michael Giacchino
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar - Mauro Fiore
District 9 - Trent Opaloch
The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson
The Road - Javier Aguirresarobe
EDITING
Avatar - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
District 9 Julian Clarke
The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
Inglourious Basterds - Sally Menke
Up In The Air - Dana E. Glauberman
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Avatar - Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
District 9 - Philip Ivey, Guy Potgieter
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus - Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith
Inglourious Basterds - David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco
COSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star - Janet Patterson
Coco Before Chanel - Catherine Leterrier
An Education- Odile Dicks-Mireaux
A Single Man - Arianne Phillips
The Young Victoria - Sandy Powell
SOUND
Avatar - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
District 9 - Brent Burge, Chris Ward, Dave Whitehead, Michael Hedges, Ken Saville
The Hurt Locker - Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson
Star Trek - Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
Up - Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
District 9 - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince - John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi
The Hurt Locker - Richard Stutsman
Star Trek - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton
MAKE UP & HAIR
Coco Before Chanel - Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Jane Milon, Madeleine Cofano
An Education - Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus - Sarah Monzani
Nine - Peter Swords King
The Young Victoria - Jenny Shircore
SHORT ANIMATION
The Gruffalo - Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
The Happy Duckling - Gili Dolev
Mother Of Many - Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby
SHORT FILM
14 - Asitha Ameresekere
I Do Air - James Bolton, Martina Amati
Jade - Samm Haillay, Daniel Elliott
Mixtape - Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin
Off Season - Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan van Tulleken
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
- Joe Dunton
Orange Rising Star Award
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart
