BAFTA Awards News

Orange British Academy Film Awards: BRUNCH

BAFTA/LA will host the ever-popular annual Awards Brunch on Sunday, February 21, 2010, providing our Members and Guests with the opportunity view the exclusive West Coast Broadcast of the Orange British Academy Film Awards.
 
Members are invited to join us for a Buffet Brunch, followed by the satellite broadcast of the Awards from London. The event is a wonderful chance to celebrate the year’s nominees and winners, and a great opportunity for us to gather at what is always an enjoyable occasion.
 
Members are invited to purchase up to four tickets at the special Membership rate of $65 each. Tickets will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis so please book your tickets early.
 
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR TICKET DETAILS
 
BAFTA/LA thanks official sponsors American Airlines, British Airways and CitationAir by Cessna, Beverage Sponsor Santini Wines, and Broadcast Sponsor BBC America for their support of this event.
 
We look forward to joining our Members at the Brunch.



 

Orange British Academy Film Awards: NOMINATIONS

The Nominations for the Orange British Academy FiIm Awards have been announced.
 
BEST FILM
AVATAR James Cameron, Jon Landau
AN EDUCATION Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
THE HURT LOCKER Nominees TBC
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 Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, 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 Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
 
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 Agust'n 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 Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, 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
 
LEADING ACTRESS
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 Poltgieter
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Nominees TBC
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, Craig Stauffer
STAR TREKPeter 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
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
 
THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
JESSE EISENBERG
NICHOLAS HOULT
CAREY MULLIGAN
TAHAR RAHIM
KRISTEN STEWART



 

Orange British Academy Film Awards: Round Three Voting

The third and final round of Film Voting is now open and will close at 10.00am OST (6.00pm GMT) on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
 
Voting is an important and compulsory responsibility of all BAFTA/LA Voting Members. This ensures that the voting procedure is unquestionably fair and that the results truly reflect the opinions of all Film Voting Members of the Academy.
 
Please remember that you must either vote or register that you wish to abstain at each of the three stages of voting. Any Voting Member who fails to do so will lose all film voting privileges for the following year.

Round Three
Begins January 21, 2010 at 10.00am GMT (2.00am PST)
Ends February 16, 2010 at 6.00pm GMT (10.00am PST).

Voting is conducted online at www.bafta-online.org . You will be required to enter your unique username and password sent to you by email. Telephone and email support is available throughout the voting period on +44 207 292 5841 or votingsupport@bafta.org



 

Orange Rising Star Award 2010

The Nominees for the Orange Rising Star Award 2010 have been announced. The award recognizes five international actors and actresses whose talent has inspired popular acclaim from the British public.
 
Nominations are Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholas Hoult, Carey Mulligan, Tahar Rahim and Kristen Stewart.
 
Orange’s accolade for up and coming talent is the only award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards to be voted for by the public and the winner will be announced at the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, February 21, 2010.



 

British Academy Film Awards: Film Not In The English Language Nominations

The Nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards Film Not In the English Language category have been announced.

The nominations are:

Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Let the Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

These Nominees were selected by the Film Not in the English Language Chapter. All eligible Film Voting Members will vote for the winner of this category during the third round of voting.

BAFTA/LA is currently working to schedule screenings in Los Angeles for our Members’ voting consideration. Details will be available in our Screenings and Events section.



 

Orange British Academy Film Awards: VOTING

The voting stages of the Orange British Film Awards in 2010 has now begun.
 
Voting is an important and compulsory responsibility of all BAFTA/LA Voting Members. This ensures that the voting procedure is unquestionably fair and that the results truly reflect the opinions of all Film Voting Members of the Academy.
 
Please remember that you must either vote or register that you wish to abstain at each of the three stages of voting. Any Voting Member who fails to do so will lose all film voting privileges for the following year.
 
There are three rounds of voting:
 
Round One
Begins December 7, 2009 at 10.00am GMT
Ends January 5, 2010 at 6.00pm GMT (10.00am PST)
 
Round Two
Begins January 7, 2010 at 6.00pm GMT (10.00am PST)
Ends January 19, 2010 at 6.00pm GMT (10.00am PST)
 
Round Three
Begins January 21, 2010 at 10.00am GMT (2.00am PST)
Ends February 16, 2010 at 6.00pm GMT (10.00am PST).
 
Voting is conducted online at www.bafta-online.org www.bafta-online.org . You will be required to enter your unique username and password sent to you by email. Telephone and email support is available throughout the voting period on +44 207 292 5841 or votingsupport@bafta.org



 

Contributions by Patrick J. Connolly, Julian Stone

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