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The Bafta Awards
The Awards show season is in full swing now, with the results of the Bafta winners announced, the Golden Globes long gone, and the Oscar’s looming. This year the Bafta’s have seemed a little more important with the Golden Globes being stripped down to the minimum, due to the Writers strike. So lots of actors and actresses turned up this year, with some humorous speeches on stage, from Eddie Izzard presenting and cracking the audience up, to Javier Bardem’s subtle and funny acceptance speech.
So let’s take a quick look at some of the winners from the 2008 Bafta film awards.
The Best Film category, and Best British Film, were both loaded with solid movies. Atonement walked away with the Best Film win and This is England, won the Best British Film, both movies I haven’t managed to see yet so it’s pretty unfair for me to comment. However the category nominees themselves were loaded with serious movies, with The Bourne Ultimatum being the most commercial of all the nominated films in the Best British Film category, closely followed by American Gangster in the Best Film category.
Best Actor and Actress were hotly contested categories with Daniel Day Lewis taking best actor over James McAvoy, George Clooney, Viggo Morteson. In the Best Actress, Marion Coitillard walked away with this for her roles in La Vie en Rose, over the other nominees, Cate Blanchett, Julie Christie, Keira Knightly and Ellen Page.
The Best supporting Actor and Actress awards went to Javier Bardem for his turn in No Country for Old Men. A good choice, he was seriously creepy in the movie and without that performance the movie would have faltered. He also made the funniest acceptance speech of the night too. Best supporting actress went to Tilda Swinton for Tom Clayton who beat off tough competition all round in this category.
The other big award went to Joel and Ethen Coen for Best Director. With their return to form with No Country for Old Men, I’m more than happy to see these guys pick up an award after turning out non typical Hollywood movies that are laced with great style and flair.
Rounding up the rest of the awards from the Bata’s, we saw Ratatouille pick up the best animated Film award, no surprises there, and well deserved. Roger Deakins who worked on No Country for Old Men won the Cinematography award, another good choice, with Christopher Rouse getting the best editing award for the Bourne Ultimatum, which was edited pretty damn sharply.
Here is the full list of Winners
BEST FILM
ATONEMENT – Tim Bevan/Eric Fellner/Paul Webster
BEST BRITISH FILM
THIS IS ENGLAND – Mark Herbert/Shane Meadows
THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film
MATT GREENHALGH (Writer) – Control
DIRECTOR
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN – Joel Coen/Ethan Coen
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
JUNO – Diablo Cody
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY – Ronald Harwood
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE LIVES OF OTHERS – Quirin Berg/Max Wiedemann/Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
ANIMATED FILM
RATATOUILLE – Brad Bird
LEADING ACTOR
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS – There Will Be Blood
LEADING ACTRESS
MARION COTILLARD – La Vie en Rose
SUPPORTING ACTOR
JAVIER BARDEM – No Country for Old Men
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
TILDA SWINTON – Michael Clayton
CINEMATOGRAPHY
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN – Roger Deakins
EDITING
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM – Christopher Rouse
PRODUCTION DESIGN
ATONEMENT – Sarah Greenwood/Katie Spencer
COSTUME DESIGN
LA VIE EN ROSE – Marit Allen
SOUND
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM – Kirk Francis/Scott Millan/David Parker/Karen
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE GOLDEN COMPASS – Michael Fink/Bill Westenhofer/Ben Morris/Trevor
MAKE UP & HAIR
LA VIE EN ROSE – Jan Archibald/Didier Lavergne
SHORT ANIMATION
THE PEARCE SISTERS – Jo Allen/Luis Cook
SHORT FILM
DOG ALTOGETHER – Diarmid Scrimshaw/Paddy Considine
THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD
SHIA LABEOUF