Sunday, 10 February 2013

BAFTA WINNERS


Best Film
Argo (Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov)

Best Director
Ben Affleck (Argo)

Best Leading Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Best Leading Actress
Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)

Best Original Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)

Best Adapted Screenplay
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Cinematography
Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Editing
William Goldenberg (Argo)

Best Production Design
Anna Lynch-Robinson and Eve Stewart (Les Misérables)

Best Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran (Anna Karenina)

Best Sound
Jonathan Allen, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Lee Walpole and John Warhurst (Les Misérables)

Best Special Visual Effects
Erik De Boer, Guillaume Rocheron and Bill Westenhofer (Life of Pi)

Best Make Up & Hair
Lisa Westcott (Les Misérables)

Best Original Music
Thomas Newman (Skyfall)

Best Animated Film
Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman)

Best Documentary
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn)

Best Film Not in the English Language
Amour (Michael Haneke and Margaret Ménégoz)

Outstanding British Film
Skyfall (Barbara Broccoli, John Logan, Sam Mendes, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Michael G. Wilson)

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Dimitri Doganis – producer; Bart Layton – director (The Imposter)

Best Short Film
Swimmer (Peter Carlton, Lynne Ramsay and Diarmid Scrimshaw)

Best Short Animation
The Making of Longbird (Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson)

Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award
Juno Temple

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
Tessa Ross

Academy Fellowship
Alan Parker

Crucially, the Best Film winner Argo wins just three awards, one of which it is not nominated for at the Oscars. In Adapted Screenplay, it's beaten by Silver Linings Playbook - an unusual choice, since it's only up for three here. Emmanuelle Riva is a surprise winner in Leading Actress, and a deserving one. Amour also wins Foreign Language Film, in less of a surprise choice. Zero Dark Thirty goes home empty-handed and Lincoln wins only for Daniel Day-Lewis, whereas Les Miserables snags four awards, beating Anna Karenina to the Production Design award. However, Les Mis too is beaten, by Skyfall in British Film, and Skyfall also wins Original Music for Thomas Newman. Nominations can be found here.
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4 comments:

  1. Sam Juliano10 February 2013 at 21:58

    Yep, yet another big win for ARGO, and even Affleck as Best Director. No person that makes claim that they are of sound mind could possible now make a case for LINCOLN -or any other film for that matter- to take the Best Picture prize on February 24th. If even the British contingent -which some say is nearly one-fifth of the total voters at AMPAS, is going ARGO, well then the verdict is no longer in doubt. Very good film, I will admit, but for me not near the top. Riva, Day-Lewis and Hathaway all well deserving and even Waltz is a good pick. SLP as Best Screenplay is a joke! Nice to see Miranda win and LES MIZ getting the night's highest total.

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    1. Unknown10 February 2013 at 22:46

      Agree with everything except two:

      - You know I'm not a fan of Les Mis - I wish Life of Pi had topped the night's tally

      - I could make a case for Lincoln. I think it still has a shot. But I'm not of sound mind :D

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  2. Anonymous11 February 2013 at 15:17

    1. It was my humble honour to have followed your comments at Awardsdaily during the BAFTA announcement.
    You were absolutely fantastic and spot on with your worthy & considerate comments. It was too late for me to come and comment instatntly here.
    Really appreciate the work, brother.
    "Too many Americans harbour the opinion that we Brits are more refined in our tastes than you guys".
    >cause y’all talk so good.
    That was just great comment and reply.
    THANK YOU.
    And regards to fellow commenteer Sam Juliano as well.

    2. Thoughts on BAFTA awards-

    Same old story.

    2.1.The Good-
    Best Actress - Riva.
    Best Score - Skyfall.
    Best British Feature - Skyfall[7 Psychopaths which many had issues with, was my favourite but Skyfall deserves]

    2.1.1. Good and Bad -
    Original Screenplay - Tarantino.
    Can't argue much but BAFTA atleast got the 5 nominees right with the inclusion of Paul Thomas Anderson.
    All 5 nominees are so great there can only be an undeserved winner among the most deserved nominees which are winners themselves. Tarantino is fine choice by the way.

    2.2. The Bad -
    Best Adapted Screenplay - David. O. Russell.
    4 wins for Les Miserables.
    Best Animated - Brave.

    2.3. The Ugly-
    Zero wins for Zero Dark Thirty?!
    Its disconcertingly disheartening to discover the demented demeaning demeanour towards the arguably a better(best in my eyes) made film to walk away empty handed.
    Its an egregious travesty that how 4 people's damned tongue can spoil a film's legitimacy.

    Inference -
    Now, we know what we knew already and we don't know, what we don't know.

    At the moment, Daniel Day Lewis and Hathaway are the only locks in the major categories going into oscars.
    Anyone still saying nay to Lincoln aren't in the sound mind and my vote is still yes, sound & mind never walk along with me.
    Even technical categories aren't as clear as they should be by now besides visual effects for Life Of Pi.
    Still not over.

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    1. Unknown11 February 2013 at 21:38

      Thanks mate!

      I think almost everyone's in agreement about Emmanuelle Riva (except David O. Russell - his face!). Such a great choice, and one I did not expect.

      I agree with you on pretty much all points!

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