BAFTA 2009

JP Liz

The nominees for Best Film are 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Frost/Nixon', 'Milk', 'The Reader' and 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
The category of Outstanding British Film will be contested by 'Hunger', 'Mamma Mia!', 'In Bruges', 'Man on Wire' and 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
Nominated in the Best Actor category are Frank Langella ('Frost/Nixon'), Dev Patel ('Slumdog Millionaire'), Sean Penn ('Milk'), Brad Pitt ('The Curious Case of Benjamin Button') and Mickey Rourke ('The Wrestler').
The shortlist for Best Actress includes Angelina Jolie ('Changeling'), Kristin Scott Thomas ('I Loved You So Long'), Meryl Streep ('Doubt') and Kate Winslet ('The Reader' and 'Revolutionary Road').
In the category of Best Supporting Actor, Brendan Gleeson will face competition from Robert Downey Jr ('Tropic Thunder'), Philip Seymour Hoffman ('Doubt'), Heath Ledger ('The Dark Knight') and Brad Pitt ('Burn After Reading').
The nominees for Best Supporting Actress are Amy Adams ('Doubt'), Penelope Cruz ('Vicky Cristina Barcelona'), Freida Pinto ('Slumdog Millionaire'), Tilda Swinton ('Burn After Reading') and Marisa Tomei ('The Wrestler').
The Best Director shortlist comprises of Clint Eastwood ('Changeling'), David Fincher ('The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'), Ron Howard ('Frost/Nixon'), Stephen Daldry ('The Reader') and Danny Boyle ('Slumdog Millionaire').
Television star Jonathan Ross is due to present the BAFTAs ceremony next month.

Farrell snubbed

lostexpectation

better list

BEST FILM

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin
* FROST/NIXON – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
* MILK – Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen
* THE READER – Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Christian Colson

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

* HUNGER – Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch, Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh
* IN BRUGES – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
* MAMMA MIA! – Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman, Phyllida Lloyd, Catherine Johnson
* MAN ON WIRE – Simon Chinn, James Marsh
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy

THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD

for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film

* SIMON CHINN (Producer) – Man On Wire
* JUDY CRAYMER (Producer) – Mamma Mia!
* GARTH JENNINGS (Writer) – Son of Rambow
* STEVE McQUEEN (Director/Writer) – Hunger
* SOLON PAPADOPOULOS, ROY BOULTER (Producers) – Of Time And The City

DIRECTOR

* CHANGELING – Clint Eastwood
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – David Fincher
* FROST/NIXON – Ron Howard
* THE READER – Stephen Daldry
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Danny Boyle

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

* BURN AFTER READING – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
* CHANGELING – J. Michael Straczynski
* I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG – Philippe Claudel
* IN BRUGES – Martin McDonagh
* MILK – Dustin Lance Black

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Eric Roth
* FROST/NIXON – Peter Morgan
* THE READER – David Hare
* REVOLUTIONARY ROAD – Justin Haythe
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Simon Beaufoy

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

* THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX – Bernard Eichinger, Uli Edel
* GOMORRAH – Domenico Procacci, Matteo Garrone
* I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG – Yves Marmion, Philippe Claudel
* PERSEPOLIS – Marc-Antoine Robert, Xavier Rigault, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Parannaud
* WALTZ WITH BASHIR – Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahl Ieli, Ari Folman

ANIMATED FILM

* PERSEPOLIS – Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Parannaud
* WALL•E – Andrew Stanton
* WALTZ WITH BASHIR – Ari Folman

LEADING ACTOR

* FRANK LANGELLA – Frost/Nixon
* DEV PATEL – Slumdog Millionaire
* SEAN PENN – Milk
* BRAD PITT – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* MICKEY ROURKE – The Wrestler

LEADING ACTRESS

* ANGELINA JOLIE – Changeling
* KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – I’ve Loved You So Long
* MERYL STREEP – Doubt
* KATE WINSLET – The Reader
* KATE WINSLET – Revolutionary Road

SUPPORTING ACTOR

* ROBERT DOWNEY JR. – Tropic Thunder
* BRENDAN GLEESON – In Bruges
* PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – Doubt
* HEATH LEDGER – The Dark Knight
* BRAD PITT – Burn After Reading

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

* AMY ADAMS – Doubt
* PENÉLOPE CRUZ – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* FREIDA PINTO – Slumdog Millionaire
* TILDA SWINTON – Burn After Reading
* MARISA TOMEI – The Wrestler

MUSIC

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Alexandre Desplat
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard
* MAMMA MIA! – Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – A. R. Rahman
* WALL•E – Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY

* CHANGELING – Tom Stern
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Claudio Miranda
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Wally Pfister
* THE READER – Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Anthony Dod Mantle

EDITING **

* CHANGELING – Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Lee Smith
* FROST/NIXON – Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
* IN BRUGES – Jon Gregory
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Chris Dickens

**As there was a tie in this category there are six nominations
PRODUCTION DESIGN

* CHANGELING – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
* REVOLUTIONARY ROAD – Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Mark Digby, Michelle Day

COSTUME DESIGN

* CHANGELING – Deborah Hopper
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Jacqueline West
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Lindy Hemming
* THE DUCHESS – Michael O'Connor
* REVOLUTIONARY ROAD – Albert Wolsky

SOUND

* CHANGELING – Walt Martin, Alan Robert Murray, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Lora Hirschberg, Richard King, Ed Novick, Gary Rizzo
* QUANTUM OF SOLACE – Jimmy Boyle, Eddy Joseph, Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor
* SLUMDOG MILLIONARE – Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp
* WALL•E – Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Matthew Wood

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Eric Barba, Craig Barron, – Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin, Tim Webber
* INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL – Pablo Helman
* IRON MAN – Shane Patrick Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow
* QUANTUM OF SOLACE – Chris Corbould, Kevin Tod Haug

MAKE UP & HAIR

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Jean Black, Colleen Callaghan
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Peter Robb-King
* THE DUCHESS – Daniel Phillips, Jan Archibald
* FROST/NIXON – Edouard Henriques, Kim Santantonio
* MILK – Steven E. Anderson, Michael White

SHORT ANIMATION

* CODSWALLOP – Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
* VARMINTS – Sue Goffe, Marc Craste
* WALLACE AND GROMIT: A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH – Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker

SHORT FILM

* KINGSLAND #1 THE DREAMER – Kate Ogborn, Tony Grisoni
* LOVE YOU MORE – Adrian Sturges, Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber
* RALPH – Olivier Kaempfer, Alex Winckler
* SEPTEMBER – Stewart le Maréchal, Esther May Campbell
* VOYAGE D’AFFAIRES (THE BUSINESS TRIP) – Celine Quideau, Sean Ellis

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD

* MICHAEL CERA
* NOEL CLARKE
* MICHAEL FASSBENDER
* REBECCA HALL
* TOBY KEBBELL

Vote for your Rising star of 2009

lostexpectation

kate v kate

MisterAnarchy

lostexpectation wrote: »

kate v kate

Hollywood is badly stuck for good actresses when she manages to get nominated twice in the same category.

johnny_ultimate

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Hollywood is badly stuck for good actresses when she manages to get nominated twice in the same category.

Well Kate Winslet is seriously a remarkable actress given the standards these days. Her performance in the Reader is stunning, even if the film is pretty standard. She can elevate bland material to something much more, and when she has good material to go alongside her performance - ESOTSM or Little Children spring to mind - she truly is one-of-a-kind. One of the few actresses deserving of all the kudos.

lostexpectation

if they came out in different years she should nominated in both atleast the bafta recognised there both leads rather then sticking one in supporting like the globes.

K4t

How was Farrell snubbed? He was good in IB but no better than Brendan Gleeson. Nothing special from either of them.

The ones nominated are more deserving imo.

JP Liz

Slumdog Millionaire, the British movie filmed in Mumbai, tonight emerged as the biggest winner at the Baftas winning seven categories including best film and best director.
The Film4 movie had been ­nominated 11 times and hopes are high for Oscar ­success in a fortnight.
In a night awash with British ­talent, Kate Winslet won her second best actress Bafta for her portrayal in The Reader of an illiterate SS guard who beds a 15-year-old boy.

terrible show - Ross was awful hosting

Snake Plisken

Two things I noticed tonight was looking at close up of Robert Downey Jnr when they announced Heath Ledger and his eyes were blood shoot like he was crying, i just put it down to he must have known Heath and got emotional that he had won the best supporting actor, then think it was when Gilliam was getting the fellowship award they did another close up of him and his eyes were still bloodshot like he was still crying, maybe he was on some medication legal or illegal???

Also when they announced Mickey O'Rourke had one best actor they showd the crowd from the front everyone was clapping except for Brad Pitt, I'd say he thought he was going to win it otherwise he probably wouldn't have bothered coming over for the show

lostexpectation

why did they need to show some thing at the end, did they miss em in the break?

eagle eye

Ok Rant time:

1. We all know that Batman is a comic. We all know that some movies were made before that were somewhere between decent and muck.

But

Christopher Nolan came along and made two magnificent films. The Dark Knight has been lauded by pretty much everybody, and yet does not appear in the best film category and more shockingly in the best director category.

2. I'm getting sick to the teeth of every decent movie with a gay character getting lauded by the BAFTA and the Oscars.

3. I don't understand why Clint Eastwood is not in there either for Changeling.

Right thats it, just had to get that off my chest.

Nichololas

eagle eye wrote: »

Ok Rant time:

1. We all know that Batman is a comic. We all know that some movies were made before that were somewhere between decent and muck.

But

Christopher Nolan came along and made two magnificent films. The Dark Knight has been lauded by pretty much everybody, and yet does not appear in the best film category and more shockingly in the best director category.

If it was the internet voting, TDK would probably have won, yes. Sadly, not everyone in real life (for want of a better term) is that into Batman.

eagle eye wrote: »

2. I'm getting sick to the teeth of every decent movie with a gay character getting lauded by the BAFTA and the Oscars.

You mean Milk? Possibly for Sean Penn's excellent performance, the excellent script and excellent ensemble cast..

eagle eye wrote: »

3. I don't understand why Clint Eastwood is not in there either for Changeling.

Right thats it, just had to get that off my chest.

DIRECTOR

* CHANGELING – Clint Eastwood
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – David Fincher
* FROST/NIXON – Ron Howard
* THE READER – Stephen Daldry
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Danny Boyle

JP Liz

Rourke's speech best part of the night