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Best in film in 2009: BAFTA Awards winners

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Here are the winners of this year's BAFTA Awards, announced earlier today: BEST FILM The Hurt Locker OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM Fish Tank OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER Duncan Jones - Moon DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE A Prophet ANIMATED FILM Up LEADING ACTOR Colin Firth - A [Read more...]

Best in film in 2009: BAFTA Awards nominees

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After releasing the BAFTA nominees long list two weeks ago, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has released the short list for this year's Orange British Film Academy Awards. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on February 21. Here are the 2010 BAFTA nominees: FILM "Avatar," James Cameron, Jon Landau "An Education," Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer "The Hurt Locker," nominees to be confirmed "Precious," Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary [Read more...]

Slumdog Millionaire, Man on Wire win BAFTAs for Best Film

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The British Academy announced the winners of this year's BAFTA Awards at a ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner of the evening with honours in seven categories, including Best Film. Here is the list of the BAFTA nominees, for reference. And here are this year's winners: BEST FILM Slumdog Millionaire OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM Man on Wire THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD FOR SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT BY A BRITISH DIRECTOR, WRITER OR PRODUCER FOR [Read more...]

British Academy releases final BAFTA nominations

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The British Academy released the final list of nominees for this year's British Academy Film Awards on Thursday morning. Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire and David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button lead the BAFTAs race with 11 nominations each. The BAFTAs nominations longlist was released last week. Here is the final list of BAFTA nominees: BEST FILM The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire OUTSTANDING BRITISH [Read more...]

Frost/Nixon, Benjamin Button lead BAFTA nominations

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The nominations for the 2008 British Academy Film Awards were announced earlier today. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon lead the pack with 14 nominations each, followed by Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Changeling and The Dark Knight with 13 noms. Here is the full list: BEST FILM "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" "Burn After Reading" "Changeling" "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "The Dark Knight " "Doubt" "Frost/Nixon " "In [Read more...]