The Artist leads the 2012 Bafta Awards shortlist
The BAFTA commission has finally released the official shortlist of the 2012 Awards a few hours after the Golden Globes ceremony took place in Los Angeles.
Romantic French film The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, has received a total of 12 nominations. The mostly silent film is shot in black and white and set in the 1920’s and 30’s as silent films go out of fashion and become talkies. It has received a lot of critical acclaim, at the Cannes Film Festival 2011 and winning three Golden Globes.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, directed by Tomas Alfredson, was ignored at the Golden Globes but received 11 nominations. This includes Tomas Alfredson nominated for Best Director and Gary Oldman for Leading Actor.
Other films such as Hugo received nine nominations, whilst My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams, received six. The stunning First World War film War Horse, and The Help, a drama about American segregation in the 1960s, received five each.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 received only four nominations, along with the thriller Drive and The Iron Lady, which picked up only four of its long list of fourteen nominations.
We Need To Talk About Kevin, which is based on the bestselling novel by Lionel Shriver and is directed by the Scottish Lynne Ramsay, received three nominations including Best Director.
The Descendants, Moneyball and Senna also received three nominations each. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the hilarious chick flick Bridesmaids, The Ides of March, Shame and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn all received only two nominations.
Meryl Streep, who plays the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, is up against Tilda Swinton for the Leading Actress title. Also Michelle Williams, who stars in My Week With Marilyn, is up for the title as well as Berenice Béjo, in The Artist and Viola Davis in The Help.
The men who all face the Leading Actor title this year are Brad Pitt who stars in Moneyball, George Clooney in The Descendants, Jean Dujardin in The Artist, Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and finally the favourite Michael Fassbender for Shame.
We will have to wait and see who wins at the BAFTA Awards 2012 ceremony that will be broadcast on BBC1 on 12th February 2012.
Charlotte Allen
The full list of nominations
Best film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Outstanding British film
My Week With Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Best director
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay – We Need To Talk About Kevin
Best actress
Berenice Bejo – The Artist
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis – The Help
Best actor
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Clooney – The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Michael Fassbender – Shame
Best supporting actress
Carey Mulligan – Drive
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Judi Dench – My Week with Marilyn
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Octavia Spencer – The Help
Best supporting actor
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Jim Broadbent – The Iron Lady
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Ides of March
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Attack The Block – Joe Cornish (director/writer)
Black Pond – Will Sharpe (director/writer), Tom Kingsley (director), Sarah Brocklehurst (producer)
Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes (director)
Submarine – Richard Ayoade (director/writer)
Tyrannosaur – Paddy Considine (director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (producer)
Best foreign language film
Incendies (Canada)
Pina (Germany)
Potiche (France)
A Separation (Iran)
The Skin I Live In (Spain)
Best animated feature film
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Arthur Christmas
Rango
Best original screenplay
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
The Guard – John Michael McDonagh
The Iron Lady – Abi Morgan
Midnight In Paris – Woody Allen
Best adapted screenplay
The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
The Help – Tate Taylor
The Ides Of March – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
Moneyball – Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan
Best original score
The Artist – Ludovic Bource
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Hugo – Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
War Horse – John Williams
Cinematography
The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo – Robert Richardson
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Hoyte van Hoytema
War Horse – Janusz Kaminski
Editing
The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
Drive – Mat Newman
Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
Senna – Gregers Sall, Chris King
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Dino Jonsater
Production design
The Artist
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Costume design
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
My Week With Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sound
The Artist
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Special Visual Effects
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Hugo
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
War Horse
Make-up and hair
The Artist
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Hugo
The Iron Lady
My Week With Marilyn
Short animation
Abuelas
Bobby Yeah Robert Morgan
A Morning Stroll
Short film
Chalk
Mwansa The Great
Only Sound Remains
Pitch Black Heist
Two And Two
Rising Star Award (public vote)
Adam Deacon
Chris Hemsworth
Chris O’Dowd
Eddie Redmayne
Tom Hiddleston
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