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 12^th 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