Sunday night's BAFTA Awards threw up almost as many surprises as Saturday's Berlinale Golden Bears.
While The Return Of The King was always a hot favourite for best film; that Master And Commander could equal its awards tally was less predictable. And while Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were tipped for the acting gongs, Emily Young's Carl Foreman Award and Tom McCarthy's best original screenplay award for The Station Agent were unpredictable, albeit worthy, surprises.
Orange British Academy Film Awards nominations:
FILM
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - Barrie M Osborne/Fran Walsh/Peter Jackson
The Alexander Korda Award
for the outstanding British Film of the Year
Touching The Void - John Smithson/Kevin MacDonald
The Carl Foreman Award
for special achievement by a British Director/Writer
Emily Young, (Kiss Of Life)
The David Lean Award
for achievement in direction
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World - Peter Weir
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Station Agent - Tom McCarthy
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - Fran Walsh/Philippa Boyens/Peter Jackson
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
In This World - Andrew Eaton/Anita Overland/Michael Winterbottom
ACTOR in a Leading role
Bill Murray - Lost In Translation
ACTRESS in a Leading role
Scarlett Johansson - Lost In Translation
ACTOR in a Supporting role
Bill Nighy - Love Actually
ACTRESS in a Supporting role
Renee Zellweger - Cold Mountain
THE ANTHONY ASQUITH AWARD
for achievement in Film Music
Cold Mountain - Gabriel Yared
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - Andrew Lesnie
EDITING
Lost In Translation - Sarah Flack
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World - William Sandell
COSTUME DESIGN
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World - Wendy Stites
SOUND
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World
Richard King, Doug Hemphill, Paul Massey, Art Rochester
ACHIEVEMENT IN SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
Joe Letteri, Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Alex Funke
MAKE UP & HAIR
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl - Ve Neill/Martin Samuel
SHORT ANIMATION
Jojo In The Stars - Sue Goffe/Marc Craste
SHORT FILM
Brown Paper Bag - Natasha Carlish / Mark Leveson/Michael Baig Clifford
BAFTA Fellowship
John Boorman
MICHAEL BALCON AWARD
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