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BAFTA sets 2009 date for February 8, two weeks ahead of Oscars
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has set the Orange British Academy Film Awards for Feb 8, 2009 at London’s Royal Opera House.
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Flashback: The 2008 awards
2008 reportsAcademy AwardsBAFTAGolden GlobesThe Clean SweepsDaniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood (Best Actor*)Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose (Best actress**)Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men (Best supporting actor)Ratatouille - Brad Bird (Best Animation Feature)* (Golden Globe for best actor in a drama)** (Golden Globe ...
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Flashback: BAFTA 2008
Everyone thought they knew who would win this year’s Bafta film awards. Atonement was supposed to sweep the board. Julie Christie was the best actress favourite for Away From Her and Control was considered a certainty to nab the Alexander Korda award for best British film.
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Atonement takes best film BAFTA but Cotillard steals show
BAFTA spread its awards widely this year with French film La Vie En Rose the surprise show-stealer with four wins.
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BAFTA Analysis: Atonement's glory expected, but where's Sweeney Todd'
Atonement has always seemed destined for BAFTA glory (it leads with 14 nominations). It has the kind of literary pedigree that BAFTA voters have responded to in Best Picture winners like The English Patient, ThePianist and The Lord Of The Rings.
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Atonement leads BAFTA race with 14 nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonementleads the BAFTA nominations with 14 nods, in categories Best Film, Best British Film, Director (Joe Wright), Adapted Screenplay, Leading Actress (Keira Knightley), Leading Actor (James McAvoy), Supporting Actress (Saoirse Ronan), Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair.
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Peter Morris re-elected as chairman of BAFTA/LA
BAFTA/LA has re-elected Peter Morris as chairman and announced its board of directors for the new year.
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BAFTA organisers don't expect WGA strike chaos
In the wake of Monday’s announced cancellation of the Golden Globes big awards show, industry observers have been asking how other awards events, including the UK’s BAFTAS, will be affected.
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LaBeouf, Riley among nominees for BAFTA Orange Rising Star prize
The BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award has announced this year’s nominees: Shia LaBeouf, Sienna Miller, Ellen Page, Sam Riley and Tang Wei.
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Atonement is early BAFTA frontrunner ahead of final nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonement leads the films in contention for the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs). Atonement has 17 recognitions, but it should be noted that includes four nominations within the supporting actress category which will likely cancel each other out before nominations are finalised.
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BAFTA unveils five foreign nominees including Lust, Caution
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have announced five nominees for its Film Not In The English Language Award. Those films are The Diving Bell and The Butterfly; The Kite Runner; The Lives OfOthers; Lust,Caution; and La Vie En Rose.
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Awards Countdown - Best director - The visionaries
1. TIM BURTONSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet StreetBurton has a Bafta nomination under his belt for Big Fish in 2003 and was nominated for the feature animation Oscar for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. But bearing in mind his films have grossed several billion dollars between them, he is ...
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Screenwriters vying fortop awards
The Coen brothers tell Geoffrey Macnab about the process of adapting Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For OldMen.
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Awards countdown - Women of substance
Unlike 2006, when Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz all gave showstopping performances, 2007 is not a bumper year for actresses.
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Awards Countdown - best actor prospects
1. Daniel Day-LewisThere Will Be BloodWHY As Daniel Plainview, a determined silver miner who becomes a self-made oil tycoon in turn-of-the-last-century California, Day-Lewis delivers another of cinema's great performances. Assuming a voice with a deep, resonant timbre, Day-Lewis' Plainview is menacing and intimidating, yet painfully human and desperate for human ...
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Awards Countdown - Crafts - The Perfectionist
There is a wealth of spectacular productions on offer to Academy crafts committees and voters this year, from fantasy spectacles such as Spider-Man 3, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End, Harry Potter And TheOrder Of The Phoenix, Transformers and The Golden Compassto exquisitely designed period pieces Lust,Caution, Atonement and ...
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Awards countdown people
TAMARA JENKINS - The SavagesThe Savages balances comedy and tragedy. Film-maker Tamara Jenkins speaks to Patrick Z McGavin about the challengeIn The Savages, the story of a brother and sister coping with their dementia-scarred father, writer-director Tamara Jenkins deftly handles both comedy and tragedy.'It's braided together,' Jenkins says of the ...
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Awards Countdown - High class of 2007
A glut of English-language movies, probably caused by the flood of equity into the production market over the last two years, will make for an unusually competitive awards season this year.
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Awards Countdown BAFTA - BAFTA/LA - Star quality
'Evolution not revolution' is how Bafta/LA chairman Peter Morris describes the climate at Bafta's sister organisation in Los Angeles.Morris, a board member for four years, is presiding over his second term as chairman. Nobody acquainted with the personable Scotsman would deny that under his tenure Bafta/LA has further cemented its ...
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Awards Count Down BAFTA - A night at the opera
Bafta has become a master of reinvention. In just a few years, it has elevated the UK's prime awards show into a global attraction. Anyone looking for evidence of its importance as a bellwether for the Oscars should note that eight of this year's major winners went on to repeat ...