Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The 2012 BAFTA Winners

The BAFTA ceremony was this past Sunday, and I totally forgot about it, since I watched the Grammys instead.  Anyway, here are the winners (indented) with comments:

BEST FILM

    • THE ARTIST - Thomas Langmann
      Well deserved.  Haven’t seen Drive yet nor Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but The Artist is great.
  • THE DESCENDANTS - Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
  • DRIVE - Marc Platt, Adam Siegel
  • THE HELP - Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
  • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

    • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo, Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
      Jeez, I actually haven’t see any of these!!
  • MY WEEK WITH MARILYN - Simon Curtis, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Adrian Hodges
  • SENNA - Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Manish Pandey
  • SHAME - Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Abi Morgan
  • WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN - Lynne Ramsay, Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno, Rory Stewart Kinnear

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

    • TYRANNOSAUR - Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (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)

DIRECTOR

    • THE ARTIST - Michel Hazanavicius
      Well deserved win.  I really hope he takes home the Oscar next month too, because he really took a chance with this movie and it paid off big time.
  • DRIVE - Nicolas Winding Refn
  • HUGO - Martin Scorsese
  • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Tomas Alfredson
  • WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN - Lynne Ramsay

DOCUMENTARY

    • SENNA - Asif Kapadia
  • GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD - Martin Scorsese
  • PROJECT NIM - James Marsh, Simon Chinn

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

    • THE ARTIST - Michel Hazanavicius
      Again, well deserved, although I feel bad for Allen.
  • BRIDESMAIDS - Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
  • THE GUARD - John Michael McDonagh
  • THE IRON LADY - Abi Morgan
  • MIDNIGHT IN PARIS - Woody Allen

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

    • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
      As I said, I haven’t seen this movie, so it’s hard to judge.
  • 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

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

    • THE SKIN I LIVE IN - Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar
      I think this was an upset, since Almodóvar’s movie didn’t get glorious reviews, at least in the US.
  • INCENDIES - Denis Villeneuve, Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
  • PINA - Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel
  • POTICHE - François Ozon, Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
  • A SEPARATION - Asghar Farhadi

ANIMATED FILM

    • RANGO - Gore Verbinski
      I can’t wait to see this movie.  It just feels so out of the ordinary in the animation canon.
  • HE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN - Steven Spielberg
  • ARTHUR CHRISTMAS - Sarah Smith

LEADING ACTOR

    • JEAN DUJARDIN - The Artist
      I like Clooney and he was excellent in The Descendants, but I’m glad Dujardin took this, and I hope he wins the Oscar as well.  Clooney already has one and it’s always nice to see the Academy stretching beyond the confines of Hollywood.  Also, Dujardin was awesome in this movie.
  • BRAD PITT - Moneyball
  • GARY OLDMAN - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • GEORGE CLOONEY - The Descendants
  • MICHAEL FASSBENDER - Shame

LEADING ACTRESS

    • MERYL STREEP - The Iron Lady
      Obviously for me this was the sweetest surprise, for several reasons.  First, Meryl is Meryl, so hands down she’s always the best.  Second, she played a British iconic figure and it’s nice to see the Brits acknowledge that she did a great job.  Finally, it might spur more Academy members to vote for Meryl for her long overdue third Oscar next month.  Love Viola Davis, but I’m really rooting for Meryl.  Always.
  • BÉRÉNICE BEJO - The Artist
  • MICHELLE WILLIAMS - My Week with Marilyn
  • TILDA SWINTON - We Need to Talk About Kevin
  • VIOLA DAVIS - The Help

SUPPORTING ACTOR

    • CHRISTOPHER PLUMMERBeginners
      Greatly deserved.  And the sweep continues…
  • JIM BROADBENT - The Iron Lady
  • JONAH HILL - Moneyball
  • KENNETH BRANAGH - My Week with Marilyn
  • PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN - The Ides of March

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

    • OCTAVIA SPENCER - The Help
      Greatly deserved.  And the sweep continues…
  • CAREY MULLIGAN - Drive
  • JESSICA CHASTAIN - The Help
  • JUDI DENCH - My Week with Marilyn
  • MELISSA MCCARTHY - Bridesmaids

ORIGINAL MUSIC

    • THE ARTIST - Ludovic Bource
      Totally deserved given that the musical score really carried the movie along and was almost a character in itself.
  • 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
      Greatly deserved.  I’ve always been a sucker for black and white photography.
  • THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Jeff Cronenweth
  • HUGO - Robert Richardson
  • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Hoyte van Hoytema
  • WAR HORSE - Janusz Kaminski

EDITING

    • SENNA - Gregers Sall, Chris King
      I honestly don’t even know what this Senna is.  Sorry.
  • THE ARTIST - Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
  • DRIVE - Mat Newman
  • HUGO - Thelma Schoonmaker
  • TINKER TAILOR SOLIDER SPY - Dino Jonsater

PRODUCTION DESIGN

    • HUGO - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
      Another movie I can’t wait to see.  It must be visually splendid.
  • THE ARTIST - Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
  • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald
  • WAR HORSE - Rick Carter, Lee Sandales

COSTUME DESIGN

    • THE ARTIST - Mark Bridges
      Deserved, of course.
  • HUGO - Sandy Powell
  • JANE EYRE - Michael O'Connor
  • MY WEEK WITH MARILYN - Jill Taylor
  • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - Jacqueline Durran

SOUND

    • HUGO - Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
      No comment on the winner.  Rather, how was The Artist even nominated in this category to begin with??
  • THE ARTIST - Nadine Muse, Gérard Lamps, Michael Krikorian
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 - James Mather, Stuart Wilson, Stuart Hilliker, Mike Dowson, Adam Scrivener
  • TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - John Casali, Howard Bargroff, Doug Cooper, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley
  • WAR HORSE - Stuart Wilson, Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Richard Hymns

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

    • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 - Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler, David Vickery
      At some point I really have to watch this whole saga.  I assume it was well deserved.  Who knows how much of the vote was influenced by the fact that the saga’s author is British though.  Sort of the same thing that goes on at the Oscars, isn’t it?
  • THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN - Joe Letteri
  • HUGO - Rob Legato, Ben Grossman, Joss Williams
  • RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White
  • WAR HORSE - Ben Morris, Neil Corbould

MAKE UP & HAIR

    • THE IRON LADY - Marese Langan
      Meryl’s coif deserved this prize in and of itself.
  • THE ARTIST - Julie Hewett, Cydney Cornell
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 - Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
  • HUGO - Morag Ross, Jan Archibald
  • MY WEEK WITH MARILYN - Jenny Shircore

SHORT ANIMATION

    • A MORNING STROLL - Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe
  • ABUELAS - Afarin Eghbal, Kasia Malipan, Francesca Gardiner
  • BOBBY YEAH - Robert Morgan

SHORT FILM

    • PITCH BLACK HEIST - John Maclean, Gerardine O'Flynn
  • CHALK - Martina Amati, Gavin Emerson, James Bolton, Ilaria Bernardini
  • MWANSA THE GREAT - Rungano Nyoni, Gabriel Gauchet
  • ONLY SOUND REMAINS - Arash Ashtiani, Anshu Poddar
  • TWO AND TWO - Babak Anvari, Kit Fraser, Gavin Cullen

ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD

    • ADAM DEACON
  • CHRIS HEMSWORTH
  • TOM HIDDLESTON
  • CHRIS O’DOWD
  • EDDIE REDMAYNE

Overall, a few surprises that keep the Oscar’s most watched races up in the air it seems.  Super glad for Meryl’s win.

Here’s the official site.

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