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The British Academy film awards website http://www.bafta.org/ is a great collection of information and videos. It features a database providing information on all the previous nominees and winners as well as a number of videos available from yesterdays awards ceremony.

It has been announced that HRH Prince William is to succeed Lord Attenborough as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)’s fifth President. In his first official act as President, Prince William presented the actor Vanessa Redgrave with a British Academy Fellowship.

2009 WINNERS (presented in 2010)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – THE HURT LOCKER Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY- UP IN THE AIR Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
beating serious competition from:
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
AN EDUCATION Nick Hornby
IN THE LOOP Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Geoffrey Fletcher

ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP – VANESSA REDGRAVE

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA - JOE DUNTON

BEST FILM – THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
eclipsing the one you wish to beat, AVATAR James Cameron, Jon Landau and the wonderful AN EDUCATION Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness and UP IN THE AIR Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM – FISH TANK Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
incredibly winning against two best British films of the year AN EDUCATION Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby and IN THE LOOP Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche. Neither did the spectacular John Lennon outsider NOWHERE BOY Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER – DUNCAN JONES Director – Moon
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Director – Nowhere Boy must’ve been a very close second.

DIRECTOR – THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow
she’ll be pleased to have beaten her ex-husband and four excellent directed films
AVATAR James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp
AN EDUCATION Lone Scherfig
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE – A PROPHET Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard

ANIMATED FILM – UP Pete Docter

LEADING ACTOR – COLIN FIRTH A Single Man

LEADING ACTRESS – CAREY MULLIGAN An Education
Ms Mulligan may have been extremely surprised, but the win was expected despite the serious competition from:
SAOIRSE RONAN The Lovely Bones
GABOUREY SIDIBE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
MERYL STREEP Julie & Julia
AUDREY TAUTOU Coco Before Chanel

SUPPORTING ACTOR – CHRISTOPH WALTZ Inglourious Basterds

SUPPORTING ACTRESS – MO’NIQUE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
A predictable win, but all the runners-up must have come very close.
ANNE-MARIE DUFF Nowhere Boy
VERA FARMIGA Up in the Air
ANNA KENDRICK Up in the Air
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Nowhere Boy

MUSIC – UP Michael Giacchino

CINEMATOGRAPHY – THE HURT LOCKER Barry Ackroyd
It’s difficult to know how this winner beats both AVATAR Mauro Fiore and DISTRICT 9 Trent Opaloch

EDITING – THE HURT LOCKER Bob Murawski, Chris Innis

PRODUCTION DESIGN – AVATAR Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair

COSTUME DESIGN – THE YOUNG VICTORIA Sandy Powell

SOUND - THE HURT LOCKER Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson
Star Trek must have driven it pretty close

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS – AVATAR Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones. No surprises there then.

MAKE UP & HAIR – THE YOUNG VICTORIA Jenny Shircore

SHORT ANIMATION – MOTHER OF MANY Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby
I expect most children and their parents/guardians would’ve voted for THE GRUFFALO Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang

SHORT FILM – I DO AIR James Bolton, Martina Amati

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public) – KRISTEN STEWART
It’s difficult to know why Ms. Stewart won this award when CAREY MULLIGAN was also nominated, but after we’ve all been to see The Runaways movie, Kristen Stewart may be on for a bigger award next year

Many thanks to the BAFTA website for this information.

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