BAFTA winners are…
Thankfully ATONEMENT’S awards were kept minimal, but of course they did take home the big prize of Best Film at this year’s BAFTA’s.
Something that confuses me greatly though is how can ATONEMENT win Best Film, but THIS IS ENGLAND picks up Best British Film. How does that work, I’m confused? If ATONEMENT is the Best Film at the BAFTA’s and that’s a British Film, how can it not win that award too?
Here’s the full list from Variety…
BEST FILM
Atonement — produced by Tim Bevan/Eric Fellner/Paul Webster
BEST BRITISH FILM
This Is England — Mark Herbert/Shane Meadows
THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film
Matt Greenhalgh (Writer) — Control
DIRECTOR
No Country For Old Men — Joel Coen/Ethan Coen
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno — Diablo Cody
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly — Ronald Harwood
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Kite Runner — William Horberg/Walter Parkes/Rebecca Yeldham/Marc Forster
ANIMATED FILM
Ratatouille — Brad Bird
LEADING ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood
LEADING ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard — La Vie en Rose
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem — No Country for Old Men
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton — Michael Clayton
MUSIC
La Vie En Rose — Christopher Gunning
CINEMATOGRAPHY
No Country For Old Men — Roger Deakins
EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum — Christopher Rouse
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Atonement — Sarah Greenwood/Katie Spencer
COSTUME DESIGN
La Vie En Rose — Marit Allen
SOUND
The Bourne Ultimatum — Kirk Francis/Scott Millan/David Parker/Karen Baker Landers/Per Hallberg
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass — Michael Fink/Bill Westenhofer/Ben Morris/Trevor Wood
MAKE UP & HAIR
La Vie En Rose — Jan Archibald/Didier Lavergne
SHORT ANIMATION
The Pearce Sisters — Jo Allen/Luis Cook
SHORT FILM
Dog Altogether — Diarmid Scrimshaw/Paddy Considine
THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Shia Labeouf
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Juno shouldn’t win anything! Come on it’s the novelty of a stripper turned screenwriter that’s getting this flick any notice.
Nobody really thinks diaBLOW Cody wrote a good story, they’re just amazed a striper could write at all! Can’t wait til this awards season is over. We’ve heard more about Cody/Juno after it’s theatrical release than before or during and every word about it has been about awards. They’re milking “Oscar-buzz” for all it’s worth.
Pathetic.
Comment by JaySmack | February 11, 2008
What upsets me most is This Is England winning Best British Film: such an unlikeable film that puts rose-tinted nostalgia on racism and acts as a revisionist apology for the National Front deserves to be garbaged, not garlanded with praise.
The fact that Atonement won Best Film overall, but lost out to This IS England in the Brit category sort of suggests that This Is England is the best film of the year. Otherwise, usual award season stuff that just makes you relaise that the whole thing is so silly. I’m amazed that so many excellent screen actors can’t read an autocue…
Comment by James Clayton | February 11, 2008