The BAFTAs will take place on February 13

The BAFTAs will take place on February 13

The BAFTA nominations were announced this morning and The King's Speech is being heard loud and proud. The film has taken a total of 14 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. The King's Speech is likely to take most of the top awards in the British awards, to be hosted by Jonathan Ross.

Black Swan has 12 nominations, followed by Inception with nine, 127 Hours and True Grit have eight and The Social Network has six. The films chosen are similar to those chosen in the recent Golden Globes, but The Fighter has been mainly snubbed over True Grit which has fought its way into the awards. The Fighter has only received three nominations which is a far cry from its Social Network equalling six at the Golden Globes. British actor Christian Bale has managed a Best Supporting Actor nod for his role in the film though, along with the late Pete Postlethwaite for his role in The Town, Andrew Garfield has also claimed a Best Supporting Actor nod for his role in The Social Network.

The British film industry has been duly recognised this year with a number of nominations for Alice In Wonderland, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Made In Dagenham, Four Lions, Exit Through The Gift Shop and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours all getting nominations. Christopher Nolan's Inception has taken nine nominations including Best Director for the man himself and Tom Hardy is nominated in the Rising Star category.

The BAFTAs are about celebrating film in general, but more than that, they're about celebrating British film. The Outstanding British Film and Outstanding British Writer, Director or Producer categories are there to show the talent this country has to offer and although the British Film category looks like a certainty for The King's Speech, it's still great to see Chris Morris's debut getting nominated in both categories alongside veteran British directors such as Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh. Artist Banksy has garnered a nomination for his street-art documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop and hotly-tipped Gareth Edwards has received a nomination for his debut feature film Monsters. Alice In Wonderland and Harry Potter managed to claim nominations for visual effects and make-up.

Who else is worth noting, that isn't British? Hailee Steinfeld is the youngest ever Best Actress nominee at only 14, she has been nominated for her role in True Grit. Jeff Bridges and Colin Firth have been nominated together for the second year running, Firth won the BAFTA for the same award last year, whereas Bridges took home the Oscar, Firth looks likely to win the same award again this year and may even take the Oscar with him. Although Helena Bonham Carter lost out in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Golden Globes on Sunday, she looks like the safe option when it comes to the same category at the Golden Globes, with Amy Adams from The Fighter being her main competitor.

It's likely we'll be seeing The King's Speech clearing up when it comes to the awards themselves. It's a strong contender for Best Picture, with it being a favourite as it is and BAFTA having chosen British films for three out of the last five awards ceremonies, it looks like it could be in with a good chance. Best Director and Screenplay aren't so certain, but with The Social Network being an adapted screenplay and King's Speech being an original screenplay, it could have a better chance of winning, but being up against Inception won't help it's chances.

You'll have to tune in to BBC One on February 13 to find out the winners, hosted by Jonathan Ross.

Here are the nominees in full on the next page:

Best Film

Black Swan (Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin)

Inception (Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan)

The King's Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)

The Social Network (Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin)

True Grit (Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)

 

Outstanding British Film

127 Hours (Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson)

Another Year (Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe)

Four Lions (Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger)

The King's Speech (Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)

Made in Dagenham (Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley)

 

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer

The Arbor (Director, Producer - Clio Barnard, Tracy O'Riordan)

Exit Through the Gift Shop (Director, Producer – Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz)

Four Lions (Director/Writer - Chris Morris)

Monsters (Director/Writer – Gareth Edwards)

Skeletons (Director/Writer – Nick Whitfield)

 

Director

Danny Boyle (127 Hours)

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)

Christopher Nolan (Inception)

Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)

David Fincher (The Social Network)

 

Original Screenplay

Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin (Black Swan)

Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson (The Fighter)

Christopher Nolan (Inception)

Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right)

David Seidler (The King's Speech)

 

Adapted Screenplay

Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours)

Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)

Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3)

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (True Grit)

 

Film Not In The English Language

Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Søren Stærmose, Niels Arden Oplev)

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi D'Eril, Marco Morabito, Massimiliano Violante)

Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)

The Secret in their Eyes (Mariela Besuievsky, Juan José Campanella)

 

Animated Film

Despicable Me (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin)

How to Train Your Dragon (Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois)

Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)

 

Leading Actor

Jarvier Bardem (Biutiful)

Jeff Bridges (True Grit)

Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)

Colin Firth (The King's Speech)

James Franco (127 Hours)

 

Leading Actress

Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)

Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right)

Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)

 

Supporting Actor

Christian Bale (The Fighter)

Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)

Pete Postlethwaite (The Town)

Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)

Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)

 

Supporting Actress

Amy Adams (The Fighter)

Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)

Barbara Hershey (Black Swan)

Lesley Manville (Another Year)

Miranda Richardson (Made in Dagenham)

 

Original Music

127 Hours (AR Rahman)

Alice in Wonderland (Danny Elfman)

How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)

Inception (Hans Zimmer)

The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat)

 

Cinematography

127 Hours (Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak)

Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)

Inception (Wally Pfister)

The King's Speech (Danny Cohen)

True Grit (Roger Deakins)

 

Editing

127 Hours (Jon Harris)

Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)

Inception (Lee Smith)

The King's Speech (Tariq Anwar)

The Social Network (Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter)

 

Production Design

Alice in Wonderland (Robert Stromberg, Karen O'Hara)

Black Swan (Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson)

Inception (Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat)

The King's Speech (Eve Stewart, Judy Farr)

True Grit (Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh)

 

Costume Design

Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)

Black Swan (Amy Westcott)

The King's Speech (Jenny Beavan)

Made in Dagenham (Louise Stjernsward)

True Grit (Mary Zophres)

 

Sound

127 Hours (Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri, Douglas Cameron)

Black Swan (Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan, Dominick Tavella)

Inception (Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick)

The King's Speech (John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin)

True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell)

 

Special Visual Effects

Alice in Wonderland (Nominees TBC)

Black Swan (Dan Schrecker)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait'Hadi, Christian Manz)

Inception (Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb)

Toy Story 3 (Nominees TBC)

 

Make Up & Hair

Alice in Wonderland (Nominees TBC)

Black Swan (Judy Chin, Geordie Sheffer)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin)

The King's Speech (Frances Hannon)

Made in Dagenham (Lizzie Yianni Georgiou)

 

Short Animation

The Eagleman Stag (Michael Please)

Matter Fisher (David Prosser)

Thursday (Matthias Hoegg)

 

Short Film

Connect (Samuel Abrahams, Beau Gordon)

Lin (Piers Thompson, Simon Hessel)

Rite (Michael Pearce, Ross McKenzie)

Turning (Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Alison Sterling, Kat Armour-Brown)

Until the River Runs Red (Paul Wright, Poss Kondeatis)

 

Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award

Gemma Arterton

Andrew Garfield

Tom Hardy

Aaron Johnson

Emma Stone

 

FemaleFirst - James Butlin

The BAFTA nominations were announced this morning and The King's Speech is being heard loud and proud. The film has taken a total of 14 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. The King's Speech is likely to take most of the top awards in the British awards, to be hosted by Jonathan Ross.

Black Swan has 12 nominations, followed by Inception with nine, 127 Hours and True Grit have eight and The Social Network has six. The films chosen are similar to those chosen in the recent Golden Globes, but The Fighter has been mainly snubbed over True Grit which has fought its way into the awards. The Fighter has only received three nominations which is a far cry from its Social Network equalling six at the Golden Globes. British actor Christian Bale has managed a Best Supporting Actor nod for his role in the film though, along with the late Pete Postlethwaite for his role in The Town, Andrew Garfield has also claimed a Best Supporting Actor nod for his role in The Social Network.

The British film industry has been duly recognised this year with a number of nominations for Alice In Wonderland, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Made In Dagenham, Four Lions, Exit Through The Gift Shop and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours all getting nominations. Christopher Nolan's Inception has taken nine nominations including Best Director for the man himself and Tom Hardy is nominated in the Rising Star category.

The BAFTAs are about celebrating film in general, but more than that, they're about celebrating British film. The Outstanding British Film and Outstanding British Writer, Director or Producer categories are there to show the talent this country has to offer and although the British Film category looks like a certainty for The King's Speech, it's still great to see Chris Morris's debut getting nominated in both categories alongside veteran British directors such as Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh. Artist Banksy has garnered a nomination for his street-art documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop and hotly-tipped Gareth Edwards has received a nomination for his debut feature film Monsters. Alice In Wonderland and Harry Potter managed to claim nominations for visual effects and make-up.

Who else is worth noting, that isn't British? Hailee Steinfeld is the youngest ever Best Actress nominee at only 14, she has been nominated for her role in True Grit. Jeff Bridges and Colin Firth have been nominated together for the second year running, Firth won the BAFTA for the same award last year, whereas Bridges took home the Oscar, Firth looks likely to win the same award again this year and may even take the Oscar with him. Although Helena Bonham Carter lost out in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Golden Globes on Sunday, she looks like the safe option when it comes to the same category at the Golden Globes, with Amy Adams from The Fighter being her main competitor.

It's likely we'll be seeing The King's Speech clearing up when it comes to the awards themselves. It's a strong contender for Best Picture, with it being a favourite as it is and BAFTA having chosen British films for three out of the last five awards ceremonies, it looks like it could be in with a good chance. Best Director and Screenplay aren't so certain, but with The Social Network being an adapted screenplay and King's Speech being an original screenplay, it could have a better chance of winning, but being up against Inception won't help it's chances.

You'll have to tune in to BBC One on February 13 to find out the winners, hosted by Jonathan Ross.

Here are the nominees in full on the next page:


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