James Cameron
Avatar's week just get better and better after picking up eight Bafta nominations, this comes just days after scooping the Best Picture and Best Director at the Golden Globes.
And while it's possibly the favourite to go on and win Best Film the movie faces tough competition from The Hurt Locker, Precious and Up In The Air, the four of them have been contesting the awards over recent weeks.
But British film was thrown into the spotlight as An Education also found itself in the Best Film category.
An Education also found itself in the Best British Film category where it is joined by Fish Tank
In The Loop, Moon, Nowhere Boy.
Both Fish Tank and Moon did very well critically as well as on the festival circuit so this could be a very tough category.
It was a good night all around for An Education as leading lady Carey Mulligan bagged yet another nomination for her performance as she leads the British charge in the Best Actress category.
Emily Blunt and Helen Mirren may have got Golden Globe nods but they were overlooked by Bafta with Saoirse Ronan, Gabourey Sidibe, Meryl Streep, Audrey Tautou completing the line-up.
There was also a good British presence in the Best Actor category with Colin Firth and Andy Serkis bagging a nomination along with George Clooney, Jeremy Renner and Oscar favourite Jeff Bridges.
Kristen Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff both picked up nominations for Nowhere Boy, the biopic about John Lennon, which has also done well with nominations.
Golden Globe winner and Oscar favourite Christoph Waltz leads the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in Inglourious Basterds.
Also nomination is The Lovely Bones' Stanley Tucci, Alec Baldwin, Christian McKay and Alfred Molina.
Best Director is one of the most exciting categories on the awards circuit this year with James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow sharing the gongs.
And they are set to go head to head again as they both bag nominations along with J Neill Blomkamp for his feature debut District 9 Lone Scherfig for An Education and Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds.
Up will be favourite to scoop the Best Animation award but Coraline and Fantastic Mr Fox are hoping to throw a spanner in the works.
It was the night for sci-fi as District 9 picked up seven nominations while Inglorious Basterds and Up In The Air notched up six.
Full list of nominees:
- Best Film
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Precious
Up In The Air
- Leading Actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
Andy Serkis (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll)
- Leading Actress
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Audrey Tautou (Coco Before Chanel)
- Supporting Actor
Alec Baldwin (It's Complicated)
Christian McKay (Me And Orson Welles)
Alfred Molina (An Education)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
- Supporting Actress
Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy)
Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious)
Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy)
- Outstanding British Film
An Education
Fish Tank
In The Loop
Moon
Nowhere Boy
- Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson (directors, producers - Mugabe And The White African)
Eran Creevy (writer/director - Shifty)
Stuart Hazeldine (writer/director - Exam)
Duncan Jones (director - Moon)
Sam Taylor-Wood (director - Nowhere Boy)
- Director
James Cameron (Avatar)
Neill Blomkamp (District 9)
Lone Scherfig (An Education)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
- Original screenplay
The Hangover (Jon Lucas, Scott Moore)
The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Up (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter)
- Adapted screenplay
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell)
An Education (Nick Hornby)
In The Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)
Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)
- Film not in the English language
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Let The Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
- Animated film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
Up
- Music
Avatar (James Horner)
Crazy Heart (T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Chaz Jankel)
Up (Michael Giacchino)
- Cinematography
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Road
- Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds Sally Menke
Up In the Air
- Production Design
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
- Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
A Single Man
The Young Victoria
- Sound
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Up
- Special Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
- Make-up & hair
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria
- Short Animation
The Gruffalo
The Happy Duckling
Mother Of Many
- Short Film
14
I Do Air
Jade
Mixtape
Off Season
- The Orange Rising Star Award
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
Avatar's week just get better and better after picking up eight Bafta nominations, this comes just days after scooping the Best Picture and Best Director at the Golden Globes.
And while it's possibly the favourite to go on and win Best Film the movie faces tough competition from The Hurt Locker, Precious and Up In The Air, the four of them have been contesting the awards over recent weeks.
But British film was thrown into the spotlight as An Education also found itself in the Best Film category.
An Education also found itself in the Best British Film category where it is joined by Fish Tank
In The Loop, Moon, Nowhere Boy.
Both Fish Tank and Moon did very well critically as well as on the festival circuit so this could be a very tough category.
It was a good night all around for An Education as leading lady Carey Mulligan bagged yet another nomination for her performance as she leads the British charge in the Best Actress category.
Emily Blunt and Helen Mirren may have got Golden Globe nods but they were overlooked by Bafta with Saoirse Ronan, Gabourey Sidibe, Meryl Streep, Audrey Tautou completing the line-up.
There was also a good British presence in the Best Actor category with Colin Firth and Andy Serkis bagging a nomination along with George Clooney, Jeremy Renner and Oscar favourite Jeff Bridges.
Kristen Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff both picked up nominations for Nowhere Boy, the biopic about John Lennon, which has also done well with nominations.
Golden Globe winner and Oscar favourite Christoph Waltz leads the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in Inglourious Basterds.
Also nomination is The Lovely Bones' Stanley Tucci, Alec Baldwin, Christian McKay and Alfred Molina.
Best Director is one of the most exciting categories on the awards circuit this year with James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow sharing the gongs.
And they are set to go head to head again as they both bag nominations along with J Neill Blomkamp for his feature debut District 9 Lone Scherfig for An Education and Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds.
Up will be favourite to scoop the Best Animation award but Coraline and Fantastic Mr Fox are hoping to throw a spanner in the works.
It was the night for sci-fi as District 9 picked up seven nominations while Inglorious Basterds and Up In The Air notched up six.
Full list of nominees:
- Best Film
Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Precious
Up In The Air
- Leading Actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
Andy Serkis (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll)
- Leading Actress
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Audrey Tautou (Coco Before Chanel)
- Supporting Actor
Alec Baldwin (It's Complicated)
Christian McKay (Me And Orson Welles)
Alfred Molina (An Education)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
- Supporting Actress
Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy)
Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious)
Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy)
- Outstanding British Film
An Education
Fish Tank
In The Loop
Moon
Nowhere Boy
- Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson (directors, producers - Mugabe And The White African)
Eran Creevy (writer/director - Shifty)
Stuart Hazeldine (writer/director - Exam)
Duncan Jones (director - Moon)
Sam Taylor-Wood (director - Nowhere Boy)
- Director
James Cameron (Avatar)
Neill Blomkamp (District 9)
Lone Scherfig (An Education)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
- Original screenplay
The Hangover (Jon Lucas, Scott Moore)
The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Up (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter)
- Adapted screenplay
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell)
An Education (Nick Hornby)
In The Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)
Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)
- Film not in the English language
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Let The Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
- Animated film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
Up
- Music
Avatar (James Horner)
Crazy Heart (T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Chaz Jankel)
Up (Michael Giacchino)
- Cinematography
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Road
- Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds Sally Menke
Up In the Air
- Production Design
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
- Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
A Single Man
The Young Victoria
- Sound
Avatar
District 9