Bafta Awards
The Oscars may just be around the corner but all eyes will be on London this weekend as the Baftas once again roll into town.
And there is plenty of British talent in the limelight with Carey Mulligan, Anne Marie Duff, Colin Firth and Kristen Scott Thomas all battling it out for awards.
So here at FemaleFirst we cast out eye over the major categories to try and predict where this year's awards will go.
While An Education, Up In The Air and Precious are all high quality movies that deserve their place in the Best Picture category it looks like this award, once again, will be a two horse race between Avatar and The Hurt Locker.
It looks set to be a close call but The Hurt Locker should walk away with the gong. And it could be a great night for the Iraq drama as Kathryn Bigelow should win Best Director.
James Cameron is her main competition in the category but Neill Blomkamp for District 9, Lone Scherfig for An Education and Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds are also nominated.
And it looks like the Best Actor Award will be rather straight forward as Jeff Bridges is the hit favourite to also scoop the Oscar next month.
George Clooney, Colin Firth, Jeremy Renner and Andy Serkis are the other nominees in the category but anyone other than Bridges walking away with the award would be a surprise.
Sandra Bullock may be the Oscar favourite but she will not contest the Best Actress award at this year's Bafta's leaving in wide open.
Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Gabourey Sidibe, Saoirse Ronan and Audrey Tautou have all been nominated and Mulligan could provide the big British win of the night.
The supporting categories will probably go with the form book as both Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds and Mo'Nique for Precious have dominated the awards circuit in recent weeks.
The Outstanding British Film is possibly one of the toughest categories with An Education, Fish Tank, In the Loop, Moon and Nowhere Boy all nominated.
All five nominees could scoop the award on the night but An Education could sneak a win, because it will miss out on Best Picture.
But all five movies were met with a great critical reception and anyone of them winning would not come as a surprise.
Duncan Jones has been the talk of the British film industry with his directorial debut Moon, which starred Sam Rockwell.
For this movie he should scoop the award for Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer.
Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson for Mugabe And The White African, Eran Creevy, writer for Shifty, Stuart Hazeldine, writer/director for Exam, and Sam Taylor-Wood, director for Nowhere Boy are all in the mix.
As for the screenplay award Quentin Tarantino should walk away with Original Screenplay for Inglourious Basterds while Adapted Screenplay will go to Up In The Air writers Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner.
Up was the animation movie of last year, resulting in a Best Picture Oscar nod, and it should comfortably take the Best Animation Bafta.
The foreign film category is also a tough one with Let The Right One In The White Ribbon, A Prophet, Coco Before Chanel and Broken Embraces all nominated.
While all five movie have enjoyed critical acclaim over the last twelve months The White Ribbon is possibly the slight favourite for the Bafta.
The Orange Rising Star award recognises up and coming acting talent and five of the biggest new names will battle it out for this coveted award.
Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Nicholas Hoult, Jesse Eisenberg and Tahar Rahim are all nominated for the only public voted for category.
And it could be the Twilight fans that prove to be the difference as Kristen Stewart could well walk away with the award.
List of Predictions:
Best Film - The Hurt Locker
Best Actor - Jeff Bridges
Best Actress - Carey Mulligan
Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz
Supporting Actress - Mo'Nique
Best British Film - An Education
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer - Duncan Jones for Moon
Best Director - Kathryn Bigelow
Original Screenplay - Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
Adapted Screenplay - Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner for Up In The Air
Best Animation - Up
Best Foreign Language movie - The White Ribbon
Orange Rising Star - Kristen Stewart
The winners will be announced 21st February
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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