BAFTA winners
The British Academy Awards or BAFTA’s differentiate themselves from the Oscars as you would expect them too. As a truly British endeavor the cheese-factor and the Euro-factor intersect somewhere at the Royal Opera House in London. Hosted this year by Jonathan Ross, the telecast on BBC America shows that although Hollywood is king to the English, they pay more deference to the Europeans, to directors, to newcomers and to Sylvester Stallone than the Academy would.
The BAFTA Awards went as follows:
Best Film: “Atonement”
Best British Film: “This is England”
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis “There Will be Blood”
Best Actress: Javier Bardem “No Country for Old Men”
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton “Michael Clayton”
Best Director: Joel & Ethan Coen “No Country for Old Men”
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody “Juno”
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ronald Harwood “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins “No Country for Old Men”
Best Editing: Christopher Rouse “The Bourne Ultimatum”
Best Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer “Atonement”
Best Costume Design: Marit Allen “La Môme” (aka “La Vie En Rose“)
Best Music: Christopher Gunning “La Môme” (aka “La Vie En Rose“)
Best Make Up/Hair: Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald “La Môme” (aka “La Vie En Rose“)
Best Sound: “The Bourne Ultimatum”
Best Special Effects: “The Golden Compass”
Best non-English Language Film: “The Lives of Others”
Best Animated Feature: “Ratatouille”
Orange Rising Star: Shia LaBeouf
Some comments about the ceremony and telecast. What was Tilda Swinton wearing? Jesus…..
Shia LaBeouf as the Orange Rising Star (ridiculous award in the first place) in the year he was in “Transformers” but all four other nominees were better than he ths year - Wei Tang, Sienna Miller, Ellen Page and Sam Riley were all in much better films. “Atonement” will not get as much love from the Oscars and I was impressed by the technical awards that all went to “La Vie En Rose.”
The big winners tonight were “Atonement” with two awards - Best Film and Best Production Design. “La Vie en Rose” about Edith Piaff won three awards, Best Music, Best Make Up/Hair and Best Costume Design. “No Country for Old Men” continued its Oscar march by picking up three awards as well - Best Director, Best Cinematography and the inevitable Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem. Also when Diablo Cody accepted for Best Original Screenplay she especially thanked her manager and film-producer Mason Novick and the camera panned to Cody’s date who obviously wasn’t Novick…..
The end of the telecast was interesting because of the words of introduction by Lord Richard Attenborough who presented to fellow white-bearded chum 70-year-old Sir Anthony Hopkins a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 40-year career in film. Attenborough was elegant and humorous by (Attenborough is a lifelong Chelsea supporter) announcing the tied score of the Liverpool-Chelsea soccer game which was simultaneously taking place. In recieving the final award, Hopkins was very eloquent and deserved of the praise. However Daniel Day-Lewis’s acceptance speech for Best Actor earlier in the telecast was the most poignant and convincing moment for viewers.
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