BAFTA 2009: Nominations Longlist
As usual, Hollywood and Anglo-American productions dominate the longlists of the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon have 14 nominations each, followed by Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Changeling, and The Dark Knight with 13; Milk and Burn After Reading with 11; and Doubt, The Wrestler, Mamma Mia!, The Duchess, and In Bruges with 9.
Small British films managed only a handful of nods: three for Hunger and Happy-Go-Lucky; two for Dean Spanley. Non-English-language films fared just as poorly: five nominations for I’ve Loved You So Long, three for Waltz with Bashir, two for Persepolis, plus screenplay nods for The Baader Meinhof Complex and Gomorrah.
The final nominations will be announced on Jan. 15. The BAFTA ceremony will take place Feb. 8 at London’s Royal Opera House.
Longlist for the British Academy Film Awards:
BEST FILM
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
In Bruges
I’ve Loved You So Long
Milk
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
The Wrestler
ANIMATED FILM
Kung Fu Panda
Persepolis
The Tale of Despereaux
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir
DIRECTOR
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Hunger
In Bruges
I’ve Loved You So Long
Milk
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
LEADING ACTOR
Benicio del Toro – Che Part One
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christian Bale – The Dark Knight
Colin Farrell – In Bruges
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
George Clooney – Burn After Reading
Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Josh Brolin- W.
Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road
Michael Fassbender — Hunger
Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Richard Jenkins- The Visitor
Sean Penn – Milk
LEADING ACTRESS
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading
Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet – The Reader
Keira Knightley – The Duchess
Kristin Scott Thomas – I’ve Loved You So Long
Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia!
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Nicole Kidman – Australia
Penélope Cruz – Elegy
Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Scarlett Johansson – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Brad Pitt – Burn After Reading
Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
David Kross – The Reader
Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
John Malkovich – Burn After Reading
John Malkovich – Changeling
Josh Brolin – Milk
Kevin Bacon – Frost/Nixon
Peter O’Toole – Dean Spanley
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess
Ralph Fiennes – In Bruges
Ralph Fiennes – The Reader
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – Doubt
Charlotte Rampling – The Duchess
Elsa Zylberstein – I’ve Loved You So Long
Emma Thompson- Brideshead Revisited
Freida Pinto – Slumdog Millionaire
Judi Dench – Quantum of Solace
Julie Walters – Mamma Mia!
Kathy Bates – Revolutionary Road
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rebecca Hall – Frost/Nixon
Tilda Swinton – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tilda Swinton – Burn After Reading
Vera Farmiga – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Viola Davis – Doubt
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Dean Spanley
Defiance
Doubt
The Duchess
Frost/Nixon
Gomorrah
Mamma Mia!
Persepolis
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading
Changeling
Che Part One
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hunger
In Bruges
I’ve Loved You So Long
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Visitor
W.
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir
The Wrestler
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Australia
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
The Duchess
Frost/Nixon
In Bruges
Mamma Mia!
Milk
Quantum of Solace
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
EDITING
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
In Bruges
Man on Wire
Milk
Quantum of Solace
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
MUSIC
Australia
Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Frost/Nixon
Mamma Mia!
Milk
Quantum of Solace
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
Wall-E
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Australia
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brideshead Revisited
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Frost/Nixon
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Mamma Mia!
Milk
Quantum of Solace
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
COSTUME DESIGN
Australia
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brideshead Revisited
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Frost/Nixon
Mamma Mia!
Milk
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Sex and the City
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
VISUAL EFFECTS
Australia
Changeling
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hancock
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Slumdog Millionaire
Tropic Thunder
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir
SOUND
Australia
Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
In Bruges
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Mamma Mia!
Quantum of Solace
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
MAKE UP & HAIR
Australia
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brideshead Revisited
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Frost/Nixon
Mamma Mia!
Milk
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Tropic Thunder
The Wrestler
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The British Academy might want to change their name to the Hollywood Academy of Film. Really…
Did anyone even see the brilliant and complex makeup work in HellboyII: The Golden Army? This is an inexplicable snub…