Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholas Hoult, Carey Mulligan, Tahar Rahim, and Kristen Stewart (but neither Robert Pattinson nor People's Choice Award winner Taylor Lautner) are the British Academy of Film & Television's nominees for the 2010 Orange Rising Star Award. Former Orange Rising Star winners include James McAvoy, Eva Green, and Shia LaBeouf.
According to the BAFTA site, "The Orange Rising Star Award recognises five international actors and actresses who have demonstrated exceptional talent and have begun to capture the imagination of the public as a star in the making." You can vote for your favorite here.
In addition to Roger Dodger, Jesse Eisenberg was recently featured in Adventureland and Zombieland, while Nicholas Hoult, the solitary kid in About a Boy who finds in Hugh Grant an unwilling father, starred in Skins and had a crucial supporting role in A Single Man.
Carey Mulligan became a critics' darling following her star-making turn in Lone Scherfig's An Education, while Tahar Rahim won the European Film Award for best actor for Jacques Audiard's prison drama A Prophet.
Thanks to her Bella, caught between a rocking vampire and a hard-muscled werewolf in Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Kristen Stewart is now a star. Her other credits include Panic Room, Cold Creek Manor and Into the Wild. She'll be next seen as Bella in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn begins filming in Vancouver in the fall.
Photos: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Kimberley French / Summit Entertainment); A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics); An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics)
I'm not based in the UK, either, but I was able to vote.
Now I'm wondering if my vote will be counted.
I am sorry because I am not from UK, otherwise I would vote for Kristen :)