2007 BAFTA

Helen Mirren, Sylvia Syms in The Queen (top); Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (bottom) Though usually more open to non-English-language films than the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts failed to place either Pedro Almodóvar's Volver or Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth as one (or two) of this year's best film or best director nominees. Pan's Labyrinth did, however, receive a total of 8 nominations, including best foreign-language film and best original screenplay (del [...]