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BAFTA 2009 Longlist: Screenplay, Cinematography

Charlotte Rampling, Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell, Keira Knightley in The Duchess (top); Peter O’Toole in Dean Spanley (middle); Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman in Australia (bottom)

BAFTA 2009 Longlist: Part I
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
[...]

BAFTA 2009: Nominations Longlist

Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (top); Frank Langella, Michael Sheen in Frost/Nixon (bottom)

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, [...]

BAFTA 2008 Longlists: Production Design, Visual Effects

Jayne Wisener in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (top); Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (middle); Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (bottom)

BAFTA 2008 Longlists
BAFTA 2008 Longlists: Screenplay, Animated Film
PRODUCTION DESIGN
3:10 to Yuma
American Gangster
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The Golden Compass
Hairspray
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Kite Runner
The Lives of Others
Lust, Caution
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood
La Vie en Rose
COSTUME DESIGN
3:10 to Yuma
American Gangster
The Assassination of Jesse [...]

BAFTA 2008 Longlists: Screenplay, Animated Film

Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova in Once (top); Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men (middle); Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others (bottom)

BAFTA 2008 Longlists
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Gangster
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Eastern Promises
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hot Fuzz
In the Valley of Elah
Juno
Knocked Up
The Lives of Others
Michael Clayton
Once
Ratatouille
Things We Lost in the Fire
This is England
La Vie en Rose
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
3:10 to Yuma
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
Brick Lane
Charlie Wilson’s War
Control
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Into the Wild
The Kite Runner
Letters from Iwo Jima
Lust, Caution
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd: [...]

BAFTA 2008 Longlists

James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan in Atonement (top); Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tang Wei in Lust, Caution (middle); Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (bottom)

According to Variety, among the eligible films utterly ignored by British Academy of Film are The Great Debaters, Grace Is Gone, The Savages, Hallam Foe, When Did You Last See Your Father?, and Half Nelson.
I’m Not There and Away from Her only managed one mention a piece, for Cate Blanchett and Julie Christie, respectively.
Half Nelson apparently suffered the fate of other films that arrive in the UK after the Oscar ballyhoo is over for them. Letters from Iwo Jima, which appears twice (adapted screenplay and special visual effects) in the longlists, probably suffered for the [...]

BAFTA 2007

2007 BAFTA Awards
Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2007 award nominations: January 12, 2007
2007 BAFTA award winners: Royal Opera House in London on February 11, 2007.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Helen Mirren in The Queen
 

BEST FILM
Babel – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Steve Golin
The Departed – Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Graham King
The Last King of Scotland – Andrea Calderwood, Lisa Bryer, Charles Steel
Little Miss Sunshine – Albert Berger, David T Friendly, Ron Yerxa
* The Queen – Tracey Seaward, Christine Langan, Andy Harries
THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the Year
Casino Royale – Michael G Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Martin Campbell, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis
* The Last King of Scotland – Andrea [...]

BAFTA 2007 Nominations

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 Toro). Almodóvar had to settle for a nomination in the best foreign-language film category, plus a best actress nod for Penélope Cruz.
As to be expected, the top nominees were The Queen, with ten nods, and [...]

BAFTA 2007 Longlists: Best Film, Acting Categories

Bafta 2007 Longlists
Film, Foreign Film, Director, Acting Categories

Pan’s Labyrinth (top); The History Boys (bottom)

BAFTA 2007 Longlists
Best Film – Top 15:
Babel
Bobby
Casino Royale
Children of Men
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Flags of Our Fathers
The History Boys
The Last King of Scotland
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen
United 93
Volver
Best Foreign-Language Film – Top 15:
36 Quai des Orfèvres
Apocalypto
Black Book
The Child
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Gabrielle
Lady Vengeance
Lemming
The Page Turner
Pan’s Labyrinth
Paradise Now
Rang De Basanti / Paint it Yellow
Secuestro Express
Volver
Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait
Best Director – Top 15:
Mel Gibson – Apocalypto
Alejandro [...]

BAFTA 2007 Longlists

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (bottom)

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the longlists for the 2007 BAFTA Awards. The lists consist of 15 titles per category following the first round of BAFTA voting.
Casino Royale and The Queen, the two most commercially successful British films of 2006, were mentioned 14 times each.
Others in the longlists are Pan’s Labyrinth, Babel, Children of Men, and The Departed, each with 13 mentions; The Last King of Scotland and Little Miss Sunshine with 12; Volver and Dreamgirls with 10; Apocalypto, The Devil Wears Prada, and Notes on a Scandal with 9; Bobby and Flags of Our Fathers with [...]

BAFTA 2006

2006 BAFTA Awards
2006 Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations: January 19, 2006
2006 BAFTA award winners: Odeon Leicester Square in London on February 19, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

FILM
* BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – Diana Ossana / James Schamus
CAPOTE – Caroline Baron / William Vince / Michael Ohoven
THE CONSTANT GARDENER – Simon Channing Williams
CRASH – Credits TBC
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. – Grant Heslov
THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the Year
A COCK & BULL STORY – Andrew Eaton / Michael Winterbottom / Martin Hardy
THE CONSTANT GARDENER – Simon Channing Williams / Fernando Meirelles / Jeffrey Caine
FESTIVAL – Christopher Young / Annie Griffin
PRIDE & PREJUDICE – Tim Bevan / Eric [...]

BAFTA 2006 Winners

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain. Photo: Kimberly French / Focus Films

Brokeback Mountain was the big winner at the BAFTA 2006 Awards. Based on E. Annie Proulx’s short story about the doomed love affair between two Wyoming ranch hands, Brokeback Mountain won a total of four awards: best picture, best director (Ang Lee), best adapted screenplay (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana), and, surprisingly, best supporting actor for Jake Gyllenhaal. (While accepting the best film award, producer James Schamus jokingly complained that his film has been unfairly labeled “the gay cowboy movie,” when it actually is a “universal love story about two gay shepherds.”)

Two actors portraying real-life characters also came out on top: Philip Seymour Hoffman was chosen best [...]

2005 BAFTA Nominations

The 2006 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have been announced. The largest number of nominations went to The Constant Gardener (10), Crash (9), and Brokeback Mountain (9). All three films were nominated for best picture, while The Constant Gardener (above) also received a best British film nod. Mirroring the trend on the western side of the Atlantic, the best picture contenders are all relatively "small" (at least partly) American-financed films. The other two nominees are Capote and Good Night and Good Luck.
Peter Jackson’s King Kong only managed three nominations, all in the technical categories, whereas Steven Spielberg’s Munich, probably because of a screener snafu, was completely shut out. Considering how the British Academy awards tend to favor British [...]

BAFTA 2005

2005 BAFTA Awards
2005 Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winners: Odeon Leicester Square in London on February 12, 2005
2005 BAFTA Nomination Issues
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett in The Aviator
 

FILM
* THE AVIATOR Michael Mann / Sandy Climan / Graham King / Charles Evans Jr
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND Steve Golin / Anthony Bregman
FINDING NEVERLAND Richard N. Gladstein / Nellie Bellflower
DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA / THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES Michael Nozik / Edgard Tenembaum / Karen Tenkhoff / Walter Salles
VERA DRAKE Simon Channing Williams / Alain Sarde / Mike Leigh
The Alexander Korda Award for the OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
DEAD MAN’S SHOES Mark Herbert / Shane Meadows
HARRY POTTER AND THE [...]

BAFTA 2005: Nomination Issues

Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby (above, with Eastwood and Hilary Swank), Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement, Bill Condon’s Kinsey, and Alexander Payne’s Sideways have been shortchanged by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts‘
new rules.
The aforementioned films were officially eligible for the 2004 BAFTA awards, but Sideways only managed to get one nomination for its screenplay, Un long dimanche de fiançailles received one nod in the best foreign-language film category, while Million Dollar Baby and Kinsey were completely ignored.
The problem is that several potential contenders for the BAFTA Awards have been just released in the United Kingdom, or they are yet to be released in that country.
Since the BAFTAs are [...]

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