61st British Academy Film Awards
61st British Academy Film Awards | |
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Date | 10 February 2008 |
Site | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |
Hosted by | Jonathan Ross |
Highlights | |
Best Film | Atonement |
Best British Film | This Is England |
Best Actor | Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood |
Best Actress | Marion Cotillard La Vie en Rose (La Môme) |
Most awards | La Vie en Rose (La Môme) (4) |
Most nominations | Atonement (14) |
The 61st British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 10 February 2008 and honoured the best films of 2007.
Atonement won Best Film, while Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, won Best Director for No Country for Old Men, which also went on to win Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for There Will Be Blood, Marion Cotillard won Best Actress for La Vie en Rose (La Môme), and Tilda Swinton won Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton. This Is England, directed by Shane Meadows, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2007.
Winners and nominees[]
BAFTA Fellowship[]
Anthony Hopkins
Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster
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Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
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Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
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Marion Cotillard – La Vie en rose as Édith Piaf
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Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
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Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder
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Juno – Diablo Cody
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Ronald Harwood
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No Country for Old Men – Roger Deakins
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La Vie en rose – Marit Allen
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The Bourne Ultimatum – Christopher Rouse
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La Vie en rose – Jan Archibald and Didier Lavergne
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La Vie en rose – Christopher Gunning
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Atonement – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
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The Bourne Ultimatum – Kirk Francis, Scott Millan, David Parker, Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
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The Golden Compass – Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
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This Is England – Mark Herbert and Shane Meadows
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Control – Matt Greenhalgh (Writer)
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The Pearce Sisters – Jo Allen and Luis Cook
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Dog Altogether – Diarmid Scrimshaw and Paddy Considine
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Ratatouille – Brad Bird
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The Lives of Others – Quirin Begg, Max Wiedemann and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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Shia LaBeouf
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Statistics[]
Nominations | Film |
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14 | Atonement |
9 | No Country for Old Men |
There Will Be Blood | |
7 | La Vie en rose |
6 | The Bourne Ultimatum |
5 | American Gangster |
The Lives of Others | |
Michael Clayton | |
4 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age |
3 | Control |
The Kite Runner | |
2 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
Eastern Promises | |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | |
Juno | |
Lust, Caution | |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
This Is England |
Awards | Film |
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4 | La Vie en rose |
3 | No Country for Old Men |
2 | Atonement |
The Bourne Ultimatum |
In Memoriam[]
- Lois Maxwell
- Alex Phillips
- Betty Hutton
- Freddie Francis
- Calvin Lockhart
- Brad Renfro
- Charles Lane
- Laszlo Kovacs
- Fernando Fernan-Gomez
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Gordon Scott
- Mali Finn
- Michel Serrault
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Victoria Hopper
- Christopher Greenbury
- Russell Lloyd
- Jane Wyman
- Brian Eatwell
- Frank Capra Jr.
- Alex Thomson
- Peter Handford
- Marcel Marceau
- Marit Allen
- Deborah Kerr
- Richard Franklin
- Ulrich Mühe
- Golda Offenheim
- Ingmar Bergman
- Peter Zinner
- Peter Ellenshaw
- Heath Ledger
See also[]
- 80th Academy Awards
- 33rd César Awards
- 13th Critics' Choice Awards
- 60th Directors Guild of America Awards
- 21st European Film Awards
- 65th Golden Globe Awards
- 28th Golden Raspberry Awards
- 22nd Goya Awards
- 23rd Independent Spirit Awards
- 13th Lumières Awards
- 19th Producers Guild of America Awards
- 12th Satellite Awards
- 34th Saturn Awards
- 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 60th Writers Guild of America Awards
References[]
- ‘Atonement’ leads BAFTA longlist Variety, 4 January 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2022
- Atonements leads nominations People, 16 January 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/2008-02-10-bafta-awards_N.htm
- Time (magazine)
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3671093/Baftas-2008-Atonement-wins-top-prize.html
- British Academy Film Awards
- 2008 in British cinema
- 2007 film awards
- February 2008 events in the United Kingdom