65th British Academy Film Awards

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65th British Academy Film Awards
Date12 February 2012
SiteRoyal Opera House, London
Hosted byStephen Fry
Highlights
Best FilmThe Artist
Best British FilmTinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best ActorJean Dujardin
The Artist
Best ActressMeryl Streep
The Iron Lady
Most awardsThe Artist (7)
Most nominationsThe Artist (12)

The 65th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 12 February 2012 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2011. The nominations were announced on 17 January 2012 by actor Daniel Radcliffe and actress Holliday Grainger.[1] Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades are handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2011. Stephen Fry, who hosted from 2001 to 2006, returned to host the ceremony.[2] The Artist won seven awards out of its twelve nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin. Meryl Streep won Best Actress for The Iron Lady. Christopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for Beginners and Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress for The Help. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, directed by Tomas Alfredson, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2011.[3] Director Martin Scorsese was given the BAFTA Fellowship and Sir John Hurt garnered the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.[4]

Winners and nominees[]

Michel Hazanavicius, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay winner
Jean Dujardin, Best Actor winner
Meryl Streep, Best Actress winner
Christopher Plummer, Best Supporting Actor winner
Octavia Spencer, Best Supporting Actress winner
Adam Deacon, Orange Rising Star Award winner

BAFTA Fellowship[]

  • Martin Scorsese

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema[]

  • Sir John Hurt

The ArtistThomas Langmann

  • The DescendantsJim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
  • DriveMarc Platt and Adam Siegel
  • The HelpMichael Barnathan, Chris Columbus and Brunson Green
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Robyn Slovo

Michel HazanaviciusThe Artist

Jean DujardinThe Artist as George Valentin

  • Brad PittMoneyball as Billy Beane
  • Gary OldmanTinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley
  • George ClooneyThe Descendants as Matthew King
  • Michael FassbenderShame as Brandon Sullivan

Meryl StreepThe Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher

Christopher PlummerBeginners as Hal Fields

Octavia SpencerThe Help as Minerva Jackson

  • Carey MulliganDrive as Irene
  • Jessica ChastainThe Help as Celia Rae Foote
  • Judi DenchMy Week with Marilyn as Sybil Thorndike
  • Melissa McCarthyBridesmaids as Megan Price

The ArtistMichel Hazanavicius

Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyBridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan

  • The DescendantsNat Faxon, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
  • The HelpTate Taylor
  • The Ides of MarchGeorge Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
  • MoneyballAaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian

The ArtistGuillaume Schiffman

  • The Girl with the Dragon TattooJeff Cronenweth
  • HugoRobert Richardson
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyHoyte van Hoytema
  • War HorseJanusz Kamiński

The ArtistMark Bridges

Senna – Gregers Sall and Chris King

  • The ArtistAnne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
  • Drive – Mat Newman
  • HugoThelma Schoonmaker
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Dino Jonsater

The Iron LadyMark Coulier, J. Roy Helland and Marese Langan

The ArtistLudovic Bource

  • The Girl with the Dragon TattooTrent Reznor and Atticus Ross
  • HugoHoward Shore
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyAlberto Iglesias
  • War HorseJohn Williams

HugoDante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo

HugoTom Fleischman, Eugene Gearty, John Midgley and Philip Stockton

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2Tim Burke, Greg Butler, John Richardson and David Vickery

Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Bridget O'Connor, Robyn Slovo and Peter Straughan

  • My Week with MarilynSimon Curtis, Adrian Hodges, David Parfitt and Harvey Weinstein
  • SennaTim Bevan, Eric Fellner, James Gay-Rees, Asif Kapadia and Manish Pandey
  • ShameIain Canning, Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan and Emile Sherman
  • We Need to Talk About KevinJennifer Fox, Rory Stewart Kinnear, Lynne Ramsay, Luc Roeg and Robert Salerno

TyrannosaurPaddy Considine (Director) and Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)

  • Attack the BlockJoe Cornish (Director)
  • Black Pond – Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer), Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe (Director)
  • CoriolanusRalph Fiennes (Director)
  • SubmarineRichard Ayoade (Director)

A Morning StrollSue Goffe and Grant Orchard

  • Abuelas – Afarin Eghbal, Francesca Gardiner and Kasia Malipan
  • Bobby YeahRobert Morgan

Pitch Black HeistJohn Maclean and Geradine O'Flynn

RangoGore Verbinski

  • The Adventures of TintinSteven Spielberg
  • Arthur ChristmasSarah Smith

SennaTim Bevan, Eric Fellner, James Gay-Rees, Asif Kapadia and Manish Pandey

The Skin I Live InAgustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar

Adam Deacon

Statistics[]

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations Film
12 The Artist
11 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
9 Hugo
6 My Week with Marilyn
5 The Help
War Horse
4 Drive
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
The Iron Lady
3 The Descendants
Moneyball
Senna
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2 The Adventures of Tintin
Bridesmaids
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Ides of March
Shame
Films that received multiple awards
Awards Film
7 The Artist
2 Hugo
The Iron Lady
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

In Memoriam[]

  • Jane Russell
  • Bingham Ray
  • Michael Gough
  • Richard Leacock
  • Shammi Kapoor
  • Ken Russell
  • Syd Cain
  • Eva Monley
  • Nicol Williamson
  • Whitney Houston
  • Theodoros Angelopoulos
  • Laura Ziskin
  • Arthur Laurents
  • Hugh Martin
  • Richard Pointing
  • Ben Gazzara
  • Shelagh Delaney
  • Bubba Smith
  • Steve Jobs
  • Sidney Lumet
  • Farley Granger
  • John Mackenzie
  • Michael Cacoyannis
  • John Calley
  • Bridget O'Connor
  • Elizabeth Taylor

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ BAFTA Film Awards Nominations in 2012, bafta.org, 17 January 2012.
  2. ^ Stephen Fry Returns to British Academy Film Awards, bafta.org.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Simon (12 February 2012). "Orange BAFTA Film Awards 2012 winners list – in full". Digital Spy. Hearst Magazines UK. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  4. ^ Pond, Steve (12 February 2012). "'The Artist' Dominates at BAFTA Awards". Reuters. Retrieved 12 February 2012.

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