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Ben Affleck & 'Argo' Win Best Director & Film at 2013 BAFTA Awards

by Alex Billington
February 10, 2013
Source: BAFTA

Affleck wins again! Can Argo be stopped? What a year of awards! This weekend in London, the BAFTA (or British Academy of Film and Television Arts) held their annual show, the BAFTA Awards, honoring the finest in film and television from 2012. This year's biggest winner was quite a surprise, but nonetheless yet another sweet victory. Ben Affleck and Argo won Best Director and Best Film, along with Best Editing, but nothing else. Most of the other technical wins were split up between Tom Hooper's Les Miserables and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, with a few for Amour and Silver Linings Playbook snuck in there.

Here's the complete list of film winners (listed in bold) for the 2013 BAFTA Awards, via BAFTA.org:

Best Film:
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

Outstanding British Film:
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer:
Director Bart Layton, Producer Dimitri Doganis - The Imposter
Director David Morris, Director/Producer Jacqui Morris - McCullin
Director/Writer Dexter Fletcher, Writer Danny King - Wild Bill
Director James Bobin - The Muppets
Director/Writer Tina Gharavi - I Am Nasrine

Director:
Michael Haneke - Amour
Ben Affleck - Argo
Quentin Taratino - Django Unchained
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty

Leading Actor:
Ben Affleck - Argo
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

Leading Actress:
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Helen Mirren - Hitchcock
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone

Supporting Actor:
Alan Arkin - Argo
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
Javier Bardem - Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams - The Master
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Judi Dench - Skyfall
Sally Field - Lincoln

Original Screenplay:
Michael Haneke - Amour
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

Adapted Screenplay:
Chris Terrio - Argo
Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee - Life of Pi
Tony Kushner - Lincoln
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

Animated Film:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman

Documentary:
The Imposter
Marley
McCullin
Searching for Sugar Man
West of Memphis

Film Not in the English Language:
Amour
Headhunters
The Hunt
Rust and Bone
Untouchable

Original Music:
Dario Marianelli - Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat - Argo
Mychael Danna - Life of Pi
John Williams - Lincoln
Thomas Newman - Skyfall

Cinematography:
Seamus McGarvey - Anna Karenina
Danny Cohen - Les Misérables
Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi
Janusz Kaminski - Lincoln
Roger Deakins - Skyfall

Editing:
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Production Design:
Anna Karenina
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Costume Design:
Anna Karenina
Great Expectations
Les Misérables
Lincoln
Snow White and the Huntsman

Sound:
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Skyfall

Special Visual Effects:
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Avengers Assemble
Prometheus

Make-Up and Hair:
Anna Karenina
Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Lincoln

Short Animation:
Here to Fall
I'm Fine Thanks
The Making of Longbird

Short Film:
The Curse
Good Night
Swimmer
Tumult
The Voorman

Orange Rising Star Award:
Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Surah Sharma
Juno Temple
Alicia Vikander

And there you have it - the 66th Annual BAFTA Awards revealed in full. Congratulations to all of this year's winners! For more info: BAFTA.org. It looks like Ben Affleck's Argo has become an unstoppable awards snowball and will continue straight through the Oscars, sweeping up just about every last win it possibly can. I'm also surprised that Skyfall didn't win Best Cinematography, but it's obvious the BAFTA was more into the visuals of Life of Pi, which won Visual Effects, Cinematography and Music. Don't forget to check out Jonathan Burton's BAFTA Best Film nominees poster series, to go along with all these winners. Satisfied?

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