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'The Artist' Sweeps Again - 65th Annual BAFTA Winners Announced
by Alex Billington
February 12, 2012
Source: BAFTA
While we're still a few weeks away from the 84th Academy Awards, across the Atlantic our friends in the UK praising the the finest in film and television at the 65th Annual BAFTA Awards, or British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. The winners were announced today at a ceremony in London. As expected, Michel Hazanavicius' B&W silent hit The Artist continues to sweep awards left and right, landing another seven wins at the BAFTAs tonight, including Best Film and Best Director. But there's always other surprises, like Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur and the documentary Senna winning as well. Read on for the full list!
Here's the complete list of film winners for the 2012 BAFTA Awards, via BAFTA.org:
Best Film:
The Artist
Best British Film:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Outstanding Debut by a British Director:
Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine
Director:
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Leading Actor:
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Leading Actress:
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Supporting Actor:
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Supporting Actress:
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Adapted Screenplay:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan
Original Screenplay:
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Animated Film:
Rango - Gore Verbinski
Documentary:
Senna - Asif Kapadia
Best Film Not in the English Language:
The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodóvar
Production Design:
Hugo - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Cinematography:
The Artist - Guillaume Schiffman
Editing:
Senna - Gregers Sall, Chris King
Original Music:
The Artist - Ludovic Bource
Costume Design:
The Artist - Mark Bridges
Sound:
Hugo - Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
Visual Effects:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Make Up & Hair:
The Iron Lady - Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland, Marese Langan
Short Film:
Pitch Black Heist
Short Animation:
A Morning Stroll
Outstanding Contribution To British Cinema:
John Hurt
And there you have it - the 65th Annual BAFTA Awards for 2012. For more: BAFTA.org. I always love seeing a documentary, like Senna, win Best Editing in addition to Best Documentary, just shows how great that doc is and how much it's worth seeing if you haven't yet. We also featured some fantastic posters from the BAFTA Brochure for the Best Film nominees, which included Drive and The Descendants, but they did not take home any awards. Overall I'm satisfied, I expected The Artist to take quite a few, but they had a variety of other solid winners, like Octavia Spencer, Tinker Tailor, The Skin I Live In, even Harry Potter. Congrats!
11 Comments
1
got the oscars are gonna be so borign this year why even tune in when we know the Artist is gonna win another borign oscar winner no one has seen
Anonymous on Feb 12, 2012
2
i could not agree more, my friend....
filmineeer on Feb 12, 2012
3
@HG2012:disqus I'd recommend it. I found it was anything, but boring. Also, I don't think it was a sweep. It lost in 5 categories.
Andrew DiDonato on Feb 12, 2012
4
did'nt mean movie is boring but the choice has been predictable for like the past 5 months lol
Anonymous on Feb 12, 2012
6
Surprised nothing has been mentioned of Scorsese receiving the BAFTA fellowship?
Dearsleazy on Feb 12, 2012
7
Yeah, to quote the press release, it's "the highest accolade which the Academy can bestow" Way to go Marty!!...and everyone else too:)
Anonymous on Feb 13, 2012
8
Guess Drive is going to be completely ignored. At least it was nominated...
Anonymous on Feb 12, 2012
9
Drive probably made most of the academy voters choke on their dentures when they watched the screener on their laser disc player, or whatever those out of touch old corpses use these days. Maybe betamax.
Lebowski on Feb 13, 2012
10
Like Bryan Cranston said in Drive: they wouldn't be able to find pu**y in a whore house.
Anonymous on Feb 14, 2012
11
I get the feeling the panels vote for it through nostalgia for the way the movie industry used to be rather than the movie itself.
David Rabbich on Feb 12, 2012
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