Category: Awards Season

Here are the winners at this year’s Indie Spirit Awards:

Best Feature: Juno

Best Director: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Male Lead: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages

Best Female Lead: Ellen Page, Juno

Best Supporting Male: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Talk To Me

Best Supporting Female: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There

Best Screenplay: Tamara Jenkins, The Savages

Best Foreign Film: Once

Best Documentary: Crazy Love

Best Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Bests First Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno

Best First Feature: The Lookout

Robert Altman Award: Todd Haynes, Laura Rosenthal and the cast of I’m Not There

John Cassavetes Award: August Evening

Truer Than Fiction Award: The Unforeseen, Laura Dunn

Producers Award: Neil Kopp, Paranoid Park, Old Joy

Someone to Watch Award: Ramin Bahrani, Chop Shop

> Official site for the Indie Spirit Awards
> Find out more about the awards at Wikipedia
> Some photos on Flickr of filmmakers and actors arriving at the event in Santa Monica
> Check out the minisite for the awards at the IFC

Here are tonight’s major BAFTA winners:

BEST PICTURE
Atonement

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

BEST BRITISH FILM
This is England

Other notable winners were:

Best Film Not in the English Language was won by The Lives of Others.

Best Original Screenplay was won by Diablo Cody for Juno.

Best Adapted Screenplay award went to Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Best Animated Film was won by Ratatouille.

Special Visual Effects was presented to The Golden Compass.

Writer Matt Greenhalgh won The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film for Control.

The Pearce Sisters won the Short Animation award.

Best Short Film award was presented to Dog Altogether.

Property Master Barry Wilkinson was presented with the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. Barry’s credits include Indiana Jones, Titanic, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Fifth Element, and the Harry Potter films.

The Orange Rising Star Award was presented to Shia LaBeouf.

The winner of 60 Seconds of Fame, BAFTA and Orange’s short film initiative, was announced earlier this afternoon in front of a big screen in Covent Garden Piazza. The winning film, United (Polar Showtime Dancers) was created by Cheryl Marshall from the East Midlands.

The three film winners for this year’s Writer’s Guild Awards have been announced:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno – Written by Diablo Cody (Fox Searchlight)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
No Country For Old Men – Screenplay by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Based on the Novel by Cormac McCarthy (Miramax)

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Taxi To The Dark Side – Written by Alex Gibney (THINKFilm)

For the complete list of all the TV winners check out this list at Variety.

Because of the strike there was no official ceremony in LA, although there was a ‘scaled back’ event in New York. Perhaps more importantly, it looks like the strike could be over very soon.

Last night WGA members met with their guild leaders at the Shrine Auditorium in LA and heard details of a tentative agreement to end the three-month strike that has crippled production in Hollywood.

> Variety report on the winners
> Official site for the WGA Awards with the full list of nominees

You may not have heard of Ron Fedkiw, but on February 9th he and two collaborators at special effects powerhouse Industrial Light and Magic will be awarded an Oscar for their pioneeering SFX work.

Fedikew is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and has consulted at ILM since 2000.

The seas in the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels and the dragon’s flaming breath in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire have all come about – in part – to his work on computer-generated fluids.

As he puts it:

My research is focused on the design of new computational algorithms for a variety of applications including computational fluid dynamics and solid mechanics, computer graphics, computer vision and computational biomechanics.

To see that in action check out this simulation of waves against a lighthouse:

and this glass of water:

They eventually help create the ground work for the climax to a big film like Pirates 3:

[Link via Digg]

> Ron’s department page at Stanford
> Finds out more about ILM at Wikipedia

Here are the winners at Screen Actors Guild awards:

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis – “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage)

Best Actress
Julie Christie – “Away From Her” (Lionsgate)

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem – “No Country For Old Men” (Miramax Films)

Best Supporting Actress
Ruby Dee – “American Gangster” (Universal Pictures)

Best Ensemble
No Country for Old Men (Miramax Films)
Javier Bardem / Anton Chigurh
Josh Brolin / Llewelyn Moss
Garret Dillahunt / Wendell
Tess Harper / Loretta Bell
Woody Harrelson / Carson Wells
Tommy Lee Jones / Ed Tom Bell
Kelly Macdonald / Carla Jean Moss

Best Stunt Ensemble
The Bourne Ultimatum

TELEVISION

Best Actor (Drama)
James Gandolfini, The Sopranos

Best Actress (Drama)
Edie Falco, The Sopranos

Best Actor (Comedy)
Alec Baldwin,30 Rock

Best Actress (Comedy)
Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Best Ensemble (Drama)
The Sopranos

Best Ensemble (Comedy)
The Office

Best Actor (Television Movie or Miniseries)
Kevin Kline, As You Like It

Best Actress (Television Movie or Miniseries)
Queen Latifah, Life Support

Best Stunt Ensemble
24
> Official site for the SAG Awards
> Variety article on the winners

Robert Elswit has won the American Society of Cinematographers Award for his work on There Will Be Blood.

Variety report:

Robert Elswit staved off a tough field Saturday night at the American Society of Cinematographers awards ceremony when he topped the feature competition for his work on Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood.” Elswit, who has shot all of Anderson’s movies dating back to the filmmaker’s 1996 feature debut “Hard Eight,” is also vying for an Oscar.

In fact, the Academy’s nominees are in perfect alignment with those of the ASC for only the second time in the ASC’s 22 years of bestowing awards, with Roger Deakins (“No Country for Old Men,” “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”) having claimed two slots in both competitions. The last time the two organizations matched noms, John Seale won both contests for “The English Patient,” a film with which this year’s “Atonement” — shot by ASC and Oscar nominee Seamus McGarvey — has been often compared.

Whether Deakins’ two noms created a split vote among the ASC’s 298 members can only be left to conjecture. And if one were to view Elswit’s ASC win as an Oscar bellwether, one must consider that the ASC’s membership represents only a fraction of the Acad’s 6,500-plus members who are eligible to vote for Oscar’s winning cinematographer.

Elswit’s mastery, like that of Deakins’, is evident in more than one film released this year; he also shot “Michael Clayton,” whose star, George Clooney, worked with Elswit on “Good Night and Good Luck,” for which the d.p. also gained ASC and Academy nominations.

It has been a truly exceptional year for cinematography and you have to feel for Roger Deakins, whose brilliance behind the camera on two films probably did split the vote.

However, credit must go to Elswit who has done some incredible work with Paul Thomas Anderson on this and previous films.

I’m also starting to get the feeling that There Will Be Blood is gaining momentum in the build up to the Oscars.

> Robert Elswit at the IMDb
> Extensive article in American Cinematographer magazine on Elswit’s work in There Will Be Blood
> An interview with Robert Elswit and production designer Jack Fisk about There Will Be Blood
> An interview with Robert Elswit from January 2006
> Article on Elswit’s work on Magnolia

So the Oscar nominations are out. As ever, a few surprises mingled amongst the favourites and analysis to follow.

If you have any thoughts, then do leave a comment below.

Here they are in full:

BEST PICTURE
Atonement (Focus Features)
Juno (Fox Searchlight)
Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
No Country for Old Men (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks)
Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features)

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal)
Julie Christie in “Away from Her” (Lionsgate)
Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
Laura Linney in “The Savages” (Fox Searchlight)
Ellen Page in “Juno” (Fox Searchlight)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There” (The Weinstein Company)
Ruby Dee in “American Gangster” (Universal)
Saoirse Ronan in “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Amy Ryan in “Gone Baby Gone” (Miramax)
Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – “There Will Be Blood”
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen – “No Country For Old Men”
Tony Gilroy – “Michael Clayton”
Jason Reitman – “Juno”
Julian Schnabel – “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Brad Bird – “Ratatouille”
Diablo Cody – “Juno”
Tony Gilroy – “Michael Clayton”
Tamara Jenkins – “The Savages”
Nancy Oliver – “Lars and the Real Girl”

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson – “There Will Be Blood”
Ethan & Joel Coen – “No Country for Old Men”
Christopher Hampton – “Atonement”
Ronald Harwood – “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Sarah Polley – “Away from Her”

ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis – (Sony Pictures Classics)
Ratatouille – (Pixar; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Distribution)
Surf’s Up – (Sony Pictures Releasing)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins – “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
Seamus McGarvey – “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Janusz Kaminski – “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn)
Roger Deakins – “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Robert Elswit – “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

ART DIRECTION
American Gangster (Universal) Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
Atonement (Focus Features) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Golden Compass (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners) Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

COSTUME DESIGN
Albert Wolsky – “Across the Universe” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Jacqueline Durran – “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Alexandra Byrne – “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal)
Marit Allen – “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
Colleen Atwood – “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks)

FILM EDITING
Christopher Rouse – “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Juliette Welfling – “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn)
Jay Cassidy – “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Roderick Jaynes – “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Dylan Tichenor – “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

SOUND EDITING
Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg – “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Skip Lievsay – “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Randy Thom and Michael Silvers – “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Matthew Wood – “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins – “Transformers” (DreamWorks)

SOUND MIXING
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis – “The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland – “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane – “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe – “3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate)
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin – “Transformers” (DreamWorks)

VISUAL EFFECTS
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood – “The Golden Compass” (New Line)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier – “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier – “Transformers” (DreamWorks)

MAKE UP
Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald – “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji – “Norbit” (DreamWorks)
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel – “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney)

ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli– “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Alberto Iglesias – “The Kite Runner” (DreamWorks)
James Newton Howard – “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Michael Giacchino – “Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Marco Beltrami – “3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate)

ORIGINAL SONG
Falling Slowly from “Once” (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Happy Working Song from “Enchanted (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Raise It Up from “August Rush” (Warner Bros.) Nominees to be determined
So Close from “Enchanted” (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
That’s How You Know from “Enchanted” (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort – Israel
The Counterfeiters – Austria
Katy? – Poland
Mongol – Kazakhstan
12 – Russia

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight (Magnolia Pictures)
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (The Documentary Group)
Sicko (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company)
Taxi to the Dark Side (THINKFilm)
War/Dance (THINKFilm)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Freeheld – Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth (Lieutenant Films Production)
La Corona (The Crown) – Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega (A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production)
Salim Baba – Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello (Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production)
Sari’s Mother – James Longley (Cinema Guild, A Daylight Factory Production)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
I Met the Walrus – Josh Raskin (Kids & Explosions Production)
Madame Tutli-Putli – Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (National Film Board of Canada)
Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis – Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven / Premium Films /A BUF Compagnie Production)
My Love (Moya Lyubov) – Alexander Petrov (Channel One Russia / A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production)
Peter & the Wolf – Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman (BreakThru Films /BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production)

LIVE ACTION SHORT
At Night – Christian E. Christiansen and Louise (VesthZentropa Entertainments 10 Production)
Il Supplente (The Substitute) – Andrea Jublin (Sky Cinema Italia / A Frame by Frame Italia Production)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets) – Philippe Pollet-Villard (Premium Films / A Karé Production)
Tanghi Argentini – Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans (Premium Films / An Another Dimension of an Idea Production)
The Tonto Woman – Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown (A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production)

Because of the WGA Strike this year’s Golden Globe ceremony was a press conference rather than a star studded TV event.

The big story of the night is Atonement winning Best Picture in the drama category and Julian Schnabel winning for The Diving Bell & the Butterfly.

However, given that the Globes are always distorted by the split between drama and comedy/musicals I wouldn’t read a massive amount into the winners. However, it could possibly point to a more even spread of winners in the major categories.

Here are the winners in full:

FILM

Best Motion Picture, Drama: Atonement

Best Actor, Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Best Actress, Drama: Julie Christie, Away From Her

Best Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy: Sweeney Todd

Best Actor, Comedy Or Musical: Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd

Best Actress, Comedy Or Musical: Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose

Best Director: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Best Foreign Language Picture: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, (France/USA)

Best Screenplay: Joel And Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men

Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There

Best Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille

Best Original Score: Dario Marianelli, Atonement

Best Song: “Guaranteed”, Into The Wild

TELEVISION

Best Dramatic TV Series: Mad Men

Best Actor, TV Drama: Jon Hamm, Mad Men,

Best Actress, TV Drama: Glenn Close, Damages

Best TV Series, Musical Or Comedy: Extras

Best Actor, TV Musical Or Comedy: David Duchovny, Californication

Best Actress, TV Musical Or Comedy: Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For TV: Longford

Best Actress, In A Miniseries Or A Motion Picture Made For TV: Queen Latifah, Life Support

Best Actor, In A Miniseries Or A Motion Picture Made For Television: Jim Broadbent, Longford

Best Supporting Actress, In A Series, Miniseries Or Motion Picture Made For TV: Samantha Morton, Longford

Best Supporting Actor, In A Series, Miniseries Or Motion Picture Made For Television: Jeremy Piven, Entourage

> Official site of the Golden Globes
> BBC News explain the WGA strike and report on the cancelled TV ceremony

Although one should always be wary into reading too much into the minds of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, here are the Golden Globes nominations.

Best Motion Picture – Drama
American Gangster
Atonement
Eastern Promises
The Great Debaters
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Actress – Drama
Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie – Away From Her
Jodie Foster – The Brave One
Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley – Atonement

Best Actor – Drama
George Clooney – Michael Clayton
Daniel Lewis – There Will Be Blood
James McAvoy – Atonement
Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises
Denzel Washington – American Gangster

Best Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy
Across The Universe
Charlie Wilson’s War
Hairspray
Juno
Sweeney Todd

Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams – Enchanted
Nikki Blonsky – Hairspray
Helena Bonham Carter – Sweeney Todd
Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose
Ellen Page – Juno

Best Actor – Musical Or Comedy
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling – Lars and the Real Girl
Tom Hanks – Charlie Wilson’s War
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages
John C. Reilly – Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War
John Travolta – Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There
Saoirse Ronan – Atonement
Julia Roberts – Charlie Wilson’s War
Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton

Best Director
Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd
Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ridley Scott – American Gangster
Joe Wright – Atonement

Best Screenplay
Diablo Cody – Juno
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Christopher Hampton – Atonement
Ronald Harwood – The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
Aaron Sorkin – Charlie Wilson’s War

Best Foreign Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days (Romania)
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (France, United States)
The Kite Runner (United States)
Lust, Caution (Taiwan)
Persepolis (France)

Best Animated Feature Film
Bee Movie
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie

The National Board of Review has announced its winners for 2007.

Here is the list in full:

Best Film
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Top Ten Films (In alphabetical order)
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
ATONEMENT
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
THE BUCKET LIST
INTO THE WILD
JUNO
THE KITE RUNNER
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
MICHAEL CLAYTON
SWEENEY TODD

Best Foreign Film
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY

Top Five Foreign Films (In alphabetical order)
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS
THE BAND’S VISIT
THE COUNTERFEITERS
LA VIE EN ROSE
LUST, CAUTION

Best Documentary
BODY OF WAR

Top Five Documentaries (In alphabetical order)
DARFUR NOW
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
NANKING
TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE
TOOTS

Top Independent Films (In alphabetical order)
AWAY FROM HER
GREAT WORLD OF SOUND
HONEYDRIPPER
IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
A MIGHTY HEART
THE NAMESAKE
ONCE
THE SAVAGES
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
WAITRESS

Best Actor
GEORGE CLOONEY, Michael Clayton

Best Actress
JULIE CHRISTIE, Away From Her

Best Supporting Actor
CASEY AFFLECK, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Best Supporting Actress
AMY RYAN, Gone Baby Gone

Best Ensemble Cast
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor
EMILE HIRSCH, Into The Wild

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
ELLEN PAGE, Juno

Best Director
TIM BURTON, Sweeney Todd

Best Directorial Debut
BEN AFFLECK, Gone Baby Gone

Best Adapted Screenplay
JOEL COEN and ETHAN COEN, No Country For Old Men

Best Original Screenplay
DIABLO CODY, Juno and NANCY OLIVER, Lars and the Real Girl

Best Animated Feature
RATATOUILLE

Career Achievement Award
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

William K. Everson Award For Film History
ROBERT OSBORNE

Career Achievement in Cinematography
ROGER DEAKINS

The Bvlgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression
THE GREAT DEBATERS and PERSEPOLIS

> Official site for the NBR
> Find out more about the NBR at Wikipedia
> Get the latest awards buzz at Awards Daily, In Contention, The Envelope and Movie City News

David Poland of The Hot Blog reports that the excellent awards site Oscarwatch is getting sued.

Whilst I have to confess that I’m not overly familiar with the full legal details of this particular case, part of me just feels sad that AAMPAS felt they had to resort to this.

I understand why they feel the need to protect their brand, especially if other sites are making ad money off the back of it.

But let’s look at it another way: aren’t sites like Oscarwatch helping promote awareness of the Oscars and the overall brand? Is the site really doing that much damage (if any) to the Academy Awards?

What do you think? Feel free to post your comments below.

> David Poland with more analysis at The Hot Blog
> Webpronews with more on the Oscarwatch lawsuit

Here is a full list of what won at the Oscars tonight. (Winners are in bold)

BEST PICTURE
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

BEST ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark
Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria
El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan’s Labyrinth), Mexico
Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
Water, Canada

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Pan’s Labyrinth

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Babel
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
I Need to Wake Up – An Inconvenient Truth (performed by Melissa Etheridge)
Listen – Dreamgirls (performed by Beyonce Knowles)
Love You I Do – Dreamgirls (performed by Jennifer Hudson)
Our Town – Cars (performed by James Taylor)
Patience – Dreamgirls (performed by Eddie Murphy, Keith Robinson, Anika Noni Rose)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Deliver Us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq In Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Prestige

BEST ART DIRECTION
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Prestige

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

BEST ACTION SHORT FILM
Binta and the Great Idea
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer and Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

BEST MAKEUP
Apocalypto
Click
Pan’s Labyrinth

BEST SOUND MIXING
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

SOUND EDITING 
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

BEST FILM EDITING 
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Sherry Lansing

HONORARY AWARD 
Ennio Morricone

If you are not watching the ceremony on TV then you are probably either there, asleep or following it online.

If you are not watching the ceremony on TV then you are probably either there, asleep or following it online. So just to keep you informed here is a live rundown of whats going on.

02.01 GMT
Pan’s Labyrinth has won the first two awards for Best Art Direction and Best Makeup.

02.04 GMT
The Danish Poet has just won Best Animated Short and West Bank Story has scooped Best Live Action Short

02.20 GMT
Two sound awards. Letters from Iwo Jima wins Best Sound Editing and Dreamgirls gets Best Achievement in Sound.

02.24 GMT
Alan Arkin wins for Little Miss Sunshine! As I predicted. So far I’m 100% on my predictions. But I’m sure that won’t last…

02.40 GMT
Leonardo DiCaprio is onstage with Al Gore. It was rumoured that Gore might announce a run for President in 2008 but he denied it. They both make a gag of it but maybe he’ll announce it when he wins for Best Documentary?

02.46 GMT
Happy Feet wins for Best Animated Film. I figured the Pixar factor would get a win for Cars but the dancing penguins were very popular at the box office and the eco-friendly message won voters over.

02.48 GMT
William Monahan wins Best Adapted Screenplay for The Departed.

03.01 GMT
Marie Antoinette wins Best Costume and another of one of my predictions goes down in flames. Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt do a Devil Wears Prada routine with Meryl Streep in the audience.

03.07 GMT
Sherry Lansing wins an honorary Humanitarian Award

03.15 GMT
Pan’s Labyrinth wins Best Cinematography – a big shock for me. Although it looks marvellous I do think Emmanuel Lubezki’s work in Children of Men was truly groundbreaking. A shame but it is good to see Pan’s Labyrinth doing so well.

3.16 GMT
Best Visual Effects goes to Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Although I wasn’t a huge fan of the film the visual effects – especially for the squid-like face of Davy Jones – were pretty stunning. A deserved win.

3.32 GMT
Best Foreign Language Film goes to The Lives of Others. I felt Pan’s Labyrinth would win (especially given all the technical awards it racked up) but The Lives of Others is an extraordinary film. It comes out in the UK in April and is one to watch out for.

3.36 GMT
George Clooney gives out the award for Best Supporting Actress to Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls. One of the dead certs of the night. Plus, tears and thanks to God.

03.42 GMT
Best Documentary Short goes to The Blood Of Yingzhou District

03.47 GMT
An Inconvenient Truth wins Best Documentary. But Al Gore doesn’t announce his run for Presidency in 2008. Which is a shame.

03.50 GMT
Clint Eastwood comes out to present Ennio Morricone with a special Honorary Award and then screws his lines up! But in a funny way. Clint can get away with stuff like that somehow.

I cannot even begin to describe how much I love Morricone’s music. He is one of the greatest composers ever to write for film. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America and The Mission are just three scores that come to mind.

His acceptance speech begins in Italian – which seems to be spooking everyone out. But Clint handily translates! He wants to thank the Academy, has deep gratitude for all the directors he has worked with, his thoughts go out to those artists have never won an Oscar, this award will be a starting point for more scores and finally he dedicates it to his beloved wife Maria.

4.07 GMT
Best Original Score goes to Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel – he joins a select crowd who have won back-to-back Oscars.

04.13 GMT
Best Original Screenplay goes to Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine.

04.29 GMT
Best Original Song is “I Need to Wake Up” by Melissa Etheridge for An Inconvenient Truth. I guess the three Dreamgirls tunes cancelled each other out.

04.38 GMT
A Michael Mann clip reel on America. Interesting choice of clips ranging from Magnolia to 1941 (!). I like the idea, but can anybody tell me what the hell it was all about?

04.42 GMT
Best Editing is won by Thelma Schoonmaker for The Departed. Marty is crying in the audience. This is her third Oscar for a Scorcese film. He has to be gearing up for his big speech…

04.48 GMT
Jodie Foster introduces the In Memoriam segment. Allida Valli, Bruno Kirby, Gordon Parks, Carlo Ponti, Peter Boyle, Jack Palance, Jack Warden and Robert Altman are just some of the actors and film makers who have passed away in the last year.

04.55 GMT
The Oscar for Best Actress goes to Helen Mirren for The Queen. But you knew that already didn’t you? Now watch out for all the “Dame Helen reigns over Hollywood” headlines. Helen gives a polished speech but what was all that about “I give you the Queen” whilst holding up the Oscar? I guess she is just thankful that she got the opportunity to play Her Majesty. But good on her – she does deserve it in a year with a very strong field.

05.02 GMT
Forest Whitaker wins Best Actor for The Last King of Scotland. Expected but richly deserved. It looked like he almost forgot his speech but he eventually whipped it out of his tuxedo.

05.08 GMT
The long wait is finally over! Martin Scorcese wins Best Director for The Departed. It was exceptionally strong field this year but he had to win didn’t he? But even he still can’t believe it as he (half) jokingly says: “Thank you, please! Could you double-check the envelope?”.

05.13 GMT
Jack Nicholson comes out with Diane Keaton to present Best Picture. Well that surely means …The Departed. Producer Graham King is loving it. Not only has he got an Oscar but he’s helped Marty finally break his curse. (He’s a Chelsea fan – so a good day for him all round after the Carling Cup final yesterday afternoon). I thought Little Miss Sunshine would sneak it but I’m glad The Departed has won. It’s the kind of contemporary film that doesn’t usually win awards but its bucked the trend. The last films set in the present to win were American Beauty (1999) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), so it doesn’t happen.

5.24 GMT
Well, in the end there weren’t that many surprises in the main categories, although there were a few in the technical ones. The big stories of the evening? Well, Martin Scorcese winning at last, Helen Mirren winning for The Queen, Forest Whitaker winning for The Last King of Scotland, Pan’s Labyrinth scooping technical awards (even if it didn’t get Best Foreign Picture) and The Departed winning Best Picture.

My favourite moment of the evening? Well apart from Martin Scorcese winning at last, Ennio Morrricone accepting his honorary Oscar in Italian with Clint Eastwood translating into English was something I won’t forget. Two legends, two languages, one richly deserved Oscar.

5.32 GMT
Well, that’s it for this year. I’m off to bed but if you have any thoughts about the winners and losers then do post them below.

BEST FILM: The Queen

DAVID LEAN AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION: Paul Greengrass – United 93

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Helen Mirren – The Queen

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Peter Morgan – The Last King of Scotland

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Pan’s Labyrinth

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: Happy Feet

ANTHONY ASQUITH AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM MUSIC: Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki – Children of Men

BEST EDITING: Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, Richard Pearson – United 93

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Geoffrey Kirkland, Jim Clay, Jennifer Williams – Children of Men

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Lala Huete – Pan’s Labyrinth

BEST SOUND: Chris Munro, Eddy Joseph, Mike Prestwood Smith, Martin Cantwell, Mark Taylor– Casino Royale

ACHIEVEMENT IN SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS: Christopher Boyes, George Watters II, Paul Massey, Lee Orloff – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

MAKE UP AND HAIR: Jose Quetglas, Blanca Sanchez – Pan’s Labyrinth

SHORT ANIMATION FILM: Ian Gouldstone – Guy 101 

SHORT FILM: Do Not Erase – Asitha Ameresekere

ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD FOR THE OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR: The Last King of Scotland

ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD: Eva Green (voted for by the public)

ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP: Anne V Coates

MICHAEL BALCON AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA: Nick Daubeny

CARL FOREMAN AWARD FOR SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT BY A BRITISH DIRECTOR, WRITER OR PRODUCER IN THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILM: Andrea Arnold – Red Road

> Yahoo News on the BAFTA winners
> Full list of winners at the official site of BAFTA
> Listen to our interview with Helen Mirren about The Queen
> Listen to our interview with Daniel Craig about Casino Royale
> Listen to our interview with Leonardo DiCaprio about The Departed
> Listen to our interview with Emily Blunt on The Devil Wears Prada

Here are the winners of the 13th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards:

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”

Best Actress: Helen Mirren, “The Queen”

Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, “Dreamgirls”

Cast: Little Miss Sunshine

These awards are often seen as a good indicator for the acting categories at the Oscars. I think everyone now knows that Helen Mirren is a virtual certainty to win Best Actress so her victory here isn’t a big shock.

Forest Whitaker’s win confirms his status as the Best Actor frontrunner although if there is a huge swell of sympathy for Peter O’Toole in Venus then the veteran could spring a surprise.

Actors form the largest block of voters in the Academy so any trends here are also likely to spill over to Oscar night, which could be good news for Little Miss Sunshine. It is clearly a much loved film and its win for Best Ensemble could be another indicator that it might sneak Best Picture.

> Offical SAG Awards site
> Find out more about the SAG awards at Wikipedia
> Full list of winners (including the TV section)

Although The Departed is up for Best Picture, one of its producers will not be. Brad Grey – who is also the chairman of Paramount Pictures – has been denied a producer credit.

The producers of another Best Picture nominee, Little Miss Sunshine – Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa – find themselves in a similar situation.

According to Gregg Kilday in The Hollywood Reporter the reason lies in the Academy’s “three producer rule”:

According to the Academy’s rules, the best picture winner can be repped by no more than three producers. Thursday night, the executive committee of its producers branch met to arbitrate the producing credits on both “Departed” and “Sunshine,” and ruled against Grey, Berger and Yerxa.

The Academy takes its lead from the PGA, which has developed a mechanism for deciding which producers on a given film performed the necessary producing chores to have full producing credit for awards purposes.

In the case of “Departed,” the film’s credits list as producers Graham King and director Martin Scorsese as well as Grey and Brad Pitt, who developed the film through their Plan B production company. The PGA, however, decided to credit only King as producer when the film was nominated for the PGA’s best picture award.

Grey asked the Academy to reconsider the PGA decision, but, without comment, the Academy has decided to list King as sole producer.

In the case of Little Miss Sunshine, the rule also applied even though Berga and Yerxa first developed the script:

PGA decided that Berger and Yerxa, who are producing partners, deserved credit along with David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf.

Because of the Academy’s rule-of-three, though, the producers’ exec committee took a second look and ruled out Berger and Yerxa, who actually first developed Michael Arndt’s screenplay and later introduced the directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris to the other producers.

Because of the Academy’s ruling, only Friendly, Saraf and Turtletaub will be called to the stage if “Sunshine” wins best picture.

Although the three producer rule was introduced after five producers collected an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love in 1998, surely credit should be given where it is due?

> NPR report on Oscar’s ever changing rules
> Emmanuel Levy with more detail on the story
> Anne Thompson from The Hollywood Reporter with her take on the story

Here is the full list of nominees for the 79th Academy Awards. They will be held on Sunday 25th February at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:

Best picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best director
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best actress
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best supporting actress
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikucki, Babel

Best supporting actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Best foreign language film
Efter Brylluppet (aka After the Wedding), Denmark
Indigenes (aka Days of Glory), Algeria
El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan’s Labyrinth), Mexico
Das Leben der Anderen (aka The Lives of Others), Germany
Water, Canada

Best animated feature film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best adapted screenplay
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Best original screenplay
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Pan’s Labyrinth

Best music (score)
Babel
The Good German
Notes on a Scandal
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen

Best music (song)
I Need to Wake Up – An Inconvenient Truth
Listen – Dreamgirls
Love You I Do – Dreamgirls
Our Town – Cars
Patience – Dreamgirls

Best documentary feature
Deliver Us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq In Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best documentary short subject
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing A Dream
Two Hands

Best visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

Best cinematography
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Prestige

Best art direction
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Prestige

Best animated short film
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

Best short film
Binta and the Great Idea
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

Best costume design
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Best make-up
Apocalypto
Click
Pan’s Labyrinth

Best sound mixing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Sound editing
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Best film editing
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

> Find out more about the nominated films at Wikipedia

The Golden Globes were held last night and although their status as an Oscar indicator is questionable they are still an important part of the build to the big event.

Anyway, here are the nominees and winners in full:

Best film (drama)

Babel
Also nominated:
Bobby
Little Children
The Queen
The Departed

Best film (musical or comedy)

Dreamgirls
Also nominated:
Borat
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You For Smoking
The Devil Wears Prada

Best director

Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Also nominated:
Clint Eastwood – Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears – The Queen
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Babel

Best actor (drama)

Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
Also nominated:
Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed
Peter O’Toole – Venus
Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness

Best actor (musical or comedy)

Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat
Also nominated:
Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean
Aaron Eckhart – Thank You For Smoking
Chiwetel Ejiofor – Kinky Boots
Will Ferrell – Stranger Than Fiction

Best actress (drama)

Helen Mirren – The Queen
Also nominated:
Penelope Cruz – Volver
Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Sherrybaby
Kate Winslet – Little Children

Best actress (musical or comedy)

Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Also nominated:
Annette Bening – Running With Scissors
Toni Collette – Little Miss Sunshine
Beyonce Knowles – Dreamgirls
Renee Zellweger – Miss Potter

Best supporting actor

Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls
Also nominated:
Ben Affleck – Hollywoodland
Jack Nicholson – The Departed
Brad Pitt – Babel
Mark Wahlberg – The Departed

Best supporting actress

Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Also nominated:
Adriana Barraza – Babel
Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal
Emily Blunt – The Devil Wears Prada
Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

Best foreign language film

Letters From Iwo Jima (US)
Also nominated:
Apocalypto (US)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
The Lives of Others (Germany)
Volver (Spain)

Best animated feature film

Cars
Also nominated:
Happy Feet
Monster House
 

Best screenplay

Peter Morgan – The Queen
Also nominated:
Guillermo Arriaga – Babel
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta – Little Children
Patrick Marber – Notes on a Scandal
William Monahan – The Departed

Best original song

The Song of the Heart – Happy Feet
Also nominated:
Listen – Dreamgirls
Never Gonna Break My Faith – Bobby
Try Not to Remember – Home of the Brave
A Father’s Way – The Pursuit of Happyness

Best original score

Alexandre Desplat – The Painted Veil
Also nominated:
Clint Mansell – The Fountain
Gustavo Santaolalla – Babel
Carlo Siliotto – Nomad
Hans Zimmer – The Da Vinci Code

Cecil B DeMille Award – lifetime achievement
Warren Beatty

The BAFTA nominations were announced today and The Queen is the front runner with ten nominations although the other key contenders are Babel (seven nominations), The Departed (six nominations), Little Miss Sunshine (six nominations) and The Last King of Scotland (five nominations).

The awards will be held at the Royal Opera House on Sunday 11th February and here is the list in full:

Best film
The Queen
Babel
The Last King of Scotland
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine

Best British film
The Queen
Casino Royale
The Last King of Scotland
Notes on a Scandal
United 93

Best actor in a leading role
Daniel Craig – Casino Royale
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed
Peter O’Toole – Venus
Richard Griffiths – The History Boys

Best actress in a leading role
Dame Helen Mirren – The Queen
Dame Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
Kate Winslet – Little Children
Penelope Cruz – Volver
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada

Best actor in a supporting role
Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine
James McAvoy – The Last King of Scotland
Jack Nicholson – The Departed
Leslie Phillips – Venus
Michael Sheen – The Queen

Best actress in a supporting role
Emily Blunt – The Devil Wears Prada
Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
Toni Colette – Little Miss Sunshine
Frances De La Tour – The History Boys
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls

Original screenplay
Guillermo Arriaga – Babel
Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine
Guillermo del Toro – Pan’s Labryinth
Peter Morgan – The Queen
Paul Greengrass – United 93

Adapted screenplay
Neal Purvis/Robert Wade/Paul Haggis – Casino Royale
William Monahan – The Departed
Aline Brosh McKenna – The Devil Wears Prada
Peter Morgan/Jeremy Brock – The Last King Of Scotland
Patrick Marber – Notes On A Scandal

The David Lean Award for achievement in direction
Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Babel
Stephen Frears – The Queen
Paul Greengrass – United 93
 

Animated feature film
Cars
Flushed Away
Happy Feet

The Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British director/producer or writer in their first feature film
Andrea Arnold – director (for Red Road)
Julian Gilbey – director (for Rollin’ with the Nines)
Christine Langan – producer (for Pierrepoint)
Gary Tarn – director (for Black Sun)
Paul Andrew Williams – director (for London to Brighton)

Best film not in the English language
Apocalypto
Black Book
Pan’s Labyrinth
Paint it Yellow
Volver

The Anthony Asquith Award for achievement in film music
Gustavo Santaolalla – Babel
David Arnold – Casino Royale
Henry Krieger – Dreamgirls
John Powell – Happy Feet
Alexandre Desplat – The Queen

Cinematography
Babel
Casino Royale
Children of Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
United 93

Editing
Babel
Casino Royale
The Departed
The Queen
United 93

Production design
Casino Royale
Children of Men
Marie Antoinette
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Costume design
The Devil Wears Prada
Marie Antoinette
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Queen

Sound
Babel
Casino Royale
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
United 93

Achievement in special visual effects
Casino Royale
Children of Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Superman Returns

Make up and hair
The Devil Wears Prada
Marie Antoinette
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Queen

Short animation film
Dream’s and Desires – Family Ties
Guy 101
Peter and the Wolf

Short Film
Care
Cubs
Do Not Erase
Hikikomori
Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored

> Official site for BAFTA
> Variety with their take on the nominations