By MCN Editor editor@moviecitynews.com

ORANGE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS IN 2011 NOMINATIONS

The Artist receives 12 nominations. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is nominated in 11 categories, Hugo has nine nominations, My Week with Marilyn has six nominations and The Help and War Horse are each nominated five times.

Drive, The Iron Lady and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 have four nominations. The Descendants, Moneyball, Senna and We Need to Talk about Kevin all have three nominations apiece and Shame, The Ides of March, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Bridesmaids, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn each receive two.
The Artist is nominated in the following categories: Best Film, Original Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Make Up & Hair, Costume Design, Sound and Production Design. Michel Hazanavicius is nominated for Director and Jean Dujardin is nominated for Leading Actor. His co-star Bérénice Bejo is nominated for Leading Actress.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is nominated for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costume Design and Sound. Tomas Alfredson is nominated for Director and Gary Oldman for Leading Actor.

Completing the Best Film lineup are The Descendants, The Help and Drive.
Hugo is nominated for Cinematography, Editing, Original Music, Make Up & Hair, Production Design, Costume Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects. Martin Scorsese is nominated for Director. He is also nominated in the Documentary category for George Harrison: Living in the Material World and, as previously announced, will receive the BAFTA Fellowship.

George Clooney is nominated for Leading Actor in The Descendants which is also nominated for Adapted Screenplay, as well as Best Film. Joining it in Adapted Screenplay is The Ides of March (co-written by Clooney) which also picks up a nomination for Philip Seymour Hoffman in Supporting Actor.

Also in the Leading Actor category are Brad Pitt for Moneyball and Michael Fassbender for his performance in Shame, which is also nominated in Outstanding British Film.

Nicolas Winding Refn is nominated for Director for Drive and Carey Mulligan is nominated for Supporting Actress. The film is also nominated for Editing, as well as Best Film. Completing the Director line up is Lynne Ramsay for We Need to Talk about Kevin which also picks up a nomination for Outstanding British Film and a Leading Actress nomination for Tilda Swinton.

Michelle Williams is nominated in the Leading Actress category for My Week with Marilyn, joining in Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress are her co-stars Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench. The film is also nominated in Outstanding British Film, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair.

Viola Davis is nominated for Leading Actress for her turn in The Help and her co-stars Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer are nominated in Supporting Actress, it also picks up a nomination in Adapted Screenplay, as well as Best Film.

Completing the Leading Actress line up, Meryl Streep is nominated for her performance in The Iron Lady alongside Jim Broadbent who is nominated for Supporting Actor. Further nominations for this film are: Original Screenplay and Make Up & Hair.

Joining Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Supporting Actor are Christopher Plummer for Beginners and Jonah Hill for Moneyball. Moneyball also picks up a nomination for Adapted Screenplay.

Bridesmaids receives an Original Screenplay nomination, as well as a Supporting Actress nomination for Melissa McCarthy.

Senna is nominated for Outstanding British Film as well as for Editing and Documentary, where it is joined in the Documentary category by George Harrison: Living in the Material World and Project Nim.

War Horse is nominated in five categories: Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects.

Attack the Block’s Writer/Director Joe Cornish is nominated in the Outstanding British Debut category alongside Director Ralph Fiennes for Coriolanus, Writer/Director Richard Ayoade for Submarine and Director Paddy Considine and Producer Diarmid Scrimshaw for Tyrannosaur. The self-distributed Black Pond is the final film in this category with nominations for Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director), Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer).

Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Arthur Christmas and Rango are the nominees in the Animated Film category. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is also nominated in the Special Visual Effects category alongside Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Midnight in Paris and The Guard are nominated in the Original Screenplay category.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is nominated in Original Music and Cinematography.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 has four nominations: Make Up & Hair, Production Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects.

Jane Eyre is nominated for Costume Design.

Incendies, Pina, Potiche, A Separation and The Skin I Live In are all nominated in the Film Not in the English Language category.

The Short Animation nominations are Abuelas, Bobby Yeah and A Morning Stroll and the Short Film nominations are Chalk, Mwansa the Great, Only Sound Remains, Pitch Black Heist and Two & Two.

The nominees for the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award, announced earlier this month, are Adam Deacon, Chris Hemsworth, Chris O’Dowd, Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston. This audience award is voted for by the British public and presented to an actor or actress who has demonstrated exceptional talent and promise.

The Orange British Academy Film Awards take place on Sunday 12 February at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. This is the fifteenth year of Orange’s sponsorship of the Film Awards.

The ceremony will be hosted by Stephen Fry and will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One. Red carpet coverage will be hosted by Edith Bowman on BBC Three.

2011 NOMINATIONS

(presented in 2012)

BEST FILM

THE ARTIST Thomas Langmann

THE DESCENDANTS Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor

DRIVE Marc Platt, Adam Siegel

THE HELP Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Simon Curtis, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Adrian Hodges

SENNA Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Manish Pandey

SHAME Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Abi Morgan

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo,

Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Lynne Ramsay, Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno,

Rory Stewart Kinnear

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

ATTACK THE BLOCK Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)

BLACK POND Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director), Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer)

CORIOLANUS Ralph Fiennes (Director)

SUBMARINE Richard Ayoade (Director/Writer)

TYRANNOSAUR Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

INCENDIES Denis Villeneuve, Luc Déry, Kim McGraw

PINA Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel

POTICHE François Ozon, Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer

A SEPARATION Asghar Farhadi

THE SKIN I LIVE IN Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar

DOCUMENTARY

GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD Martin Scorsese

PROJECT NIM James Marsh, Simon Chinn

SENNA Asif Kapadia

ANIMATED FILM

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN Steven Spielberg

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS Sarah Smith

RANGO Gore Verbinski

DIRECTOR

THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius

DRIVE Nicolas Winding Refn

HUGO Martin Scorsese

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tomas Alfredson

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Lynne Ramsay

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius

BRIDESMAIDS Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig

THE GUARD John Michael McDonagh

THE IRON LADY Abi Morgan

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Woody Allen

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

THE DESCENDANTS Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash

THE HELP Tate Taylor

THE IDES OF MARCH George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon

MONEYBALL Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan

LEADING ACTOR

BRAD PITT Moneyball

GARY OLDMAN Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

GEORGE CLOONEY The Descendants

JEAN DUJARDIN The Artist

MICHAEL FASSBENDER Shame

LEADING ACTRESS

BÉRÉNICE BEJO The Artist

MERYL STREEP The Iron Lady

MICHELLE WILLIAMS My Week with Marilyn

TILDA SWINTON We Need to Talk About Kevin

VIOLA DAVIS The Help

SUPPORTING ACTOR

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Beginners

JIM BROADBENT The Iron Lady

JONAH HILL Moneyball

KENNETH BRANAGH My Week with Marilyn

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Ides of March

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

CAREY MULLIGAN Drive

JESSICA CHASTAIN The Help

JUDI DENCH My Week with Marilyn

MELISSA MCCARTHY Bridesmaids

OCTAVIA SPENCER The Help

ORIGINAL MUSIC

THE ARTIST Ludovic Bource

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

HUGO Howard Shore

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Alberto Iglesias

WAR HORSE John Williams

CINEMATOGRAPHY

THE ARTIST Guillaume Schiffman

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Jeff Cronenweth

HUGO Robert Richardson

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Hoyte van Hoytema

WAR HORSE Janusz Kaminski

EDITING

THE ARTIST Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius

DRIVE Mat Newman

HUGO Thelma Schoonmaker

SENNA Gregers Sall, Chris King

TINKER TAILOR SOLIDER SPY Dino Jonsater

PRODUCTION DESIGN

THE ARTIST Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan

HUGO Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald

WAR HORSE Rick Carter, Lee Sandales

COSTUME DESIGN

THE ARTIST Mark Bridges

HUGO Sandy Powell

JANE EYRE Michael O’Connor

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Jill Taylor

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Jacqueline Durran

MAKE UP & HAIR

THE ARTIST Julie Hewett, Cydney Cornell

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin

HUGO Morag Ross, Jan Archibald

THE IRON LADY Marese Langan

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Jenny Shircore

SOUND

THE ARTIST Nadine Muse, Gérard Lamps, Michael Krikorian

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 James Mather, Stuart Wilson, Stuart Hilliker, Mike Dowson, Adam Scrivener

HUGO Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY John Casali, Howard Bargroff, Doug Cooper, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley

WAR HORSE Stuart Wilson, Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Richard Hymns

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN Joe Letteri

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler, David Vickery

HUGO Rob Legato, Ben Grossman, Joss Williams

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White

WAR HORSE Ben Morris, Neil Corbould

SHORT ANIMATION

ABUELAS Afarin Eghbal, Kasia Malipan, Francesca Gardiner

BOBBY YEAH Robert Morgan

A MORNING STROLL Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe

SHORT FILM

CHALK Martina Amati, Gavin Emerson, James Bolton, Ilaria Bernardini

MWANSA THE GREAT Rungano Nyoni, Gabriel Gauchet

ONLY SOUND REMAINS Arash Ashtiani, Anshu Poddar

PITCH BLACK HEIST John Maclean, Gerardine O’Flynn

TWO AND TWO Babak Anvari, Kit Fraser, Gavin Cullen

THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

ADAM DEACON

CHRIS HEMSWORTH

CHRIS O’DOWD

EDDIE REDMAYNE

TOM HIDDLESTON

VOTING PROCEDURES
BAFTA’s expert voting membership of over 6300 industry professionals votes online in three rounds to decide the Film Awards nominations.

Round One

Members vote for their top 12 films/performers in each category.

For Cinematography, Director, Editing, Music, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair, Production Design, Adapted and Original Screenplays, Sound and Special Visual Effects and the four performance categories, there are specialist voting chapters consisting of at least 80 expert members from the relevant fields.

Round Two

The Long List of 15 is sent back out to the voting membership, with the top five of the relevant chapter highlighted. All members vote again to decide the five nominations.

Round Three

All members vote for the winners of the Best Film, Leading Actor, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress and Film Not in the English Language categories. The relevant chapter votes for the winner in the remaining categories.

Exceptions

Film Not in the English Language: nominations are decided by a chapter of members with an interest in and understanding of world cinema. These nominations were announced on 7 January. All members vote to decide the winner in Round Three.

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer: nominations and winner in this category are decided by a jury.

Short Film and Short Animation: nominations in this category are decided by a jury. This year, for the first time, the winners are voted for by the Short Film and Animated Film chapters respectively.

Outstanding British Film: the membership votes for ten films in the first round. The Academy’s Film Committee then uses the results of the membership vote to inform their selection of the five nominations. The Committee, supported by a larger jury comprising selected industry figures, decides the winner.

Animated Film: the membership and animation chapter vote for five films in Round One. The chapter’s top three, and the next two from the general membership vote are long listed; these are reduced to three nominations in Round Two. The chapter votes for the winner.

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema and the Academy Fellowship: these awards are in the gift of the Academy. The Fellowship is the highest accolade the Academy can bestow.

BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM & TELEVISION ARTS

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity which exists to support, develop and promote the art forms of the moving image, by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefitting the public. The Academy in London hosts five awards ceremonies, rewarding excellence in Film, Television, Television Craft, Video Games and Children’s.

The Academy has branches in Scotland, Wales, Los Angeles and New York. Scotland, Wales and Los Angeles hold their own Awards ceremonies.

Complementing our Awards, BAFTA runs an extensive Learning and Events programme, which focuses attention on the highest achievements of films, television and video games programmes shown in the UK each year in order to motivate and inspire those who make them, and to educate and develop the taste of those who watch. In the last year the Academy has held over 200 events, with a third of them taking place outside London.

Who runs the Academy?

The Board of Trustees is the ruling body of the Academy and is currently chaired by Tim Corrie, with David Parfitt as Deputy Chair. The Academy’s President is HRH Prince William of Wales and Vice-Presidents are Duncan Kenworthy OBE and Sophie Turner Laing. The Chief Executive is Amanda Berry OBE.

Each of the sectors of the Academy – Film, Television and Video Games – is represented by a Committee of industry professionals. The current Chair and Deputy Chair of the Film Committee are Finola Dwyer and Nik Powell respectively.

The History

The British Film Academy was formed on 16 April 1947 when its 14 founding members met at the Hyde Park Hotel under the Chairmanship of David Lean. The first Council of Management read like a who’s who of British film talent: Anthony Asquith, Michael Balcon, Alexander Korda, Frank Launder, David Lean, Muir Matheson, Ronnie Neame, Laurence Olivier, Michael Powell, Carol Reed and Paul Rotha.

The first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honoured The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World is Rich.

The Guild of Television Producers and Directors was set up in 1953 with the first awards ceremony in October 1954. Winners were awarded Grecian masks, designed by Mitzi Cunliffe, a version of which remains today as the coveted BAFTA mask.

By 1958, the Academy and Guild recognised shared aims and principles and amalgamated into the Society of Film and Television Arts. The inaugural meeting of the new Society of Film and Television Arts was held in December at Buckingham Palace and presided over by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.

In 1976, Her Majesty The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, HRH The Princess Royal and Lord Mountbatten officially opened the headquarters at 195 Piccadilly and, in March, the Society became officially known as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

How is the Academy funded?

The Academy relies on income from membership subscriptions, individual donations, trusts, foundations and corporate partnerships to support its ongoing outreach work. The Academy is a registered charity.

BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM & TELEVISION ARTS

KEY PERSONNEL

AMANDA BERRY OBE

Chief Executive

Amanda was appointed Director of Development and Events of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in October 1998 and, by December 2000, had become its Chief Executive. In 2009, Amanda was awarded an OBE for services to the film industry.

Amanda has been instrumental in the major changes that BAFTA has undergone in recent years, successfully positioning it as the pre-eminent charitable body that educates, promotes and rewards excellence in the art forms of the moving image. She is publicly credited with instigating the changes that define this modern, forward-looking Academy as one of the most influential institutions in the arts today. She has continued to increase sponsorship revenue and successfully placed BAFTA’s annual Film Awards ceremony on the international stage. Under her leadership, the Academy’s other Awards ceremonies – the Television, Children’s, Television Craft and Video Games Awards – and its learning and events programmes have continued to grow in stature, the latter now delivering in excess of 200 events a year.

Prior to joining BAFTA, Amanda worked as a theatrical agent and in television production.  She was a company director at Duncan Heath Associates (part of the ICM group) between 1982 and 1988, and her television career began in 1989 when she worked at LWT. From 1990, Amanda worked extensively as a producer and development executive for Scottish Television Enterprises, both in Glasgow and in London, where her credits included three British Academy Awards ceremonies.

TIM CORRIE

Chairman of the Academy

On leaving Bristol University where he was a founder member of the Drama Department, Tim Corrie went straight to work for John Boorman as his assistant/researcher in BBC Bristol. He subsequently worked in various capacities on a number of films including Isadora Duncan (Karel Reisz) and The Adventurers (Lewis Gilbert). This was followed by a short period at Paramount Pictures in London working alongside Max Setton.

On leaving Paramount, he was invited to join Fraser and Dunlop Scripts, as it then was, to help develop that agency in the realms of film and television. Tim worked for the company (which became PFD) for more than thirty years and held the role of Co-Chairman.

In 2007, along with 80 colleagues, Tim left to found a new agency – United Agents. Here Tim continues to represent a large list of clients including some of the leading writers, directors and producers in the country.

DAVID PARFITT

Deputy Chairman of the Academy

David has worked as an independent film and theatre producer for over 20 years.  His film credits include Henry V, Peter’s Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, The Madness of King George, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Twelfth Night, The Wings of the Dove (both nominated for four Academy Awards), Shakespeare In Love (winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and four BAFTAs including Best Film), Gangs of New York (production consultant), I Capture the Castle, Chasing Liberty and A Bunch of Amateurs. He has just completed principal photography on My Week with Marilyn, due for release in Autumn 2011.

In April 2007 he co-produced, with Finola Dwyer, the critically acclaimed theatre production of Elling at The Bush Theatre and in the West End.

Before moving into film and theatre production, David worked as an actor.

FINOLA DWYER

Chairman of the Film Committee

Finola most recently produced An Education, for which she was Oscar-nominated. Written by best-selling author and screenwriter Nick Hornby and directed by Lone Scherfig, An Education was nominated for nine BAFTAs, winning Leading Actress, and nominated for three Oscars, including Best Film.

Since relocating to the UK in the early ’90s, Finola Dwyer’s producer credits include Iain Softley’s BAFTA-winning debut Backbeat; Stephan Elliott’s cult favourite Welcome to Woop Woop; Chris Menges’ The Lost Son, starring Daniel Auteuil and Nastassja Kinski; Sandra Goldbacher’s BAFTA-nominated Me Without You, starring Anna Friel and Michelle Williams; Antonia Bird’s Emmy-nominated The Hamburg Cell; and Stephen Woolley’s feature debut Stoned. Finola produced the Golden Globe, Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning Tsunami: The Aftermath by Abi Morgan, for HBO/BBC, directed by Bharat Nalluri, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Roth, Sophie Okonedo and Toni Collette. She also executive produced Dean Spanley, directed by Toa Fraser, starring Peter O’Toole, Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Bryan Brown.

Finola made her theatre producing debut with the hit West End and award-winning production of Elling, starring John Simm. Finola also produced a Broadway production of the play in 2010, starring Brendan Fraser and Denis O’Hare.

NIK POWELL

Deputy Chairman of the Film Committee

In the early 1970s Nik Powell set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson. In 1982, he formed Palace Productions with Stephen Woolley and executive produced all productions, including three Neil Jordan films: the award-winning The Company of Wolves, the Oscar-nominated and Cannes award-winning Mona Lisa and the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning The Crying Game. In 1992 Nik and Stephen formed Scala Productions where they produced Terence Davies’ The Neon Bible, the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning Little Voice by Mark Herman and Fred Schepsi’s Last Orders. Nik’s last film was Ladies in Lavender starring Dame Judi Dench.

Nik is the Director of the National Film and Television school and Vice Chair of the European Film Academy.

BACKGROUND

BAFTA

BAFTA is a charity and exists to support develop and promote the art forms of the moving image – covering film, TV and video games. We have eight Awards ceremonies, including one in America

The First British Academy Awards presentation took place at the Odeon Leicester Square on 29th May 1949 incorporating the years 1947 & 1948. It was presented by Sir Michael Balcon, and included a speech by Sir Laurence Oliver on behalf of those receiving Awards

Until 1998 the Film and Television Awards were presented together

Members

There are 6750 members in total and 6350 film voters

2011 ACTIVITY/STATS

  • The ceremony in 2011 is the 63rd Film Awards
  • 207 Films were entered for the Film Awards this year
  • Moved to London’s  Royal Opera House in 2007 which was the 60th anniversary of BAFTA
  • 24 Awards given in total, including Fellowship. Plus Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award
  • We hold a nominations party at Asprey on the Saturday evening before the Film Awards
  • Jonathan Ross’ 5th year as host of the Film Awards
  • Our poster for the Awards will be on 200 London buses and 300 London tube posters

Red Carpet

  • Red carpet outside the Royal Opera House is approx. 125 metres x 8 metres
  • The red carpet structure takes 5 days to build
  • Around 2,000 public attend the red carpet to watch arrivals
  • Approximately 350 media personnel are accredited for the red carpet including 50 television crews and 80 photographers

The Auditorium

  • 2000 guests attend the ceremony

  • Much of the set is built in Bristol and then transported to the ROH, where it takes 5 days to construct
  • At the official reception prior to the ceremony, 8500 canapés will be served accompanied by 540 magnums of Taittinger Champagne

General

  • 32 coaches are used to transport guests from ROH to dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel
  • BAFTA’s car partner, Audi, supplies 110 cars on the night to drive nominees, citation readers and other VIPs
  • Approximately 4000 people working on the night of the event – ranging from police to runners

BAFTA PARTNERS

Partnerships

  • 14th year of Orange sponsorship
  • 6th year of Rising Star Award – previous winners:  Eva Green, James McAvoy, Noel Clarke, Shia LaBeouf, Kristen Stewart. This year it has been re-named Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award
  • 11th year of Lancôme sponsorship
  • We work with 70 brand partners who help us deliver our five annual Awards ceremonies and our programme of Learning & Events activity

Champagne: Taittinger is BAFTA’s partner

  • Over the course of the Film Awards weekend over 8,600 glasses of Taittinger will be clinked to toast the winners – the equivalent to around 1.5 tons of grapes

Wine: Villa Maria supply wine for the dinner

  • Wine: 3,720 glasses of Villa Maria Private Bin Sauvignon Blanc will be served and 3,120 glasses of Villa Maria Private Bin Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon:
    • the average bathtub holds approx 140 litres of water.. 1026 litres of Villa Maria will be consumed on the night, which is equivalent to bathing 7 BAFTA award winners in Villa Maria!
    • If you stood all the bottles served on the night on top of each other, the tower would be 408m high – eight times the height of Nelson’s Column

Make-up: Lancôme will be at the BAFTA Style Suites at the Savoy throughout BAFTA weekend for nominee and citation reader styling. The Lancôme Pro-team will use:

  • 151 Lancôme mascaras, mainly Hypnôse Noir & Onyx and Cils Booster (a mascara primer)
  • 105 Color Design and Ombre Absolute eyeshadows in 11 different shades
  • 72  L’Absolu Rouge and Color Fever lipsticks
  • 81 Photogenic Lumessence and Color Ideal foundations in 9 different shades
  • 60 Juicy Tubes
  • 42 Effacernes and Flash Retouche concealers

ESCADA:
ESCADA is the official women’s wear partner of the Orange British Academy Film Awards.  To dress someone in an ESCADA red carpet gown it takes:

1-8 fabrics including linings/corseting/boning /underskirts

2 weeks for draping and pattern development

2-3 fittings to make it perfectly fit

3-5 days to hand draw the embroidery artworks..

8-12 weeks to all-over hand embroider

5 days with 2 seamstresses to construct/sew together

And…

1 amazing woman to make it unforgettable on the red carpet!

NOMINEES GIFT BAG

Each nominee receives a gift bag to celebrate their nomination. This year’s bag includes the following:

  • Limited edition Anya Hindmarch bag, designed exclusively for BAFTA
  • Bottle of Grey Goose vodka
  • Bottle of Taittinger Brut Reserve Champagne
  • Black & White Escada scarf
  • Asprey leather notebook, with lined paper and a ribbon bookmark in the Asprey signature purple
  • Pink Champagne truffles from Hotel Chocolat
  • Selection of Lancome make-up and beauty productions
  • Selection of Charles Worthington hair-care products
  • Ballet pumps from Coco Rose London
  • Bed of Nails acupressure mat
  • Knomo iPhone cover
  • The Savoy cocktail book
  • Timothy Han candle

NOMINATIONS AND WINS TRIVIA

Most Nominations/Wins

The below includes competitive performance awards only (including Most Promising/Outstanding Newcomer at the Film Awards). It does not include Specials or Fellowships. Fellows are marked with an asterisk

MOST ACTING NOMINATIONS MOST ACTING WINS
Actor Actress Actor Actress
Film Only 9:

Albert Finney *

13:

Meryl Streep

5:

Peter Finch

6:

Judi Dench *

TV Only 13:

Ronnie Barker

12:

Judi Dench *

5:

Nigel Hawthorne

4:

Judi Dench *

Julie Walters

Film & TV 13:

Ronnie Barker Albert Finney *

24:

Judi Dench *

6:

Nigel Hawthorne

10:

Judi Dench *

Films:

  • The film the most nominations: Gandhi with 16 (1982/83), with five wins
  • Titanic: 11 nominations, no wins
  • The film with the most BAFTA wins ever:  Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid – nine (1970/71)
  • Animated films nominated for Best Film: Shrek (2001/02)

Directors:

  • Most winning director (across all Film Awards categories): Woody Allen (10: 2 directing, 2 Best Film, 6 screenplay)
  • The only directors to have won the Directing category twice, alongside Woody Allen: Alan Parker, Ang Lee, John Schlesinger, Louis Malle, Peter Weir, Roman Polanski
  • Most nominations in the directing category: Martin Scorsese (7)
  • Most nominated director (across all categories): Woody Allen (22 [4 directing, 5 Best Film, 10 screenplay, 3 acting)

Actors:

  • Most winning actor: Peter Finch (5)
  • Most nominated actor: Albert Finney (9, excl. Fellowship)

Actresses (refers to Film Awards only):

  • Most winning actresses: Judi Dench (6 wins, excl. Fellowship); Maggie Smith (5 wins, excl. Fellowship
  • Most nominated actresses:  Meryl Streep (13 noms, 1 win); Judi Dench (6 noms, 6 wins); Maggie Smith (7 noms, 5 wins)

Acting trivia:

  • Youngest Ever Winner:  Salavatore Cascio for Best Supporting Actor for Cinema Paradiso (aged 11 when he won). Hayley Mills and Jodie Foster both won the Newcomer award aged 13.
  • Youngest Ever nominee:  Drew Barrymore (aged 7 when nominated) and nominated for ET in 1982, Outstanding newcomer to leading film roles

Double nominations in the same category (wins in bold)

  • Michael Caine (1983 – Educating Rita (joint win) and The Honorary Consul (lead))
  • Miranda Richardson (1992 – The Crying Game and Damage (supp))
  • Anthony Hopkins (1993 – Remains of the Day and Shadowlands (lead))
  • Geoffrey Rush (1998 – Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love (supp))
  • Scarlett Johansson (2003 – Girl With a Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation (lead))
  • Sean Penn (2003 – Mystic River and 21 Grams (lead))
  • Kate Winslet (2004 – Eternal Sunshine and Finding Neverland (lead))

ADDITIONAL BAFTA BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The BAFTA Award was first introduced in 1976

The iconic bronze mask on a marble base – the coveted ‘BAFTA’ – was designed by the late sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe and presented for the first time in 1976.  Mitzi originally modelled the Award in Plasticine, from which the casting moulds were made, and based the design on the traditional concept of the theatrical tragicomic. The reverse side of the mask bears an electronic symbol round one eye and a screen symbol round the other, linking dramatic production and television technology.  The mask is made of bronze and weighs 3.7 kg.

David Lean was a founding member of the Academy

The great British filmmaker, most famous for his 1962 film Laurence of Arabia, was the first Chairman of the Academy in the year it was founded – 1947.

BAFTA’s Royal connections

The Academy’s links with the Royal Family can be traced back to 1962, when HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, became its President.  HRH Princess Anne, The Princess Royal, was President from 1973 to 2001. HRH Prince William became President in 2010.

Video Games is the third ‘pillar’ of the Academy

Since 1998, BAFTA has been celebrating and rewarding the very best innovation and talent from the Video Games industry, which now has its own Awards ceremony to stand alongside those of Film and Television.

Learning & Events

As a charitable organisation, one of our key activities is giving our members, the industry and the public the opportunity to learn first-hand from leading practitioners in the film, television and video games industries via our year-round L&E programme.  Open to all, 230 BAFTA events take place year-round in venues and at festivals across the country and cater for the broader public as well as those interested in working in the industries.  These have included Life In Pictures events with Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep and Quentin Tarantino and Annual Lectures from David Lynch, Oliver Stone and Woody Allen.  We also run a successful mentoring scheme for young people.

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon