The King’s Speech leads BAFTA race

by Naman Ramachandran

18/01/2011 - After getting nearly shut out at the Golden Globes, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech [trailer, film focus] has a strong chance to better its tally on home ground, leading the BAFTA nominations with a regal 14 nods.

The film has been nominated in the categories Best Film, Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing, Make Up & Hair, Original Music, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Sound and Outstanding British Film. Tom Hooper is nominated for Director and Colin Firth is nominated for Leading Actor. His co-stars Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush are nominated for Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor.

Black Swan follows with 12 nominations, while Inception has nine nominations and 127 Hours [trailer] and True Grit are each nominated eight times. The Social Network has six nominations.

Alice in Wonderland has five nominations; The Kids Are All Right and Made in Dagenham [trailer] have four nominations apiece; and The Fighter, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [trailer, film focus] and Toy Story 3 each receive three nominations.

The awards ceremony will take place February 13.

Full list of nominations:

BEST FILM
Black Swan – Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
Inception – Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
The King’s Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
The Social Network – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
True Grit – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
127 Hours – Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
Another Year [trailer, film focus] – Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Four Lions [trailer] – Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
The King’s Speech – Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
Made In Dagenham – Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
The Arbor [trailer] – Director, Producer – Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan
Exit Through The Gift Shop [trailer] – Director, Producer – Banksy, Jaimie D’Cruz
Four Lions – Director/Writer – Chris Morris
Monsters [trailer] – Director/Writer – Gareth Edwards
Skeletons – Director/Writer – Nick Whitfield

DIRECTOR
127 Hours – Danny Boyle
Black Swan – Darren Aronofsky
Inception – Christopher Nolan
The King’s Speech – Tom Hooper
The Social Network – David Fincher

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin
The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
Inception – Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech – David Seidler

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours – Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt
True Grit – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Biutiful [trailer] – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Søren Stærmose, Niels Arden Oplev
I Am Love [trailer, film focus] – Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Marco Morabito, Massimiliano Violante
Of Gods And Men [trailer, film focus] – Xavier Beauvois
The Secret In Their Eyes [trailer] – Mariela Besuievsky, Juan José Campanella

ANIMATED FILM
Despicable Me – Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
How To Train Your Dragon – Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich

LEADING ACTOR
Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
James Franco – 127 Hours

LEADING ACTRESS
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
Pete Postlethwaite – The Town
Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are all Right
Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
Lesley Manville – Another Year
Miranda Richardson – Made in Dagenham

ORIGINAL MUSIC
127 Hours – AR Rahman
Alice In Wonderland – Danny Elfman
How To Train Your Dragon – John Powell
Inception – Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech – Alexandre Desplat

CINEMATOGRAPHY
127 Hours – Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
Black Swan – Matthew Libatique
Inception – Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech – Danny Cohen
True Grit – Roger Deakins

EDITING
127 Hours – Jon Harris
Black Swan – Andrew Weisblum
Inception – Lee Smith
The King’s Speech – Tariq Anwar
The Social Network – Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Alice In Wonderland – Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
Black Swan – Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
Inception – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
The King’s Speech – Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
True Grit – Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

COSTUME DESIGN
Alice In Wonderland – Colleen Atwood
Black Swan – Amy Westcott
The King’s Speech – Jenny Beavan
Made In Dagenham – Louise Stjernsward
True Grit – Mary Zophres

SOUND
127 Hours – Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri, Douglas Cameron
Black Swan – Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan, Dominick Tavella
Inception – Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick
The King’s Speech – John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin
True Grit – Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice In Wonderland – Nominees TBC
Black Swan – Dan Schrecker
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 – Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait’Hadi, Christian Manz
Inception – Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb
Toy Story 3 – Nominees TBC

MAKE UP & HAIR
Alice In Wonderland – Nominees TBC
Black Swan – Judy Chin, Geordie Sheffer
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 – Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
The King’s Speech – Frances Hannon
Made In Dagenham – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou

RISING STAR AWARD
Gemma Arterton
Andrew Garfield
Tom Hardy
Aaron Johnson
Emma Stone