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AWARDS UK

Les Misérables wins four BAFTAs

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- Ben Affleck's scoops three awards while Michael Haneke's Amour goes home with two

In a year where honours were evenly distributed, Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables took home four BAFTAs at the British Academy Film Awards, for Production Design, Sound, Make Up & Hair and Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway (photo). Ben Affleck won Director for Argo, which also won Best Film and for editing. While there was no surprise at Daniel Day-Lewis duly winning his Leading Actor award for Lincoln, there certainly was unbridled delight at veteran actress Emmanuelle Riva winning Leading Actress for Michael Haneke’s Amour [+see also:
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. The Film Not In The English Language award also went to Amour.

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Sam Mendes’ Skyfall won Outstanding British Film. In his acceptance speech, producer Michael G. Wilson said, “Skyfall was conceived 60 years ago when Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel.  It was born 50 years ago, when Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman produced the first film.  Since then it has been nurtured by a whole host of directors, actors and crew, so that today James Bond is loved throughout the world.  It is on behalf of those filmmakers that Barbara Broccoli and I accept this award.”

Mendes added, “There are two people I want to say a special thank you to.  I want to say thank you to the person around whom we built this movie and without whom the movie could not happen, and that of course is Daniel Craig.  For his bravery and his brilliance and his friendship and his sheer bloody mindedness.  And last, but by no means least, I want to say thank you to someone who's not here, to the great Ian Fleming who, 60 years ago, almost to the day, sat down and wrote: “He was a secret agent and still alive, thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.” Here’s to the next 50 years, thank you very much.”

WINNERS

FELLOWSHIP
Alan Parker

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Tessa Ross

BEST FILM
Argo

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Skyfall

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Bart Layton (Director), Dimitri Doganis (Producer) - The Imposter

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Amour

DOCUMENTARY
Searching For Sugar Man

ANIMATED FILM
Brave

DIRECTOR
Argo - Ben Affleck

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell

LEADING ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln

LEADING ACTRESS
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Skyfall - Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Life Of Pi - Claudio Miranda

EDITING
Argo - William Goldenberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Les Misérables - Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson

COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran

MAKE UP & HAIR
Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott

SOUND
Les Misérables - Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Life Of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer, Donald R. Elliott

SHORT ANIMATION
The Making Of Longbird - Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson

SHORT FILM
Swimmer - Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw 

THE RISING STAR AWARD
Juno Temple

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