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BAFTA AWARDS UK

10 nominations for The Constant Gardener

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Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener [+see also:
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has gathered the biggest number of nominations (10) for this year’s Orange British Academy of Film And Television Awards (Baftas), beating by only one nomination Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain and Paul Haggis’ US independent film Crash.
The Constant Gardener which won Best film, Best actor (Ralph Fiennes), Best actress (Rachel Weisz) at the last BIFA Awards in London, will get another chance to win in the same categories plus seven others, but the battle between the Brazilian Meirelles, the Taiwanese Lee and the American Haggis will be tight in particular for Best direction, a category also fought by George Clooney (whose film Good Night And Good Luck gets six nominations) and Bennett Miller for Capote.

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In the acting categories, Judi Dench, the star of Mrs Henderson Presents, nominated for 4 Baftas, will compete again against the Golden Globe winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line), as well as Charlize Theron (North Country), Rachel Weisz, and Ziyi Zhang (Memoirs Of a Geisha).
An absentee from the Best actress nominees is Keira Knightley, the star of Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice [+see also:
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, but Brenda Blethyn, her mother in the film gets a nomination as Best supporting actress and the film is nominated six times in total. First time director Joe Wright will be one of the five contenders for the Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their first feature film, with Richard Hawkins, the director of the low budget digital film Everything, Annie Griffin, writer/director of the already multi-award winning film Festival, David Belton, producer of Shooting Dogs and Peter Fudakowski, producer of the South African/UK film Tsotsi.

Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi is also nominated for Best foreign language film with the two French films The Beat That My Heart Skipped [+see also:
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by Jacques Audiard, Merry Christmas [+see also:
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by Christian Carion and the surprise nominee Le Grand Voyage, the French/Moroccan film by Ismael Ferroukhi produced by the late Humbert Balsan.
The Bafta ceremony will take place in London on February 19.

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