The Orange British Academy Film Awards have announced their nominees for the 2011 awards ceremony, and again, we see a lot of familiar faces making waves. The show itself will take place on February 13, 2011, at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. For now, you can see below for the complete list of nominees in all categories. Let us know in the comments who you think will walk away with BAFTAS!
Best Film
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Outstanding British Film
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Director
Danny Boyle |
Leading Actor
Jeff
Bridges |
Leading Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Amy Adams |
Animated Film
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Not too surprising. Good to see True Grit getting the recognition it deserves. Glad to see How To Train Your Dragon in the music category. Hope it wins.
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I hope so too. And that it would also at least be nominated at the Oscars. Its original score is that good.
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I guess this is what the Oscars will look like, somewhat.
Good noms, interesting that the GG WINNER for best supporting actress wasn't even nominated at the BAFTAs. Don’t necessarily disagree, just interesting. Also don't think Steinfelds performance was worthy of a nom. Great for her age, but not necessarily great on it's own. Thought Moretz was better, but won't be recognized because it's an American remake of an European film.
Happy to see Hailee Steinfeld get a best actress nomination, but disappointed to see nothing for Winter's Bone - John Hawkes man!! I'll probably be in the minority on this one but I was also pleasingly surprised that Amy Adams was the only actress nominated from The Fighter. Sorry, Melissa Leo's exceedingly talented but she's so off-kilter by comparison to the actors around her and plays it a little too big.
Pete Postlethwaite over Jeremy Renner? Interesting... However, it is nice to see Hershey get some recognition for a role that was largely overshadowed by Kunis and Portman. I do wish Ben Affleck would get more credit for directing The Town.
postlethwaite got the nom over renner. I guess the brits have some sort of edited version of the movie that has Postl in it for more than 15 minutes of screen time
Little surprising to see Pete Postlethwaite get the nomination over Jeremy Renner. None the less, Pete was outstanding.
Jeremy Renner was far more deserving of a nomination than Pete Postlethwaite.
Pete Postlethwaite died Jan 2nd of this year, so the nom is probably more out of respect than anything else.
Pete Postlethwaite probably got nominated cause he's British and it's the BAFTAs, so it's not hard to imagine that they would be more gracious to their countrymen than others.
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Tell that to Micheal Caine :)
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Excellent nominations overall, imo.
I think James Franco and Julianne Moore will win this award.
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Well, it's better than the Golden Globe nominations.
Even though there are some good nominations, I still have my reservations over the acting noms for the cast from The Social Network, The Kids Are All Right, Hailee Steinfeld & the late Pete Postlethwaite.
OMGG!! Hans Zimmer has to win for background score for Inception Golden Globes is nuts... happy with the other noms too...
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The Inception and Social Network scores are pretty much even as far as I'm concerned. Both take their respective films to another level (rather than just fitting it like Daft Punk's Tron Legacy soundtrack), with Inception's heightening the pulse for the action and TSN's providing an emotional core for the story and themes. I assume The Social Network wasn't nominated for the BAFTA because it's not a wholly original work - one song is based on a bit of classical music, two more are reworked Nine Inch Nails songs - but in my opinion it's a tie for the year's best soundtrack.
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I'm surprised they didn't nominate some random British Actress for best Lead like they always do
All worthy nominations.
BAFTAs are generally more worldly than American awards, and it shows. However, can't say I agree with Ruffalo's inclusion in Supporting Actor, nor Leo's exclusion in the female equivalent. It was, however, nice to see Garfield and Hershey recognized (the latter was amazing and deserves more recognition than she's earned so far.)
Hopefully the British won't make Critic's Choice's mistake of giving cinematography to Inception, and HP/TS3's noms in Visual Effects seems dubious. Secret and Biutiful deserve the Foreign category the most; Dogtooth is being under-recognized.