British Academy Film Awards 2010

The 63rd British Academy Film Awards ceremony took place on February 21, 2010 at the Royal Opera House , London . The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) film awards were presented in 23 categories. The event was hosted for the fourth time by the British presenter and film critic Jonathan Ross .

The nominations were announced on January 21, 2010. The nominees for the Orange Rising Star Award and the nominations for the best non-English language film were published in advance .

The winner of the evening was the film Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow , which received a total of six BAFTA awards, including best original screenplay, best director and best film. Actress Vanessa Redgrave was awarded the BAFTA Academy Fellowship .

Favorite films

All feature films released in the UK between January 1 and December 31, 2009 , or those with a planned release by February 19, 2010 by the distributor in advance of the Academy, were considered for nominations for the 63rd BAFTA Film Awards were presented. Special rules applied to short films and animated short films , so only British productions were allowed in these categories. A total of 220 films met these conditions.

After the first round of voting, BAFTA published a long list with 15 candidates per category. With 17 mentions, Lone Scherfig's An Education was one of the favorites for the BAFTA Film Awards.

In fact, An Education became the most nominated British film with a total of eight nominations. James Cameron's science fiction film Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow's war drama Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker also received eight nominations . All three films competed in the “Best Film” category, and Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and Up in the Air were also nominated. The award for the best film went to Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker , which became the most successful film of the awards with victories in five other categories, followed by Avatar , the animated film Oben and the British historical drama Young Victoria with two wins each.

In addition to James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow and Lone Scherfig, Quentin Tarantino and the South African Neill Blomkamp were nominated for best directors. Blomkamp's science fiction drama District 9 surprisingly received seven nominations, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds was nominated six times, including Christoph Waltz for Best Supporting Actor.

Award winners and nominations

The most successful films
(at least two nominations; highlighted = most awards,
N = nomination; A = award)
Movie	N	A.
An Education	8th	1
Avatar - Departure for Pandora	8th	2
Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker	8th	6th
District 9	7th	0
Inglourious Basterds	6th	1
Up in the air	6th	1
Coco Chanel - The beginning of a passion	4th	0
Nowhere boy	4th	0
Above	4th	2
Precious - Life is precious	4th	1
A single man	2	1
Crazy Heart	2	0
Doctor Parnassus's cabinet	2	0
The fantastic Mr. Fox	2	0
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	2	0
In my heaven	2	0
Cabinet out of control	2	0
Moon	2	1
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	2	0
Star Trek	2	0
Victoria, the young queen	2	2

Best movie

Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker (The Hurt Locker) - Director: Kathryn Bigelow

An Education - Director: Lone Scherfig

Avatar - Departure for Pandora (Avatar) - Director: James Cameron

Precious - The life is precious (Precious) - Director: Lee Daniels

Up in the Air - Director: Jason Reitman

Best British Film

Fish Tank - Director: Andrea Arnold

An Education - Director: Lone Scherfig

Cabinet out of control (In the Loop) - Director: Armando Iannucci

Moon - Directed by Duncan Jones

Nowhere Boy - Director: Sam Taylor Wood

Alec Baldwin - If Love Was That Easy (It's Complicated)

Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles (Me and Orson Welles)

Alfred Molina - An Education

Stanley Tucci - In my Heaven (The Lovely Bones)

The best supporting actress

Mo'Nique - Precious - Life is Precious (Precious)

Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy

Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air

Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air

Kristin Scott Thomas - Nowhere Boy

Best adapted script

Jason Reitman , Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air

Jesse Armstrong , Simon Blackwell , Armando Iannucci , Tony Roche - Cabinet Out of Control (In the Loop)

Neill Blomkamp , Terri Tatchell - District 9

Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious - Life is Precious (Precious)

Nick Hornby - An Education

Best original script

Mark Boal - Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker (The Hurt Locker)

Ethan Coen , Joel Coen - A Serious Man

Pete Docter , Bob Peterson - Up (Up)

Jon Lucas , Scott Moore - Hangover (The Hangover)

Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Best camera

Barry Ackroyd - Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker (The Hurt Locker)

Javier Aguirresarobe - The Road

Mauro Fiore - Avatar - Departure for Pandora (Avatar)

Trent Opaloch - District 9

Robert Richardson - Inglourious Basterds

Best production design

Rick Carter , Kim Sinclair , Robert Stromberg - Avatar - Departure for Pandora (Avatar)

Stuart Craig , Stephenie McMillan - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Philip Ivey , Guy Poltgieter - District 9

Anastasia Masaro , Caroline Smith , David Warren - Das Kabinett des Doktor Parnassus (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)

David Wasco , Sandy Reynolds Wasco - Inglourious Basterds

Best costumes

Sandy Powell - Victoria, The Young Queen (The Young Victoria)

Odile Dicks-Mireaux - An Education

Catherine Leterrier - Coco Chanel - The beginning of a passion (Coco avant Chanel)

Janet Patterson - Bright Star

Arianne Phillips - A Single Man

Best mask

Jenny Shircore - Victoria, the Young Queen (The Young Victoria)

Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou - An Education

Peter Swords King - Nine

Jane Milon , Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen - Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion (Coco avant Chanel)

Sarah Monzani - Das Kabinett des Doktor Parnassus (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)

Best film score

Michael Giacchino - Up (Up)

Stephen Bruton , T-Bone Burnett - Crazy Heart

Alexandre Desplat - The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox)

James Horner - Avatar - Departure for Pandora (Avatar)

Chaz Jankel - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Best cut

Chris Innis , Bob Murawski - Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker (The Hurt Locker)

James Cameron , John Refoua , Stephen E. Rivkin - Avatar - Departure for Pandora (Avatar)

Julian Clarke - District 9

Dana E. Glauberman - Up in the Air

Sally Menke - Inglourious Basterds

Best tone

Ray Beckett , Paul NJ Ottosson , Craig Stauffer - Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker (The Hurt Locker)

Anna Behlmer , Ben Burtt , Peter J. Devlin , Andy Nelson , Mark Stoeckinger - Star Trek

Christopher Boyes , Tony Johnson , Andy Nelson , Gary Summers , Addison Teague - Avatar - Departure for Pandora (Avatar)

Brent Burge , Michael Hedges , Ken Seville , Chris Ward , Dave Whitehead - District 9

Tom Myers , Michael Semanick , Michael Silvers - Top (Up)

Best visual effects

Richard Baneham , Andrew R. Jones , Joe Letteri , Stephen Rosenbaum - Avatar - Departure for Pandora (Avatar)

Nicolas Aithadi , Tim Alexander , Tim Burke , John Richardson - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

Matt Aitken , Robert Habros , Dan Kaufman , Peter Muyzers - District 9

Burt Dalton , Russell Earl , Roger Guyett , Paul Kavanagh - Star Trek

Richard Stutsman - Fatal Command - The Hurt Locker

Best animated feature film

Up (Up) - Directed by Pete Docter

Coraline - Director: Henry Selick

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox) - Director: Wes Anderson

Best animated short film

Mother of Many - Directed by Sally Arthur , Emma Lazenby

Der Gruffelo (The Gruffelo) - Directors: Max Lang , Michael Rose , Jakob Schuh , Jakob Schuh

The Happy Duckling - Director: Gili Dolev

Best short film

I Do Air - Directed by Martina Amati , James Bolton

Jade - Directed by Daniel Elliott , Samm Haillay

Mixtape - Directed by Luti Fagbenle , Luke Snellin

Off Season - Directed by Jacob Jaffke , Jonathan van Tulleken

14 - Director: Asitha Ameresekere

Best young talent (Carl Foreman Award)

Duncan Jones (Director) -Moon

Lucy Bailey , Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock , David Pwarson , Andrew Thompson (Director, Production) - Mugabe and the White African

Eran Creevy (Director, Screenplay) - Shifty

Stuart Hazeldine (Director, Screenplay) - Exam

Sam Taylor Wood (Director) - Nowhere Boy

Best Non-English Language Film

Ein Prophet (Un prophète) , France - Director: Jacques Audiard

Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion (Coco avant Chanel) , France - Director: Anne Fontaine

The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story , Germany / Austria - Director: Michael Haneke

So dark the night (Låt den rara comma in) , Sweden - Director: Tomas Alfredson

Broken Hugs (Los abrazos rotos) , Spain - Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Best Young Actor (Orange Rising Star Award)

The Orange Rising Star Award is an audience award , the winner is determined by a telephone vote. The candidates were presented on January 12, 2010.

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