Les Misérables wins four BAFTAs
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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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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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