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2010 Baftas Winners

Here is a list of the Bafta 2010 Winners. BEST FILM AVATAR – James Cameron, Jon Landau AN EDUCATION – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer THE HURT LOCKER – Nominees TBC -Winner PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness UP IN THE AIR – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, [...]

2010 Bafta Nominations

Here are the Nominations for the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards. Avatar is highly expected to clear up in every category it is in represented in, but District 9 was also a highly anticipated film of the year so hopefully they won’t be going home empty handed. It would be great to see Disney [...]

Bafta Award Nominations 2008

The excitement is growing as the nominations have now been announced for the prestigious BAFTA awards for 2008. This year the BAFTA’s are at the forefront for the film industry because the Golden Globe awards were reduced to a press conference with no stars taking part. This year the critics believe that there have been [...]

Naomie Harris – RISING STAR AWARD

Cambridge graduate Naomie Harris the 30 year old daughter of sitcom writer Lisselle Kayla was born in London and trained at the famous Bristol Old Vic. While she has acted in TV and film since she was nine, she only became a high-profile actress in 2002, with her performance as Selena, a co-lead in the [...]

Eva Green – RISING STAR AWARD

Born in 1980 in France and brought up and schooled there by her French mother and Swedish dentist father, himself appearing in a one off film in 1966, Eva Green studied in Paris and then a ten week “finishing course” at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. The new “Bond” girl made [...]

Emily Blunt – RISING STAR AWARD

Winning critical acclaim in the multi award winning British movie My Summer of Love, which shot Emily to international prominence, she has now gone on to bigger and bigger things. Described by her co-star Meryl Streep, in the 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada, as “the best young actress I’ve worked with in some time, [...]

Cillian Murphy – RISING STAR AWARD

A native of Cork in Ireland, born in 1976, actor and musician Cillian Murphy is one of the five nominees for the BAFTA rising star award in the 2007 ceremony. Set for big things, with his impressive range of acting and his success in film roles, his female admirers would say aided by his startling [...]

Ben Wishaw – RISING STAR AWARD

Twenty six year old Bedfordshire born Ben Wishaw graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2003. Always prepared to take on challenging roles, he is a versatile actor who played the part of Grenouille in the recently released movie Perfume. Trevor Nunn’s Hamlet on stage saw rave reviews for his performance which followed [...]

MISS POTTER misses out on Bafta

The movie Miss Potter has missed out on a prestigious BAFTA award by not been nominated It was hoped that the Film, which tells the story Beatrix Potter the children’s author, would feature when nominations were released Today. Miss potter had been included on the long lists in several categories, which included : best lead [...]

and the nominees are

This year’s BAFTas will be held on Sunday 11 February,at the Royal Opera House. The nominees is below. My tips this year is that “the queen” will get best Film and “CASINO ROYALE” will get the ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD, then both will fight it out for the rest. FILM BABEL THE DEPARTED THE LAST KING [...]