British Academy Film Awards: The Winners

As the great and good are quickly ushered out of London's salubrious Royal Opera House, shoved into the nearest waiting limo and whisked to their respective after-show parties, the time has come to tally and take stock of the big winners at this year's British Academy Film Awards.

As with all of the major films awards of 2010 thus far, the big battle at this year's Baftas was between James Cameron's Avatar and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and the big winner on the night was Ms Bigelow who blew away all the competition with a grand total of six awards including (surprisingly but brilliantly) Best Film and Best Director. Avatar, meanwhile, was relegated to two relatively minor awards for Best Production Design and Best Special Effects.

Quite how this will affect the runners and the riders for this year's Oscars remains to be seen but it does give us hope that the field has now been widened beyond Mr Cameron's grasp.

In other awards news, the homegrown duo of Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth walked away with Best Actress and Best Actor awards respectively, while Inglourious Basterd Christoph Waltz was awarded Best Supporting Actor and Precious star Mo'nique got the gong for Best Supporting Actress. Best of all, Duncan Jones finally got some well-deserved recognition for his sterling work on Moon with an Outstanding Debut gong.

For the full list of winners, see below...


BEST FILM
Avatar - James Cameron, Jon Landau
An Education - Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow , Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
Up In the Air - Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

WINNER: THE HURT LOCKER


OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
An Education - Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
Fish Tank - Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
In The Loop - Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
Moon - Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
Nowhere Boy - Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh

WINNER: FISH TANK



OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
LUCY BAILEY, ANDREW THOMPSON, ELIZABETH MORGAN HEMLOCK, DAVID PEARSON Directors, Producers - Mugabe & The White African
ERAN CREEVY Writer/Director - Shifty
STUART HAZELDINE Writer/Director - Exam
DUNCAN JONES Director - Moon
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Director - Nowhere Boy

WINNER: DUNCAN JONES


DIRECTOR
AVATAR - James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 - Neill Blomkamp
AN EDUCATION - Lone Scherfig
THE HURT LOCKER - Kathryn Bigelow
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - Quentin Tarantino

WINNER: THE HURT LOCKER - Kathryn Bigelow



THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart

WINNER: KRISTEN STEWART


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Hangover - Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up - Bob Peterson, Pete Docter

WINNER: THE HURT LOCKER - Mark Boal



ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
District 9 - Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
An Education - Nick Hornby
In the Loop - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Geoffrey Fletcher
Up In The Air - Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

WINNER: UP IN THE AIR


FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Broken Embraces - Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
Coco Before Chanel - Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
Let The Right One In - Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
A Prophet - Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
The White Ribbon - Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke

WINNER: A PROPHET


ANIMATED FILM
Coraline - Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson
Up - Pete Docter

WINNER: UP - Pete Docter



LEADING ACTOR
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
George Clooney - Up In The Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker
Andy Serkis - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

WINNER: COLIN FIRTH - A Single Man



LEADING ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
Audrey Tautou - Coco Before Chanel

WINNER: CAREY MULLIGAN - An Education



SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alec Baldwin - It's Complicated
Christian McKay - Me And Orson Welles
Alfred Molina - An Education
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

WINNER: CHRISTOPH WALTZ - Inglourious Basterds



SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Kristin Scott Thomas - Nowhere Boy

WINNER: MO'NIQUE - Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire



MUSIC
Avatar - James Horner
Crazy Heart - T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat
Sex and Drugs And Rock And Roll - Chaz Jankel
Up - Michael Giacchino

WINNER: UP - Michael Giacchino



CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar - Mauro Fiore
District 9 - Trent Opaloch
The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson
The Road - Javier Aguirresarobe

WINNER: THE HURT LOCKER 



EDITING
Avatar - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
District 9 - Julian Clarke
The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
Inglourious Basterds - Sally Menke
Up In The Air - Dana E. Glauberman

WINNER: THE HURT LOCKER 



PRODUCTION DESIGN
Avatar - Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
District 9 - Philip Ivey, Guy Poltgieter
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus - Nominees TBC
Inglourious Basterds - David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco

WINNER: AVATAR


COSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star - Janet Patterson
Coco Before Chanel - Catherine Leterrier
An Education - Odile Dicks-Mireaux
A Single Man - Arianne Phillips
The Young Victoria - Sandy Powell

WINNER: BRIGHT STAR



SOUND
Avatar - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
District 9 - Nominees TBC
The Hurt Locker - Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer
Star Trek - Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
Up - Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick

WINNER: THE HURT LOCKER



SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
District 9 - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi
The Hurt Locker- Richard Stutsman
Star Trek - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

WINNER: AVATAR



MAKE UP & HAIR
Coco Before Chanel - Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Jane Milon
An Education - Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus - Sarah Monzani
Nine - Peter ‘Swords' King
The Young Victoria - Jenny Shircore

WINNER: THE YOUNG VICTORIA



SHORT ANIMATION
THE GRUFFALO - Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
THE HAPPY DUCKLING - Gili Dolev
MOTHER OF MANY - Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby

WINNER: Mother of Many



SHORT FILM
14 - Asitha Ameresekere
I DO AIR - James Bolton, Martina Amati
JADE - Samm Haillay, Daniel Elliott
MIXTAPE - Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin
OFF SEASON - Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan van Tulleken

WINNER: I DO AIR


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Glen Ferris