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The BAFTA Nominations Are Here! - 17/1/2012 8:29:22 AM

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- 17/1/2012 8:29:22 AM

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Quite a nice bunch of nominations. Strange that neither Melancholia or The Tree Of Life are in there though. Struggling to choose between Drive and The Artist for best film.

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What The Help?! - 17/1/2012 9:34:19 AM

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I thought The Help was generally derided by UK critics? Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought Hugo, WNTTAK ans Shame had generally better reviews over here. It sounds to me like the obligatory BAFTA annual sop to American sap. Apart from that, it looks like a justifiable list this year, particularly as it includes Lynne Ramsey and Jim Broadbent... and actually Judi Dench, who was rather splendid as Sybil Thorndike, I thought.

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What The Help?! - 17/1/2012 9:34:33 AM

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In my humble opinion - 17/1/2012 9:47:04 AM

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I haven't seen a few so there a certain amount of guess work going on here :-) Having said that, picking Best Film is probably the easiest choice EVER!!!!

BEST FILM
Drive

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Shame

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR
Attack The Block - Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)

DOCUMENTARY
Senna

ANIMATED FILM
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

DIRECTOR
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash - The Descendants

LEADING ACTOR
Michael Fassbender - Shame

LEADING ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jonah Hill - Moneyball

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan - Drive

ORIGINAL MUSIC
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

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In my humble opinion - 17/1/2012 9:47:28 AM

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In my humble opinion - 17/1/2012 9:47:35 AM

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Sorry, dont know why that went up 3 times! - 17/1/2012 9:48:45 AM

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Bloody computers!

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An okay list - 17/1/2012 10:11:44 AM

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Very little exceptional stuff here, the usual biases remain. It would have been nice to have seen Potter wave goodbye with a best British film nomination alongside Tyrannosaur. My Week with Marilyn surely wasn't as well receieved as Potter critically? Potter has a 96% rating on Rottentomatoes.com. And when you they do finally nominate a British film, they nominate a dud one! Thats why the BAFTAS are so annoying.
Best I'm really pleased with Hugo's 9 nods - hopefully it will win a big handful. I've only seen The Artist from the Best Film list, so I'm backing that one, but hopefully Hugo will get more wins overall. (I still find it strange that The Artist got best sound when only 2 scenes feature sound at all!)

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The tree of life - 17/1/2012 10:38:49 AM

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4 words is the only thing i can say after looking at the nominations....The Tree Of Life!

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RE: The tree of life - 17/1/2012 11:18:58 AM

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Great to see Senna not only getting a nom for Documentry but British Film aswell

just a shame it didn't even make the shortlist for the Oscars?

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The Artist, nominated for Sound? - 17/1/2012 11:27:16 AM

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I was under the impression that this was a slient film, so can anybody explain, please?
(No, I have not seen the film myself. It was out of Belgian cinemas before I even knew it'd been released.)

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RE: The Artist, nominated for Sound? - 17/1/2012 12:26:50 PM

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No nomination for Olivia Colman - shocking.

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RE: The Artist, nominated for Sound? - 17/1/2012 12:36:29 PM

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No nomination for Olivia Colman - shocking.

My thoughts exactly. Its all over twitter how much of a cock up Bafta have made yet again in their nominations.

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- 17/1/2012 12:51:37 PM

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How much for a ticket to the show?
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RE: The Artist, nominated for Sound? - 17/1/2012 5:21:50 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Dropje

I was under the impression that this was a slient film, so can anybody explain, please?
(No, I have not seen the film myself. It was out of Belgian cinemas before I even knew it'd been released.)

It does have sound, it's dialogue that it's missing.

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thanks bafta - 17/1/2012 6:41:04 PM

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would just like to thank bafta for supporting the british film industry and for them for nominating olivia colman for best actress. no? sorry i mean best supporting actress.no again?strange,oh well. what a bunch of dinosaurs.

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Rooney Mara? - 17/1/2012 8:50:32 PM

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Where is Rooney Mara for 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'. The film itself is fairly standard (though miles better than the likes of 'The Iron Lady'), but Rooney Mara's performance is simply breathtaking. We all know that Meryl Streep is bloody amazing but why can't the BAFTAs attempt to recognise some new deserving talent?

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RE: The Artist, nominated for Sound? - 19/1/2012 2:21:25 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Spaldron

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ORIGINAL: mackey

No nomination for Olivia Colman - shocking.

My thoughts exactly. Its all over twitter how much of a cock up Bafta have made yet again in their nominations.

Couldn't agree more. The lack of a nomination for her is beyond a disgrace.

The Best British Film category contains only 1 indigenous film - and that's My Week With Marilyn?

I adore the Artist - but how that got nominated for best sound ahead of We Need To Talk About Kevin is utter nonsense.

And with the documentaries, with so many good ones out in 2011, why on earth could they only make room for 3? (1 of which was solid but unremarkable)

Carey Mulligan nominated for Drive rather than Shame? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever...

And The Iron Lady for original screenplay???

Pleased to see Drive make the shortlist for best film & Gary Oldman get a best actor nod, but aside from that, this is the poorest set of Bafta noms in a long long time.

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RE: The Artist, nominated for Sound? - 19/1/2012 5:02:15 PM

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Shame no nomination for Michael Shannon or anybody from Margin Call

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RE: The Artist, nominated for Sound? - 20/1/2012 5:00:07 PM

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It must of completely passed me by BUT THE FUCKING HELP GOT NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM!

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RISE A DEAD CERT - 21/1/2012 9:55:14 AM

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If Rise of the Planet of the Apes doesn't win the BAFTA for Special Visual Effects then the entire awards are a sad joke.Andy Serkis should have been nominated for an acting award.

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