BAFTA Nominations 2010 Announced!

And there are three frontrunners

BAFTA Nominations 2010 Announced!

by Helen O'Hara |
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The 2010 BAFTA nominations have been announced, and three films boast a whopping eight nominations, with Avatar, An Education and The Hurt Locker leading the pack. Just behind is District 9 with seven, followed by Up In The Air and Inglourious Basterds with six.

It's a pretty wide spread for the Awards, which also see Coco Before Chanel, Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire, Nowhere Boy and Up get four nods each. We suspect that wide range will be reflected on the night with a relatively large number of films getting prizes, BAFTA clearly having listened to their collective mother and learned to share the wealth around.

Up for Best Film overall are Avatar (predictably), The Hurt Locker (also predictably, albeit for different reasons), Up In The Air, Precious and An Education. What's perhaps surprising is that only three of these films are also nominated for Best Director: Up In The Air's Jason Reitman and Precious' Lee Daniels lose out to District 9's Neil Blomkamp and Inglourious Basterds' Quentin Tarantino. Still, we're guessing it's still a James Cameron vs. Kathryn Bigelow race for that prize.

In terms of people who haven't been nominated at the Golden Globes or many of the US lists to date, it's nice to see In The Loop up for Outstanding British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay, Christian McKay up for Best Supporting Actor for his exceptional turn in Me And Orson Welles, Andy Serkis up for Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and Duncan Jones nominated for Best British Film and the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director Or Producer for Moon. That category's going to be tough, though: it also includes Sam Taylor-Wood for Nowhere Boy and Stuart Hazeldine for Exam.

Serkis and McKay aside, the male acting categories go largely as you'd expect, with nods for George Clooney in Up In The Air, Golden Globe winner Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart and Colin Firth for A Single Man. The one welcome surprise there is that someone has finally acknowledged that Jeremy Renner's rather good in The Hurt Locker. In the Supporting category, The Lovely Bones' Stanley Tucci and Inglourious Basterds' Christoph Waltz are nominated alongside Alfred Molina for An Education and Alec Baldwin for It's Complicated (that film's sole nomination here).

For the ladies, by-now expected contenders Carey Mulligan (An Education), Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia) and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) are joined by Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel and Saoirse Ronan for The Lovely Bones. The Supporting category nominates two actresses from Up In The Air - Anna Kendrick and Vera Farmiga - and two from **Nowhere Boy - **Kristin Scott-Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff - but surely none of those can beat Mo'Nique for Precious.

The Animated ghetto category has only three nominees, but they're all great films: Fantastic Mr Fox, Coraline and Up (which is also up for Best Screenplay, Sound and Score). Films Not In The English Language is another strong group, with no clear winner: the buzzed-about Cannes winner A Prophet is up against Coco Before Chanel (which BAFTA clearly loves), **Let The Right One In **(which everyone else loves), Almodovar's **Broken Embraces **and Haneke's The White Ribbon.

The full list of nominees is below; the ceremony will take place and the results announced on February 21.

BEST FILM

Avatar

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire

**Up In The Air **

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

**An Education

Fish Tank

In The Loop

Moon

Nowhere Boy**

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

LUCY BAILEY, ANDREW THOMPSON, ELIZABETH MORGAN HEMLOCK, DAVID PEARSON Directors, Producers – Mugabe and the White African

ERAN CREEVY Writer/Director – **Shifty **

STUART HAZELDINE Writer/Director – **Exam **

DUNCAN JONES Director – **Moon **

SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Director – Nowhere Boy

DIRECTOR

James Cameron - Avatar

Neill Blomkamp - District 9

Lone Scherfig - An Education

Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Jon Lucas, Scott Moore - The Hangover

Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker

Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - A Serious Man

Bob Peterson, Pete Docter - Up

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell - District 9

Nick Hornby - An Education

Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche - In The Loop

Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire

Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - Up In The Air

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

**Broken Embraces

Coco Before Chanel

Let The Right One In

A Prophet

The White Ribbon**

ANIMATED FILM

**Coraline

Fantastic Mr Fox

Up **

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

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

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alec Baldwin - It’s Complicated

Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles

Alfred Molina - An Education

Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

Christoph Waltz - I****nglourious 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

MUSIC

**Avatar **- James Horner

Crazy Heart - T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton

Fantastic Mr Fox - Alexandre Desplat

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Chaz Jankel

Up - Michael Giacchino

CINEMATOGRAPHY

**Avatar **- Mauro Fiore

District 9 - Trent Opaloch

The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd

Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson

The Road - Javier Aguirresarobe

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

PRODUCTION DESIGN

**Avatar

District 9

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Inglourious Basterds **

COSTUME DESIGN

**Bright Star

Coco Before Chanel

An Education

A Single Man

The Young Victoria**

SOUND

**Avatar

District 9

The Hurt Locker

Star Trek

Up**

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

**Avatar

District 9

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Hurt Locker

Star Trek**

MAKE UP & HAIR

**Coco Before Chanel

An Education

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

The Young Victoria**

SHORT ANIMATION

**The Gruffalo

The Happy Duckling

Mother of Many**

SHORT FILM

**14

I Do Air

Jade

Mixtape

Off Season**

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

Jesse Eisenberg

Nicholas Hoult

Carey Mulligan

Tahar Rahim

Kristen Stewart

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