The King's Speech accounted for seven British Academy Film Awards this evening, taking home both Best Film and Best British Film, as well as Best Actor and both Best Supporting awards. Inception and The Social Network each picked up three, Alice in Wonderland took home two prizes and no one else got more than one.
The King's Speech was the runaway favourite going into the evening, and sure enough the very first award of the night went to Alexandre Desplat for his score on the film. It also picked up Best Original Screenplay for David Seidler and Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress for Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham-Carter respectively. Colin Firth's win for Best Actor, his second consecutive win following his triumph for A Single Man last year, was simultaneously the most obvious and the most popular award of the night. There was some trepidation among the film's cast and crew, it seemed, when they won Best British Film - since BAFTA often splits out Best Film and Best British Film so that a win in the latter category is no guarantee of getting the former - but in time they took the Best Film award to boot, and the set was complete.
That's not to say that it was a clean sweep. Best Director went to David Fincher for The Social Network, which also landed Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin's script and Best Editing, making it the runner-up on points. Inception also takes home three prizes, for Best Sound, Best Production Design and Special Visual Effects.
Natalie Portman, as expected, took Best Actress for Black Swan, while True Grit took home Best Cinematography. The Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer went to Chris Morris for Four Lions, which is excellent news for anyone who likes to shake things up a bit.
Alice In Wonderland took home Hair & Make Up as well as the Costume prize for its two, while Toy Story 3 surprised no-one with a Best Animated Film win and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo romped off with Best Foreign Film. The Short Film winner was Until The River Runs Red, while Short Animation went to The Eagleman Stag.
Overall, the ending very much went with expectations, with no big upsets or scandals - unless you count the autocue failure that almost led Rosamund Pike and Dominic Cooper to announce a Best Original Screenplay winner without running clips (gasp!). Still, a fun time appeared to be had by all, with the Harry Potter series honoured for its contribution to cinema, and Sir Christopher Lee awarded with a BAFTA Fellowship for his extraordinary body of work.
The winners (in red) and nominees:
BEST FILM
BLACK SWAN
INCEPTION
**THE KING’S SPEECH
**THE SOCIAL NETWORK
TRUE GRIT
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
127 HOURS
ANOTHER YEAR
FOUR LIONS
**THE KING’S SPEECH
**MADE IN DAGENHAM
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
THE ARBOR Clio Barnard (Director), Tracy O’Riordan (Producer)
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Banksy (Director), Jaimie D’Cruz (Producer)
**FOUR LIONS Chris Morris (Director/Writer)
**MONSTERS Gareth Edwards (Director/Writer)
SKELETONS Nick Whitfield (Director/Writer)
DIRECTOR
127 HOURS Danny Boyle
BLACK SWAN Darren Aronofsky
INCEPTION Christopher Nolan
THE KING’S SPEECH Tom Hooper
**THE SOCIAL NETWORK David Fincher
**ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BLACK SWAN Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin
THE FIGHTER Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
INCEPTION Christopher Nolan
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
**THE KING’S SPEECH David Seidler
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY**
127 HOURS Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
**THE SOCIAL NETWORK Aaron Sorkin
**TOY STORY 3 Michael Arndt
TRUE GRIT Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
**
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE **
BIUTIFUL Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira
**THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Søren Stærmose, Niels Arden Oplev
**I AM LOVE Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Marco Morabito, Massimiliano Violante
OF GODS AND MEN Xavier Beauvois
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Mariela Besuievsky, Juan José Campanella
ANIMATED FILM
DESPICABLE ME Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
TOY STORY 3 Lee Unkrich
LEADING ACTOR
JAVIER BARDEM Biutiful
JEFF BRIDGES True Grit
JESSE EISENBERG The Social Network
COLIN FIRTH The King’s Speech
JAMES FRANCO 127 Hours
**
LEADING ACTRESS**
ANNETTE BENING The Kids Are All Right
JULIANNE MOORE The Kids Are All Right
**NATALIE PORTMAN Black Swan
**NOOMI RAPACE The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
HAILEE STEINFELD True Grit
**
SUPPORTING ACTOR**
CHRISTIAN BALE The Fighter
ANDREW GARFIELD The Social Network
PETE POSTLETHWAITE The Town
MARK RUFFALO The Kids Are All Right
**GEOFFREY RUSH The King’s Speech
**SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS The Fighter
**HELENA BONHAM CARTER The King’s Speech
**BARBARA HERSHEY Black Swan
LESLEY MANVILLE Another Year
MIRANDA RICHARDSON Made in Dagenham
**
ORIGINAL MUSIC**
127 HOURS AR Rahman
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Danny Elfman
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON John Powell
INCEPTION Hans Zimmer
**THE KING’S SPEECH Alexandre Desplat
**
**CINEMATOGRAPHY
**127 HOURS Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
BLACK SWAN Matthew Libatique
INCEPTION Wally Pfister
THE KING’S SPEECH Danny Cohen
**TRUE GRIT Roger Deakins
**
**EDITING **
127 HOURS Jon Harris
BLACK SWAN Andrew Weisblum
INCEPTION Lee Smith
THE KING’S SPEECH Tariq Anwar
**THE SOCIAL NETWORK Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
****PRODUCTION DESIGN
**ALICE IN WONDERLAND Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
BLACK SWAN Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
**INCEPTION Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
**THE KING’S SPEECH Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
TRUE GRIT Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
COSTUME DESIGN
**ALICE IN WONDERLAND Colleen Atwood
**BLACK SWAN Amy Westcott
THE KING’S SPEECH Jenny Beavan
MADE IN DAGENHAM Louise Stjernsward
TRUE GRIT Mary Zophres
SOUND
127 HOURS Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri, Douglas Cameron
BLACK SWAN Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan, Dominick Tavella
**INCEPTION Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick
**THE KING’S SPEECH John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin
TRUE GRIT Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell
**
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS**
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Sean Phillips, Carey Villegas**
**BLACK SWAN Dan Schrecker
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait'Hadi, Christian Manz
INCEPTION Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb
TOY STORY 3 Guido Quaroni, Michael Fong, David Ryu
MAKE UP & HAIR
**ALICE IN WONDERLAND Valli O'Reilly, Paul Gooch
**BLACK SWAN Judy Chin, Geordie Sheffer
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
THE KING’S SPEECH Frances Hannon
MADE IN DAGENHAM Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
**SHORT ANIMATION **
**THE EAGLEMAN STAG Michael Please
**MATTER FISHER David Prosser
THURSDAY Matthias Hoegg
**
SHORT FILM**
CONNECT Samuel Abrahams, Beau Gordon
LIN Piers Thompson, Simon Hessel
RITE Michael Pearce, Ross McKenzie
TURNING Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Alison Sterling, Kat Armour-Brown
**UNTIL THE RIVER RUNS RED Paul Wright, Poss Kondeatis
**THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD
(voted for by the public)
GEMMA ARTERTON
ANDREW GARFIELD
**TOM HARDY
**AARON JOHNSON
EMMA STONE