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| Noomi Rapace on the Red Carpet, 2010. Photo © Matteo Mignani |
The problem with the awards season: repetition. In deference to your continued, lively existence, here are the highlights where awards honchos have thought outside the small, cardboard box their minds are currently calling home.
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER |
| THE ARBOR - Director, Producer - Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan |
| EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP - Director, Producer – Banksy, Jaimie D’Cruz |
| FOUR LIONS - Director/Writer - Chris Morris |
| MONSTERS - Director/Writer – Gareth Edwards |
SKELETONS - Director/Writer – Nick Whitfield
Monsters, one of the best, yet least-known films of 2010 gets a nod for writing. Not bad for a debut feature.
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
Three cheers for Sweden! Sure, Hollywood, so far you've ignored The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in awards season, but you still managed to snag the rights to produce a pointless remake. We don't care if David Fincher is David Fincher. As far as gritty Swedish film is concerned, he may as well have started out bucket-drumming with Tracey Jordan. The Americanised version will inspire rage in all of those who loved the books, loved the movies, and can be bothered to read subtitles.
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
It's probably childish to say booyah, right? The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will have at least a modest amount of success at the BAFTAs, primarily because Brits don't think they can see Sweden/Russia from their house.
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
All of these women: extremely deserving.
We can sum up by saying that overall, the BAFTAs are a hair better than the Globes in terms of nomination variety. The fact that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I has again been majorly overlooked in all categories except for Special Effects and Hair and Makeup (the second, rather puzzling really) is predictably disappointing. It would be nice, before the series is out, to recognise the enormous change and improvement the actors have made since their start. Or, perhaps the contribution of a career that David Heyman has put in as Producer on the series.
For the full list of nominees, please see the BAFTAs web site: http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/2011-film-awards,1572,BA.html |
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