The British Academy of Film and Television Arts have just completed the presentation of this year’s British Academy Awards. Animation did not feature strongly this year, with Belleville Rendezvous (The Triplets Of Belleville) losing out to In This World for Best Foreign Film, and Finding Nemo losing Best Original Screenplay to The Station Agent. Jojo In The Stars won Best Short Animation, while Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl picked up Best Make-up And Hair. Awards for Best Cinematography. Visual Effects and Adapted Screenplay went to the animation and effects filled The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, and though the film lost the Best Director award to Peter Weir’s Master And Commander, it did win for overall Best Film. The sponsored Orange Film Of The Year, voted by the general moviegoing public, also went to The Return Of The King, beating out Matrix Reloaded, Pirates Of The Caribbean, X2 and Finding Nemo.
A full list of nominees and winners will be up at the official BAFTA site soon, or check our list here:
Winners and nominees (winners in bold):
Best Film
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Big Fish
Cold Mountain
Lost in Translation
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Alexander Korda award for the outstanding Best British Film of the year
Touching the Void
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
In This World
Love Actually
David Lean award for achievement in Direction
Peter Weir – Master and Commander
Tim Burton – Big Fish
Anthony Minghella – Cold Mountain
Peter Jackson – The Return of the King
Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation
Best Actor in a Leading role
Bill Murray – Lost in Translation
Benicio Del Toro – 21 Grams
Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Jude Law – Cold Mountain
Sean Penn – Mystic River
Sean Penn – 21 Grams
Best Actress in a Leading role
Scarlett Johansson – Lost in Translation
Anne Reid – The Mother
Naomi Watts – 21 Grams
Scarlett Johansson -Girl With a Pearl Earring
Uma Thurman – Kill Bill Vol. 1
Best Actor in a Supporting role
Bill Nighy – Love Actually
Albert Finney – Big Fish
Sir Ian McKellen – The Return of the King
Paul Bettany – Master and Commander
Tim Robbins – Mystic River
Best actress in a Supporting role
Renee Zellweger – Cold Mountain
Emma Thompson – Love Actually
Holly Hunter – Thirteen
Judy Parfitt – Girl with a Pearl Earring
Laura Linney – Mystic River
Orange Audience Film of the Year
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Best film not in the English language
In This World
The Barbarian Invasions
Belleville Rendezvous
Etre et Avoir
Good Bye Lenin!
Spirited Away
Original Screenplay
The Station Agent
21 Grams
The Barbarian Invasions
Finding Nemo
Lost in Translation
Adapted Screenplay
The Return of the King
Big Fish
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Mystic River
Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British director/producer/writer in their first feature film
Emily Young – Kiss of Life
Sergio Casci – American Cousins
Jenny Mayhew – To Kill A King
Peter Webber – Girl with a Pearl Earring
Short Animation
Jojo in the Stars
Dads Dead
Dear Sweet Emma
Nibbles
Plumber
Short Film
Brown Paper Bag
Bye Child
Nits
Sea Monsters
Talking with Angels
Make Up & Hair
Pirates of the Caribbean
Big Fish
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Return of the King
Visual Effects
The Return of the King
Big Fish
Kill Bill
Master and Commander
Pirates of the Caribbean
Sound
Master and Commander
Cold Mountain
Kill Bill
The Return of the King
Pirates of the Caribbean
Editing
Lost in Translation
21 Grams
Cold Mountain
Kill Bill
Return of the King
Costume Design
Master and Commander
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Return of the King
Pirates of the Caribbean
Production Design
Master and Commander
Big Fish
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Return of the King
Cinematography
The Return of the King
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Lost in Translation
Master and Commander
Anthony Asquith award for achievement in film Music
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Kill Bill
The Return of the King
Lost in Translation
Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding Contribution to British film
Working Title Films
-Source: BBC Television.