The 2013 BAFTA nominations were announced last night. Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln topped the noms with ten but faces some familiar competition for these British film awards.
Life of Pi and Les Misérables were each nominated in nine categories and Argo received seven nominations; while Zero Dark Thirty will contend the Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing categories. Predictably Bond’s latest outing, Skyfall, was also recognised – a whopping 8 nominations for 007.
For us Kiwis, the Peter Jackson produced doco West of Memphis features in the Best Documentary category and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey finally receives some love with a nominations for Make-Up & Hair, Special Visual Effects and Sound.
In a bit of a surprise, Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master was not nominated in the Best Film category. But the biggest surprise of the night was that Spielberg was not nominated for Best Director, despite all the nomination love poured on Lincoln – how strange!
The BAFTAs, a.k.a. the EE British Academy Film Awards, have been around since 1948 and are voted on by the 6,500+ BAFTA members – with the exception of the Rising Star Award which is voted on by the public. This year’s ceremony will be held on 11 February NZT and will be hosted by incomparable Stephen Fry.
Here’s the full list of nominees for the 2013 British Academy Film Awards:
Best Film:
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Outstanding British Film:
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer:
Bart Layton (Director), Dimitri Doganis (Producer) – The Imposter
David Morris (Director), Jacqui Morris (Director/Producer) – McCullin
Dexter Fletcher (Director/Writer), Danny King (Writer) – Wild Bill
James Bobin (Director) – The Muppets
Tina Gharavi (Director/Writer) – I Am Nasrine
Film Not in the English Language:
Amour
Headhunters
The Hunt
Rust and Bone
Untouchable
Documentary:
The Imposter
Marley
McCullin
Searching for Sugar Mann
West of Memphis
Animated Film:
Brave
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
Director:
Michael Haneke – Amour
Ben Affleck – Argo
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Original Screenplay:
Michael Haneke – Amour
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty
Adapted Screenplay:
Chris Terrio – Argo
Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
David Magee – Life of Pi
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Leading Actor:
Ben Affleck – Argo
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Leading Actress:
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Supporting Actor:
Alan Arkin – Argo
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams – The Master
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Judy Dench – Skyfall
Sally Field – Lincoln
Original Music:
Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat – Argo
Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
John Williams – Lincoln
Thomas Newman – Skyfall
Cinematography:
Seamus McGarvey – Anna Karenina
Danny Cohen – Les Misérables
Claudio Miranda – Life of Pi
Janusz Kaminski – Lincoln
Roger Deakins – Skyfall
Editing:
William Goldenberg – Argo
Fred Raskin – Django Unchained
Tim Squyres – Life of Pi
Stuart Baird – Skyfall
Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg – Zero Dark Thirty
Production Design:
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer – Anna Karenina
Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson – Les Misérables
David Gropman, Anna Pinnock – Life of Pi
Rick Carter, Jim Erickson – Lincoln
Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock – Skyfall
Costume Design:
Jacqueline Durran – Anna Karenina
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor – Great Expectations
Paco Delgado – Les Misérables
Joanna Johnston – Lincoln
Colleen Atwood – Snow White and the Huntsman
Make Up & Hair:
Ivana Primorac – Anna Karenina
Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger – Hitchcock
Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lisa Westcott – Les Misérables
Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou – Lincoln
Sound:
Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman – Django Unchained
Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst – Les Misérables
Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill – Life of Pi
Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers – Skyfall
Special Visual Effects:
Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley – The Dark Knight Rises
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer – Life of Pi
Nominees TBC – The Avengers
Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth – Prometheus
Short Animation:
Here to Fall
I’m Fine Thanks
The Making of Longbird
Short Film:
The Curse
Good Night
Swimmer
Tumult
The Voorman Problem
The EE Rising Star Award: (voted for by the public)
Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Suraj Sharma
Juno Temple
Alicia Vikander
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Thoughts on the nominees… and the snubs?
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Source: bafta.org
