BEST FILM
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
An Education
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Up In The Air
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Winner: Fish Tank
An Education
In The Loop
Moon
Nowhere Boy
DIRECTOR
Winner: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Neill Blomkamp, District 9
Lone Schefig, An Education
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
LEADING ACTOR
Winner: Colin Firth, A Single Man
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up In The Air
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Andy Serkis Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
LEADING ACTRESS
Winner: 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
Winner: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Alec Baldwin, It’s Complicated
Christian Mckay, Me And Orson Welles
Alfred Molina, An Education
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Mo’nique, Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Anne-Marie Duff, Nowhere Boy
Vera Farmiga, Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air
Kristin Scott Thomas, Nowhere Boy
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Winner: Duncan Jones Director – Moon
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
Sam Taylor-Wood Director – Nowhere Boy
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
The Hangover (Jon Lucas, Scott Moore)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Up (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell)
An Education (Nick Hornby)
In The Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)
Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire (Geoffrey Fletcher)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Winner: A Prophet
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Let The Right One In
The White Ribbon
ANIMATED FILM
Winner: Up
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
MUSIC
Winner: Up
Avatar
Crazy Heart
Fantastic Mr Fox
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
The Road
EDITING
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
Up In The Air
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
COSTUME DESIGN
Winner: The Young Victoria
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
A Single Man
SOUND
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Up
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
MAKE UP & HAIR
Winner: The Young Victoria
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
SHORT ANIMATION
Winner: Mother Of Many
The Gruffalo
The Happy Duckling
SHORT FILM
Winner: I Do Air
14
Jade
Mixtape
Off Season
THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (VOTED FOR BY THE PUBLIC)
Winner: Kristen Stewart
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Joe Dunton
19.59: The pre-amble red carpet show has just finished, with prematurely grey tosspot George Lamb managing to ask some extraordinarily inane questions. Possible highlight – telling Jeremy Renner that he looks much better in a tux than in a bomb disposal suit. An awkward pause follows. Speaking of awkward pauses, there’s no TV coverage for an hour, so we’re going to eat something.
21.27: Host Jonathan Ross (a sort of British Conan O’Brian, but less funny) is dying. Absolutely dying. He’s leaving the BBC so this should be the last year, at least.
21.32: Ok, he closed with a decent Tiger Woods joke.
21.34: No montage of highlights of the cinematic year should include “The Taking of Pelham 123.”
21.36: Duncan Jones wins Outstanding British Debut for “Moon!” He’s very teary. Lovely speech actually.
21.39: Jesus, Rupert Everett looks like he’s been moulded out of clay. We thought it was Ron Perlman in full “Hellboy” get-up.
21.40: After an awkward introduction by Nick Frost and Mackenzie Crook, “Avatar” gets SFX. In other news, fire is hot.
21.45: Supporting Actor, presented by Anna Kendrick. Should be Alfred Molina, will be Christoph Waltz.
21.46: It’s the Waltz. At least he’s not pretending to be surprised.
21.57: Costume goes to “The Young Victoria,” a movie essentially greenlit in order to win costume design awards. It gets make-up as well, which is more of a surprise.
22.08: Mo’nique takes Supporting Actress. She’s not there, possibly only to wind up Jeffrey Wells. So Lee Daniels picks it up.
22.11: Outstanding British Film up next. We reckon, with Duncan Jones having picked up once already, it’ll go to “Moon,” but maybe “An Education” will pip it.
22.13: It’s a good thing we didn’t put any money on this – “Fish Tank” gets it. Great news, very well deserved. Although Andrea Arnold saying the word “homies” just feels wrong.
22:16: The Hollywood types are now just being openly disdainful of Ross’s hosting. It looked like Mickey Rourke was about to bring out the Ram Slam on him after one particularly poorly received joke.
22:24: Mark Boal deservedly gets original screenplay for “The Hurt Locker.” “Avatar” then takes production design, mainly because none of the other nominees really had any chance of winning, even in a weak year.
22.28: Why are otherwise talented actors seemingly never able to read an autocue convincingly?
22.30: The Orange Rising Star award, voted for by the public, is taken by Kristen Stewart. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, democracy doesn’t work.
22.32: She realizes that it’s kind of a sham, to her credit.
22.34: Jason Reitman isn’t there, so Sheldon Turner finally gets the stage to himself. He uses the opportunity to set fire to an effigy of his co-writer. Not really.
22.41: They closed the dearly departed montage with Patrick Swayze? Really?
22.42: Peter Capaldi perhaps the least suitable presenter they could have picked for Best Animated Film. Well, except for Roman Polanski. “Up” deservedly takes it, denying the audience the chance to hear Capaldi say “And the winner is… “Fucking Fantastic Mr Fucking Fox.””
22.45: Ross makes an “Avatar” wisecrack that could only be described as a joke if you have a very, very loose definition of the word.
22.48: Carey Mulligan seems visibly delighted to announce that “A Prophet” wins Best Foreign Language Film. A girl of taste.
22.50: The clip package for “Precious” makes it look like a very special episode of “Glee.”
22.54: Kathryn Bigelow wraps up her Oscar with a win for Best Director. It’s been a great night for her film, but you wouldn’t know it from the TV broadcast – as far as the BBC are concerned, this is its first win this evening.
22.58: Colin Firth takes Best Actor! We’re pleased with that – we wondered if BAFTA might go with the flow and go with Bridges. Best speech of the night as well. It’s probably too late for him to convert it into Oscar momentum, but you never know…
23.02: Again, BAFTA goes with the home advantage, and gives Best Actress to Carey Mulligan. Again, we hope that it’ll convert to the Oscars – it’s by far the best performance of the nominees.
23.08: Dustin Hoffman comes on to present Best Film, and deservedly bashes the writers of the links today. “The Hurt Locker” takes it, marking six wins for the film, more than any non-British film in a decade, as we’re reliably informed.
23.13: Nice reaction shot of Anna Kendrick and Edgar Wright, our new favorite couple.
23:14: Devotchka’s “How It Ends” is an odd choice for Vanessa Redgrave’s montage, but it’s a good reminder of an unspeakably great actress.
23:19: “Oh, dear, I’m afraid you’ve done me in.”
23:28: And finally, a montage of all the other winners, because apparently, Editing and Cinematography are far less integral parts of cinema than Special Effects, Make-Up, terrible jokes and showing the same clip from “An Education” three times.
