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B is for Hot Dog. BAFTA nominations 2013 announced Print E-mail
Written by Ivan Radford   
Wednesday, 09 January 2013 07:47

2013 BAFTA Nominations announced

B is for British. Can someone tell BAFTA that? 2012, a year that saw Bond hit 50, London host the Olympics, the Queen celebrate her Jubes and Hitchcock's first film hit 90, was surely set to make the 2013 BAFTA nominations a home run for the British film industry, an overdue pat on the back after a long tradition of giving all its biggest awards to America's brightest Oscar contenders.


Which is why it's great to see Skyfall, Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, Seven Psychopaths and even The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel leading the charge for Best Film.

 

No, wait. That's Best British Film. Sorry. Best Film's another matter entirely. Out of the above list, only Les Mis makes the cut, joining Argo, Life of Pi, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty in the title race.


Lincoln, in fact, has 10 nominations, the most of any film - a move that sees Uncle Sam towering over the whole ceremony. Tom Hooper's musical has enough nods to join Life of Pi in second place (both on nine) and Skyfall scores a solid third-highest nominations with eight, but Argo and Zero Dark Thirty share the rest of the attention. (Argo has eight nods in total - but as the only Best Film/Best Director combo [Django misses the former, Les Mis the latter] to also have lead and supporting actor chances, it's now surely the biggest awards player in the field.)


That's not to say that these films don't deserve praise (Tarantino's Best Director nod is a nice trend-setting example), but 2013 marks another year in which we seem to intentionally ignore homegrown talent. I'm sorry for sounding like a grumpus. I do enjoy awards season - the bitching, the speeches, the dresses, the amiable vacuousness of it all - but away from the silliness, there's a semi-serious point here: a nomination can lead to a win, and one of those can do big things for a film's box office.


In 2012, Olivia Colman was the Tyrannosaur in the room, missing out on Best Actress while Paddy Considine's drama was awarded the prize of Best British Film - a decision that drove me to suggest we remove that patronising prefix altogether. Like Spain's Goya awards, why not just have a Best Film for British productions and a Best of the Rest for overseas projects, leaving Lincoln to battle it out with Amour, The Hunt, Headhunters and the others?


Of course, with the number of international movies these days, perhaps that's not a very practical move. Brits are making a splash all over the place (hello to Christopher Nolan), something the Outstanding British Debut category, which nominates documentaries (The Imposter/McCullin), warm-hearted homegrown talent (Dexter Fletcher's deserving Wild Bill), and even The Muppets (James Bobin), does really well to recognise.


But why forget that when it comes to some of the other major award categories? Wild Bill and The Imposter both deserve to be up for Best British Film at least, while Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, ridiculously, isn't even up for Best Sound, let alone anything else. How about a nod for Toby Jones?


It's perhaps fitting that this year should see Olivia Colman overlooked again for Hyde Park on Hudson in a supporting role as the Queen Mother, the same Queen Mother who earned Helena Bonham Carter awards last time round. In the film, the Royals go to visit President Roosevelt, who requests that they join him in a sausage-themed picnic - leaving the Brits running around an American home saying "hot dog" over and over again. Amazingly, the panicked Colman steals the whole film away from the Yanks around her.


Wouldn't it be nice if we could do the same thing with our country's flagship cinema awards? What's the point in positioning the BAFTAs as the big lead-up to the Academy Awards, only to repeatedly produce a similar list of contenders? Sure, they're just voters' opinions, but it's also a wider ideological stance that goes back to that Outstanding British Film category - an excellent gesture, but one that could be extended to something even more effective.


The British Indepedent Film Awards manage it, without feeling the need to imitate America's Spirit Awards. This year, some may complain about the ubiquity of internationally-produced Skyfall, but BAFTA are right to be blowing Bond's trumpet like a mad crowd cheering on Team GB. If only we could have our hot dogs and eat them too.


The BAFTA awards will be announced on Sunday 10th February. Read on for the very solid, if slightly disappointing, full list of nominees.

 

 

BEST FILM

ARGO Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney

LES MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh

LIFE OF PI Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark

LINCOLN Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

 

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

ANNA KARENINA Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker

LES MISÉRABLES Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin

SKYFALL Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan

 

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 Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz

HEADHUNTERS Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn

THE HUNT Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann

RUST AND BONE Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux

UNTOUCHABLE Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun

 

DOCUMENTARY

THE IMPOSTER Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis MARLEY Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel

McCULLIN David Morris, Jacqui Morris

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn

WEST OF MEMPHIS Amy Berg

 

ANIMATED FILM

BRAVE Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman

FRANKENWEENIE Tim Burton

PARANORMAN Sam Fell, Chris Butler

 

DIRECTOR

AMOUR Michael Haneke

ARGO Ben Affleck

DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino

LIFE OF PI Ang Lee

ZERO DARK THIRTY Kathryn Bigelow

 

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

AMOUR Michael Haneke

DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino

THE MASTER Paul Thomas Anderson

MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola

ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal

 

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

ARGO Chris Terrio

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin

LIFE OF PI David Magee

LINCOLN Tony Kushner

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK David O. Russell

 

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

JUDI DENCH Skyfall

SALLY FIELD Lincoln

 

ORIGINAL MUSIC

ANNA KARENINA Dario Marianelli

ARGO Alexandre Desplat

LIFE OF PI Mychael Danna

LINCOLN John Williams

SKYFALL Thomas Newman

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY

ANNA KARENINA Seamus McGarvey

LES MISÉRABLES Danny Cohen

LIFE OF PI Claudio Miranda

LINCOLN Janusz Kaminski

SKYFALL Roger Deakins

 

EDITING

ARGO William Goldenberg

DJANGO UNCHAINED Fred Raskin

LIFE OF PI Tim Squyres

SKYFALL Stuart Baird

ZERO DARK THIRTY Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

 

PRODUCTION DESIGN

ANNA KARENINA Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

LES MISÉRABLES Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson

LIFE OF PI David Gropman, Anna Pinnock

LINCOLN Rick Carter, Jim Erickson

SKYFALL Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock

 

COSTUME DESIGN

ANNA KARENINA Jacqueline Durran

GREAT EXPECTATIONS Beatrix Aruna Pasztor

LES MISÉRABLES Paco Delgado

LINCOLN Joanna Johnston

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Colleen Atwood

 

MAKE UP & HAIR

ANNA KARENINA Ivana Primorac

HITCHCOCK Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

LES MISÉRABLES Lisa Westcott

LINCOLN Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou

 

SOUND

DJANGO UNCHAINED Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward

LES MISÉRABLES Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst

LIFE OF PI Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill

SKYFALL Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers

 

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White

LIFE OF PI Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer

MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE Nominees TBC

PROMETHEUS Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth

 

SHORT ANIMATION

HERE TO FALL Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath

I’M FINE THANKS Eamonn O'Neill

THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson

 

SHORT FILM

THE CURSE Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries

GOOD NIGHT Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir

SWIMMER Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw

TUMULT Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews

THE VOORMAN PROBLEM Mark Gill, Baldwin Li

 

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

ELIZABETH OLSEN

ANDREA RISEBOROUGH

SURAJ SHARMA

JUNO TEMPLE

ALICIA VIKANDER