Ben Affleck – shunned for a Best Director nomination at the Oscars – has continued to pick up every other award in his path, being named the Best Director by BAFTA. At the star-studded ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House, Affleck’s Iran hostage thriller, Argo, also collected the Best Film honours, at the last major […]
Steven Spielberg’s biopic of America’s much-loved president Abraham Lincoln has secured ten nominations for next month’s BAFTA awards, putting it one up on both Tom Hooper’s musical Les Miserables and Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. But the British Academy of Film and Television Arts failed to include Spielberg himself on his film’s extensive nominations list. Among others, Lincoln is up for Best Film, Best […]
DangerMouse creator Brian Cosgrove to receive a Special Award from Sir David Jason at Sunday’s British Academy Children’s Award.
BAFTA is to simplify the voting procedure for its film awards, reducing the number of rounds of voting from three to two.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts says its Film Committee has been looking into the matter for several years and it’s decided to implement the changes
The Artist has won the top honours at Britain’s most prestigious film awards.
BAFTA gave the French-made, Hollywood-set silent film the trophies for Best Film, Best Director and Original Screenplay for Michel Hazanavicius and Best Leading Actor for Jean Dujardin.
The film also fared well in the technical categories, collecting BAFTAs for
The nominations for Britain’s most prestigious film awards – the BAFTAs – have set up a race between the silent film, The Artist, and the big screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
The Artist, which picked up three Golden Globes at the weekend, is in the running