Here Come the BAFTAs

BAFTA Winners

BEST PICTURE: Slumdog Millionaire
BEST DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
BEST ACTRESS: Kate Winslet, The Reader
BEST ACTOR: Micky Rourke, The Wrestler
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
BRITISH FILM: Man on Wire
ANIMATED FILM: WALL•E
CARL FOREMAN AWARD: Steve McQueen, Hunger
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: I’ve Loved You So Long
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
VISUAL EFFECTS: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
MAKEUP and HAIR: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
SCORE: AR Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
SOUND: Slumdog Millionaire
EDITING: Slumdog Millionaire
COSTUMES: The Duchess
RISING STAR: Noel Clarke
SHORT ANIMATION: Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death
ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP: Terry Gilliam

Doing the live blogging thing, will be Sarah Lyall for the New York Times/Carpetbagger.
Guy Lodge at In Contention.

Cinemascopian believes that Stephen Daldry could upset Danny Boyle for Best Director.

Here are a couple of things to look out for. The first is that there are so many similarities now between the BAFTAs and the Oscars that we have to now take the group seriously as both in terms of predicting and also in terms of influencing (aka British people are smarter).

The key awards I will be looking at will be if anything but Slumdog wins (it won’t), whether it’s Mickey Rourke or Sean Penn. Whether it’s Kate or Meryl. And I’ll also be looking at the sound and cinematography categories. The entire AMPAS votes on the tech awards for the win so you can’t really rely on “expert picks” for the wins.

No Guts, No Glory: The Reader picks up serious momentum at the BAFTAs, thus throwing an unexpected wrench into the works.