This year’s BAFTA Awards was yet again totally hijacked by the inclement weather. Though we had a good turn out of talent, including GEORGE CLOONEY, BEN AFFLECK, AMY ADAMS, GEMMA ARTERTON, SARAH JESSICA PARKER, THANDIE NEWTON, JENNIFER LAURENCE, JENNIFER GARNER, SAMUEL L JACKSON et al, the weather, oh the bloody weather was a huge spoiler. Sure, The event went ahead, and we trundled through, but if they only covered the bleeding red carpet and press area it would such a better place.
Why oh why, can they not have an enclosed area? They manage it in Cannes, in sunny May, and they are French! Why can’t BAFTA organizers have the brain power to have a transparent cover the length of the red carpet and press area? Why do we have to take pictures open to the winter elements? The stars hate it, so do we.
The female talent have to stand there in almost freezing temperatures in their skimpy frocks and with rain/snow/hail/lightning or any other manner of cloud excrement. We do not want frock pictures with umbrellas! Cover the place. Is it Council red tape? The local authority being the usual inept and moronic ‘public servants’ of ours? Who knows. It has to be improved without a doubt. We cannot carry on being fourth rate compared to the Oscars. Second place is what we are after.
Apart from this minor quibble dear readers, the line up was decent indeed, even though the red carpet was now ‘maroon’ and sodden. As the pictures on this page show, the celebs tried their best to make the most of it. Bless them indeed. The actresses deserved a medal. No jackets for the pictures. It was only Jessica Lawrence that could not take the cold and wet and kept her blazer on. Can’t blame her.
Biggest winners included Daniel Day Lewis, Best Actor for Lincoln, and Best actress Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables.
Check out the full list of winners below:
Best Film
- Argo – WINNER
- Les Misérables
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Zero Dark Thirty
Outstanding British Film
- Anna Karenina
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Les Miserables
- Seven Psychopaths
- Skyfall – WINNER
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
- Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) – The Imposter – WINNER
- 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 – WINNER
- Headhunters
- The Hunt
- Rust and Bone
- Untouchable
Documentary
- The Imposter
- Marley
- McCullin
- Searching for Sugarman – WINNER
- West of Memphis
Animated Film
- Brave – WINNER
- Frankenweenie
- Paranorman
Director
- Michael Haneke – Amour
- Ben Affleck – Argo – WINNER
- Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
- Ang Lee – Life of Pi
- Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Original Screenplay
- Amour
- Django Unchained – WINNER
- The Master
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Zero Dark Thirty
Adapted Screenplay
- Argo
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Silver Linings Playbook – WINNER
Leading Actor
- Ben Affleck – Argo
- Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
- Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln – WINNER
- Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
- Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Leading Actress
- Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
- Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
- Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
- Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
- Emmanuel Riva – Amour – WINNER
Supporting Actor
- Alan Arkin – Argo
- Javier Bardem – Skyfall
- Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
- Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
- Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained – WINNER
Supporting Actress
- Amy Adams – The Master
- Judi Dench – Skyfall
- Sally Field – Lincoln
- Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables – WINNER
- Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Original Music
- Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
- Alexandre Desplat – Argo
- Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
- John Williams – Lincoln
- Thomas Newman – Skyfall – WINNER
Cinematography
- Seamus McGarvey – Anna Karenina
- Danny Cohen – Les Misérables
- Claudio Miranda – Life of Pi – WINNER
- Janusz Kaminski – Lincoln
- Roger Deakins – Skyfall
Editing
- William Goldenberg – Argo – WINNER
- 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 – WINNER
- David Gropman, Anna Pinnock – Life of Pi
- Rick Carter, Jim Erickson – Lincoln
- Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock – Skyfall
Costume Design
- Jacqueline Durran – Anna Karenina – WINNER
- 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 – WINNER
- 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 – WINNER
- 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 – WINNER
- 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 – WINNER
Short Film
- The Curse
- Good Night
- Swimmer – WINNER
- Tumult
- The Voorman Problem
EE Rising Star Award
- Elizabeth Olsen
- Juno Temple – WINNER
- Suraj Sharma
- Andrea Riseborough
- Alicia Vikander
Outstanding contribution to British Cinema
- Tessa Ross
