BAFTA Nominations

AN EDUCATION, AVATAR, and THE HURT LOCKER each saw eight nods as this year’s BAFTA awards nominees were announced Thursday. DISTRICT 9 came in with seven while UP IN THE AIR and INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS   both received six nominations.

Here’s the list  of nominations  for the Orange British Academy Film Awards:

BEST FILM

• AVATAR James Cameron, Jon Landau
• AN EDUCATION Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
• THE HURT LOCKER Nominees TBC
• PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
• UP IN THE AIR Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

• AN EDUCATION Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
• FISH TANK Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
• IN THE LOOP Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
• MOON Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
• NOWHERE BOY Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

• 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
• Duncan Jones Director  – MOON
• Sam Taylor-Wood Director  – NOWHERE BOY

DIRECTOR

• AVATAR James Cameron
• DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp
• AN EDUCATION Lone Scherfig
• THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow
• INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• THE HANGOVER Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
• THE HURT LOCKER Mark Boal
• INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino
• A SERIOUS MAN Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
• UP Bob Peterson, Pete Docter

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• 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
• UP IN THE AIR Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• BROKEN EMBRACES Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
• COCO BEFORE CHANEL Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
• LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
• A PROPHET Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
• THE WHITE RIBBON Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke

ANIMATED FILM

• CORALINE Henry Selick
• FANTASTIC MR FOX Wes Anderson
• UP Pete Docter

LEADING ACTOR

• JEFF BRIDGES Crazy Heart
• GEORGE CLOONEY Up in the Air
• COLIN FIRTH A Single Man
• JEREMY RENNER The Hurt Locker
• ANDY SERKIS Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

LEADING ACTRESS

• 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

• ALEC BALDWIN It’s Complicated
• CHRISTIAN McKAY Me and Orson Welles
• ALFRED MOLINA An Education
• STANLEY TUCCI The Lovely Bones
• CHRISTOPH WALTZ Inglourious Basterds

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• ANNE-MARIE DUFF Nowhere Boy
• VERA FARMIGA Up in the Air
• ANNA KENDRICK Up in the Air
• MO’NIQUE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
• KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Nowhere Boy

MUSIC

• AVATAR James Horner
• CRAZY HEART T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
• FANTASTIC MR FOX Alexandre Desplat
• SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL Chaz Jankel
• UP Michael Giacchino

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• AVATAR Mauro Fiore
• DISTRICT 9 Trent Opaloch
• THE HURT LOCKER Barry Ackroyd
• INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Robert Richardson
• THE ROAD Javier Aguirresarobe

EDITING

• AVATAR Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
• DISTRICT 9 Julian Clarke
• THE HURT LOCKER Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
• INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Sally Menke
• UP IN THE AIR Dana E. Glauberman

PRODUCTION DESIGN

• AVATAR Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
• DISTRICT 9 Philip Ivey, Guy Potgieter
• HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
• THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Nominees TBC
• INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco

COSTUME DESIGN

• BRIGHT STAR Janet Patterson
• COCO BEFORE CHANEL Catherine Leterrier
• AN EDUCATION Odile Dicks-Mireaux
• A SINGLE MAN Arianne Phillips
• THE YOUNG VICTORIA Sandy Powell

SOUND

• AVATAR Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
• DISTRICT 9 Brent Burge, Chris Ward, Dave Whitehead, Michael Hedges, Ken Saville
• THE HURT LOCKER Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson
• STAR TREK Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
• UP Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

• AVATAR Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
• DISTRICT 9 Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
• HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi
• THE HURT LOCKER Richard Stutsman
• STAR TREK Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

MAKE UP & HAIR

• COCO BEFORE CHANEL Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Jane Milon
• AN EDUCATION Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
• THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Sarah Monzani
• NINE Peter ‘Swords’ King
• THE YOUNG VICTORIA Jenny Shircore

SHORT ANIMATION

• THE GRUFFALO Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
• THE HAPPY DUCKLING Gili Dolev
• MOTHER OF MANY Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby

SHORT FILM

• 14 Asitha Ameresekere
• I DO AIR James Bolton, Martina Amati
• JADE Samm Haillay, Daniel Elliott
• MIXTAPE Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin
• OFF SEASON Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan van Tulleken

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

• JESSE EISENBERG
• NICHOLAS HOULT
• CAREY MULLIGAN
• TAHAR RAHIM
• KRISTEN STEWART

The awards will be handed out in London on Feb. 21st.

Source: Bafta.org