Official BAFTA nominations list

This is Bafta’s best year by far, and there isn’t a major studio in the world that doesn’t know it. The British are creating the best independent films in the world, and for the first time in its long history of pure envy the British Academy can cock a snook at its far more glamorous American counterpart. You don’t need to be Barry Norman to work out that the big films fighting for the top honours at the Bafta awards on February 8 will also be walking up the aisle two weeks later in Los Angeles.

Penelope Cruz was nominated again, making her chances to be nominated at the Oscar’s even better. I did scour the internet and got the complete list of BAFTA nominees. Here you go:

BEST FILM

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

DIRECTOR

• Clint Eastwood, Changeling
• David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
• Stephen Daldry, The Reader
• Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Joel and Ethan Coen, Burn After Reading
• J. Michael Straczynski, Changeling
• Philippe Claudel, I’ve Loved You So Long
• Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
• Dustin Lance Black, Milk

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
• David Hare, The Reader
• Justin Haythe, Revolutionary Road
• Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

LEADING ACTOR

• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
• Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
• Sean Penn, Milk
• Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

LEADING ACTRESS

• Angelina Jolie, Changeling
• Kristin Scott Thomas, I’ve Loved You So Long
• Meryl Streep, Doubt
• Kate Winslet, The Reader
• Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
• Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
• Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams, Doubt
• Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Freida Pinto, Slumdog Millionaire
• Tilda Swinton, Burn After Reading
• Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

MUSIC

• Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, The Dark Knight
• Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Mamma Mia!
• A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
• Thomas Newman, Wall-E

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

EDITING

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• In Bruges
• Slumdog Millionaire

PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Revolutionary Road
• Slumdog Millionaire

COSTUME DESIGN

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Duchess
• Revolutionary Road

SOUND

• Changeling
• The Dark Knight
• Quantum of Solace
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Wall-E

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace

MAKE UP & HAIR

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Duchess
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

• Hunger
• In Bruges
• Mamma Mia!
• Man on Wire
• Slumdog Millionaire

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• The Baader Meinhof Complex
• Gomorrah
• I’ve Loved You So Long
• Persepolis
• Waltz With Bashir

ANIMATED FILM

• Persepolis
• WALL-E
• Waltz With Bashir

SHORT ANIMATION

• Codswallop
• Varmints
• Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD
(For special achievement by a British director, writer or producer for their first feature film.)

• Simon Chinn, producer; Man on Wire
• Judy Craymer, producer; Mamma Mia!
• Garth Jennings, writer; Son of Rambow
• Steve McQueen, director/writer; Hunger
• Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter, producers; Of Time and the City

SHORT FILM

• Kingsland #1 The Dreamer
• Love You More
• Ralph
• September
• Voyages D’affaires (The Business Trip)

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD

• Michael Cera
• Noel Clarke
• Michael Fassbender
• Rebecca Hall
• Toby Kebbell