'Lincoln' leads BAFTA nominations with 10
January 11, 2013

'Lincoln' leads BAFTA nominations with 10

LONDON — Nominees for the BAFTA (www.bafta.org) awards were recently announced, and Lincoln tops the list with 10 nominations, followed by Les Misérables and Life of Pi with nine each. In addition to Lincoln, Misérables, and Life of Pi, Skyfall also landed in the top spot, securing eight nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards, while Argo captured seven nominations and Anna Karenina garnered six. Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty are each nominated five times.

The Master and Amour have four nominations. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Silver Linings Playbook have each been nominated three times. Hitchcock, Rust and Bone, The Imposter and McCullin have two nominations apiece.

Three animated features receiving BAFTA nominations for the Best Animated Feature of 2012 are Disney/Pixar’s Brave, Disney’s Frankenweenie and LAIKA’s.

The VFX nominees include: The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Life of Pi, Marvel’s The Avengers and Prometheus.
Lincoln is nominated in the following categories: Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair. Daniel Day-Lewis is nominated for Leading Actor, Tommy Lee Jones is nominated for Supporting Actor and Sally Field is nominated for Supporting Actress.

Les Misérables is nominated for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair and Sound. Hugh Jackman is nominated for Leading Actor and Anne Hathaway for Supporting Actress. 

The nine nominations for Life of Pi are in the categories Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Special Visual Effects and Director for Ang Lee.

Argo and Zero Dark Thirty complete the Best Film lineup. Argo has six other nominations: Ben Affleck is nominated for Director and for Leading Actor and the film is nominated for Adapted Screenplay, Original Music and Editing. Alan Arkin is nominated for Supporting Actor.

Zero Dark Thirty’s other four nominations are for Original Screenplay, Editing, Director for Kathryn Bigelow and Leading Actress for Jessica Chastain.

Judi Dench and Javier Bardem are nominated as Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor for Skyfall. The film is also nominated for Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Outstanding British Film. Anna Karenina is nominated for Outstanding British Film, as well as Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has three nominations: Make Up & Hair, Sound and Special Visual Effects.
The Imposter and McCullin are both nominated in Documentary. The filmmakers behind both films are nominated for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: Director Bart Layton and Producer Dimitri Doganis for The Imposter and Director David Morris and Director/Producer Jacqui Morris for McCullin.

Snow White and the Huntsman is nominated for Costume Design, as is Great Expectations.

The EE British Academy Film Awards take place on February 10 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
The full list of nominees include:

BEST FILM

ARGO Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney 
LES MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh 
LIFE OF PI Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark 
LINCOLN Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy 
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
ANNA KARENINA Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard 
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker 
LES MISÉRABLES Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer 
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin 
SKYFALL Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer) The Imposter 
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 Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz 
HEADHUNTERS Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn 
THE HUNT Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann 
RUST AND BONE Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux 
UNTOUCHABLE Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun

DOCUMENTARY
THE IMPOSTER Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis 
MARLEY Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel 
McCULLIN David Morris, Jacqui Morris 
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn 
WEST OF MEMPHIS Amy Berg

ANIMATED FILM
BRAVE Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman 
FRANKENWEENIE Tim Burton 
PARANORMAN Sam Fell, Chris Butler

DIRECTOR
AMOUR Michael Haneke 
ARGO Ben Affleck DJANGO 
UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino 
LIFE OF PI Ang Lee 
ZERO DARK THIRTY Kathryn Bigelow

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
AMOUR Michael Haneke 
DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino 
THE MASTER Paul Thomas Anderson 
MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola 
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
ARGO Chris Terrio 
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin 
LIFE OF PI David Magee 
LINCOLN Tony Kushner 
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK David O. Russell

LEADING ACTOR
BEN AFFLECK Argo 
BRADLEY COOPER Silver Linings Playbook 
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Lincoln 
HUGH JACKMAN Les Misérables 
JOAQUIN PHOENIX The Master

LEADING ACTRESS
EMMANUELLE RIVA Amour 
HELEN MIRREN Hitchcock 
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Silver Linings Playbook 
JESSICA CHASTAIN Zero Dark Thirty 
MARION COTILLARD Rust and Bone

SUPPORTING ACTOR
ALAN ARKIN Argo 
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Django Unchained 
JAVIER BARDEM Skyfall 
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Master 
TOMMY LEE JONES Lincoln

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS The Master 
ANNE HATHAWAY Les Misérables 
HELEN HUNT The Sessions 
JUDI DENCH Skyfall 
SALLY FIELD Lincoln

ORIGINAL MUSIC
ANNA KARENINA Dario Marianelli 
ARGO Alexandre Desplat 
LIFE OF PI Mychael Danna LINCOLN John Williams
SKYFALL Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
ANNA KARENINA Seamus McGarvey 
LES MISÉRABLES Danny Cohen 
LIFE OF PI Claudio Miranda 
LINCOLN Janusz Kaminski
SKYFALL Roger Deakins

EDITING
ARGO William Goldenberg 
DJANGO UNCHAINED Fred Raskin 
LIFE OF PI Tim Squyres 
SKYFALL Stuart Baird 
ZERO DARK THIRTY Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN
ANNA KARENINA Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer 
LES MISÉRABLES Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson 
LIFE OF PI David Gropman, Anna Pinnock 
LINCOLN Rick Carter, Jim Erickson
SKYFALL Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock

COSTUME DESIGN
ANNA KARENINA Jacqueline Durran 
GREAT EXPECTATIONS Beatrix Aruna Pasztor 
LES MISÉRABLES Paco Delgado 
LINCOLN Joanna Johnston 
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Colleen Atwood

MAKE UP & HAIR
ANNA KARENINA Ivana Primorac 
HITCHCOCK Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger 
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater 
LES MISÉRABLES Lisa Westcott 
LINCOLN Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou

SOUND
DJANGO UNCHAINED Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman 
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward 
LES MISÉRABLES Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst 
LIFE OF PI Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill 
SKYFALL Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley 
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White 
LIFE OF PI Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer 
MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE Nominees TBC PROMETHEUS Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth

SHORT ANIMATION
HERE TO FALL Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath 
I’M FINE THANKS Eamonn O'Neill 
THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson

SHORT FILM
THE CURSE Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries 
GOOD NIGHT Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir 
SWIMMER Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw TUMULT Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews 
THE VOORMAN PROBLEM Mark Gill, Baldwin Li

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
ELIZABETH OLSEN ANDREA RISEBOROUGH SURAJ SHARMA JUNO TEMPLE ALICIA VIKANDER