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British Academy Loves Slumdog, Surprise, SurpriseBy Katey Rich: 2009-01-15 11:31:58
Bad news, British Bat fans. While the American Academy seems poised to give some love to The Dark Knight, their counterparts across the pond have snubbed the Bat and company for the top BAFTA award. The Dark Knight was excluded from the Best Picture nominee, with The Reader taking its place alongside The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire.Those five films, trading Dark Knight for The Reader, are widely expected to be Oscar's five Best Picture nominees, but I doubt BAFTA's choice here will be reflected at the Oscar nominations next week. The Reader boasts a British director and screenwriters as well as two of its three stars, and late producer Anthony Minghella was loved as much in his homeland as he was over here. The BAFTAs threw another Reader-related curveball by nominating Kate Winslet for Best Actress, not Best Supporting Actress as the Weinstein Company has been pushing; that means she's up against herself in that category, having also been nominated for Revolutionary Road. At least The Dark Knight got more love than Milk, which made it in for Best Picture, Actor, Screenplay and Makeup, but director Gus van Sant and supporting actor contender Josh Brolin were both snubbed. You can check out the full list of nominees below, and decide for yourself whether this changes the Oscar race, or if it's just some weird opinions from across the pond. Thanks to Awards Daily for typing up the full list. BEST FILM THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON FROST/NIXON MILK THE READER SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE DIRECTOR CHANGELING Clint Eastwood THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON David Fincher FROST/NIXON Ron Howard THE READER Stephen Daldry SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Danny Boyle ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BURN AFTER READING Joel Coen / Ethan Coen CHANGELING J. Michael Straczynski I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG Philippe Claudel IN BRUGES Martin McDonagh MILK Dustin Lance Black ADAPTED SCREENPLAY THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Eric Roth FROST/NIXON Peter Morgan THE READER David Hare REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Justin Haythe SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Simon Beaufoy 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 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 THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Alexandre Desplat THE DARK KNIGHT Hans Zimmer / James Newton Howard MAMMA MIA! Benny Andersson / Björn Ulvaeus SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE A. R. Rahman WALL•E Thomas Newman CINEMATOGRAPHY CHANGELING Tom Stern THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Claudio Miranda THE DARK KNIGHT Wally Pfister THE READER Chris Menges / Roger Deakins SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Anthony Dod Mantle EDITING CHANGELING Joel Cox / Gary D. Roach THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Kirk Baxter / Angus Wall THE DARK KNIGHT Lee Smith FROST/NIXON Mike Hill / Dan Hanley IN BRUGES Jon Gregory SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Chris Dickens PRODUCTION DESIGN CHANGELING James J. Murakami / Gary Fettis THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Donald Graham Burt / Victor J. Zolfo THE DARK KNIGHT Nathan Crowley / Peter Lando REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Kristi Zea / Debra Schutt SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Mark Digby / Michelle Day COSTUME DESIGN CHANGELING Deborah Hopper THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Jacqueline West THE DARK KNIGHT Lindy Hemming THE DUCHESS Michael O’Connor REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Albert Wolsky SOUND CHANGELING Walt Martin / Alan Robert Murray / John Reitz / Gregg Rudloff THE DARK KNIGHT Lora Hirschberg / Richard King / Ed Novick / Gary Rizzo QUANTUM OF SOLACE Eddy Joseph / Chris Munro / Mike Prestwood Smith / Mark Taylor SLUMDOG MILLIONARE Glenn Freemantle / Resul Pookutty / Richard Pryke / Tom Sayers / Ian Tapp WALL•E Ben Burtt / Tom Myers / Michael Semanick / Matthew Wood SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Eric Barba / Craig Barron / Nathan McGuinness / Edson Williams THE DARK KNIGHT Chris Corbould / Nick Davis / Paul Franklin / Tim Webber INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL Pablo Helman IRON MAN Shane Patrick Mahan / John Nelson / Ben Snow QUANTUM OF SOLACE Chris Corbould / Kevin Tod Haug MAKE UP & HAIR THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Jean Black / Colleen Callaghan THE DARK KNIGHT Peter Robb-King THE DUCHESS Daniel Phillips / Jan Archibald FROST/NIXON Edouard Henriques / Kim Santantonio MILK Steven E. Anderson / Michael White SHORT ANIMATION CODSWALLOP Greg McLeod / Myles McLeod VARMINTS Sue Goffe / Marc Craste WALLACE AND GROMIT: A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH Steve Pegram / Nick Park / Bob Baker SHORT FILM KINGSLAND #1 THE DREAMER Kate Ogborn / Tony Grisoni LOVE YOU MORE Adrian Sturges / Sam Taylor-Wood / Patrick Marber RALPH Olivier Kaempfer / Alex Winckler SEPTEMBER Stewart le Maréchal / Esther May Campbell VOYAGES D’AFFAIRES (THE BUSINESS TRIP) Celine Quideau / Sean Ellis OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM HUNGER IN BRUGES MAMMA MIA! MAN ON WIRE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 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 THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public) MICHAEL CERA NOEL CLARKE MICHAEL FASSBENDER REBECCA HALL TOBY KEBBELL
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