The BAFTAs/The OSCARs Thread

**Greenman** · February 13th, 2011, 08:05 PM

Right well we've had results in for the BAFTAs (British Film and Television Awards) tonight-as usual they have been split into the film and television-the television comes soon. See below for award winners so far...You DON'T need to thank these but please feel free to comment on the results.

Best Supporting Actress-Helena Bonham-Carter for THE KING'S SPEECH
Best Supporting Actor-Geoffrey Rush-for THE KING'S SPEECH
The David Lean Award for Best Director-David Fincher-The Social Network
Best Actress-Natalie Portman-The Black Swan
Orange Wednesday Rising Star Award-Tom Hardy
Best Actor-Colin Firth THE KING'S SPEECH.

21.13pm The Anthony Asquith Award-for Original Music-Alexandre Desplat-THE KING'S SPEECH.

21.15pm Special Visual Effects-Inception

The Carl Foreman Award for debut Writing/Producing/Directing-Chris Morris Four Lions.

The Alexander Korda award for Outstanding British Film: THE KING'S SPEECH

Award for Original Screenplay-THE KING'S SPEECH David Seidler

The Michael Balcon award for Outstanding British contribution to cinema-The Harry Potter films(JK.Rowling)

Animated Film-Toy Story 3(Lee Unkrich)

Adapted Screenplay-The Social Network( Aaron Sorkin.)

BEST FILM: THE KING'S SPEECH.
And finally...The Fellowship of BAFTA-awarded to...Sir Christopher Lee.
Join me again in two weeks' time for the Oscars Awards. Feel free to leave your comments here.

Additional awards not seen:
Sound-Inception
Editing-The Social Network
Short film: Missed that.
Short Animation-The Eagleman Stag
Make up and Hair-Alice in Wonderland(Valli o'Reilly Paul Gooch)
Film not in the English Language-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Costume Design-Colleen Atwood-Alice In Wonderland
Production Design-Inception
Cinematography-True Grit(Roger Deakins)

**Mal Hombre** · February 14th, 2011, 05:20 PM

The King's Speech richly deserved it's success IMHO,as did Colin Firth whether He and They can repeat it at the oscars remains to be seen.In My book a remake being in the running for Best Picture is little short of an outrage.

**mxyptlk** · February 14th, 2011, 05:48 PM

I think any awards 'The Kings Speech' wins are well deserved, especially Best picture and best actor. I've seen it twice, excellent movie and I think Colin Firth did an absolutely masterful job. It can't be easy to convincingly play someone who has difficulty speaking and I though teh look of fear/panic in his eyes when he approached the mike at Wembley Stadium at the beginning was true acting!

**Ghaleon** · February 18th, 2011, 01:08 AM

Here are my Oscar picks ....

BEST PICTURE
The King's Speech

BEST ACTOR
Colin Firth - The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech

BEST ACTRESS
Natalie Portman - Black Swan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Toy Story 3

BEST ART DIRECTION
Alice In Wonderland

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Inception

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice In Wonderland

BEST DIRECTOR
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Inside Job

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Poster Girl

BEST FILM EDITING
The Fighter

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Outside The Law (Hors-la-loi) - Algeria

BEST MAKE-UP
The Wolfman

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Hans Zimmer - Inception

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
"We Belong Together" - Toy Story 3

BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Let's Pollute

BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Na Wewe

BEST SOUND EDITING
Inception

BEST SOUND MIXING
Inception

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Inception

BEST WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The Social Network

BEST WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The King's Speech

**Greenman** · February 18th, 2011, 02:09 PM

Well that's a pretty comprehensive list Ghaleon-be interesting to see how many of those you get right. I noticed that the last time in the Actress category we had three nominations and lost and this year none at all, so it's a pretty safe bet that an American will win that. I think Colin Firth has a good chance of winning to complete the hat-trick of Golden Globe/BAFTA. I think in general 'The King's Speech' will win a lot of Oscars, and I would also like to see Inception win a few as that was the best film I've seen in years-science fiction wise.

**Greenman** · February 27th, 2011, 04:14 PM

Well this is it, tonight/tomorrow morning in Los Angeles is the big hoohaa that is the OSCARs so please leave your comments on the winners/losers etc tomorrow. Did you think someone was robbed OR did the right people win the Oscar. As last time please DON'T thank on this thread it is merely for comments only. Thanks.

**Greenman** · February 28th, 2011, 04:05 PM

Well he did it, Colin Firth is the Oscar winner for best actor-The King's Speech. That film won the big four prizes, including Best Original Screenplay-David Siedler, Best Picture, and Best Director-Tom Hooper.
Inception won some craft prizes which is great because it was done here and once again shows we can take on the best in the world when it comes to effects. It also won 3 other prizes.

Natalie Portman won best actress award, for Black Swan-which considering the film she made with Ashton Kutcher recently, proves she can do both comedy and drama.

Melissa Leo won best supporting actress for her role in The Fighter, whilst the best supporting actor went to that film in the guise of welsh-born Christian Bale.

Best Animation: Toy Story 3
Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland
Cinematography: Inception
Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland
Documentary Feature: Inside Job(Banking crisis)
Documentary-Short Subject: Strangers No More
Film Editing: The Social Network
Foreign Language Film: In a Better World(Denmark)
Make-up: The Wolfman: Rick Baker & Dave Elsey
Best Orignal Score: The Social Network-Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Best Original Song: Toy Story 3 (We Belong Together: Randy Newman)
Best Short Animation: The Lost Thing-(Shaun Tan & Andrew Ruhemann)-British
Best Short Live Action Film: God of Love: Luke Matheny
Best Sound Editing: Inception-Richard King
Best Sound Mixing: Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick)
Best Visual Effects: Alice in Wonderland-(Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips)
Best Writing(Adapted Screenplay) : The Social Network-Aaron Sorkin
And that concludes this year's list of Oscar winners. Feel free to leave comments.

**theequestrian** · March 1st, 2011, 01:48 AM

I'm a Yank so I can't speak about the BAFTAs (I'm not familiar enough with them to make any kind of enlightened comment) However, as for the Oscars - Can any award for cinema that numbers among its' winners hacks like John Wayne; Ernest Borgnine; Cliff Robertson; and James Cameron while (conspicuously) excluding Peter O'toole, Richard Burton, Alfred Hitchcock and Akira Kurosawa have ANY validity at all? Sure Kurosawa won a 'best foreign film' award, but not for Seven Samurai, or Rashomon, or Ran but for Derzu Uzala (a movie even the most diehard Kurosawa fan has barely heard of). Kurosawa and Hitchcock also received the 'lifetime achievement award' from the Academy - an utter bullshit accolade parceled out every couple of years to recipients who the Academy would never give a real award to but are (unfortunately) too important, influential and integral to film history to just openly ignore.

**Greenman** · March 1st, 2011, 03:44 PM

The British Academy of Film and Television Awards is really no different to the Oscar's but they do tend to have more awards dedicated to past directors and other leading lights now sadly no more, such as Michael Balcon, Sir David Lean etc. The television awards are now separate but used to be part of the whole evening but it used to last so long it was thought better to have two separate awards evenings. The only major difference between the two is a BAFTA is a facial mask based on a design by Mizzi Cunliffe and an OSCAR is a statuette based on something that looked like someone's grandfather. If you win a BAFTA there is an odds on chance of winning an OSCAR but this doesn't always work out-see True Grit and The Social Network. Tom Hanks joked with BBC reporter Tim Muffett that "one day you will award a BAFTA to an American actor/actress" well they have won in the past but like Oscars, British actors/actresses don't always win them. It is interesting to note that the award is the same as the name of the organisation and yet Oscar isn't-the organisation is AMPTAS(Academy of Motion Picture. Television & Arts & Sciences) but you don't win an AMPTAS you win an Oscar.

**Mad Koala Bear** · March 1st, 2011, 10:18 PM

Ninth cinematography nomination for Roger Deakins and still no statuette on the mantelpiece.

February 13th, 2011, 08:05 PM	#1
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,508 Times in 19,356 Posts	Right well we've had results in for the BAFTAs (British Film and Television Awards) tonight-as usual they have been split into the film and television-the television comes soon. See below for award winners so far...You DON'T need to thank these but please feel free to comment on the results. Best Supporting Actress-Helena Bonham-Carter for THE KING'S SPEECH Best Supporting Actor-Geoffrey Rush-for THE KING'S SPEECH The David Lean Award for Best Director-David Fincher-The Social Network Best Actress-Natalie Portman-The Black Swan Orange Wednesday Rising Star Award-Tom Hardy Best Actor-Colin Firth THE KING'S SPEECH. 21.13pm The Anthony Asquith Award-for Original Music-Alexandre Desplat-THE KING'S SPEECH. 21.15pm Special Visual Effects-Inception The Carl Foreman Award for debut Writing/Producing/Directing-Chris Morris Four Lions. The Alexander Korda award for Outstanding British Film: THE KING'S SPEECH Award for Original Screenplay-THE KING'S SPEECH David Seidler The Michael Balcon award for Outstanding British contribution to cinema-The Harry Potter films(JK.Rowling) Animated Film-Toy Story 3(Lee Unkrich) Adapted Screenplay-The Social Network( Aaron Sorkin.) BEST FILM: THE KING'S SPEECH. And finally...The Fellowship of BAFTA-awarded to...Sir Christopher Lee. Join me again in two weeks' time for the Oscars Awards. Feel free to leave your comments here. Additional awards not seen: Sound-Inception Editing-The Social Network Short film: Missed that. Short Animation-The Eagleman Stag Make up and Hair-Alice in Wonderland(Valli o'Reilly Paul Gooch) Film not in the English Language-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Costume Design-Colleen Atwood-Alice In Wonderland Production Design-Inception Cinematography-True Grit(Roger Deakins) __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

February 14th, 2011, 05:20 PM	#2
Mal Hombre El Super Moderador Join Date: May 2009 Location: Adoptive Monkey Hanger Posts: 58,134 Thanks: 772,635 Thanked 855,690 Times in 57,565 Posts	The King's Speech richly deserved it's success IMHO,as did Colin Firth whether He and They can repeat it at the oscars remains to be seen.In My book a remake being in the running for Best Picture is little short of an outrage. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. If in doubt, Just ask Yourself What Would Max Do ? It is a porn site,But its a Classy porn site. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Last edited by Mal Hombre; February 14th, 2011 at 05:45 PM..

February 14th, 2011, 05:48 PM	#3
mxyptlk Veteran Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 14,733 Thanks: 201,381 Thanked 426,619 Times in 15,342 Posts	I think any awards 'The Kings Speech' wins are well deserved, especially Best picture and best actor. I've seen it twice, excellent movie and I think Colin Firth did an absolutely masterful job. It can't be easy to convincingly play someone who has difficulty speaking and I though teh look of fear/panic in his eyes when he approached the mike at Wembley Stadium at the beginning was true acting! __________________ If a password is required, it will be VEF I regret that I have decided to leave VEF. See my post To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

February 18th, 2011, 01:08 AM	#4
Ghaleon Vintage Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Between Here & There Posts: 2,063 Thanks: 73,874 Thanked 34,786 Times in 2,064 Posts	Here are my Oscar picks .... BEST PICTURE The King's Speech BEST ACTOR Colin Firth - The King's Speech BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech BEST ACTRESS Natalie Portman - Black Swan BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Toy Story 3 BEST ART DIRECTION Alice In Wonderland BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Inception BEST COSTUME DESIGN Alice In Wonderland BEST DIRECTOR Tom Hooper - The King's Speech BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Inside Job BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT Poster Girl BEST FILM EDITING The Fighter BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Outside The Law (Hors-la-loi) - Algeria BEST MAKE-UP The Wolfman BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) Hans Zimmer - Inception BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) "We Belong Together" - Toy Story 3 BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) Let's Pollute BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) Na Wewe BEST SOUND EDITING Inception BEST SOUND MIXING Inception BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Inception BEST WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) The Social Network BEST WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) The King's Speech __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

February 18th, 2011, 02:09 PM	#5
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,508 Times in 19,356 Posts	Well that's a pretty comprehensive list Ghaleon-be interesting to see how many of those you get right. I noticed that the last time in the Actress category we had three nominations and lost and this year none at all, so it's a pretty safe bet that an American will win that. I think Colin Firth has a good chance of winning to complete the hat-trick of Golden Globe/BAFTA. I think in general 'The King's Speech' will win a lot of Oscars, and I would also like to see Inception win a few as that was the best film I've seen in years-science fiction wise. __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

February 27th, 2011, 04:14 PM	#6
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,508 Times in 19,356 Posts	Well this is it, tonight/tomorrow morning in Los Angeles is the big hoohaa that is the OSCARs so please leave your comments on the winners/losers etc tomorrow. Did you think someone was robbed OR did the right people win the Oscar. As last time please DON'T thank on this thread it is merely for comments only. Thanks. __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

February 28th, 2011, 04:05 PM	#7
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,508 Times in 19,356 Posts	Well he did it, Colin Firth is the Oscar winner for best actor-The King's Speech. That film won the big four prizes, including Best Original Screenplay-David Siedler, Best Picture, and Best Director-Tom Hooper. Inception won some craft prizes which is great because it was done here and once again shows we can take on the best in the world when it comes to effects. It also won 3 other prizes. Natalie Portman won best actress award, for Black Swan-which considering the film she made with Ashton Kutcher recently, proves she can do both comedy and drama. Melissa Leo won best supporting actress for her role in The Fighter, whilst the best supporting actor went to that film in the guise of welsh-born Christian Bale. Best Animation: Toy Story 3 Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland Cinematography: Inception Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland Documentary Feature: Inside Job(Banking crisis) Documentary-Short Subject: Strangers No More Film Editing: The Social Network Foreign Language Film: In a Better World(Denmark) Make-up: The Wolfman: Rick Baker & Dave Elsey Best Orignal Score: The Social Network-Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Best Original Song: Toy Story 3 (We Belong Together: Randy Newman) Best Short Animation: The Lost Thing-(Shaun Tan & Andrew Ruhemann)-British Best Short Live Action Film: God of Love: Luke Matheny Best Sound Editing: Inception-Richard King Best Sound Mixing: Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick) Best Visual Effects: Alice in Wonderland-(Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips) Best Writing(Adapted Screenplay) : The Social Network-Aaron Sorkin And that concludes this year's list of Oscar winners. Feel free to leave comments. __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

March 1st, 2011, 01:48 AM	#8
theequestrian Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: A hop, skip & a jump from Daytona Beach, Florida Posts: 1,177 Thanks: 4,807 Thanked 11,707 Times in 1,156 Posts	I'm a Yank so I can't speak about the BAFTAs (I'm not familiar enough with them to make any kind of enlightened comment) However, as for the Oscars - Can any award for cinema that numbers among its' winners hacks like John Wayne; Ernest Borgnine; Cliff Robertson; and James Cameron while (conspicuously) excluding Peter O'toole, Richard Burton, Alfred Hitchcock and Akira Kurosawa have ANY validity at all? Sure Kurosawa won a 'best foreign film' award, but not for Seven Samurai, or Rashomon, or Ran but for Derzu Uzala (a movie even the most diehard Kurosawa fan has barely heard of). Kurosawa and Hitchcock also received the 'lifetime achievement award' from the Academy - an utter bullshit accolade parceled out every couple of years to recipients who the Academy would never give a real award to but are (unfortunately) too important, influential and integral to film history to just openly ignore. __________________ 'If we could read each others minds, we'd all sleep with loaded guns' -theequestrian

March 1st, 2011, 03:44 PM	#9
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,508 Times in 19,356 Posts	The British Academy of Film and Television Awards is really no different to the Oscar's but they do tend to have more awards dedicated to past directors and other leading lights now sadly no more, such as Michael Balcon, Sir David Lean etc. The television awards are now separate but used to be part of the whole evening but it used to last so long it was thought better to have two separate awards evenings. The only major difference between the two is a BAFTA is a facial mask based on a design by Mizzi Cunliffe and an OSCAR is a statuette based on something that looked like someone's grandfather. If you win a BAFTA there is an odds on chance of winning an OSCAR but this doesn't always work out-see True Grit and The Social Network. Tom Hanks joked with BBC reporter Tim Muffett that "one day you will award a BAFTA to an American actor/actress" well they have won in the past but like Oscars, British actors/actresses don't always win them. It is interesting to note that the award is the same as the name of the organisation and yet Oscar isn't-the organisation is AMPTAS(Academy of Motion Picture. Television & Arts & Sciences) but you don't win an AMPTAS you win an Oscar. __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

March 1st, 2011, 10:18 PM	#10
Mad Koala Bear Vintage Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 869 Thanks: 30,809 Thanked 10,733 Times in 850 Posts	Ninth cinematography nomination for Roger Deakins and still no statuette on the mantelpiece.

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