Though An Education has lost some awards steam this season (particularly when it comes to lead actress Carey Mulligan), a more British film you will not find, and thus it's only fair that it should tie Avatar and The Hurt Locker to lead the Orange British Academy Film Awards nominations with eight each. Inglourious Basterds kindly allowed An Education to take its Best Picture place, though Christoph Waltz and Quentin Tarantino still picked up plenty of nominations. And what of Bright Star, whose Jane Campion and Abbie Cornish looked awards-bound last summer? All it could manage was a Best Costumes nod.
The full list of nominees:
Best Film
Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Up In The Air
Outstanding British Film
An Education
Fish Tank
In The Loop
Moon
Nowhere Boy
Director
James Cameron, Avatar
Neill Blomkamp, District 9
Lone Scherfig, An Education
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
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
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
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
Coco Before Chanel
Let The Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
Animated Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
Up
Music
Avatar
Crazy Heart
Fantastic Mr Fox
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Up
Cinematography
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Road
Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Up In The Air
Production Design
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
A Single Man
The Young Victoria
Sound
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Up
Special Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Make Up & Hair
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria
Short Animation
The Gruffalo
The Happy Duckling
Mother Of Many
Short Film
14
I Do Air
Jade
Mixtape
Off Season
The Orange Rising Star Award (Voted For By The Public)
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart