But for the defiant tweets sure to come from Oscarcast co-producer Adam Shankman ("But weve got DANCERZZzzhflkjhaf"), awards season pretty much ended over the weekend when The Hurt Locker supplemented its Writers Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay with BAFTA wins for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Thanks for playing, Avatar and Inglourious Basterds -- you can quit campaigning now. Read on for a little more analysis, full lists of both organization's winners and an obligatory photo of BAFTA rising star Kristen Stewart looking bored as hell.
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner also essentially locked up their Adapted Screenplay Oscar, with their Up in the Air script taking BAFTA and WGA prizes as well. The debate about Inglorious Basterds' WGA ineligibility impacting Oscar may not matter in the end if BAFTA's nod to Locker writer Mark Boal is any indication. Voters unsurprisingly stuck with local talent for the top acting prizes, choosing Oscar underdogs Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth's leading roles in An Education and A Single Man; their supporting choices, as required by international law, were Christoph Waltz and Mo'Nique.
On the Writers Guild's TV side, hats off to Modern Family for joining the perennial hardware-hog ranks of 30 Rock and Mad Men. May its writers keep up the good work and make TV awards remotely competitive and/or interesting again in the years to come.
And one more quick bit of congratulations to BAFTA's "Rising Star Award" recipient Kristen Stewart, who was hella excited follwing Sunday's big win:
Now, the rest:
BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TV ARTS -- AWARD-WINNERS
Best Film: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, An Education
Best Actor: Colin Firth, A Single Man
Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Foreign Language Film: A Prophet
Best Animated Film: Up
Best British Film: Fish Tank
Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Best Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
Best Production Design: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair, Avatar
Best Makeup and Hair: Jenny Shircore, The Young Victoria
Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria
Best Visual Effects: Avatar
Best Film Editing: Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker
Best Music: Michael Giacchino, Up
Best Sound: The Hurt Locker
Carl Foreman Award (Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer): Duncan Jones, Moon
Best Short Film: I Do Air
Best Animated Short Film: Mother of Many
Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema: Joe Dunton
Rising Star Award: Kristen Stewart
WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA -- AWARD-WINNERS
Film
Best Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
Best Documentary Screenplay: The Cove (Mark Monroe)
Television
Best Drama Series: Mad Men
Best Comedy Series: 30 Rock
Best New Series: Modern Family
Episodic Drama: "Broken, Part 1 and 2" - House (Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Foster & David Shore)
Episodic Comedy: "Apollo, Apollo" - 30 Rock (Robert Carlock) AND "Pilot" - Modern Family (Steven Levitan & Christopher Lloyd)
Long Form Original: Georgia O'Keefe (Michael Cristofer)
Long Form Adaptation: Taking Chance (Lieutenant Colonel Michael R. Strobl, USMC (Ret.) and Ross Katz)
Animation: "Wedding for Disaster" - The Simpsons (Joel H. Cohen)
Comedy/Variety Series: [Tie] Saturday Night Live AND The Daily Show With Jon Stewart