Artist, Meryl Streep Win Big at BAFTA Awards
Stop me if you've heard this one before: The Artist made off with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and and fistful of other hardware at tonight BAFTA Awards ceremony in London, its final stop before the silent film's Oscar express pulls into the Kodak Theater terminus on Feb. 26. Meryl Streep also won a key awards-race victory as the institute's Best Actress, while Octavia Spencer and Christopher Plummer continued their own hot streaks in the supporting categories. Read on for all of 2012's winners, and drop back by Movieline on Wednesday to find out how the latest developments affect our Oscar Index.
BEST FILM
THE ARTIST
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
TYRANNOSAUR -- Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)
DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius, THE ARTIST
LEADING ACTOR
Jean Dujardin, THE ARTIST
LEADING ACTRESS
Meryl Streep, THE IRON LADY
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plummer, BEGINNERS
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Octavia Spencer, THE HELP
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
DOCUMENTARY
SENNA
ANIMATED FILM
RANGO
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michel Hazanavicius, THE ARTIST
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Ludovic Bource, THE ARTIST
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Guillaume Schiffman, THE ARTIST
EDITING
Gregers Sall and Chris King, SENNA
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, HUGO
COSTUME DESIGN
Mark Bridges, THE ARTIST
MAKE UP & HAIR
Marese Langan, Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland, THE IRON LADY
SOUND
Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley, HUGO
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler and David Vickery, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2
SHORT ANIMATION
A MORNING STROLL
SHORT FILM
PITCH BLACK HEIST
THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
ADAM DEACON
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[Top photo of (L-R) Artist star Jean Dujardin, producer Thomas Langmann and director Michel Hazanavicius via AFP/Getty Images]
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Here's something I don't get: The argument for Dujardin winning everything is "He does it all... WITHOUT SAYING A SINGLE WORD!!!"
Yet, if anyone bothered to see Tinker Tailor, they'd know that Oldman practically does the same exact thing!!!
He's got, like, one monologue and three other complete lines in that flick. AND HE'S PHENOMENAL!!!
He's got, like, one monologue and three other complete lines in that flick. AND HE'S PHENOMENAL!!!
But the three lines are basically just him repeating "And then what happened?" over and over again.
"The Artist" was the Best Screenplay of the year? Really? Oy, it's going to win the Oscar, too, I suppose. Better start drinking now.
Sorry. 🙁 Pace yourself!
At least Meryl's won SOMETHING. At this point the Academy should be so ashamed at its lack of giving awards to her, that they should simply rename the thing. "And the Meryl goes to..."
Streep wins the BAFTA and goes on to Berlin for the Golden Bear Life Achievement Award. I just don't see how Oscar can ignore her again this year.