BAFTAS 2010 WINNERS FULL LIST
BEST SCREENPLAYS

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Shooting Script Here

The Hurt Locker (Newmarket Shooting Script) (The Shooting Script)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Hurt Locker

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Up In The Air

BEST FILM

The Hurt Locker

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Fish Tank

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER,
DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

Duncan Jones – Director : Moon

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The Hurt Locker [DVD] [2008]

BEST DIRECTOR

The Hurt Locker

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A Prophet

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Up

SHORT FILM

I Do Air

LEADING ACTOR

Colin Firth – A Single Man

LEADING ACTRESS

Carey Mulligan – An Education

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mo’nique – Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Hurt Locker

EDITING

The Hurt Locker

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Avatar

COSTUME DESIGN

The Young Victoria – Jenny Shircore

SOUND

The Hurt Locker

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar

MAKE UP & HAIR

The Young Victoria – Jenny Shircore

SHORT ANIMATION

Mother Of Many

BAFTAS Best Screenplays Nominations

Here are the nominations for Screenplay BAFTAS 2010.
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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 Tatchel

An Education Nick Hornby

In The Loop Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell,
Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche

Precious Geoffrey Fletcher, Based On The Novel

Push By Sapphire

Up In The Air, Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

BAFTAS 2010 Nominations

Any BAFTAS film category in the full list that you think should be on the best screenplay nomination list?

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 (Geoffrey Fletcher), Up In The Air (Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)

Best film

Avatar, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Precious, Up In The Air

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), 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), Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy)

Outstanding British film

An Education, Fish Tank, In The Loop, Moon, 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)

Director

James Cameron (Avatar), Neill Blomkamp (District 9), Lone Scherfig (An Education), Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

Take a look at the 2009 BAFTA Screenplay Winners
And Nominees
And Compare

BAFTAS Who Won Best Screenplays 2009?

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Simon Beaufoy is now winner of BAFTAS AWARD as well as the GOLDEN GLOBE BEST SCREENPLAY.

Winners on list marked in bold with ***.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Joel Coen/Ethan Coen: Burn After Reading

J. Michael Straczynski: Changeling

Philippe Claudel: I've Loved You So Long

Martin McDonagh: In Bruges***

Dustin Lance Black: Milk

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***

READ THE BAFTA BEST ORGINAL SCREENPLAY by Martin McDonagh Available Here.

If you haven't seen any of the movies yet, you can study the script and imagine how it ended up on the screen then watch it to compare your vision of it. If you've seen the movie already, you'll learn how it was shaped into the film.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Story To Screenplay is a fantastic way to learn how to adapt novels into screenplays as well as giving so many insights into how to create an award-nominated script. Available here.

If you haven't read Burn After Reading it's available here. Check out how the Coen Brothers 'buried' their serious themes under that great comic wayward plot. It's a skill that Shakespeare used all the time and which the great writers employ. If you want to get your audience to think make them laugh first.

The Coens' trademark thematic irony is really pronounced in this screenplay. And their satire on society's empty values couldn't be more spot-on. I look on Burn After Reading as the flip side of their previous movie No Country For Old Men. Both films are concerned with same theme: a country in moral decline. One's apocalyptic, terrifies us and is darkly comic, the other's broad comedy, makes us laugh and is comically dark.

BAFTAS 2009 FULL LIST OF WINNERS

Best film

Slumdog Millionaire

Best director

Danny Boyle/Slumdog Millionaire

Leading actor

Mickey Rourke/The Wrestler

Leading actress

Kate Winslet/The Reader

Supporting actor

Heath Ledger/The Dark Knight

Supporting actress

Penélope Cruz/Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Outstanding British film

Man on Wire

Orange rising star award (public vote)

Noel Clarke

Cinematography

Anthony Dod Mantle/Slumdog Millionaire

Short film

Stewart le Maréchal, Esther May Campbell/September

Short animation

Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker/Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

Original screenplay

Martin Mcdonagh/In Bruges

Adapted screenplay

Simon Beaufoy/Slumdog Millionaire

Music

AR Rahman/Slumdog Millionaire

Animated film

Andrew Stanton/Wall-E

Special visual effects

Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan Mcguinness, Edson Williams/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Production design

Donald Graham Burt, Victor J Zolfo/

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Outstanding British contribution to cinema

Pinewood studios, Shepperton studios

Sound

Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp/Slumdog Millionaire

Editing

Chris Dickens/Slumdog Millionaire

Costume design

Michael O'Connor/The Duchess

Carl Foreman special achievement award for first feature film

Steve McQueen/Hunger

Makeup & hair

Jean Black, Colleen Callaghan/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

FULL LIST OF BAFTAS NOMINATIONS

The full list of nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2009.

BEST FILM

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin * FROST/NIXON – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard * MILK – Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen * THE READER – Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris * SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Christian Colson***

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

* HUNGER – Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch, Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh * IN BRUGES – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh * MAMMA MIA! – Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman, Phyllida Lloyd, Catherine Johnson * MAN ON WIRE – Simon Chinn, James Marsh*** * SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy

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

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 – Joe 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 – Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel * GOMORRAH – Domenico Procacci, Matteo Garrone * I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG – Yves Marmion, Philippe Claudel*** * PERSEPOLIS – Marc-Antoine Robert, Xavier Rigault, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud * WALTZ WITH BASHIR – Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Ari Folman

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 *** * 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

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