'Hurt Locker' Dominates 2010 BAFTAs; Here's the Complete List of Winners
Bigelow's film takes home six including Best Film and Director
While two of the major acting awards went to Brits, it was an American film that took home the most awards at the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) as The Hurt Locker took home both Best Director, Original Screenplay and Film on its way to six total awards. Kathryn Bigelow's directorial win makes her the first female to win the best director prize at the BAFTAs just as she'll be the first female to win Best Director at the Oscars on March 7.
The Hurt Locker also won in Editing, Sound and Cinematography. Of the six it won for, it's nominated for an Oscar in all of them and can be argued the front-runner in all six as well.
Quoted by Mimi Turner at The Hollywood Reporter, Bigelow said, "My heart's beating so fast I can barely talk," while accepting her best director award. "I think the secret to directing is collaboration, and I was so lucky to have an incredible cast and crew. This is deeply moving — we all felt an incredible responsibility to honor the courage of the men and women in the field."
Anyone concerned for Avatar's chances at the Oscars don't get too upset. The film, which was nominated in eight categories, did manage to win for effects and production design. This is more than Titanic can claim as it was nominated for 10 awards in 1998 and lost all ten before going on to dominate the Academy Awards.
As I mentioned in the opening, the top acting awards didn't go to current Oscar favorites such as Sandra Bullock (who wasn't nominated because The Blind Side hadn't been released internationally), Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges or George Clooney. Instead, Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Colin Firth (A Single Man) took home the top prizes for actress and actor respectively. However, the supporting awards were as to be expected with Mo'Nique winning for Precious and Christoph Waltz winning for Inglourious Basterds.
A surprise to me (but perhaps no one else) is the win for Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank for best British Film as it beat out An Education, Nowhere Boy, In the Loop and Moon. My favorite film of 2009, A Prophet, won for Best Foreign Language Film.
I have included the complete list of winners directly below and on the following page. I will be updating Oscar predictions with a new Oscar column early this coming week so stay tuned, but be sure to add your thoughts on the BAFTA winners in the comments below.
Best Film
- Avatar
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- Precious
- Up in the Air
Best British Film
- An Education
- Fish Tank
- In the Loop
- Moon
- Nowhere Boy
Best Director
- James Cameron, Avatar
- Neill Blomkamp, District 9
- Lone Scherfig, An Education
- Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
- Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Best 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
Best Actress
- Carey Mulligan, An Education
- Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones
- Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
- Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
- Audrey Tautou, Coco Before Chanel
Best 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
Best 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
Best Original Screenplay
- The Hangover
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- A Serious Man
- Up
Best Adapted Screenplay
- District 9
- An Education
- In the Loop
- Precious
- Up in the Air
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:-D I hope the Oscar's follow suit, which they should at this point. The most deserving film! Tarantino's film was good, yes, but not as good imo. In fact, I enjoyed District 9 more then IB.
Avatar was eh, and it's only winning the awards that it really deserves.
True! I really hope Oscar follows suit! It would be a crime if Bigelow and her film didn't win big!
Oh, and happy for Firth and Mulligan!
Awesome that Colin Firth won. I think he'd be winning the Oscar if Jeff Bridges wasn't nominated this year, personally.
Is Carey Mulligan back in the OSCAR race ?
Yes, she is. :)
avatars best picture hopes has to be almost done after hurt lockers win here
Avatar's hopes for Best Picture was done when it failed to get a SAG ensemble nod. No movie since 1995 (Braveheart) has won Best Picture without at least being nominated for ensemble.
Am I the only one who thinks this whole thing is kind of a joke? Did anyone even see more than half the movies on here?
I have and I think the BAFTAs got it right! I hope these kind of results get repeated oscar night! Except the White Ribbon. That needs Best Foreign. Biggest and best suprise here is Hurt Locker for sound!! GOOD!!
As much as this sucks to say I believe that The Hurt Locker is going to be the winner come March 7th, don't get me wrong it was a terrific film…best of the year? I don't believe so, As far as Carey Mulligan's chances to win the Oscar, I don't think this changes anything since she had the hometown advantage, However I think this means that Sandra Bullock is going to win since Meryl hasn't won since the Globes where she wasn't even nominated against her performance in The Blind Side
I really hope Carey Mulligan's win in the BAFTAs makes the Academy voters think twice. Among the Oscar best actress nominees she has the best reveiwed performance and that is evident with the slew of critics awards she already won.
It's also unfair to say that Mulligan has a hometown advantage in the BAFTAs. Well, if you're thinking that way, it is also justifiable to say that Bullock also has a hometown advantage in the Oscar because she is American.
If there's really an homegrown advantage, Alfred Molina, or Anne-Marie Duff or Kristin Scott Thomas could have won, right? I just think BAFTAs had got it right with their winners.
And best original screenplay, The Hurt Locker. Look at that good shit.
Monique won because Anne-Marie Duff and Kriten Scott Thomas split the vote.
The Hangover was ROOBED!
This sucks. I can't find anything thrilling or breathtaking from Hurt Locker at all. In fact, I'd rather have Star Trek, District 9, Inglorious Basterds take the Awards from Avatar rather than Hurt Locker. It's so overrated.
And, now we know Americans have different drama styles from British.
if you think that Avatar, Star Trek, District 9, and Avatar are all better than the Hurt Locker, than obviously Award shows are not for you. You want to see those movies get rewarded? Look at Box Office Figures.
(agree). Although I still only like Hurt Locker as 3rd best pic of the year after Precious and Up in the Air, but that is because I weight the screenplay too much when considering the film as a whole. But definitely better than Avatar, ST, D9, IB, etc: thrilling and breathtaking are important, but not everything. Also, I would call it more breathtaking than the rest.
Tarantino is very strange….he gets his hair colored where my friend works and she says last time all he did was look at fashion mags and go on and on about masturbation. I saw him in that show ICONOCLASTS on the Sundance Channel and he talks about masturbation and cum shots there too.
Great to see Colin Firth get some well-deserved recognition, even if he won't get the Oscar for it.
Doesn't it seem strange that An Education was the only movie up for Best British Film that was also a Best Film nominee, and yet Fish Tank beat it out in the British category?
Perhaps in the British Film category, a necessary criterion is British-ness.
Oh well, looks like the Hurt Locker will win come March 7. It'll be interesting though to see which would filmmakers choose if they only had these 2 options: Their movie does not win the Best Pic Oscar, yet be relevant and remain the topic of conversations 10+ years down the road, or winning best picture but is forgotten and no one bothers talking about and bringing up a year after it won.
Interesting question. Of course the typical answer will be "Why not both?" But if you take away that gray area, I'll be leaning towards my film being remembered and talked about years after it's time, since that shows that your film is the "measuring stick" of sorts by which recent fare are being compared to. For instance, films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and the first Die Hard are still considered by many as The bar for films of the same ilk. That, imho, is a great honor in itself as a filmmaker.
The thing with these awards is they are voted upon by their members.. However the results pan out it is the members votes who decide not the public.. So this is the same for BAFTA like is it for the Academy and WGA and DGA, etc..
Members don't vote on the same principles as say the public would about taste or cinema attendances but instead on artistic acheivement.. An artist raising the bar in their craft, be it acting, directing, producing, cinematography, screenwriting, editing, design or whatever – those members vote in their own categories..
So in that sense, it doesn't msatter what we think, our opinions don't matter.. These awards are members who vote for whom they see fit,in their opinion should win it and as these awards are broadcast in TV for us to watch, we are simply the audience and have no say in it..
I shouldn't get worked up about it.. It doesn't mean anything except to those who are recognized for their work..
Just enjoy the show folks – that's all it is..
I think the BAFTAs got it absolutely right. There isn't a single award I would disagree with on there. Well, except for the fact that I think A Single Man has been overlooked for Best Picture, Director, Music and Cinematography.
Congrat to Kstew!!
I'm not so sure that The Hurt Lockers best picture win here will have any impact on the Oscars best picture race. Firstly, it is a different voting process with no preferential voting being used here. Secondly, IB wasn't even nominated, and this is considered to be the hurt lockers main threat.
Also, I don't think that Carey Mulligan's win will affect anything too. The BAFTAs are always incredibly biased towards British movies/actors. She has no chance at the Oscars and either Streep or Bullock will win ahead of her.
Finally – I was watching this last night and I found there to be two big surprises. The bigger one was Fishtank winning best british movie – I was expecting An Education to win this considering it was nominated for Best Film. I think it's as much of a shock as if Up would not win the Best Animated Feature at the oscars considering it is nominated for best picture.
The other big surprise was Colin Firth winning best actor – but I put that down due to the British bias more than anything else.
Brad, I don't know if I'm the only one thinking this, but I have three points to point out about the awards…
1. Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan were not the frontrunners, but they are both British. Wasn't it obvious that the BAFTA members would vote for fellow Brits?
2. How can Carey Mulligan win Best Actress and not win Rising Star? It doesn't make sense… Stewart is "rising" more when Mulligan is Best Actress of the year?
3. How can An Education be nominated for Best Picture and yet not be the Best British film? This seriously doesn't make sense… If it's not even the best British one, how can it be considered the best one? Obviously, if Fish Tank is voted better than An Education, then it should have had the nomination in the Best Picture category instead of the latter. Don't you think this was a way for the BAFTAS to have various Brits take the different awards?
The only one I can answer with any measure of fact is #2. Rising Star was voted on by fans, not by the Orange British Academy.
As for #1, I actually think they got it right.
And for #3… I have no idea. :)
Oh great, the Brits voting for the Brits for Best Actor and Best Actress while throwing some Supporting crums the Americans' way!
What else is new!