64th British Academy Film Awards

64th British Academy Film Awards
64th British Academy Film Awards
Date	13 February 2011
Site	Royal Opera House, London
Hosted by	Jonathan Ross
Highlights
Best Film	The King's Speech
Best British Film	The King's Speech
Best Actor	Colin Firth; The King's Speech
Best Actress	Natalie Portman; Black Swan
Most awards	The King's Speech (7)
Most nominations	The King's Speech (14)
	← 63rd; BAFTA Awards; 65th →;

The 64th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 13 February 2011 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2010.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades are handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2010.

The nominations were announced on 18 January 2011.^[7]^[8]^[9] The King's Speech earned the most nominations with fourteen and won seven, including Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush, Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter, and Best Original Screenplay for David Seidler.^[1] Natalie Portman won Best Actress for Black Swan and David Fincher won Best Director for The Social Network.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Geoffrey Rush, Best Supporting Actor winner

BAFTA Fellowship

Sir Christopher Lee^[10]

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

Harry Potter film series^[11]

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin Black Swan – Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin Inception – Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan The Social Network – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin True Grit – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen	Best Direction David Fincher – The Social Network Christopher Nolan – Inception Danny Boyle – 127 Hours Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
Best Actor in a Leading Role *Colin Firth – The King's Speech* as King George VI** James Franco – 127 Hours as Aron Ralston Javier Bardem – Biutiful as Uxbal Jeff Bridges – True Grit as Rooster Cogburn Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg	Best Actress in a Leading Role *Natalie Portman – Black Swan* as Nina Sayers / The Swan Queen** Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right as Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit as Mattie Ross Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right as Jules Allgood Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Lisbeth Salander
Best Actor in a Supporting Role *Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech* as Lionel Logue** Andrew Garfield – The Social Network as Eduardo Saverin Christian Bale – The Fighter as Dicky Eklund Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right as Paul Hatfield Pete Postlethwaite – The Town as Fergus "Fergie" Colm (posthumous)	Best Actress in a Supporting Role *Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech* as Queen Elizabeth** Amy Adams – The Fighter as Charlene Fleming Barbara Hershey – Black Swan as Erica Sayers / The Queen Lesley Manville – Another Year as Mary Smith Miranda Richardson – Made in Dagenham as Barbara Castle
Best Original Screenplay The King's Speech – David Seidler Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson Inception – Christopher Nolan The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg	Best Adapted Screenplay The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin 127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Best Cinematography True Grit – Roger Deakins 127 Hours – Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak Black Swan – Matthew Libatique Inception – Wally Pfister The King's Speech – Danny Cohen	Best Costume Design Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood Black Swan – Amy Westcott The King's Speech – Jenny Beavan Made in Dagenham – Louise Stjernsward True Grit – Mary Zophres
Best Editing The Social Network – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter 127 Hours – Jon Harris Black Swan – Andrew Weisblum Inception – Lee Smith The King's Speech – Tariq Anwar	Best Makeup and Hair Alice in Wonderland – Valli O'Reilly and Paul Gooch Black Swan – Judy Chin and Geordie Sheffer Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 – Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin and Nick Dudman The King's Speech – Frances Hannon Made in Dagenham – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou
Best Original Music The King's Speech – Alexandre Desplat 127 Hours – A. R. Rahman Alice in Wonderland – Danny Elfman How to Train Your Dragon – John Powell Inception – Hans Zimmer	Best Production Design Inception – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat Alice in Wonderland – Robert Stromberg and Karen O'Hara Black Swan – Thérèse DePrez and Tara Peterson The King's Speech – Eve Stewart and Judy Farr True Grit – Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh
Best Sound Inception – Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick 127 Hours – Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C. Laneri and Douglas Cameron Black Swan – Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan and Dominick Tavella The King's Speech – John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin and Martin Jensen True Grit – Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter Kurland and Douglas Axtell	Best Special Visual Effects Inception – Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb Alice in Wonderland – Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Sean Phillips and Carey Villegas Black Swan – Dan Schrecker, Henrik Fett, Michael Capton and William Kalinoski Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 – Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Aithadi and Christian Manz Toy Story 3 – Guido Quaroni, Michael Fong and David Ryu
Outstanding British Film The King's Speech – Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin 127 Hours – Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson and John Smithson Another Year – Mike Leigh and Georgina Lowe Four Lions – Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert and Derrin Schlesinger Made in Dagenham – Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley	Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Four Lions – Chris Morris The Arbor – Clio Barnard and Tracy O'Riordan Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz Monsters – Gareth Edwards Skeletons – Nick Whitfield
Best Short Animation The Eagleman Stag – Michael Please Matter Fisher – David Prosser Thursday – Matthias Hoegg	Best Short Film Until the River Runs Red – Paul Wright and Poss Kondeatis Connect – Samuel Abrahams and Beau Gordon Lin – Piers Thompson and Simon Hessel Rite – Michael Pearce, Ross McKenzie and Paul Welsh Turning – Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Alison Sterling and Kat Armour-Brown
Best Animated Film Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich Despicable Me – Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin How to Train Your Dragon – Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois	Best Film Not in the English Language The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Søren Stærmose and Niels Arden Oplev Biutiful – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Fernando Bavaira I Am Love – Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi D'Eril, Marco Morabito and Massimiliano Violante Of Gods and Men – Xavier Beauvois, Pascal Caucheteux and Étienne Comar The Secret in Their Eyes – Mariela Besuievsky and Juan José Campanella
EE Rising Star Award Tom Hardy Aaron Taylor-Johnson Andrew Garfield Emma Stone Gemma Arterton

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
14	The King's Speech
12	Black Swan
9	Inception
8	127 Hours
8	True Grit
6	The Social Network
5	Alice in Wonderland
4	The Kids Are All Right
4	Made in Dagenham
3	The Fighter
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Toy Story 3
2	Another Year
	Biutiful
	Four Lions
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
	How to Train Your Dragon

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
7	The King's Speech
3	Inception
3	The Social Network
2	Alice in Wonderland

In Memoriam

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Bafta Film Awards 2011: Winners". BBC News. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ "Film Awards 2011: Winners List" (Press release). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ "Film Awards 2011: Winners Announced" (Press release). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ "King's Speech reigns over Bafta awards". BBC News. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ Brown, Mark (13 February 2011). "Baftas 2011: The King's Speech sweeps the board". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ Sharp, Rob (13 February 2011). "King's Speech rules the Baftas with historic seven awards". The Independent. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ "The King's Speech leads Bafta field". BBC News. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
^ Brooks, Xan (18 January 2011). "Baftas 2011: The King's Speech leads parade with 14 nominations". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
^ "'The King's Speech' leads British Academy Award nominees". The Independent. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
^ "Christopher Lee to receive Bafta Fellowship". BBC News. 8 February 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
^ "Harry Potter franchise to get outstanding Bafta award". BBC News. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011.

External links

Film in 2011 | BAFTA Awards at BAFTA

[Winners-1] "Bafta Film Awards 2011: Winners". BBC News. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

[2] "Film Awards 2011: Winners List" (Press release). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

[3] "Film Awards 2011: Winners Announced" (Press release). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

[4] "King's Speech reigns over Bafta awards". BBC News. 13 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

[5] Brown, Mark (13 February 2011). "Baftas 2011: The King's Speech sweeps the board". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

[6] Sharp, Rob (13 February 2011). "King's Speech rules the Baftas with historic seven awards". The Independent. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

[7] "The King's Speech leads Bafta field". BBC News. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.

[8] Brooks, Xan (18 January 2011). "Baftas 2011: The King's Speech leads parade with 14 nominations". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2011.

[9] "'The King's Speech' leads British Academy Award nominees". The Independent. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.

[10] "Christopher Lee to receive Bafta Fellowship". BBC News. 8 February 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.

[11] "Harry Potter franchise to get outstanding Bafta award". BBC News. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011.

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