'The King's Speech' Leads 2011 BAFTA Award Nominees

Tonight the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Award nominees were announced and to no surprise The King’s Speech led the way with 14 nominations in all the expected categories including Best Film alongside fellow nominees Black Swan, Inception, The Social Network and True Grit.

Oscar front-runner The Social Network scored six nominations, but was still behind Black Swan with 12 noms, Christopher Nolan’s Inception with nine, the Coen brothers’ True Grit scored eight and Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours received seven nominations.

Looking over the list really quickly I notice that not only was The Social Network not among the leading nominees it was also snubbed for Best Original Music, Cinematography and Sound. Elsewhere, Winter’s Bone star Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t nominated for Lead Actress as Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) was nominated instead. Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) wasn’t nominated either, but neither was Sally Hawkins for Made in Dagenham.

It is notable the BAFTAs at least recognized Lesley Manville’s performance in Another Year as a supporting role, but recent Golden Globe winner and assumed Oscar front-runner Melissa Leo (The Fighter) wasn’t nominated even though her co-star Amy Adams was along with Barbara Hershey (Black Swan) and Miranda Richardson (Made In Dagenham). Hershey’s nom is a bit out of the blue considering Mila Kunis has been getting the supporting love stateside for Black Swan.

Finally, the recently deceased Pete Postlethwaite was nominated for The Town over his co-star, and predicted Oscar nominee, Jeremy Renner. I was also a bit surprised to see Despicable Me get a nomination for Best Animated Film over Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist.

Overall, the BAFTAs once again offer up a slightly more British slant, but it’s nice to see a few different films and performances getting some notoriety. I’ve included the complete list of nominees directly below. The 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards will be held on Sunday, February 13.

Best Film

Black Swan (Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin)
Inception (Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan)
The King’s Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)
The Social Network (Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Cean Chaffin)
True Grit (Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)

Outstanding British Film

127 Hours (Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson)
Another Year (Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe)
Four Lions (Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger)
The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)
Made In Dagenham (Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley)

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer

The Arbor (Director, Producer – Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan)
Exit through the Gift Shop (Director, Producer – Banksy, Jaimie D’cruz)
Four Lions (Director/Writer – Chris Morris)
Monsters (Director/Writer – Gareth Edwards)
Skeletons (Director/Writer – Nick Whitfield)

Director

Danny Boyle (127 Hours)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
David Fincher (The Social Network)

Original Screenplay

Black Swan (Written by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John Mclaughlin)
The Fighter (Written by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson)
Inception (Written by Christopher Nolan)
The Kids are All Right (Written by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg)
The King’s Speech (Written by David Seidler)

Adapted Screenplay

127 Hours (Written by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Written by Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel)
The Social Network (Written by Aaron Sorkin)
Toy Story 3 (Written by Michael Arndt)
True Grit (Written by Joel and Ethan Coen)

Film Not In The English Language

Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Soren Staermose, Niels Arden Oplev)
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi D’eril, Marco Morabito, Massimiliano Violante)
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
The Secret In Their Eyes (Mariela Besuievsky, Juan Jose Campanella)

Animated Film

Despicable Me (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin)
How To Train Your Dragon (Chris Sanders, Dean Deblois)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)

Leading Actor

Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)

Leading Actress

Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right)
Julianne Moore (The Kids are All Right)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)

Supporting Actor

Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)
Pete Postlethwaite (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)

Supporting Actress

Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
Barbara Hershey (Black Swan)
Lesley Manville (Another Year)
Miranda Richardson (Made In Dagenham)

Original Music

127 Hours (AR Rahman)
Alice In Wonderland (Danny Elfman)
How To Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
Inception (Hans Zimmer)
The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat)

Cinematography

127 Hours (Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak)
Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)
Inception (Wally Pfister)
The King’s Speech (Danny Cohen)
True Grit (Roger Deakins)

Editing

127 Hours (Jon Harris)
Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)
Inception (Lee Smith)
The King’s Speech (Tariq Anwar)
The Social Network (Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter)

Production Design

Alice In Wonderland (Robert Stromberg, Karen O’hara)
Black Swan (Therese Deprez, Tora Peterson)
Inception (Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat)
The King’s Speech (Eve Stewart, Judy Farr)
True Grit (Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh)

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)

Sound

127 Hours (Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri, Douglas Cameron)
Black Swan (Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan, Dominick Tavella)
Inception (Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick)
The King’s Speech (John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell)

Special Visual Effects

Alice In Wonderland (Nominees TBA)
Black Swan (Dan Schrecker)
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait’hadi, Christian Manz)
Inception (Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb)
Toy Story 3 (Nominees TBA)

Make Up and Hair