2010 BAFTA Award Nominations | Line Leading to Cameron’s Feet Grows

The nominations for the British Academy of Television and Arts (BAFTA) are out and, I guess as expected, the institution steps right in-line with other major awards for the privilege to kiss James Cameron’s King of the Universe Ring. I didn’t dislike Avatar even though I was skeptical of the movie and I don’t dislike Cameron, but I hate when things get out of control for a fad movie during awards season and other movies are completely ignored. Cameron seems to have that effect specifically. I’d not even have a problem with that if it was not for how hard it is for other mainstream/genre movies to even get a look in the nine years out of a decade that Cameron does not have a movie nominated.

My personal favorite movie of 2009, Moon from writer/director Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell, again draws what amounts to a giant gob of snot with its only nominations in Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer. Maybe that’s better than a gob of snot, but the exclusion of Moon yet again from a the overall best film category* is a damn shame and another complete snub of Sam Rockwell’s performance is nearing criminal and all but kills any Academy Awards momentum Rockwell had.

In all, the list is a dreary example of lock step nominations all the way down to Avatar and the regimental popping of James Cameron’s ass pimples with the teeth of awards season**.

*The complete list for best film is below, but I am amazed with how the list reflects movies that had one excellent element in otherwise average fare. Precious has a great perforce to take it to above average and Avatar has amazing special effects in what is otherwise a good-plus movie at best.

**Avatar should win almost every technical award in any presentation this year; I don’t even have a problem with Cameron winning director for Avatar is an amazing achievement. But it is not in even close to the best film of the year. A best film should reflect an outstanding achievement across the board. For simplicity sake lets call the places on the board vision, screenplay, and acting. Cameron’s film no question gets a 100/100 for vision, but the screenplay and acting are average to good. I think an outstanding film needs to bring more to the table.

The complete suck-ass-derivative list:

Best Film
Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau
An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
The Hurt Locker Nominees Tbc
Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-magness, Gary Magness
Up In The Air Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

Outstanding British Film
An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
In The Loop Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
Moon Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
Nowhere Boy Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-wood, Matt Greenhalgh

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

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: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Geoffrey Fletcher
Up In The Air Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Film Not In The English Language
Broken Embraces Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
Coco Before Chanel Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
Let The Right One In Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
A Prophet Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
The White Ribbon Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke

Animated Film
Coraline Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr Fox Wes Anderson
Up Pete Docter

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: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
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: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Kristin Scott Thomas Nowhere Boy

Music
Avatar James Horner
Crazy Heart T-bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
Fantastic Mr Fox Alexandre Desplat
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Chaz Jankel
Up Michael Giacchino

Cinematography
Avatar Mauro Fiore
District 9 Trent Opaloch
The Hurt Locker Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds Robert Richardson
The Road Javier Aguirresarobe

Editing
Avatar Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
District 9 Julian Clarke
The Hurt Locker Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
Inglourious Basterds Sally Menke
Up In The Air Dana E. Glauberman

Production Design
Avatar Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
District 9 Philip Ivey, Guy Poltgieter
Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince Stuart Craig, Stephenie Mcmillan
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus Nominees Tbc
Inglourious Basterds David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco

Costume Design
Bright Star Janet Patterson
Coco Before Chanel Catherine Leterrier
An Education Odile Dicks-mireaux
A Single Man Arianne Phillips
The Young Victoria Sandy Powell

Sound
Avatar Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
District 9 Nominees Tbc
The Hurt Locker Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer
Star Trek Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
Up Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick

Special Visual Effects
Avatar Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
District 9 Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi
The Hurt Locker Richard Stutsman
Star Trek Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

Make Up & Hair
Coco Before Chanel Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Jane Milon
An Education Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus Sarah Monzani
Nine Peter ‘swords’ King
The Young Victoria Jenny Shircore

Short Animation
The Gruffalo Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
The Happy Duckling Gili Dolev
Mother Of Many Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby

Short Film
14 Asitha Ameresekere
I Do Air James Bolton, Martina Amati
Jade Samm Haillay, Daniel Elliott
Mixtape Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin
Off Season Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan Van Tulleken

The Orange Rising Star Award (voted For By The Public)
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart

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