UK Film Council-backed films nominated for 14 BAFTA film awards
Films awarded Lottery funding to support their development and production have been nominated for 14 BAFTA Film Awards.
LONDON – 21 January 2010
Films awarded Lottery funding to support their development and production have been nominated for 14 BAFTA Film Awards.
John Woodward, Chief Executive Officer of the UK Film Council says: "In 2009 British independent films were more popular with cinema-goers than they have been for a decade – that, together with today's news that three UK Film Council-backed films have been nominated in the BAFTA Outstanding British Film category, underlines the current strength of British filmmaking talent and the crucial importance of public investment in creative excellence."
Nowhere Boy is nominated for 4 awards:
- Outstanding British Film
- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer (Sam Taylor-Wood)
- Supporting Actress (Anne Marie-Duff)
- Supporting Actress (Kristen Scott-Thomas)
In the Loop is nominated for 2 awards:
- Outstanding British Film
- Adapted Screenplay (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is nominated for 2 awards:
- Leading Actor (Andy Serkis)
- Music (Chaz Jankel)
Fish Tank is nominated for 1 award:
- Outstanding British Film
Bright Star is nominated for 1 award:
- Costume Design (Janet Patterson)
In addition, three short films supported by Lottery funding are nominated in the Short Film Category (I Do Air, Jade, and Off Season), and one film in the Short Animation category (Mother of Many).
Films which have had wider distribution thanks to UK Film Council Prints and Advertising funding have received more than 20 nominations, including:
- Best Film – An Education
- Outstanding British Film – An Education
- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer – Sam Taylor-Wood (Nowhere Boy)
- Director – Lone Scherfig (An Education)
- Adapted Screenplay – Nick Hornby (An Education); Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Riche (In The Loop)
- Film not in the English Language – Broken Embraces; Coco Before Chanel; Let the Right One In; A Prophet
- Leading Actor - Colin Firth (A Single Man)
- Leading Actress – Carey Mulligan (An Education); Audrey Tautou (Coco Before Chanel)
- Supporting Actor – Alfred Molina (An Education)
- Supporting Actress – Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy); Kristin Scott-Thomas (Nowhere Boy)
- Production Design – Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
- Costume Design – Bright Star; Coco Before Chanel; An Education
- Make Up & Hair – Coco Before Chanel; An Education; The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer - Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson (Mugabe and the White African), Eran Creevy (Shifty)
A list of the UK Film Council's National Lottery awards can be found on our website at www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk.
Other British BAFTA nominees include:
- Outstanding British Film - Moon (Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker)
- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer - Duncan Jones (Moon)
- Cinematography - Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker)
- Production Design - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince)
- Costume Design - Sandy Powell (The Young Victoria)
- Sound - Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson (The Hurt Locker)
- Make Up and Hair - Jenny Shircore (The Young Victoria)
- Short Animation - The Gruffalo, The Happy Duckling
- Short Film - Mixtape
- BAFTA Rising Star - Nicholas Hoult, Carey Mulligan
For more information contact:
Oliver Foster
UK Film Council press office
020 7861 7508 / oliver.foster@ukfilmcouncil.org.uk
Notes to Editors
UK FILM COUNCIL (www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk)
- The UK Film Council is the Government-backed lead agency for film in the UK, supporting the UK film industry, celebrating UK film culture and nurturing UK film talent at home and abroad.
- Since its creation in 2000 the UK Film Council has backed more than 900 films, shorts and features, which have won over 300 awards and entertained more than 200 million people around the world.
- Its support develops new filmmakers, funds exciting new British films and gets a wider choice of films to audiences throughout the UK. It also invests in training British talent, promoting Britain as an international filmmaking location and raising the profile of British films abroad. In addition, it funds the British Film Institute.
- Films backed by the UK Film Council include Man on Wire, Nowhere Boy, Fish Tank, In the Loop, Happy-Go-Lucky, Adulthood, Bend it like Beckham, The Constant Gardener, Gosford Park, Red Road, St Trinian's, This is England, Touching the Void, Vera Drake and The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
- Current UK Film Council funding initiatives include:
- the world's first Digital Screen Network, which has invested in 240 digital screens in cinemas across the country, increasing film choice, bringing the 3D experience to a wider audience, and ensuring the UK has more digital screens than any other European country;
- over 200 film societies and independent regional film venues;
- UK film festivals, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival and the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival;
- Skillset, the UK skills and training industry body for the creative industries;
- First Light Movies, which has given 12,000 children and young people the chance to get involved in filmmaking; and
- FILMCLUB, an after school club which gives children in 7,000 schools free weekly access to classic and popular films.
