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BAFTA's main film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, which in 2008 came from the Royal Opera House, having taken place since 2000 in the flagship Odeon cinema on Leicester Square. The ceremony previously took place in April or May, but from 2002 onwards has taken place in February, in order to precede the Oscars. The awards are mostly open to all nationalities, though there is an award for Best British Film and Best Newcomer. The 2009 ceremony will be held on the 8th February, also at the Royal Opera House

The 62nd British Academy Film Awards, hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts will take place on 8 February, 2009 and will honour the best films of 2008.
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* 1 Winners and nominees
o 1.1 Best Actor
o 1.2 Best Actress
o 1.3 Best Animated Film
o 1.4 Best Cinematography
o 1.5 Best Costume Design
o 1.6 Best Director
o 1.7 Best Editing
o 1.8 Best Film
o 1.9 Best Film - British (Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film)
o 1.10 Best Film Not in the English Language
o 1.11 Best Makeup and Hair
o 1.12 Best Music (Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music)
o 1.13 Best Production Design
o 1.14 Best Screenplay - Adapted
o 1.15 Best Screenplay - Original
o 1.16 Best Sound
o 1.17 Best Supporting Actor
o 1.18 Best Supporting Actress
o 1.19 Best Visual Effects
o 1.20 Best Short Animation
o 1.21 Best Short Film
o 1.22 Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film
o 1.23 The Orange Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
* 2 Awards breakdown
* 3 References

[edit] Winners and nominees

[edit] Best Actor

* Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
* Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
* Sean Penn – Milk
* Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

[edit] Best Actress

* Angelina Jolie – Changeling
* Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
* Meryl Streep – Doubt
* Kate Winslet – The Reader
* Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

[edit] Best Animated Film

* Persepolis
* WALL-E
* Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

[edit] Best Cinematography

* Changeling – Tom Stern
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
* The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
* The Reader – Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
* Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

[edit] Best Costume Design

* Changeling – Deborah Hopper
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jacqueline West
* The Dark Knight – Lindy Hemming
* The Duchess – Michael O'Connor
* Revolutionary Road – Albert Wolsky

[edit] Best Director

* Clint Eastwood – Changeling
* David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
* Stephen Daldry – The Reader
* Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

[edit] Best Editing

There was a tie in this category, leading to six nominations.

* Changeling – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
* The Dark Knight – Lee Smith
* Frost/Nixon – Dan Hanley and Mike Hill
* In Bruges – Jon Gregory
* Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens

[edit] Best Film

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire

[edit] Best Film - British (Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film)

* Hunger
* In Bruges
* Mamma Mia! The Movie
* Man on Wire
* Slumdog Millionaire

[edit] Best Film Not in the English Language

* The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) • Germany
* Gomorrah (Gomorra) • Italy
* I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) • France
* Persepolis • France
* Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir) • Israel

[edit] Best Makeup and Hair

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jean Black, Colleen Callaghan
* The Dark Knight – Peter Robb-King
* The Duchess – Daniel Phillips, Jan Archibald
* Frost/Nixon – Edouard Henriques, Kim Santantonio
* Milk – Steven E. Anderson, Michael White

[edit] Best Music (Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music)

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
* The Dark Knight – James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
* Mamma Mia! – Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
* Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
* WALL-E – Thomas Newman

[edit] Best Production Design

* Changeling – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
* The Dark Knight – Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
* Revolutionary Road – Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
* Slumdog Millionaire – Mark Digby, Michelle Day

[edit] Best Screenplay - Adapted

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
* Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
* The Reader – David Hare
* Revolutionary Road – Justin Haythe
* Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

[edit] Best Screenplay - Original

* Burn After Reading – Ethan and Joel Coen
* Changeling – J. Michael Straczynski
* I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) – Philippe Claudel
* In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
* Milk – Dustin Lance Black

[edit] Best Sound

* Changeling – Walt Martin, Alan Robert Murray, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff
* The Dark Knight – Lora Hirschberg, Richard King, Ed Novick, Gary Rizzo
* Quantum of Solace – Jimmy Boyle, Eddy Joseph, Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor
* Slumdog Millionaire – Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp
* WALL-E – Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Matthew Wood

[edit] Best Supporting Actor

* Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
* Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
* Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
* Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
* Brad Pitt – Burn After Reading

[edit] Best Supporting Actress

* Amy Adams – Doubt
* Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* Freida Pinto – Slumdog Millionaire
* Tilda Swinton – Burn After Reading
* Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

[edit] Best Visual Effects

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Barba, Craig Barron, – Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams
* The Dark Knight – Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin, Tim Webber
* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Pablo Helman
* Iron Man – Shane Patrick Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow
* Quantum of Solace – Chris Corbould, Kevin Tod Haug

[edit] Best Short Animation

* Codswallop – Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
* Varmints – Sue Goffe, Marc Craste
* A Matter of Loaf and Death – Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker

[edit] Best Short Film

* Kingsland #1 The Dreamer – Kate Ogborn, Tony Grisoni
* Love You More – Adrian Sturges, Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber
* Ralph – Olivier Kaempfer, Alex Winckler
* September - Stewart le Maréchal, Esther May Campbell
* Voyages D'Affaires (The Business Trip) – Celine Quideau, Sean Ellis

[edit] Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film

* Simon Chinn - Man on Wire (producer)
* Judy Craymer - Mamma Mia! The Movie (producer}
* Garth Jennings - Son of Rambow (writer)
* Steve McQueen - Hunger (director/writer)
* Roy Boulter and Solon Papadopoulos - Of Time and the City (producers)

[edit] The Orange Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

* Michael Cera
* Noel Clarke
* Michael Fassbender
* Rebecca Hall
* Toby Kebbell

[edit] Awards breakdown

List of films that received multiple nominations:

* 11 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire
* 9 The Dark Knight
* 8 Changeling
* 6 Frost/Nixon
* 5 The Reader
* 4 In Bruges, Milk and Revolutionary Road
* 3 Burn After Reading, Doubt, I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), Mamma Mia! and WALL-E
* 2 The Duchess, Quantum of Solace, Hunger, The Wrestler and Waltz with Bashir

List of people who received multiple nominations:

* 2 Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet