So I made my predictions as to who would win at the BAFTAs and found that I got about half right. I never counted on the overwhelming good will towards The King’s Speech but it should have been obvious.
As soon as The King’s Speech won best score I knew it was game over for interesting choices and hello dominance for a film that, although brilliantly well-made, was the easy, and possibly the lazy choice. I still think the script and Score for Inception is superior. I’m very surprised that The King’s Speech didn’t win for sound and costume design but I’m kind of glad Alice in Wonderland won some awards.
Bigger surprises lay in store with screenplay and score not going to Inception… Sigh. Enough from me, my reviews expound me views on these films. Thanks to the BBC for covering the event and now… The results.
I deleted most of the nominees, if you want to see a full list, click here. The full list of winners and a colour-coded way of representing my picks and who actually won:
Winners I didn’t predict will be the films typed in black and given a dose of bold
Winners I Predicted Correctly will get a rather nice shade of orange
Predictions I Got Wrong will get a red
Best film
The King’s Speech
Inception
Best director
David Fincher – The Social Network
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Best actor
Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
Best actress
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Best supporting actor
Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
Best supporting actress
Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Outstanding British film
The King’s Speech
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Four Lions – Chris Morris (director/writer)
The Arbor – Clio Bernard (director) – This threw me… I thought the critical backing behind The Arbor would lead to a win.
Best foreign language film
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Sweden
Best animated feature film
Toy Story 3
Best original screenplay
The King’s Speech – David Seidler
Inception – Christopher Nolan
The King’s Speech has a great script – which is also formulaic. Inception must have been a complex script to write but the result was a film that was unpredictable, exciting and different.
Best adapted screenplay
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin is a genius. The Social Network was brilliantly written.
Best original score
The King’s Speech – Alexandre Desplat
Inception – Hans Zimmer – Come on, weeks after I watched Inception I still had the score booming in my mind. It’s EPIC.
Cinematography
True Grit
Inception
The King’s Speech
I’m going to see True Grit tomorrow.
Editing
The Social Network
Production design
Inception
Costume design
Alice in Wonderland
The King’s Speech
Sound
Inception
The King’s Speech
Sound plays a crucial role in The King’s Speech yet it doesn’t garner an award?
Special Visual Effects
Inception
Make-up and hair
Alice in Wonderland – Got that one right
Short animation
The Eagleman Stag
Short film
Until The River Runs Red
Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Tom Hardy
Andrew Garfield – Well there’s always next year.
