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British Academy Film Awards

63rd edition

  • February 21, 2010
  • United Kingdom

The 63rd British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 21 February 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2009. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2009.

Awards

Movie People Status
Best Picture
The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro Winner
Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau
An Education Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Precious Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
Up in the Air Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki
Outstanding British Film
Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold Winner
An Education Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
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 Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Matt Greenhalgh
Best Directing
The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow Winner
Avatar James Cameron
An Education Lone Scherfig
District 9 Neill Blomkamp
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino
Best Actor in a Leading Role
A Single Man Colin Firth Winner
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Andy Serkis
Up in the Air George Clooney
Crazy Heart Jeff Bridges
The Hurt Locker Jeremy Renner
Best Actress in a Leading Role
An Education Carey Mulligan Winner
Coco Before Chanel Audrey Tautou
Precious Gabourey Sidibe
Julie & Julia Meryl Streep
The Lovely Bones Saoirse Ronan
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Inglourious Basterds Christoph Waltz Winner
It's Complicated Alec Baldwin
An Education Alfred Molina
Me and Orson Welles Christian McKay
The Lovely Bones Stanley Tucci
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Precious Mo'Nique Winner
Up in the Air Anna Kendrick
Nowhere Boy Anne-Marie Duff
Nowhere Boy Kristin Scott Thomas
Up in the Air Vera Farmiga
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Moon Duncan Jones Winner
Exam Stuart Hazeldine
Mugabe and the White African Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson
Nowhere Boy Sam Taylor-Johnson
Shifty Eran Creevy
Best Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker Mark Boal Winner
The Hangover Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino
A Serious Man Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner Winner
District 9 Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
An Education Nick Hornby
In the Loop Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Precious Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Best Animated Film
Up Pete Docter Winner
Coraline Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson
Best International Feature Film
A Prophet Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard Winner
Broken Embraces Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
Coco Before Chanel Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassanne, Anne Fontaine
Let the Right One In Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
The White Ribbon Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Ménégoz, Michael Haneke
Best Cinematography
The Hurt Locker Barry Ackroyd Winner
Avatar Mauro Fiore
District 9 Trent Opaloch
Inglourious Basterds Robert Richardson
The Road Javier Aguirresarobe
Best Original Score
Up Michael Giacchino Winner
Avatar James Horner
Crazy Heart T Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
Fantastic Mr. Fox Alexandre Desplat
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Chaz Jankel
Best Sound
The Hurt Locker Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson Winner
Avatar Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
District 9 Brent Burge, Chris Ward, Dave Whitehead, Michael Hedges, Ken Saville
Star Trek Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
Up Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick, Doc Kane
Best Production Design
Avatar Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair Winner
District 9 Philip Ivey, Guy Potgieter
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith
Inglourious Basterds David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
Best Film Editing
The Hurt Locker Bob Murawski, Chris Innis Winner
Avatar Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
District 9 Julian Clarke
Inglourious Basterds Sally Menke
Up in the Air Dana E. Glauberman
Best Costume Design
The Young Victoria Sandy Powell Winner
Bright Star Janet Patterson
Coco Before Chanel Catherine Leterrier
An Education Odile Dicks-Mireaux
A Single Man Arianne Phillips
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Young Victoria Jenny Shircore Winner
Coco Before Chanel Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Madeleine Cafano, Jane Milon
An Education Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Sarah Monzani
Nine Peter King
Best Visual Effects
Avatar Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones Winner
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
Best Short Film (Live Action)
I Do Air James Bolton, Martina Amati Winner
Fourteen Asitha Ameresekere
Jade Samm Hailay, Daniel Elliott
Mixtape Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin
Off Season Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan Van Tulleken
Best Animated Short Film
Mother of Many Sally Arther, Emma Lazanby Winner
The Gruffalo Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
The Happy Duckling Gili Dolev
BAFTA Fellowship
Vanessa Redgrave Winner
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award
Joe Dunton Winner
Rising Star Award
Kristen Stewart Winner
Carey Mulligan
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Tahar Rahim
Statistics

Most Awarded

2 or more wins
  • The Hurt Locker 6
  • Avatar 2
  • Up 2
  • The Young Victoria 2

Most Nominated

3 or more nominations
  • An Education 8
  • Avatar 8
  • The Hurt Locker 8
  • District 9 7
  • Inglourious Basterds 6
  • Up in the Air 6
  • Coco Before Chanel 4
  • Nowhere Boy 4
  • Precious 4
  • Up 4

Most Unluckiest

wins / nominations
  • An Education 1 / 8
  • District 9 0 / 7
  • Avatar 2 / 8
  • Inglourious Basterds 1 / 6
  • Up in the Air 1 / 6
  • Coco Before Chanel 0 / 4
  • Nowhere Boy 0 / 4
  • Precious 1 / 4
  • The Hurt Locker 6 / 8
  • Up 2 / 4

Only one nomination

25 movies:
  • Bright Star
  • Broken Embraces
  • Coraline
  • Exam
  • Fish Tank
  • Fourteen
  • The Gruffalo
  • The Hangover
  • The Happy Duckling
  • I Do Air
  • It's Complicated
  • Jade
  • Julie & Julia
  • Let the Right One In
  • Me and Orson Welles
  • Mixtape
  • Mother of Many
  • Mugabe and the White African
  • Nine
  • Off Season
  • A Prophet
  • The Road
  • A Serious Man
  • Shifty
  • The White Ribbon

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