If you had to pick an oddity in this year's British Academy Film Awards nominations, this is that Steven Spielberg's period biographical drama "Lincoln" dominates in number of nominations (ten!) without being nominated in the directing category! This can only tell us something about the value that awards sometimes have, because when a movie is supposed to be so good in so many areas under the director's watch, then how come she is not good in her directing;
More detailed, 'Lincoln' is up for best picture awards, adapted script, A’ male role (Daniel Day Lewis), B’ male role (Tommy Lee Jones), B’ female role (Sally Field), music, address photo, makeup, scenography and costumes. The name of the creator of the film, Steven Spielberg is only seen as a producer along with Kathleen Kennedy since "Lincoln" is nominated for best picture so the award goes to the producer.
One place below "Lincoln" is "Life of Pi" with nine nominations, followed by "Les Miserables" with eight. Ang Lee's allegory, which has been loved by the Greek audience as well, is in the running for the best film awards, directing, adapted script, music, photo, montage, scenography, sound and visual effects, while Tom Hooper's musical based on the pages of Victor Hugo, it is nominated among other categories for best film, A’ male role (Hugh Jackman) and B’ female roles (Anne Hathaway). The nomination in the category of best direction is also absent from here.
Also worth noting is the fact that Sam Mendes' Skyfall is up for eight awards with both Javier Bardem and Judi Dench nominated for B’ roles.
In general anyway, the nominations at this year's BAFTAs are well divided. Ben Affleck's political drama “Operation: "Argo", which opens tomorrow in theaters, is nominated in seven categories, Quentin Tarantino's western "Django the Punisher" and Joe Wright's "Anna Karenina" claim six awards, while Michael Haneke's masterpiece "Love" is nominated for director, the scenario, the performance of Emmanuelle Riva and also as the best non-English language film.
Finally, let's say that at BAFTA there are three categories of best film: the "Best Film" category (Best film), the "Outstanding British Film" category (Most outstanding British film») and "Non-English Film" (Film not in the English language). This confuses things somewhat because in the case of "Les Miserables" for example, the film is nominated for both Best Film and Outstanding British Film.
The winners will be announced on Sunday 10 February at the ceremony to be held at the Royla Opera House in London.
The main nominations
BEST MOVIE
Business: I'm late
The miserable ones
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero dark thirty
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Anna Karenina
Maringold Exotic Hotel
The miserable ones
Seven psychopaths
Heavy rain
BEST DIRECTION
Michael Haneke (Love)
Ben Affleck (Business: I'm late)
Quentin Tarantino (Django the Punisher)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero dark thirty)
BEST ACTOR
Ben Affleck (Enterprise Argo)
Bradley Cooper (Guide to optimism)
Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
Hugh Jackman (The miserable ones)
Joaquin Phoenix (The master)
BEST A’ FEMALE ROLE
Emmanuel Riva (Love)
Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)
Jennifer Lawrence (Guide to optimism)
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Marion Cotillard (Body to body)
BEST B’ MALE ROLE
Alan Arkin (Enterprise Argo)
Christoph Waltz (Django the Punisher)
Javier Bardem (Heavy rain)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The master)
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
BEST B’ FEMALE ROLE
Amy Adams (The master)
Anne Hathaway (The miserable ones)
Helen Hunt (The sessions)
Judi Dench (Heavy rain)
Sally Field (Lincoln)
BEST NON-ENGLISH FILM
Love
Body to body
The hunt
Body to body
The untouchables
