The 2012 BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay goes to Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist.
The 2012 BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay goes to Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
The Artist takes most of the major awards. The entire list of winners is here.
UPDATE: @opedr Tweeted this quote from Hazanavicius from the BAFTA event:
“I’m very surprised because so many people thought there was no script because there was no dialogue…”
This goes at the heart of the general population’s ignorance about what screenwriters create, the perception that what we do is write the dialogue. In most cases, the dialogue is the least important narrative element compared to characters, sequences, scenes, theme and all the rest.
In fact the screenplay for The Artist is 42 pages long and comprised of 124 scenes including all the silent dialogue as title cards.
To check out the script for The Artist and many other movies that came out in 2011, you can go here to download them legally.
Congrats all round. Lovely speech from Peter Straughan, BTW, remembering his wife and co-writer Bridget O’Connor, who died shortly before filming started on Tinker Tailor… Not a dry eye in the house (well, in my house, anyway!)
Debbie, here is an excerpt from Straughan’s acceptance speech about his wife: “She did all the good bits, I made the coffee. I love you, I miss you,
this is for you.”
This is always a MUCH better show than the Oscars, which caters to the intellectually disabled and treats the entire program as a huge joke.
Nice to see Drive get some nods, but where’s the love for The Tree of Life? For shame.
I have to admit I am stunned at the reception of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Some stellar acting, and it looked very pretty, but can anyone tell me what… the story was? I was confused and bored throughout – though it is seeming increasingly clear that I’ve missed something!
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