2012 BAFTA winners

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.

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