BAFTA Nominations
The British Academy Film Award nominations have been announced. Here are the screenwriting noms:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BURN AFTER READING — Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
CHANGELING — J. Michael Straczynski
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG — Philippe Claudel
IN BRUGES — Martin McDonagh
MILK — Dustin Lance Black
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON — Eric Roth
FROST/NIXON — Peter Morgan
THE READER — David Hare
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD — Justin Haythe
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE — Simon Beaufoy
Some interesting inclusions not on most other lists: Burn After Reading, Changeling , I’ve Love You So Long, In Bruges, and The Reader. Other nominations:
BEST FILM
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON — Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin
FROST/NIXON — Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
MILK — Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen
THE READER — Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE — Christian Colson
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
HUNGER — Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch, Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh
IN BRUGES — Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
*MAMMA MIA! * — Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman, Phyllida Lloyd, Catherine Johnson
MAN ON WIRE — Simon Chinn, James Marsh
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE — Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film
SIMON CHINN (Producer) — Man On Wire
JUDY CRAYMER (Producer) — Mamma Mia!
GARTH JENNINGS (Writer) — Son of Rambow
STEVE McQUEEN (Director/Writer) — Hunger
SOLON PAPADOPOULOS, ROY BOULTER (Producers) — Of Time And The City
DIRECTOR
CHANGELING* — Clint Eastwood
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON* — David Fincher
FROST/NIXON* — Ron Howard
THE READER* — Stephen Daldry
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE* — Danny Boyle
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX — Bernard Eichinger, Uli Edel
GOMORRAH — Domenico Procacci, Matteo Garrone
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG — Yves Marmion, Philippe Claudel
PERSEPOLIS — Marc-Antoine Robert, Xavier Rigault, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Parannaud
WALTZ WITH BASHIR — Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahl Ieli, Ari Folman
ANIMATED FILM
PERSEPOLIS — Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Parannaud
WALL•E — Andrew Stanton
WALTZ WITH BASHIR — Ari Folman
LEADING ACTOR
FRANK LANGELLA — Frost/Nixon
DEV PATEL — Slumdog Millionaire
SEAN PENN — Milk
BRAD PITT — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
MICKEY ROURKE — The Wrestler
LEADING ACTRESS
ANGELINA JOLIE — Changeling
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS — I’ve Loved You So Long
MERYL STREEP — Doubt
KATE WINSLET — The Reader
KATE WINSLET — Revolutionary Road
SUPPORTING ACTOR
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. — Tropic Thunder
BRENDAN GLEESON — In Bruges
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN — Doubt
HEATH LEDGER — The Dark Knight
BRAD PITT — Burn After Reading
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS — Doubt
PENÉLOPE CRUZ — Vicky Cristina Barcelona
FREIDA PINTO — Slumdog Millionaire
TILDA SWINTON — Burn After Reading
MARISA TOMEI — The Wrestler
MUSIC
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON — Alexandre Desplat
THE DARK KNIGHT — Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard
MAMMA MIA! — Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE — A. R. Rahman
WALL•E — Thomas Newman