63rd British Academy Film Awards

63rd British Academy Film Awards
Date	21 February 2010
Site	Royal Opera House
Hosted by	Jonathan Ross
Highlights
Best Film	The Hurt Locker
Best Actor	Colin Firth A Single Man
Best Actress	Carey Mulligan An Education
Most awards	The Hurt Locker (6)
Most nominations	An Education, Avatar & The Hurt Locker (8)

The 63rd British Academy Film Awards, hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 21 February 2010 and honoured the best films of 2009. The Hurt Locker took home the most awards, receiving 6 BAFTAS.^[1]

Nominees And Winners

Kathryn Bigelow, Best Director winner

Colin Firth, Best Actor winner

Carey Mulligan, Best Actress winner

Christoph Waltz, Best Supporting Actor winner

Mo'Nique, Best Supporting Actress winner

Academy Fellowship

Vanessa Redgrave

Best Film	Best Director
The Hurt Locker Avatar An Education Precious Up in the Air	The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow An Education – Lone Scherfig Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino District 9 – Neill Blomkamp Avatar – James Cameron
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Bad Blake George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as William James Andy Serkis – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Ian Dury	Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones as Susie Salmon Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child Audrey Tautou – Coco Before Chanel as Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa Alec Baldwin – It's Complicated as Jake Adler Alfred Molina – An Education as Jack Miller Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles as Orson Welles Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey	Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Lee Johnston Anne-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy as Julia Lennon Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener Kristin Scott Thomas – Nowhere Boy as Mimi Smith
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal The Hangover – Jon Lucas and Scott Moore Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino A Serious Man – Coen brothers Up – Pete Docter and Bob Peterson	Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell An Education – Nick Hornby In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher
Best Cinematography	Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd Avatar – Mauro Fiore District 9 – Trent Opaloch Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson The Road – Javier Aguirresarobe	Duncan Jones (Director) – Moon Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock and David Pearson (Directors and Producers) – Mugabe and the White African Eran Creevy (Writer and Director) – Shifty Stuart Hazeldine (Writer and Director) – Exam Sam Taylor-Wood (Director) – Nowhere Boy
Outstanding British Film	Best Original Music
Fish Tank An Education In the Loop Moon Nowhere Boy	Up – Michael Giacchino Avatar – James Horner Crazy Heart – T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Chaz Jankel
Best Sound	Best Production Design
The Hurt Locker – Ray Beckett, Paul N.J. Ottosson Avatar District 9 Star Trek Up	Avatar District 9 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Inglourious Basterds
Best Special Visual Effects	Best Costume Design
Avatar District 9 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Hurt Locker Star Trek	The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell) Bright Star Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) An Education A Single Man
Best Makeup and Hair	Best Editing
The Young Victoria Coco Before Chanel An Education The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Nine	The Hurt Locker – Chris Innis & Bob Murawski Avatar – Stephen E. Rivkin & John Refoua & James Cameron District 9 – Julian Clarke Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke Up in the Air – Dana E. Glauberman
Best Film Not in the English Language	Best Animated Film
A Prophet (Un prophète) Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band)	Up – Pete Docter Coraline – Henry Selick Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson
Best Short Animation	Best Short Film
Mother of Many The Happy Duckling The Gruffalo	I Do Air 14 Jade Mixtape Off Season
Orange Rising Star Award
Kristen Stewart Jesse Eisenberg Nicholas Hoult Carey Mulligan Tahar Rahim

Awards breakdown

List of films that received multiple awards:

• 6: The Hurt Locker
• 2: Avatar, The Young Victoria, Up

List of films that received multiple nominations:

• 8: Avatar, An Education, The Hurt Locker
• 7: District 9
• 6: Up in the Air, Inglourious Basterds
• 4: Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel), Nowhere Boy, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Up
• 2: Fantastic Mr. Fox, In the Loop, The Lovely Bones, Moon, A Single Man, Star Trek, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Young Victoria

References

1. "Baftas 2010: A peculiarly British awards". BBC News. 2010-02-22. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-23.

• "2010 BAFTA nominees and winners". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2010.

External links

• Bafta Gallery 2010