Wednesday 19 January 2011

The BAFTAS - The King's Speech has 14 Nominations. True Grit has 8

The BAFTAS 2011 List of Nominations is out.
The King's Speech has a whopping fourteen including Best Original Screenplay, Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Editing.

The Coens' True Grit got zero nominations at the Golden Globes, but they're on the BAFTA list for eight including Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematographer (the Coens' regular, Roger Deakins, Best Actor (Jeff Bridges) and Best Actress (Hailee Steinfeld)

I always find it interesting to compare the current nominees of screen awards with the winners of the previous years.

You can compare this year's BAFTA nominations with the winners from 2010 and 2009
here. Click on BAFTAS on the left hand menu:

http://www.unique-screenwriting.com

What do think of the Screenplay Nominees?

Best original screenplay

Black Swan - Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin

The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson

Inception - Christopher Nolan

The Kids are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg

The King's Speech - David Seidler

Best adapted screenplay

127 Hours - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel

The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin

Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt

True Grit - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen