65th British Academy Film Awards (2012)

The 65th British Academy Film Awards ceremony was held on 12 February 2012 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2011. Stephen Fry, who hosted from 2001 to 2006, returned to host the awards ceremony. The Artist won seven awards, out of its twelve nominations, including Best Director and Best Film. Jean Dujardin and Meryl Streep received awards for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively, while Octavia Spencer and Christopher Plummer won the Best Supporting awards. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was awarded the Best British Film. Director Martin Scorsese was given the Academy Fellowship and John Hurt garnered the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award.
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Best Film

The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Foreign Langauge Film

The Skin I Live In
Incendies
Pina
Potiche
A Separation

Best Director

The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Tomas Alfredson
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Hugo - Martin Scorsese

Best Leading Actor

The Artist - Jean Dujardin
The Descendants - George Clooney
Shame - Michael Fassbender
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Gary Oldman
Moneyball - Brad Pitt

Best Leading Actress

The Iron Lady - Meryl Streep
The Artist - Berenice Bejo
The Help - Viola Davis
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Tilda Swinton
My Week with Marilyn - Michelle Williams

Best Special Visual Effects

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler, David Vickery
Hugo - Robert Legato, Ben Grossmann, Joss Williams
The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn - Joe Letteri
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White
War Horse - Ben Morris, Neil Corbould

Best Screenplay Adapted

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
The Ides of March - George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
The Descendants - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
The Help - Tate Taylor
Moneyball - Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin

Best Screenplay Original

The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
The Guard - John Michael McDonagh
The Iron Lady - Abi Morgan
Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig

Best Music

The Artist - Ludovic Bource
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Alberto Iglesias
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Hugo - Howard Shore
War Horse - John Williams

Best Cinematography

The Artist - Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Jeff Cronenweth
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Hoyte van Hoytema
War Horse - Janusz Kaminski
Hugo - Robert Richardson

Best Editing

Senna - Gregers Sall, Chris King
The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Dino Jonsater
Drive - Mat Newman
Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker

Best Production Design

Hugo - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
The Artist - Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould
War Horse - Rick Carter, Lee Sandales
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald

Best Costume Design

The Artist - Mark Bridges
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Jacqueline Durran
Jane Eyre - Michael O'Connor
Hugo - Sandy Powell
My Week with Marilyn - Jill Taylor

Best Sound

Hugo - Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Casali, Howard Bargroff, Doug Cooper, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - James Mather, Stuart Wilson, Stuart Hilliker, Mike Dowson, Adam Scrivener
The Artist - Nadine Muse, Gerard Lamps, Michael Krikorian
War Horse - Stuart Wilson, Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Richard Hymns

Best Supporting Actor

Beginners - Christopher Plummer
My Week with Marilyn - Kenneth Branagh
The Iron Lady - Jim Broadbent
Moneyball - Jonah Hill
The Ides of March - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Best Supporting Actress

The Help - Octavia Spencer
The Help - Jessica Chastain
My Week with Marilyn - Judi Dench
Bridesmaids - Melissa McCarthy
Drive - Carey Mulligan

Best Make-Up and Hair

The Iron Lady - Marese Langan
The Artist - Julie Hewett, Cydney Cornell
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
Hugo - Morag Ross, Jan Archibald
My Week with Marilyn - Jenny Shircore

Best Short Animation

A Morning Stroll - Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe
Abuelas - Afarin Eghbal, Kasia Malipan, Francesca Gardiner
Bobby Yeah - Robert Morgan

Best Short Film

Pitch Black Heist - John Maclean, Gerardine O'Flynn
Chalk - Martina Amati, Gavin Emerson, James Bolton, Ilaria Bernardini
Only Sound Remains - Arash Ashtiani, Anshu Poddar
Mwansa the Great - Rungano Nyoni, Gabriel Gauchet
Two and Two - Babak Anvari, Kit Fraser, Gavin Cullen

The Orange Rising Star Award

Adam Deacon
Chris Hemsworth
Tom Hiddleston
Chris O'Dowd
Eddie Redmayne

Fellowship Award

Martin Scorsese

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

John Hurt

Best Animated Film

Rango
The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn
Arthur Christmas

Outstanding British Film

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Outstanding Debut by a British Director

Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine
Attack the Block - Joe Cornish
Black Pond - Will Sharpe, Tom Kingsley
Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes
Submarine - Richard Ayoade

Best Documentary

Senna - Asif Kapadia
George Harrison - Living in the Material World - Martin Scorsese
Project Nim - James Marsh
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