Colin Firth and 'The King's Speech' leads with 14 Bafta Nominations!!!

Posted by Le on Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Colin Firth, who just won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture for his award winning film, The King's Speech this past Sunday (January 16th) gets another nomination for Leading Actor (which he won last year for A Single Man) and a total of 14 nominations for TKS (including Best Film, Director, and Actor) at the 2011 BAFTA, which was announced by P&P's Talulah Riley and Dominic Cooper this morning.

While Rosamund Pike and Carey Mulligan made the BAFTA Longlist, neither one made it to the shortlist of the final BAFTA nominations (and it seems Miss Pike Disappointed By Bafta Choices). Rosamund Pike's Made In Dagenham co-star Miranda Richardson and the film scored 4 nominations though. Talulah Riley's Inception film garnered 9 nominations. Meanwhile Lost In Austen's Gemma Arterton is nominated for Orange Wednesdays Rising Award. Read this article from BBC News about Baftas 2011: surprises and sure things, it mentioned Carey Mulligan's exclusion in the nomination as well as Sally Hawkins. Interesting no mention of RP, Paul Giamatti (who just won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical this past Sunday), and Barney's Version's snubbed after lots of mentions in the longlist...

Watch Dominic Cooper and Talulah Riley announce the nominations for the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards.
The nominations announcement was held at BAFTA's headquarters in Piccadilly. The introduction was made by Academy Chairman Tim Corrie and the nominees were announced by actor Dominic Cooper and actress Talulah Riley.
Updated 2/1/10
Here's another video of Talulah Riley and Dominic Cooper being interviewed by BBC News... Talulah Riley: 'Colin Firth is a national treasure.' (Thanks to Charleybrown for the video link)

Here's shortlist of  BAFTA nominations for The King's Speech, Inception, and Made In Dagenham.


BEST FILM
  • BLACK SWAN
  • INCEPTION
  • THE KING’S SPEECH
  • THE SOCIAL NETWORK
  • TRUE GRIT
DIRECTOR
  • 127 HOURS – Danny Boyle
  • BLACK SWAN – Darren Aronofsky
  • INCEPTION – Christopher Nolan
  • THE KING’S SPEECH – Tom Hooper
  • THE SOCIAL NETWORK – David Fincher
LEADING ACTOR
  • JAVIER BARDEM – Biutiful
  • JEFF BRIDGES – True Grit
  • JESSE EISENBERG – The Social Network
  • COLIN FIRTH – The King’s Speech
  • JAMES FRANCO – 127 Hours

SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • CHRISTIAN BALE – The Fighter
  • ANDREW GARFIELD – The Social Network
  • PETE POSTLETHWAITE – The Town
  • MARK RUFFALO – The Kids Are All Right
  • GEOFFREY RUSH – The King’s Speech
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
  • AMY ADAMS – The Fighter
  • HELENA BONHAM CARTER – The King’s Speech
  • BARBARA HERSHEY – Black Swan
  • LESLEY MANVILLE – Another Year
  • MIRANDA RICHARDSON – Made in Dagenham
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
  • 127 HOURS
  • ANOTHER YEAR
  • FOUR LIONS
  • THE KING’S SPEECH
  • MADE IN DAGENHAM
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
  • BLACK SWAN – Mark Heyman, Andrés 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
ORIGINAL MUSIC
  • 127 HOURS – AR Rahman
  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Danny Elfman
  • HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – John Powell
  • INCEPTION – Hans Zimmer
  • THE KING’S SPEECH – Alexandre Desplat
CINEMATOGRAPHY
  • 127 HOURS – Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
  • BLACK SWAN – Matthew Libatique
  • INCEPTION – Wally Pfister
  • THE KING’S SPEECH – Danny Cohen
  • TRUE GRIT – Roger Deakins
EDITING
  • 127 HOURS – Jon Harris
  • BLACK SWAN – Andrew Weisblum
  • INCEPTION – Lee Smith
  • THE KING’S SPEECH – Tariq Anwar
  • THE SOCIAL NETWORK – Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
PRODUCTION DESIGN
  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
  • BLACK SWAN – Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
  • INCEPTION – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
  • THE KING’S SPEECH – Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
  • TRUE GRIT – Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
COSTUME DESIGN
  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Colleen Atwood
  • BLACK SWAN – Amy Westcott
  • THE KING’S SPEECH – Jenny Beavan
  • MADE IN DAGENHAM – Louise Stjernsward
  • TRUE GRIT – Mary Zophres
SOUND
  • 127 HOURS
  • BLACK SWAN
  • INCEPTION
  • THE KING’S SPEECH
  • TRUE GRIT
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND
  • BLACK SWAN
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1
  • INCEPTION
  • TOY STORY 3
MAKE UP & HAIR
  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND
  • BLACK SWAN
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1
  • THE KING’S SPEECH
  • MADE IN DAGENHAM
ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING AWARD
  • GEMMA ARTERTON
  • ANDREW GARFIELD
  • TOM HARDY
  • AARON JOHNSON
  • EMMA STONE 
The Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award is the only category voted for by the public. Find out more about this year's nominees and place your vote.
View the full list of BAFTA Nominations here!

The British Academy Film Awards will take place on Sunday 13 February.