62nd British Academy Film Awards

The 62nd British Academy Film Awards, hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 8 February 2009, and honoured the best films of 2008.

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
• Sean Penn – Milk
• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Actress

Kate Winslet – The Reader

• Angelina Jolie – Changeling
• Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je T'Aime)
• Meryl Streep – Doubt
• Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

Best Animated Film

WALL-E

• Persepolis
• Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

Best Cinematography

Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

• Changeling – Tom Stern
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
• The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
• The Reader – Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

Best Costume Design

The Duchess – Michael O'Connor

• Changeling – Deborah Hopper
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jacqueline West
• The Dark Knight – Lindy Hemming
• Revolutionary Road – Albert Wolsky

Best Director

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

• Clint Eastwood – Changeling
• David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
• Stephen Daldry – The Reader

Best Editing

Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens

There was a tie in this category, leading to six nominations.

• Changeling – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
• The Dark Knight – Lee Smith
• Frost/Nixon – Dan Hanley and Mike Hill
• In Bruges – Jon Gregory

Best Film

Slumdog Millionaire

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader

Best Film – British (Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film)

Man on Wire

• Hunger
• In Bruges
• Mamma Mia! The Movie
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Film Not in the English Language

I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) • France

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) • Germany
• Gomorrah (Gomorra) • Italy
• Persepolis • France
• Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir) • Israel

Best Makeup and Hair

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jean Black, Colleen Callaghan

• The Dark Knight – Peter Robb-King
• The Duchess – Daniel Phillips, Jan Archibald
• Frost/Nixon – Edouard Henriques, Kim Santantonio
• Milk – Steven E. Anderson, Michael White

Best Music (Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music)

Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
• The Dark Knight – James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
• Mamma Mia! – Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
• WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Best Production Design

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo

• Changeling – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
• The Dark Knight – Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
• Revolutionary Road – Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
• Slumdog Millionaire – Mark Digby, Michelle Day

Best Screenplay – Adapted

Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
• Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
• The Reader – David Hare
• Revolutionary Road – Justin Haythe

Best Screenplay – Original

In Bruges – Martin McDonagh

• Burn After Reading – Ethan and Joel Coen
• Changeling – J. Michael Straczynski
• I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) – Philippe Claudel
• Milk – Dustin Lance Black

Best Sound

Slumdog Millionaire – Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp

• Changeling – Walt Martin, Alan Robert Murray, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff
• The Dark Knight – Lora Hirschberg, Richard King, Ed Novick, Gary Rizzo
• Quantum of Solace – Jimmy Boyle, Eddy Joseph, Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor
• WALL-E – Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Matthew Wood

Best Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

• Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Brad Pitt – Burn After Reading

Best Supporting Actress

Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona

• Amy Adams – Doubt
• Freida Pinto – Slumdog Millionaire
• Tilda Swinton – Burn After Reading
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Best Visual Effects

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Barba, Craig Barron, – Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams

• The Dark Knight – Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin, Tim Webber
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Pablo Helman
• Iron Man – Shane Patrick Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow
• Quantum of Solace – Chris Corbould, Kevin Tod Haug

Best Short Animation

A Matter of Loaf and Death – Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker

• Codswallop – Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
• Varmints – Sue Goffe, Marc Craste

Best Short Film

September - Stewart le Maréchal, Esther May Campbell

• Kingsland #1 The Dreamer – Kate Ogborn, Tony Grisoni
• Love You More – Adrian Sturges, Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber
• Ralph – Olivier Kaempfer, Alex Winckler
• Voyages D'Affaires (The Business Trip) – Celine Quideau, Sean Ellis

Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film

Steve McQueen - Hunger (director/writer)

• Simon Chinn - Man on Wire (producer)
• Judy Craymer - Mamma Mia! The Movie (producer)
• Garth Jennings - Son of Rambow (writer)
• Roy Boulter and Solon Papadopoulos - Of Time and the City (producers)

Orange Rising Star Award

Noel Clarke

• Michael Cera
• Michael Fassbender
• Rebecca Hall
• Toby Kebbell

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

Shepperton Studios and Pinewood Studios

Awards breakdown

List of films that received multiple awards:

• 7 Slumdog Millionaire
• 3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

List of films that received multiple nominations:

• 11 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire
• 9 The Dark Knight
• 8 Changeling
• 6 Frost/Nixon
• 5 The Reader
• 4 In Bruges, Milk and Revolutionary Road
• 3 Burn After Reading, Doubt, I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), Mamma Mia! and WALL-E
• 2 The Duchess, Quantum of Solace, Hunger, The Wrestler, Persepolis, and Waltz with Bashir

List of people who received multiple nominations:

• 2 Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet

Ratings

BAFTA delivers 19% share. [1]

References

• "Film Nominations in 2009". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/film-nominations-in-2009,657,BA.html. Retrieved 15 January 2009.