"Kerching!"
Goes The Rings!
"Lord of the Rings 5, Harry Potter 0" was one
way of summing up the results of the BAFTAs ceremony,
Britain's answer to the Oscars, which took place last
night at The Odeon in Leicester Square.
The first installment of Tolkien's epic was the big winner
on the night. The 4,500 members of the British Academy
of Film and Television Arts gave it awards for Best Film
and Best Director, for Peter Jackson, and it also won
the People's Award for most popular film voted for by
30,000 cinemagoers.
The boy wizard Harry Potter failed to conjure up a single
award in spite of getting eight nominations, something
the hobbits may be thinking of as they journey towards
the Oscars with their
13 nominations in hand.
Russell Crowe, who was pipped by young Jamie Bell last
year in the Best Actor category, lifted the gold mask
in the same category for his role as a schizophrenic mathematical
genius in A
Beautiful Mind. Dame Judi Dench won the Best Actress
award for her role as the author Iris Murdoch in Iris.
Moulin Rouge also did well earning three awards for Best
Music, Best Sound and Best Supporting Actor for Jim Broadbent
- without a doubt one of the best British actors around.
Jennifer Connelley scooped the Best Supporting Actress
BAFTA for her role in A Beautiful Mind.
Amores
Perros was top dog in the foreign film category beating
the sweet and eccentric French comedy, Amelie.
There was consolation for the latter with wins
for best original screenplay and best production design.
Ironically, an American director, Robert Altman, won the
Best British Film for Gosford Park - the film stars a
posse of British talent. The irony was not lost on Altman
who remarked:
"It is the greatest thing that has ever happened
to me in film, but I feel like a raider in the night.
We came over and sneaked into the film industry here."
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