Winners of The 2013 British Academy of Film and Television Awards

The 2013 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA Awards) were handed out last weekend, and director Ben Affleck’s thriller continued its domination of awards season by landing the Best Film and Best Director prizes.  The BAFTAs have always been an important bellwether for predicting Oscar, but they may be even more in tune with the Academy this year as a rule change allowed the entire BAFTA voting body to vote on every award (like the Oscars), instead of writers only voting for screenplay, actors only voting for acting, etc.

Les Miserables won the most BAFTAs of the night, taking home four trophies including Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway (duh) and Best Production Design (over Anna Karenina? Really?).  The winners actually lined up pretty closely with my current Oscar predictions, though most were surprised to see David O. Russell take home the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar over Lincoln and Argo.  Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence were also overtaken in Best Actress by Emmanuel Riva for Amour, who has emerged as a strong possibility in a tough category.  Hit the jump for the full list of winners.


Here’s the list of winners for the 2013 BAFTAs:

    Best Film – Argo
    Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
    Best Actress – Emmanuel Riva, Amour
    Best Supporting Actress – Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
    Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
    Best Director – Ben Affleck, Argo
    Best Adapted Screenplay – David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
    Best Original Screenplay – Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
    Best Production Design – Les Miserables
    Best Cinematography – Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi
    Special Visual Effects – Life of Pi
    Best Editing – William Goldenberg, Argo
    Best Sound – Les Miserables
    Best Make Up & Hair – Les Miserables
    Best Costume Design – Anna Karenina
    Best Original Music – Thomas Newman, Skyfall
    Best Documentary – Searching for Sugar Man
    Best Animated Film – Brave
    Best Film Not in the English Language – Amour
    Best British Film – Skyfall
    Best Short Film – Swimmer
    Best Short Animation – The Making of Longbird
    Outstanding British Debut – Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis, The Imposter
    Rising Star Award – Juno Temple
    Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema – Tessa Ross