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BAFTA 2010: Nominations Announced | Clothes on Film

Posted by Chris Laverty – January 21, 2010

Here is the just announced list of nominations for BAFTA 2010, paying special attention to Best Costume Design because that is what we do here.

Four nods for Coco avant Chanel and, perhaps inevitably, Avatar, although not for costume design. The Hurt Locker gets a thoroughly well deserved shout for Best Film, though again costume design misses out. Period dominates then, as per the norm.

Big hitters below:

COSTUME DESIGN

Bright Star – Janet Patterson Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) – Catherine Leterrier An Education – Odile Dicks-Mireaux A Single Man – Arianne Phillips

The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell

BEST FILM

Avatar An Education The Hurt Locker Precious

Up In The Air

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

An Education Fish Tank In The Loop Moon

Nowhere Boy

LEADING ACTRESS

Carey Mulligan – An Education Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones Gabourey Sidibe – Precious Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Audrey Tautou – Coco avant Chanel

LEADING ACTOR

Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart George Clooney – Up In The Air Colin Firth – A Single Man Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Andy Serkis – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Annie-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy Vera Farmiga – Up In The Air Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air Mo’nique – Precious

Kristin Scott Thomas – Nowhere Boy

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alec Baldwin – It’s Complicated Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles Alfred Molina – An Education Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Hangover – Jon Lucas and Scott Moore Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

District 9 – Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell An Education – Nick Hornby In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher

Up in the Air – Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Avatar – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair District 9 – Philip Ivey and Guy Poltgieter Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Not yet announced

Inglourious Basterds – David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds Wasco

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Broken Embraces – Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar Coco avant Chanel – Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine Le the Right One In – Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson A Prophet – Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard

The White Ribbon – Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke

Our choice for Best Costume Design would be Janet Patterson’s meticulous early 19th century work on Bright Star, although all are worthy nominations. It is just a shame that, in general, only period films ever get the nod come award season. The Hurt Locker, costumes by George Little and Vicky Mulholland, for example is not pretty, but the attention to detail on correct fatigues and BDUs (Battle Dress Uniforms) is exemplary.

The Orange British Academy Film Awards (i.e. BAFTA) will take place on 21st February.

Source: Empire

© 2010, Chris Laverty.

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