Adam Deacon wins BAFTA Rising Star award
On Sunday, all the stars got their glad-rags on for this year’s BAFTAs – that’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to you and me!
Edith Bowman hosted the Red Carpet Show for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three, getting you all the insider gossip before the main event. She braved the cold to chat to the nominees and celebrity guests as they arrived for the most prestigious film awards in the UK. And didn't they all scrub up well?
The only BAFTA of the night voted for by the public went to Adam Deacon as he collected his Rising Star award. He's been a busy manÌý - as well as starring in and writing, directing and featuring in , he played Andrew Ibrahimin in ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three's The Boarding School Bomber last year.
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Adam beat off some stiff competition for the Rising Star award, with other nominated actors including Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris O'Dowd of fame, Eddie Redmayne ( ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One's Birdsong) and Tom Hiddleston (Warhorse).
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Jean Dujardin helped silent film become one of the most successful films ever at the awards.Ìý Winning Best Leading Actor, he took the film to an impressive seven BAFTAs, equalling Danny Boyle's and Tom Hooper's . The only other films to have received more BAFTAs are and with eight and nine awards respectively. Here Jean Dujardin accepts his award, with a little nod to British greats like Benny Hill!Ìý
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Meryl Streep won her second BAFTA in the Best Leading Actress category for her role as Margaret Thatcher in . She is the most nominated person in the history of the BAFTA's, with a grand total of 13! Does that make her the luckiest, or unluckiest record holder, I'm not sure?!Ìý Here Colin Firth comes to her aid as she loses a shoe on the way to the stage:
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More of the night's nominees and winners include:
BEST FILM
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
My Week With Marilyn
Senna
Shame
We Need To Talk About Kevin
BEST DIRECTOR
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Tomas Alfredson - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay - We Need To Talk About Kevin
BEST ACTOR
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Clooney - The Descendants
Michael Fassbender - Shame
BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis - The Help
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Jim Broadbent - The Iron Lady
Jonah Hill - Moneyball
Kenneth Branagh - My Week with Marilyn
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Ides of March
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Carey Mulligan - Drive
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Judi Dench - My Week with Marilyn
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
RISING STAR AWARD (VOTED BY THE PUBLIC)
Adam Deacon
Chris Hemsworth
Chris O'Dowd
Eddie Redmayne
Tom Hiddleston
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For the full list of nominees and winners, go to the page.
British Academy Film Awards: Red Carpet was on Sunday at 7.30pm on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Three.
The British Academy Film Awards 2012 was on Sunday at 9pm on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One.
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Comment number 1.
At 10th Feb 2012, Christopher Plummer Website wrote:Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer is most likely to win this award.
Next stop: the Oscar. Climb every mountain!
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