So Round two of voting is over as the BAFTA longlists have been whittled down to the official 5 BAFTA nominees for each category. Top winners are An Education, Avatar and the Hurt Locker with 8 nominations each. There’s not many big surprises and a few of the films that are missing that have already picked up Golden Globe nominations and awards last week aren’t going to be released in time for the BAFTA nominations window so may be nominated next year instead, such as Sandra Bullocks role in Blind Side. Apart from the usual lists of Hollywood stars and well known faces theres a lot of newcomers and not so big names on the list such as Andy Serkis nomination for his role in the Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll for leading actor. Another newcomer is found in the Supporting Actor category for newcomer Christian McKay for his role in Me And Orson Welles.The most pleasing thing is the number of smaller British films that have got nominations outside the British categories with not only An Education but Nowhere Boy and Moon both also picking up quite a few deserving nods.

The BAFTA’s will take place on February 21 at the Royal Opera House in London so it’s a waiting game until then to see if any of these newcomers will actually win! The full list of BAFTA Nominations is below –

BEST FILM 
AVATAR – James Cameron, Jon Landau
AN EDUCATION – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
THE HURT LOCKER – Nominees TBC
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness 
UP IN THE AIR – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM 
AN EDUCATION – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
FISH TANK – Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
IN THE LOOP – Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche 
MOON – Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker 
NOWHERE BOY – Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER 
LUCY BAILEY, ANDREW THOMPSON, ELIZABETH MORGAN HEMLOCK, DAVID PEARSON – Directors, Producers – Mugabe and the White African 
ERAN CREEVY – Writer/Director – Shifty 
STUART HAZELDINE – Writer/Director – Exam 
DUNCAN JONES – Director – Moon 
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD – Director – Nowhere Boy

DIRECTOR 
AVATAR – James Cameron 
DISTRICT 9 – Neill Blomkamp 
AN EDUCATION – Lone Scherfig 
THE HURT LOCKER – Kathryn Bigelow 
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Quentin Tarantino

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 
THE HANGOVER – Jon Lucas, Scott Moore 
THE HURT LOCKER – Mark Boal 
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Quentin Tarantino 
A SERIOUS MAN – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 
UP – Bob Peterson, Pete Docter

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

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 
BROKEN EMBRACES – Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar 
COCO BEFORE CHANEL – Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine 
LET 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

ANIMATED FILM 
CORALINE – Henry Selick
FANTASTIC MR FOX – Wes Anderson
UP – Pete Docter

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

LEADING ACTRESS 
CAREY MULLIGAN – An Education 
SAOIRSE RONAN – The Lovely Bones 
GABOUREY SIDIBE – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 
MERYL STREEP – Julie & Julia 
AUDREY TAUTOU – Coco Before Chanel

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

SUPPORTING ACTRESS 
ANNE-MARIE DUFF – Nowhere Boy 
VERA FARMIGA – Up in the Air 
ANNA KENDRICK – Up in the Air 
MO’NIQUE – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – Nowhere Boy

MUSIC
AVATAR – James Horner 
CRAZY HEART – T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton 
FANTASTIC MR FOX – Alexandre Desplat 
SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL – Chaz Jankel 
UP – Michael Giacchino

CINEMATOGRAPHY 
AVATAR – Mauro Fiore 
DISTRICT 9 – Trent Opaloch 
THE HURT LOCKER – Barry Ackroyd 
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Robert Richardson 
THE ROAD – Javier Aguirresarobe

EDITING 
AVATAR – Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron 
DISTRICT 9 – Julian Clarke 
THE HURT LOCKER – Bob Murawski, Chris Innis 
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Sally Menke 
UP IN THE AIR – Dana E. Glauberman

PRODUCTION DESIGN 
AVATAR – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair 
DISTRICT 9 – Philip Ivey, Guy Poltgieter 
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE – Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan 
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS – Nominees TBC 
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco

COSTUME DESIGN 
BRIGHT STAR – Janet Patterson 
COCO BEFORE CHANEL – Catherine Leterrier 
AN EDUCATION – Odile Dicks-Mireaux 
A SINGLE MAN – Arianne Phillips 
THE YOUNG VICTORIA – Sandy Powell

SOUND 
AVATAR – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague 
DISTRICT 9 – Nominees TBC 
THE HURT LOCKER – Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer 
STAR TREK – Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt 
UP – Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS 
AVATAR – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones 
DISTRICT 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken 
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE – John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi 
THE HURT LOCKER – Richard Stutsman 
STAR TREK – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

MAKE UP & HAIR 
COCO BEFORE CHANEL – Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Jane Milon 
AN EDUCATION – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou 
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS – Sarah Monzani 
NINE – Peter ‘Swords’ King 
THE YOUNG VICTORIA – Jenny Shircore

SHORT ANIMATION 
THE HAPPY DUCKLING – Gili Dolev 
MOTHER OF MANY – Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby 
THE GRUFFALO – Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang

SHORT FILM 
14 – Asitha Ameresekere 
I DO AIR – James Bolton, Martina Amati 
JADE – Samm Haillay, Daniel Elliott 
MIXTAPE – Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin 
OFF SEASON – Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan van Tulleken

ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD 
JESSE EISENBERG
NICHOLAS HOULT
CAREY MULLIGAN
TAHAR RAHIM 
KRISTEN STEWART