The King’s Speech almost swept the board at the BAFTAs tonight, but the British Academy reserved the right to deliver a few surprises.
The stammering monarch walked away with seven gongs, including both Film awards and recognition for its leading players (Colin Firth’s second leading actor BAFTA on the trot and his 26th award for this film; Geoffrey Rush’s third BAFTA and his second in the supporting actor category - and only his 7th award for this film; and HBC’s first BAFTA – strange as that may seem), and the outstanding script and soundtrack. But director Tom Hooper did not win his fight – he justifiably lost out to David Fincher on The Social Network, although this is still something of a shock.
The facebook movie also scooped the adapted script and editing.
Among a raft of predictable winners (Inception snagging three technical gongs; Portman for Best Actress, TS3 for Animated Film, etc), there was one welcome surprise: Roger Deakins, the cinematographers’ cinematographer, won his third BAFTA in 10 years for his lensing of True Grit.
The shock winner of the night came in the foreign film category, with the gong going to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo… WTF?
BAFTA 2011: the winners
The King’s Speech: Film/British Film/Actor/Supporting Actor/Supporting Actress/Original Screenplay/Score
Inception: Sound/Production Design/Special Visual Effects
The Social Network: Director/Adapted Screenplay/Editing
Black Swan: Actress
True Grit: Cinematography
TS3: Animated Film
Alice: Costume Design
Dragon Tattoo: Foreign Film
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Best deserved award must be Natalie Portman for Black Swan - a brilliant, scary, disturbing film in which Ms Portman delivers a pretty horrifying portrayal of schizophrenic paranoia. The much hyped lesbian sex scene was just that - hyped - but I admit the dark beauty of Mila Kunis certainly got my imagination racing too!
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