The British BAFTA Award Nominations are in... a Special EURO-AICN Report

Father Geek here taking a break from the festivities on MY 58th Birthday to present you with this year's nominations for the BAFTAs, the British Academy Awards for film. For those of you just interested in the bottomline CHICAGO has 12 nominations as does GANGS OF NEW YORK, HOURS has 11, THE TWO TOWERS got 9, and THE PIANIST garnered 7. Ian McKellen announced the nominations this morning... Sooooo with no more talk from me here they are in detail...

BEST FILM (English Language)

• CHICAGO Martin Richards
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Alberto Grimaldi/Harvey Weinstein
• THE HOURS Scott Rudin/Robert Fox
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS Barrie M Osborne/Fran Walsh/Peter Jackson
• THE PIANIST Roman Polanski/Robert Benmussa/Alain Sarde

The Alexander Korda Award for the outstanding British film of the year

• BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM Deepak Nayar/Gurinder Chadha
• DIRTY PRETTY THINGS Tracey Seaward/Robert Jones/Stephen Frears
• THE HOURS Scott Rudin/Robert Fox/Stephen Daldry
• THE MAGDALENE SISTERS Frances Higson/Peter Mullan
• THE WARRIOR Bertrand Faivre/Asif Kapadia

The Carl Foreman Award for special Achievement by a Director, Screenwriter or Producer in their first feature film

• SIMON BENT (Writer) Christie Malry's Own Double Entry
• LUCY DARWIN (Producer) Lost in La Mancha
• ASIF KAPADIA (Director/Co-Writer) The Warrior
• DUNCAN ROY (Director/Writer) AKA

The David Lean Award for achievement in Direction

• CHICAGO Rob Marshall
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Martin Scorsese
• THE HOURS Stephen Daldry
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS Peter Jackson
• THE PIANIST Roman Polanski

Screenplay (Original)

• AND YOUR MOTHER TOO (Y Tu Mama Tambien) Carlos Cuarón/Alfonso Cuarón
• DIRTY PRETTY THINGS Steven Knight
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Jay Cocks/Steven Zaillian/Kenneth Lonergan
• THE MAGDALENE SISTERS Peter Mullan
• TALK TO HER (Hable con Ella) Pedro Almodóvar

Screenplay (Adapted)

• ABOUT A BOY Peter Hedges/Chris Weitz/Paul Weitz
• ADAPTATION Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman
• CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Jeff Nathanson
• THE HOURS David Hare
• THE PIANIST Ronald Harwood

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• HALLE BERRY Monster's Ball
• SALMA HAYEK Frida
• NICOLE KIDMAN The Hours
• MERYL STREEP The Hours
• RENÉE ZELLWEGER Chicago

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• ADRIEN BRODY The Pianist
• NICOLAS CAGE Adaptation
• MICHAEL CAINE The Quiet American
• DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Gangs of New York
• JACK NICHOLSON About Schmidt

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• TONI COLLETTE About a Boy
• QUEEN LATIFAH Chicago
• JULIANNE MOORE The Hours
• MERYL STREEP Adaptation
• CATHERINE ZETA-JONES Chicago

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• CHRIS COOPER Adaptation
• ED HARRIS The Hours
• ALFRED MOLINA Frida
• PAUL NEWMAN Road to Perdition
• CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Catch Me If You Can

The Anthony Asquith Award for achievement in Film Music

• CATCH ME IF YOU CAN John Williams
• CHICAGO Danny Elfman/John Kander/Fred Ebb
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Howard Shore
• THE HOURS Philip Glass
• THE PIANIST Wojciech Kilar

Best Film not in the English Language

• AND YOUR MOTHER TOO (Y Tu Mama Tambien) Jorge Vergara/Alfonso Cuarón
• CITY OF GOD (Cidade Deus) Andrea Barata Ribeiro/Mauricio Andrade Ramos/Fernando Meirelles
• DEVDAS Bharat Shah/Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• TALK TO HER (Hable con Ella) Agustín Almodóvar/Pedro Almodóvar
• THE WARRIOR Bertrand Faivre/Asif Kapadia

Cinematography

• CHICAGO Dion Beebe
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Michael Ballhaus
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS Andrew Lesnie
• THE PIANIST Pawel Edelman
• ROAD TO PERDITION Conrad L Hall

Production Design

• CHICAGO John Myhre
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Dante Ferretti
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS Stuart Craig
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS Grant Major
• ROAD TO PERDITION Dennis Gassner

Costume Design

• CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Mary Zophres
• CHICAGO Colleen Atwood
• FRIDA Julie Weiss
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Sandy Powell
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS Ngila Dickson/Richard Taylor

Editing

• CHICAGO Martin Walsh
• CITY OF GOD (Cidade Deus) Daniel Rezende
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Thelma Schoonmaker
• THE HOURS Peter Boyle
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS Michael Horton/Jabez Olssen

Sound

• CHICAGO
• GANGS OF NEW YORK
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
• THE PIANIST

Achievement in Special Visual Effects

• GANGS OF NEW YORK
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
• MINORITY REPORT
• SPIDER-MAN

Make up/Hair

• CHICAGO Jordan Samuel/Judi Cooper Sealy
• FRIDA Judy Chin/Beatrice D'Alba
• GANGS OF NEW YORK Manlio Rocchetti
• THE HOURS Ivana Primorac/Conor O'Sullivan/Jo Allen
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS Peter Owen/Peter King

Short Film

• BOUNCER Natasha Carlish/Sophie Morgan/Michael Baig-Clifford/Geoff Thompson
• CANDY BAR KID Benjamin John/Shah Khan
• GOOD NIGHT Yoav Factor/Chun Sun-Young
• THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN IN THE WORLD Hugh Welchman/Alicia Duffy
• MY WRONGS 8245-8249 AND 117 Mark Herbert/Chris Morris
• RANK Andrew O'Connell/David Yates/Robbie McCallum

Short Animation

• THE CHUB CHUBS Jacquie Barnbrook/Eric Armstrong/Jeff Wolverton
• THE DOG WHO WAS A CAT INSIDE Andrew Ruhemann/Siân Rees/Siri Melchoir
• FISH NEVER SLEEP Gaëlle Denis
• SAP Lucie Wenigerová/Kim Hyun-Joo
• WEDDING ESPRES

Oh Yeah, They'll be giving out the winner's awards on Feb. 23, 2003!