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Awards for UK films and British talent in 2011

BFI Research and Statistics Unit

29 March 2012

Awards for UK films and talent

UK films and British individuals won 29 major academy and festival awards in 2011. The awards ceremonies and film festivals included in this measure are the ®, the BAFTA Film Awards and the major international film festivals (Berlin, Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and Venice). The 29 awards won by UK films and British talent represent 15% of the total number available (awards specific to foreign nationals or films, for example the Toronto International Film Festival’s award for Best Canadian Film, are not included in the present analysis). The 29 awards to UK films and talent in 2011 is five more than were won in 2010, when UK films and British talent won 24 awards (12% of the total number available in 2010).

At the 2011 Oscars®, The King’s Speech won four awards including Best Film. It also won the Best Director award for , Best Leading Actor for and Best Original Screenplay for . There were also awards for British talent associated with other films. Christian Bale won Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter, Dave Elsey won the Makeup award (with Rick Baker) for The Wolfman and Atticus Ross won the Best Original Score award (with Trent Reznor) for The Social Network. One of ’s four wins was for Best Visual Effects, which went to the British team of Paul Franklin, , and .

In addition to its success at the Academy Awards®, The King’s Speech was the most successful film at the Bafta Awards with seven wins, including Best Film and Outstanding British Film. Of its five awards to individuals, three went to British talent. won Best Supporting Actress and, matching their successes at the Oscars®, Colin Firth won Best Leading Actor and David Seidler won Best Original Screenplay. The King’s Speech also won two awards for non-British talent. won Best Supporting Actor and Alexandre Desplat won the Best Music award. A total of 15 Bafta awards went to British talent or British films in 2011. The full list is shown in Table 1 belowe.

At the Sundance Festival Tyrannosaur won three awards. Paddy Considine won the World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic, and both and Peter Mullan won World Cinema Special Jury Prizes: Dramatic for Breakout Performances. Three other awards went to British films or talent at the Sundance festival. won the Special Jury Prize: Dramatic award for her role in , won the World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary for Project Nim and the British documentary Senna won the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary award.

Of the 29 awards to British films and talent in 2011, Helena Bonham Carter’s Bafta award and the awards to Felicity Jones and Olivia Colman at the Sundance festival were the only three awards won by British women or by British films made by women (compared with ten from 24 awards in 2010).

However, one other British female film maker did collect an award for her film, but this award is not included in the list below as the award was for the film rather than 2 the person, and the film is American. Erica Dunton collected the Audience Award - Best of Next at the Sundance festival for her film To.get.her.

Table 1, shows a complete list of the 29 awards made to UK films and British talent at the major awards ceremonies and film festivals. 3 Table 1 UK award winners, 2011

Award ceremony/festival Award Recipient Title Academy Awards® Best Picture Film The King’s Speech 27 February 2012 Costume Design Award presented to IainSandy Powell The Young Victoria Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin Actor in a Leading Role Colin Firth The King’s Speech Actor in a Supporting Role Christian Bale The Fighter Directing Tom Hooper The King’s Speech Makeup Dave Elsey (with Rick The Wolfman Baker) Music (Original Score) Atticus Ross (with Trent The Social Network Reznor) Visual Effects Paul Franklin, Chris Inception Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb Writing (Original Screenplay) David Seidler The King’s Speech

BAFTA Film Awards Academy Fellowship Sir Christopher Lee 13 February 2011 Outstanding British The Harry Potter Films Contribution to Cinema Best Film Film The King’s Speech Award presented to , Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin Outstanding British Film Film The King’s Speech Award presented to Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin Outstanding debut by a Four Lions British writer, director or producer Original Screenplay David Seidler The King’s Speech Leading actor Colin Firth The King’s Speech Supporting Actress Helena Bonham Carter The King’s Speech Cinematography Roger Deakins True Grit Production Design Guy Hendrix Dyas Inception (with Larry Dias and Doug Mowatt) Special Visual Effects Chris Corbould, Paul Inception Franklin, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb Makeup & Hair Paul Gooch (with Valli Alice in Wonderland O’Reilly) Short Animation Film The Eagleman Stag Award presented to Michael Please Short Film Film Until the River Runs Red Award presented to Paul Wright and Poss Kondeatis Orange Wednesdays Rising Tom Hardy Star Award

Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Audience Film Senna 21-31 January 2010 Award: Documentary Award presented to Asif Kapadia World Cinema Directing James Marsh Project Nim Award: Documentary World Cinema Directing Paddy Considine Tyrannosaur Award: Dramatic

World Cinema Special Jury Olivia Colman Tyrannosaur Prize: Dramatic for Breakout Performances

4 World Cinema Special Jury Peter Mullan Tyrannosaur Prize: Dramatic for Breakout Performances

Special Jury Prize: Dramatic Felicity Jones Like Crazy

Source: BFI Note: No awards were made to British talent or films at Berlin, Cannes, Toronto or Venice in 2011. 5 Notes

1. Data were obtained from the Academy Awards® and BAFTA websites, the websites of the individual named festivals and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). British winners were identified from information acquired from a wide range of public sources.

2. Definitions:

A UK film is a film that has been officially certified as British by the BFI’s Certification Unit (acting on the authority of the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport) or which is a de facto UK film by virtue of being made in whole or part in the UK by a UK production company.

An individual is considered to be British either by virtue of having been born in the UK or by having gained British Citizenship.

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This release has been prepared according to the Code of Practice for Official Statistics published by the UK Statistics Authority (2009). Pre-release access has been granted to the following:

Amanda Nevill, Chief Executive, BFI Tim Cagney, Deputy Chief Executive, BFI Carol Comley, Head of Strategic Development, BFI Chris Travers, Director of Communications, Marketing and Audiences, BFI Nick Mason Pearson, Director of Press and Public Affairs, BFI Judy Wells, Head of Press and PR, BFI Emma Hewitt, Press Officer, BFI Hugh Muckian, Department for Culture, Media and Sport Ken Hunt, Senior Press Officer, Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Statistical contact details This release was prepared by Nick Maine, Research and Statistics Unit, BFI, [email protected], tel 020 7173 3249.