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  British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BAFTA's main office is on Piccadilly in London, but it also has branches in Northern England, Scotland, Wales, New York City and Los Angeles.
BAFTA's main film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, taking place since 2000 in the flagship Odeon cinema on Leicester Square.
In 2003, these awards were split into the BAFTA Interactive Awards and the BAFTA Games Awards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BAFTA   (702 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - UK - Cut! Voting blunder halts Bafta awards
Bafta mixed up original and adapted screenplays, and even got the sex of some actors wrong, suggesting Stephane Rousseau (The Barbarian Invasions) for best actress, despite being male, and Karel Roden (Bulletproof Monk) best actor, though Roden is female.
Bafta insisted that in some cases it was the fault of film companies themselves.
To be eligible to join Bafta applicants must have a minimum of three’ years professional experience in the film, television or interactive entertainment industries (or any combination of these) and must be able to demonstrate a significant professional contribution to the industry.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=1399552003   (1641 words)

  
 BAFTA Games Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2003, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced that they would be splitting their BAFTA Games Awards from the BAFTA Interactive Awards.
The Games Awards are given to recognize eminent computer and video games.
The first BAFTA Games Awards were presented on February 25, 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BAFTA_Games_Awards   (171 words)

  
 2004 BAFTA EC Awards Recap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
BAFTA East Coast members and friends including Alec Baldwin, Matthew Modine, Joan Micklin Silver and Jim Dale were among those at the party showing their support for their colleagues across the pond.
The ornate theater was often rocking with laughter and applause, and fun was had by BAFTA members as well as guests of the numerous event sponsors.
Now in its seventh successful year, BAFTA East Coast is a nonprofit membership organization providing a lively environment in which film and television professionals in New York can meet and exchange information and ideas about their sister industry in Britain.
www.baftaeastcoast.com /baftaeastcoast/2004awards.htm   (518 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Gervais completes Bafta hat-trick
Her award, for her role in BBC One's Canterbury Tales adaptation, follows honours for Murder in 2003 and My Beautiful Son in 2002.
Bafta is now gaining a reputation for red carpets that foam in the rain - the "wet carpet" gained almost as much attention as the stars at Bafta's 2002 film awards.
The BAFTAs is merely the entertainment industry telling us how wonderful they all really are, revelling in their celebrity status whilst actually doing very little and televising it to save them the bother of having to dream up some real entertainment to fill this particular spot in the schedules.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3636103.stm   (1792 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Harry voted kids' favourite at Bafta awards
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won the "kids' vote" in the 2003 Bafta children's awards, which were presented last night.
The Bafta grown-ups had other ideas, however, and awarded the official feature film award to Whale Rider, a New Zealand film about a Maori girl struggling to keep her people's traditions alive.
The awards ceremony, now in its eighth year, was hosted last night by CBBC presenter Fearne Cotton at the London Hilton, Park Lane, central London.
film.guardian.co.uk /harrypotter/news/0,10608,1097325,00.html   (135 words)

  
 BAFTA Scotland :: Promoting Scotland's Screen Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The BAFTA Scotland Awards, presented by Jenni Falconer, took place on Sunday 13th November at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Glasgow.
Award ceremonies for new talent in film, television and new media form a large part of the company's remit.
The BAFTA Scotland Awards 2004, Scotland's premiere event for film, television and interactive media, took place on Sunday 14th November at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Glasgow.
www.baftascotland.co.uk   (210 words)

  
 icWales - Norton to host Bafta TV awards
Graham Norton is to present this year's Bafta TV awards, it was announced today.
"Obviously being asked to host the Bafta awards is a huge thrill, not to mention a lot easier than sitting in the audience pretending to be pleased for the winners," Norton said.
Bafta (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) split its TV and film awards ceremonies in 1998.
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 BAFTA Awards -- 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The BAFTA awards are Britain's equivalent of the Oscars and this years awards are hosted by comedian Stephen Fry.
Receiving her award from Dustin Hoffman, Oscar nominee Dench said that she and her co-stars have been amply rewarded for their contributions to "Iris" and said she wished to pay tribute to the film's writers, Richard Eyre and Charles Wood.
Warren Beatty drew cheers when he arrived to accept his BAFTA fellowship but it was surprise guest Dustin Hoffman who provoked the loudest catcalls as the crowd chanting his name caused the actor to rush back out into the rain and take a few bows for the saturated spectators.
www.djdchronology.com /baftaawards2002.htm   (2456 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | Halo shines at Bafta Awards
The DVD of the film Memento from Pathe Distribution, directed by Christopher Nolan, was awarded the prize in the category Enhancement of Linear Media.
Bafta interactive entertainment committee chair Sue Thexton said: "Once again, the huge diversity of entries has made the job of judging this year's entries immensely enjoyable and challenging."
One of the most prestigious awards bestowed by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts was to Ian Livingstone.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/2316875.stm   (468 words)

  
 Half-Life 2 sweeps Bafta awards - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
Grant Dean, chairman of the Bafta games awards, said at a ceremony in London on Tuesday: "The last year has been a great year for the interactive entertainment industry.
The originality award was won by PlayStation 2 title Singstar while the children's award went to GameCube bongo rhythm game Donkey Konga.
The Handheld Award went to Colin McRae Rally 2005 while the mobile category was won by Blue Tooth Byplanes.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=35183   (360 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > Breaking News > Star World adds Bafta Awards to kitty
Next month on 12 February honours films while nominations for the television awards will be announced on 14 March 2005, with the ceremony taking place on 17 April 2005.
The profile of any awards show is dependent on its ability to predict the Oscar Awards.
Bafta has stumbled in a big way on that front.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k5/jan/jan157.htm   (285 words)

  
 Irfan excited about Bafta Awards
Nominees for the Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards were declared January 27, and The Warrior bagged three nominations.
These include the Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year, the Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a director, screenwriter or producer in their first feature film (The Warrior is director and co-writer Kapadia's first film) and Best Film Not in the English Language.
With just a couple of days left for the Bafta awards to be announced, he seemed more focused on his international film than the fate of his next Hindi movie, Shyam Ramsay's Dhund -- The Fog.
in.rediff.com /movies/2003/feb/21irfan.htm   (699 words)

  
 IMDb: BAFTA Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The British Academy Film Awards are the major film awards held in Great Britain.
The British Film Academy was formed on 16th April 1947 in a hotel room at the Hyde Park Hotel by a group of the most eminent men in British film, under the chairmanship of David Lean (I).
The first awards, designed by Henry Moore, were statues in the form of a large, bronze, seated lady valued at UK £550 each at the time, but of great value today.
us.imdb.com /Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards   (237 words)

  
 Variety.com - Special Reports
With wild prognostications swirling around town and many potential Oscar contenders yet to open, this year's race is a lot harder to forecast, say kudos experts.
Award season is a stressful time for filmmakers, actors and anyone else involved in the kudo campaign trail.
Award Central offers the most up-to-date awards season news, a customizable screening schedule and a comprehensive anthology of reviews, contender Q&A, features, photos and much more.
www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=reports&type=AWARDS   (289 words)

  
 BAFTA Film Awards - Specialty Channels
BAFTA Film Awards airs live Saturday, February 12 at 3:10 p.m.
BAFTA Red Carpet Special is a BBC America original production will air before the re airs BAFTA Film Awards and will start a half an hour earlier (8:30) complete with red carpet interviews.
Just like our award shows here in the U.S., BAFTA is attended by biggest stars and is considered a barometer of who will walk away with the golden Oscar.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art27594.asp   (245 words)

  
 BAFTA Awards 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
With the support of Lord Puttnam, Vice-President of BAFTA, the event has quickly grown into what is considered to be the world's largest and most prestigious interactive entertainment awards, recognising and rewarding creative talent in interactivity.
In September 2002, whilst competing against a great many entries, Kar2ouche was nominated for a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award within the category of 'Children's Learning'.
Although Kar2ouche was not selected from the four nominations to receive the final award, the nomination for this prestigious BAFTA award is an important endorsement of Kar2ouche, and the innovative and compelling new opportunity that it offers for engaging, entertaining and educating children in the classroom.
www.kar2ouche.com /us/kar2ouche/Awards_BAFTA2002.asp   (220 words)

  
 The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Click on a year to get a list of the award winning titles from that year, then click on a title to see what it won.
Also, if perhaps you can remember the name of an award but not where it's awarded (say perhaps the golden palm), just search for it, click on any of the titles that won it, then find it in the title's list of awards.
If we have awards info on it, it will come up in the search results, then just click on the title to go to a page listing the awards it has won.
us.imdb.com /Sections/Awards   (314 words)

  
 BAFTA 2003
Academy Film Awards, held on 23rd February at the Odeon, Leicester Square.
Role for Nicole Kidman’s portrayal of Virginia Woolf and The Anthony Asquith Award for
Award for the Outstanding British Film of the Year and the film’s director and co-writer,
www.compleatseanbean.com /guest-bafta2003.html   (1254 words)

  
 Voodoo Extreme: BAFTA Games Awards Winners Announced
It also won the Sunday Times Readers Award - the only Award presented at the ceremony that is voted for by members of the public.
Battlefield 1942 won in the category Multiplayer, FIFA 2004 took the BAFTA for Sports, Project Gotham Racing 2 won the Award for Racing, Soulcaliber II won in the category Animation/Intro, Adventure was won by The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Music was won by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
A Special Award, one of the most prestigious awards bestowed by the British Academy, was awarded to Chris Deering, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, for his outstanding contribution to the Games industry.
ve3d.ign.com /articles/494/494883p1.html   (259 words)

  
 Redhotcurry - News. Asif Kapadia wins two BAFTA Awards
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers picked up two BAFTA awards in the categories Costume Design and Achievement in Special Visual Effects, as well as the Orange Film of the Year - the only award given out at the ceremony that is voted for by the cinema going public.
In the other performance categories, Daniel Day-Lewis was awarded the BAFTA in the category Actor In A Leading Role for his portrayal of Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, and Christopher Walken won for Actor In A Supporting Role for his part as Frank Abagnale Snr in Catch Me If You Can.
Adaptation won the award for Adapted Screenplay and the Brazilian City of God was given the BAFTA for Editing.
www.redhotcurry.com /archive/news/2003/bafta2002.htm   (697 words)

  
 The Observer | UK News | Big hitters share the spoils at Bafta showdown
While Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Hughes in The Aviator, was pipped to the best actor award by Jamie Foxx's performance as musician Ray Charles in the biopic Ray, his leading lady, Australian actress Cate Blanchett, won the award for best actress in a supporting role for her portrayal of the young Katharine Hepburn.
Scorsese's film also won Baftas for production design and for make-up and hair but the director himself, famously unlucky at nailing the big prizes, was not a winner.
There may only be a finite number of awards up for grabs in the Odeon auditorium, yet outside on the red carpet, it was a different story, writes Nicole Mowbray.
observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1412002,00.html   (1182 words)

  
 AM Archive - BAFTA awards
So you have to adopt that attitude, which we do, which is that doesn't matter, it's just being part of the whole ceremony to celebrate a year of work, you know.
And it was a similar attitude expressed by the film's arch rival at these awards, also with 12 nominations The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson.
MATT PEACOCK: The truth is that the winners of tonight's awards are multi-nationals in every way; Aussie, American and British actors, directors and investors.
www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s489611.htm   (518 words)

  
 Mobile News - Mobile Games BAFTA awards
This year the awards are to be split into two separate ceremonies.
The BAFTA Interactive Awards will focus on a broad spectrum of the new media industry, including DVD, websites, education etc. Whereas the BAFTA Games Awards ceremony will focus purely on the games industry.
In 1997, BAFTA had the foresight to realise the impact Internet and multimedia technologies would have on the entertainment industry.
www.mobileguru.co.uk /news/Mobile-News-1471.html   (361 words)

  
 News - Vice City sweeps BAFTA Games Awards /// Eurogamer
The Game on Any Platform BAFTA (an awkward way of saying Game of the Year, but there you go) went to the superb WWII first person shooter Call of Duty, which was bizarrely also nominated in the strategy game category despite being one of the purest examples of an action FPS game we've ever seen.
Finally, a special award was presented to Chris Deering, former president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and now president of Sony Europe, for his work on the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles over the past decade.
The awards ceremony, the first games-only awards to be run by BAFTA, took place in London's Raddison SAS Portman Hotel, and was attended by around 350 industry guests, with an after-award party being sponsored by graphics chipset maker NVIDIA.
www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=54694   (292 words)

  
 - : «themakeupgallery» BAFTA Awards for best makeup
The Orange British Academy Film Awards are awarded each February for movie categories and each April for television categories.
Until 2000 they were known as the BAFTAs (from British Academy of Film and Television Arts).
The first BAFTA for makeup was awarded in 1983 and there is now a best makeup award for television shows as well as for feature films.
www.themakeupgallery.info /info/bafta.htm   (230 words)

  
 Bafta Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The awards ceremony was hosted by comedienne Rhona Cameron and was attended by 650 industry professionals.
They saw Dave Gosney of BirdGuides collect the coveted BAFTA mask, along with fellow BirdGuides directors Max Whitby and John Cromie, from Lord David Puttnam.
This is the second time BirdGuides has been up for a BAFTA award.
www.birdguides.com /html/news/baftawinners.htm   (209 words)

  
 BAFTA @ Filmbug UK
BAFTA's main film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards.
The ceremony used to take place in April or May, but from 2002 onwards it will occur in February in order to precede the Oscars.
The BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards were first presented in 1998, and cover websites and computer games.
www.filmbug.co.uk /dictionary/bafta.php   (416 words)

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