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	British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The awards ceremony is televised annually on BBC One.
		BAFTA first recognised video games and other interactive media at its inaugural Interactive Entertainment Awards ceremony in 1998, ushering in the first change to its rules since the admittance of television thirty years earlier.
		This award is to dedicate Mary Selway who was a renowned casting director and helped many new actors and actresses to fame and recognition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BAFTA_Award (1281 words)

	CNN.com - 'Pianist,' Kidman win BAFTAs - Feb. 24, 2003
		Sunday's best picture award was a particular surprise, as "The Pianist" had received the fewest nominations, seven, of the five main contenders.
		Daniel Day-Lewis was named best actor for his portrayal of Bill the Butcher in "Gangs of New York." Nicole Kidman took the best actress crown for her turn as Virginia Woolf in "The Hours," which also won best music for Philip Glass's score.
		The director award, for example, is voted on by a jury of 10 creatives, while the film award is voted on by the entire academy.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/24/film.baftas.reut/index.html (836 words)

	BAFTA Awards -- 2002
		The BAFTA awards are Britain's equivalent of the Oscars and this years awards are hosted by comedian Stephen Fry.
		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.
		Perhaps the best part of this year’s awards was the organisers’ success in collecting the great number of nominees in the capital for the evening’s ceremony.
	www.djdchronology.com /baftaawards2002.htm (2456 words)

	BAFTA
		Robert Carlyle won the BAFTA award for best actor April 1998.
		Julia Roberts: The winner for best performance by an actor in a leading role is Robert Carlyle for The Full Monty.
		Before The Full Monty, Robert Carlyle was best known, I suppose, for his performance as the psychopathic Begbie in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, and, of course, television viewers know him from the cult TV series Hamish Macbeth.
	members.tripod.com /Plockton/BAFTA.html (175 words)

	The Jewel in the Crown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was nominated for the 1985 BAFTA Award for Best Actress.
		She was also nominated for the 1985 BAFTA Award for Best Actress.
		She deservedly won the 1985 BAFTA Award for Best Actress and was also nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
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	C4 News - UK - British Academy Television Awards - C4N wins a BAFTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Accepting the Specialist Journalist of the year award on her behalf, Channel 4 News editor, Jim Gray, said: "She is the best journalist I have worked with".
		Elsewhere at the BAFTAs, comic Ricky Gervais chalked up a hat-trick of wins with best comedy performance for the third year in a row for his portrayal of nightmare boss David Brent in The Office Christmas special.
		Julie Walters also scored a hat-trick, winning best actress for the third time, this time for her role in The Wife of Bath, part of the BBC's adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
	www.channel4.com /news/2004/04/week_4/19_baftas.html (661 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Doctor Who is Bafta award winner
		Actor Dennis Lawson, who played Mr Jarndyce in the critically acclaimed period drama, lost out on the best actor Bafta to Mark Rylance for The Government Inspector.
		And it was also a good night for Jamie Oliver whose Jamie's School Dinners took the best factual series award and the Richard Dimbleby Award for outstanding presenter of a factual programme.
		BBC Four political comedy The Thick Of It took the award for best sitcom, along with best comedy performance for Chris Langham.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4982648.stm (669 words)

	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role has been presented to its winners since 1952 and actors of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.
		Between 1952 and 1967, two distinct awards were given to the best British and best foreign actor each year.
		In 1968, the two prizes were combined to create a single Best Actor award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Actor (207 words)

	Nigel Hawthorne : Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For his contribution to "Privates on Parade" at the Aldwych Theatre, he won the Clarence Derwent Award as well as the SWET (Society of West End Theatres) Award for Best Supporting Actor.
		Furthermore, Hawthorne earned a BAFTA Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award® nomination in 1995 for his performance in the film version of the before mentioned play, entitled "The Madness of King George", directed by Nicholas Hytner.
		In 1997, he won a BAFTA Best Actor Award for his performance in "The Fragile Heart." The picture above is of Alison Steadman and Nigel Hawthorne.
	www.yessirnigel.com /awards.html (283 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Brokeback emerges as Bafta winner
		Jake Gyllenhaal also won an award - as best supporting actor - for his role in it playing a gay rodeo cowboy.
		Philip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for Capote, while Reese Witherspoon won the actress award for Walk the Line.
		The best British film on the night went to Nick Park's animated feature Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4724066.stm (702 words)

	Movies.com The 2003 Oscars: Find out the nominees, latest news, and buzz for The Academy Awards
		But on the big night, the only major award for the film was landed by Renée Zellweger, who won the best supporting actress award for her role as a tough-minded mountain girl.
		She had already won a Golden Globe award for the part and now looks to be a hot favorite to land the big one on Hollywood's Oscar night, Feb. 29.
		Now that they come before the Oscars, the BAFTA awards have been given a major fillip, because Hollywood studios are eager to send their big guns over to London for publicity in the run-up to Hollywood's big night.
	movies.go.com /awards/oscars2003/news/baftas021704.html (532 words)

	★ Michael Caine Film, Movie, Filmography, Biography: Secondhand Lions Official Movie Site
		He is a two time Academy Award winner, earning honors as Best Supporting Actor for 1999's The Cider House Rules and for 1986's Hannah and her sisters.
		Caine's most recent oscar nomination was a best actor nod for his performance in 2002's the quiet american.
		He has been honored by the national society of film critics as best actor for Alfie, and he won a golden globe and a bafta award as best actor for his role in educating rita.
	www.secondhandlions.com /michael-caine-film-movie.html (210 words)

	Robert Jr. Downey - Films as Actor:
		Awards: British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actor, for Chaplin, 1993; Boston Society of Film Critics Award (Third Place) for Best Supporting Actor, for One Night Stand, 1997.
		would be best suited to light comedy films, he proved to be an eclectic actor who displayed an imagination that could embrace many genres: fantasy, adventure, crime, historical, and biographical.
		The chameleon actor became a sympathetic court physician to Charles II in the well-named historical drama Restoration (1994).
	www.filmreference.com /Actors-and-Actresses-Da-Ea/Downey-Robert-Jr.html (1327 words)

	"Sorcerer's Stone" Production Notes, Part 4
		This was followed in 1992 by the London Critics Award for her eponymous portrayal of Hedda Gabler, and in 1993 she again received the Laurence Olivier Award and Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Actress for Stephen Daldry's Machinal.
		In 1997, Shaw was awarded a doctorate at the National University of Ireland and made a Professor of Drama at the University of Cork, Ireland.
		She was awarded the Hamburg Shakespeare Prize in 1991; is a Fellow of the British Film Institute; was awarded a Silver Bafta in 1993; is an Hon.
	www.angelfire.com /mi3/cookarama/sorprodnotes_4.html (1362 words)

	Marlon Brando biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor)
		He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for that role, and again in each of the next three years for his roles in Viva Zapata!
		Brando was voted the Academy Award for Best Actor for his intelligent performance; once again, he improvised important details that lent more humanity to what could otherwise have been a clichéd role.
		The actor followed with one of his greatest performances in Last Tango in Paris, but it was overshadowed by an uproar over the erotic nature of the Bernardo Bertolucci film.
	www.popstarsplus.com /actors_marlonbrando.htm (2093 words)

	Bernard Hill
		He quickly made a name for himself as a character actor in productions such as the miniseries I, Claudius (1976), regular roles in two television programs (Telford’s Change in 1979 and Fox in 1980), in the Oscar®, BAFTA and Globe award-winning feature film Ghandi (1982) and The Bounty (1984) opposite Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins.
		In 1983 Hill won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor for the miniseries Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) as well as a Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actor.
		As well as being a multifaceted actor, Hill is an experienced horseback rider, a skill that came in handy in the Lord of the Rings films, playing the King of Rohan -— a kingdom of horseback riders.
	www.tribute.ca /all_actors/bios/3467.htm (239 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| 'Billy Elliott' actor is best newcomer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It took the prized best film title, while its star, Jim Broadbent, was best actor.
		The awards, at the Savoy Hotel in London, also paid tribute to the director Peter Yates, whose work has included the all-action Bullitt and the poignant portrait of an ageing actor and his assistant in The Dresser.
		The Peter Sellers award for comedy went to the animated Chicken Run, while the best screenplay went to Neil Jordan for The End of the Affair.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/05/nbill05.xml (292 words)

	The Fredric March Archive - Awards
		1932 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
		1955 Nominated Emmy Best Actor in a Single Performance for: "Best of Broadway, The" (1954)- For episode "The Royal Family".
		1955 Nominated Emmy Best Actor in a Single Performance for: "Shower of Stars" (1954)- For episode "A Christmas Carol".
	www.geocities.com /fredric_march/awards.html (350 words)

	Heath up for BAFTA - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		The Australian is among five nominees for best actor, with the favourite being American character actor Philip Seymour Hoffman for his role in Capote.
		The best director award is also heading for one of the five films, with Lee, Haggis and Clooney squaring up to Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener) and Bennett Miller (Capote).
		In line for the award are Weisz, Charlize Theron for North Country, Zhang Ziyi for Memoirs of a Geisha, Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line, and Judi Dench for Mrs Henderson Presents.
	www.theage.com.au /news/film/heath-up-for-bafta/2006/01/20/1137553741413.html (368 words)

	Alec Guinness Trivia - Alec Guinness Facts - Alec Guinness Notes
		Alec was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Special Award in 1989 (1988 season) for his outstanding contributions to West End Theatre.
		Alec was awarded an honorary DLitt by Oxford University in 1977 and an honorary LittD by Cambridge University in 1991.
		In 1956, Alec was nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for Best British Actor for: The Prisoner (1955).
	www.tv.com /alec-guinness/person/118695/trivia.html (3086 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - Gladiator wins BAFTA's Best Film - February 25, 2001
		The BAFTAs, brought forward ahead of the Oscars for the first time this year in an attempt to steal a march on its rival, attracted big names on Sunday.
		Gladiator's haul, aside from its best film win, was mainly for technical wizardry with prizes for editing, cinematography and production design.
		Julia Roberts was unable to attend the event for her award but her Notting Hill co-star Hugh Grant picked it up on her behalf.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/25/baftas.winners/index.html (364 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hamish Macbeth: Series Two: DVD: Stuart McGugan,Rohan Berry Crickmar,Nicholas Renton,Patrick Lau,Jonas ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The residents of tiny Lochdubh, Scotland, are an eccentric bunch, and actor Robert Carlyle, for better or worse, is the town's sole lawman/sheriff.
		The oddball characters come and go, and somewhere, woven around their interactions, is a plot that becomes strangely satisfying by an episode's finale, but which is not at all the reason for watching.
		BAFTA Awards, Scotland: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor - Television
	www.amazon.ca /Hamish-Macbeth-Two-Stuart-McGugan/dp/B000GH3PNG (602 words)

	Star Wars: Episode I \| Star Wars Episode I: Production Notes
		The Irish-born actor had originally sought a career as a teacher, attending Queens College, Belfast and majoring in physics, computer science, math and drama.
		In 1993, Neeson was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the Best Actor category for his portrayal of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's highly acclaimed Schindler's List.
		McGregor shared the Best Actor award with co-stars Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox, and it won the BAFTA Alexander Korda Award for The Outstanding British Film of the Year and the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Feature Film.
	www.starwars.com /episode-i/bts/production/f19990501/indexp14.html (680 words)

	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role has been presented to its winners since 1952 and actresses of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.
		Between 1952 and 1967, two distinct awards were given to the best British and best foreign actress each year.
		In 1968, the two prizes were combined to create a single Best Actress award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Actress_in_a_Leading_Role (221 words)

	Jake Gyllenhaal wins at Bafta
		The actor, whose first role in a major film was a child part in 1991 cowboy comedy City Slickers, has been praised along with screen lover Heath Ledger.
		Philip Seymour Hoffman took home the Best Actor award for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in Capote and Reese Witherspoon was selected as Best Actress for her role in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line.
		The Best Supporting Actress award went to British star Thandie Newton for her role in the low-budget racial drama Crash.
	thebosh.com /archives/2006/02/jake_gyllenhaal_wins_at_bafta.php (578 words)

	The Object of My Affection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Long one of the most respected and heralded actors of the British stage and screen, NIGEL HAWTHORNE (Rodney Fraser) is well known to American audiences for his work in numerous films, perhaps most notably "The Madness of King George," for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award.
		The role also brought Hawthorne a BAFTA Award for Best Actor and the London Critics Circle Best Actor Award, among others.
		He won a BAFTA Best Actor Award for "The Fragile Heart," and for his portrayal of 'Sir Humphrey Appleby' in the BBC comedies "Yes Prime Minister" and "Yes Minister." He has starred in the popular series "Mapp & Lucia" and appeared in the telefilms "Madame Curie," "Edward and Mrs.
	www.foxmovies.com /theobjectofmyaffection/nigel.html (354 words)

	Marlon Brando
		Best Actor in a Leading Role for On the Waterfront (1954)
		Best Foreign Actor for On the Waterfront (1954)
		Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for A Dry White Season (1989)
	www.ez-entertainment.net /Brando_Marlon.htm (671 words)

	Harry Potter \| Daily Prophet \| Coltrane
		Robbie Coltrane is one of the UK's most prolific and respected film and television actors with a multi-award winning career spanning 20 years.
		The three series of the phenomenally successful drama amassed an impressive array of awards including two BAFTA Best Drama Series Awards in 1996 and 1996; the Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama; the 1993 Broadcasting Press Guilds Award for Best Series and the US Cable Ace Awards Best Movie or Mini Series.
		Coltrane himself was bestowed with a staggering array of awards for his portrayal of the tough, wise cracking police psychologist, Fitz.
	harrypotter.warnerbros.com /bios/coltrane_full.html (344 words)

	Alan Rickman @ Filmbug UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He also starred in Mesmer for which he was named Best Actor at the Montreal Film Festival.
		For Sense & Sensibility and Michael Collins he received BAFTA nominations and for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves he won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
		He won both the Variety Club and Theatre Goers Awards for Best Actor and was nominated for Olivier and Evening Standard Awards.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/3653 (537 words)

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