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BAFTA BRIGADE
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| THE ARTIST SWEPT THE BAFTA BASH ON SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE IN LONDON. BUT THE NIGHT ALSO BELONGED TO ‘MERYL THATCHER’! |
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| Master filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who was also nominated for Best Director for Hugo, with the prestigious Fellowship Award on Sunday evening |
Jean Dujardin, Thomas Langmann and Michel Hazanavicius with the Best Leading Actor, Best Film and Best Director awards — all for The Artist, which also bagged Baftas for Best Original Screenplay (Hazanavicius), Best Original Music (Ludovic Bource), Best Cinematographer (Guillaume Schiffman) and Best Costume Design (Mark Bridges) |
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| Veteran actor John Hurt was given the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award |
The Gary Oldman-starrer Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was named Outstanding British Film and also won Best Adapted Screenplay — the latter a tribute to the work of writer Bridget O’Connor, who died from cancer, aged 49, before the film’s release. Oldman is seen here with his wife, jazz singer Alexandra Edenborough |
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| Meryl Streep won the Best Actress Bafta — her second — for The Iron Lady. Show host Stephen Fry addressed the actress as “the Right Honourable Baroness Meryl Thatcher” and joked at the start of the ceremony: “I guess this could be the first time in recorded history that we hear the words, ‘Maggie, Maggie, Maggie — win, win, win!” Streep is seen here with Colin Firth who presented her the trophy |
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