BAFTAs 2013: Argo Wins Big

Affleck's film takes Film & Director

Best Film winner - Argo

by Helen O'Hara |
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The 2013 EE British Academy Film Awards took place tonight in a rain-drenched London, but even the best efforts of Mother Nature couldn't dampen the spirits of Ben Affleck and the Argo team as they took Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing.

The biggest winner, numerically, was Les Miserables, which took four awards for Supporting Actress, Production Design, Sound and Make-Up & Hair. Skyfall took two awards with Outstanding British Film and Original Music, while Django Unchained took Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay.

Click here for the full list of winners (below)

Unsurprisingly, Daniel Day-Lewis took Best Actor for Lincoln with the night's most self-deprecating speech, poking fun at his own Method reputation, while in a more surprising turn Emmanuelle Riva took Best Actress for Amour, which also took Film Not In The English Language.

Life Of Pi took Cinematography and Special Visual Effects, and David O. Russell took Adapted Screenplay for Silver Linings Playbook. The Animation went to Brave.

Searching For Sugar Man won the Documentary prize, but the Outstanding Debut... award went to The Imposter's Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis. The Short Film prize went to **Swimmer ** and Short Animation went to The Making Of Longbird.

In other words, it was one of the most equitably-shared awards in years. Even though Argo won the biggest prizes, it by no means swept the board. You can read all about the ceremony and red carpet in our minute-by-minute account here, but this will go down as a year when BAFTA honoured everything from European auteurdom with Amour to high-tech dazzle with Life of Pi to the action of Bond in Skyfall. That a classy spy film won the prize, an American president took Leading Actor and an 85 year-old landed Leading Actress is a testament to the inclusiveness of the BAFTAs this year - and we think that's rather a good result.

The full list of nominees and winners is below.

BEST FILM

Argo

Les Misérables

Life Of Pi

Lincoln

Zero Dark Thirty

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Skyfall

Anna Karenina

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Les Misérables

Seven Psychopaths

**OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER **

Bart Layton (Director), Dimitri Doganis (Producer) The Imposter

David Morris (Director), Jacqui Morris (Director/Producer) McCullin

Dexter Fletcher (Director/Writer), Danny King (Writer) Wild Bill

James Bobin (Director) The Muppets

Tina Gharavi (Director/Writer) I Am Nasrine

**FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE **

Amour

Headhunters

The Hunt

Rust And Bone

Untouchable

DOCUMENTARY

Searching For Sugar Man

The Imposter

Marley

McCullin

West Of Memphis

ANIMATED FILM

Brave

Frankenweenie

Paranorman

DIRECTOR

Ben Affleck - Argo

Michael Haneke - Amour

Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

Ang Lee - Life Of Pi

Kathryn Bigelow -* Zero Dark Thirty*

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

Michael Haneke - Amour

Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master

Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom

Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

Chris Terrio - Argo

Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin - *Beasts Of The Southern Wild *

David Magee - Life Of Pi

Tony Kushner - Lincoln

LEADING ACTOR

Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln

Ben Affleck - Argo

Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook

Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables

Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

LEADING ACTRESS

Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

Helen Mirren - Hitchcock

Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook

Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty

Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Alan Arkin - Argo

Javier Bardem - Skyfall

Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master

Tommy Lee Jones -* Lincoln*

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables

Amy Adams - The Master

Helen Hunt - The Sessions

Judi Dench - Skyfall

Sally Field - Lincoln

**ORIGINAL MUSIC **

Skyfall - Thomas Newman

Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli

Argo - Alexandre Desplat

Life Of Pi - Mychael Danna

Lincoln - John Williams

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Life Of Pi - Claudio Miranda

Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey

Les Misérables - Danny Cohen

Lincoln - J_anusz Kaminski_

Skyfall - Roger Deakins

**EDITING **

Argo - William Goldenberg

Django Unchained - Fred Raskin

Life Of Pi - Tim Squyres

Skyfall - Stuart Baird

Zero Dark Thirty - Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Les Misérables - Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson

Anna Karenina - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Life Of Pi - David Gropman, Anna Pinnock

Lincoln - Rick Carter, Jim Erickson

Skyfall - Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock

COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran

Great Expectations - Beatrix Aruna Pasztor

Les Misérables - Paco Delgado

LIincoln - Joanna Johnston

Snow White And The Huntsman - Colleen Atwood

MAKE UP & HAIR

Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott

Anna Karenina - Ivana Primorac

Hitchcock - Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

Lincoln - Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou

SOUND

Les Misérables -* Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst*

Django Unchained - Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey -* Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward*

Life Of Pi - Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill

Skyfall - Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

Life Of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer*

*The Dark Knight Rises - Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White

Marvel Avengers Assemble - Nominees TBC

Prometheus - Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth

**SHORT ANIMATION **

The Making Of Longbird

Here To Fall

I’m Fine Thanks

**SHORT FILM **

Swimmer

The Curse

Good Night

Tumult

The Voorman Problem

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

Juno Temple

Elizabeth Olsen

Andrea Riseborough

Suraj Sharma

Alicia Vikander

Photos: The BAFTA winners

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