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2010 BAFTAs
The 63rd ceremony of the British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 21 February 2010 and honoured the best films of 2009. Winners and nominees BAFTA Fellowship * Vanessa Redgrave Statistics See also * 82nd Academy Awards * 35th César Awards * 15th Critics' Choice Awards * 62nd Directors Guild of America Awards * 23rd European Film Awards * 67th Golden Globe Awards * 30th Golden Raspberry Awards * 24th Goya Awards * 25th Independent Spirit Awards * 15th Lumières Awards * 21st Producers Guild of America Awards * 14th Satellite Awards * 36th Saturn Awards * 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2009, were presented on January 23, 2010 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California for the fourteenth co ... * 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards References * External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. The first theatre on the site, the Theatre Royal (1732), served primarily as a playhouse for the first hundred years of its history. In 1734, the first ballet was presented. A year later, the first season of operas, by George Frideric Handel, began. Many of his operas and oratorios were specifically written for Covent Garden and had their premieres there. The current building is the third theatre on the site, following disastrous fires in 1808 and 1856 to previous buildings. The façade, foyer, and auditorium date from 1858, but almost every other element of the present complex dates from an extensive reconstruction in the 1990s. The main auditorium seats 2,256 people, mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo'Nique Attending The 82nd Academy Awards 2010
Monique Angela Hicks (née Imes; born December 11, 1967), known professionally as Mo'Nique, is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She has received an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. She first gained recognition for her work in stand-up comedy, debuting as a member of The Queens of Comedy. In 2002, she received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album. Mo'Nique began her transition into mainstream film and television having a starring role as Nicole "Nikki" Parker in the UPN series ''The Parkers'' (1999–2004), as well as appearing in ''Phat Girlz'' (2006) and ''Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins'' (2008). In 2009, she garnered critical acclaim for her performance in the film '' Precious,'' for which she won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the fourth African American woman to win the award. Mo'Nique has since hosted ''The Mo'Nique Show'' (2009–2011), and starred as Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Posey
Amanda Rachel Posey (born June 1965) is a British film producer, best known for her films ''An Education'' (2009) and ''Brooklyn'' (2015), produced with frequent collaborator Finola Dwyer. She is married to novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, with whom she has two sons. Career In 2015, Posey produced an historical drama film ''Brooklyn'', starring Saoirse Ronan, directed by John Crowley based on the screenplay by Nick Hornby. She received an Academy Award nomination for the film for Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards along with Finola Dwyer. Selected filmography * 1997: ''Fever Pitch'' (producer) * 2004: ''The Open Doors'' (Short, executive producer) * 2005: ''Fever Pitch'' (producer) * 2009: ''An Education'' (producer) * 2012: '' Quartet'' (associate producer) * 2014: '' A Long Way Down'' (producer) * 2015: ''Brooklyn'' (producer) * 2016: ''Their Finest ''Their Finest'' is a 2016 British war comedy-drama film, directed by Lone Scherfig, written by Gaby Chiappe, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finola Dwyer
Finola Dwyer (born 10 July 1963) is a UK-based New Zealand film producer and editor, best known for her films ''An Education'' and ''Brooklyn'', produced with frequent collaborator Amanda Posey. Career In 2015, Dwyer produced an historical drama film ''Brooklyn'', starring Saoirse Ronan, directed by John Crowley based on the screenplay by Nick Hornby. She received an Academy Award nomination for the film for Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards along with Amanda Posey. In the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dwyer was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the film industry. Filmography * 1984: '' Trial Run'' (editor) * 1986: ''Bridge to Nowhere'' (editor) * 1986: '' Queen City Rocker'' (associate producer) * 1987: ''Raglan by the Sea'' (TV Movie documentary, producer) * 1987: ''Starlight Hotel'' (producer) * 1988: ''A Soldier's Tale'' (line producer) * 1994: ''Backbeat'' (producer) * 1996: ''Hollow Reed'' (co-executive producer) * 1997: ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Landau (film Producer)
Jon Landau () (born 23 July 1960) is an American film producer, known for producing ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'' (1997), a film which won him an Academy Awards, Oscar and earned $2.19 billion in gross revenues, and ''Avatar (2009 film), Avatar'' (2009), which earned $2.8 billion. , these are the first and third List of highest-grossing films#Highest-grossing films, highest-grossing films of all time, and formerly held the first and second spots. Early life Landau is the son of Edie Landau, Edie, a producer, and Ely A. Landau, a studio executive and producer. He attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His family is of Jewish background. Career Throughout the early '90s, Landau was Executive Vice President of Feature Film Production at Twentieth Century Fox. He is best known for producing ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'' (1997), a film which won him an Academy Award and became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest-grossing films, highest-grossing film of all time, the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, he is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly pushing the boundaries of cinematic capability with his use of novel technologies. He first gained recognition for writing and directing '' The Terminator'' (1984) and found further success with ''Aliens'' (1986), ''The Abyss'' (1989), '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991), and the action comedy ''True Lies'' (1994). He wrote and directed ''Titanic'' (1997) and ''Avatar'' (2009), with ''Titanic'' earning him Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing. A recipient of various other industry accolades, two of his films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Cameron co-founded the production companies Lightstorm Entertainment, Digital Domain, and Earthship Productions. In addition to filmmaking, he is a Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Chartier
Nicolas Chartier () is a French film producer and sales agent. In 2005, he founded Voltage Pictures, the Los Angeles-based international financing, sales and production company. Early life Chartier, during his time as a Disneyland Paris janitor, sold his first screenplay which allowed him to buy a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. In order to scrape together a living, Chartier wrote soft-core porn for cable TV. From there, he moved on to hold various executive level sales and acquisitions roles. He championed the sale of film ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' and Academy Award-winning film ''Crash'' directed by Paul Haggis. Later on, he founded Voltage Pictures where his breakthrough film ''The Hurt Locker'' allowed him to produce other successful films. Career Film ''The Hurt Locker'' was Voltage's first in-house production and won six Academy Awards in 2009, including Best Picture. '' Killer Joe'' was Voltage's second production, directed by William Friedkin and starring Matthew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Boal
Mark Boal (born January 23, 1973) is an American journalist, screenwriter, and film producer. Before he became a prominent figure of cinema, Boal worked as a journalist for such publications as ''Rolling Stone'', ''The Village Voice'', ''Salon'', and ''Playboy''. Boal's 2004 article "Death and Dishonor" was adapted for the film ''In the Valley of Elah'', which Boal also co-wrote. In 2009, he wrote and produced ''The Hurt Locker'', for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2012 he wrote and produced ''Zero Dark Thirty'', teaming again with director Kathryn Bigelow, about the tracking and killing of Osama bin Laden. The film earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture and a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. The pair collaborated a third time for 2017's ''Detroit''. Boal has won two Academy Awards (with another two nominations), a BAFTA Award, two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include ''Near Dark'' (1987), ''Point Break'' (1991), '' Strange Days'' (1995), '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002), ''The Hurt Locker'' (2008), ''Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), and ''Detroit'' (2017). Bigelow was the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director with ''The Hurt Locker'', the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. She was also the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director, with ''Strange Days''. In addition, ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. Early life and education Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, the only child of Gertrude Kathryn (née Larson; 1917–1994), a librarian, and Ronald Elliot Bigelow (1915–1992), a paint factory manager. Her mother was of Norwegian descent. She attended Sunny Hills High Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BAFTA Award For Best Film
The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards. It has been given since the 1st BAFTA Awards, representing the best films of 1947, but until 1969 it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source. It is possible for films from any country to be nominated, although British films are also recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best British Film and (since 1983) foreign-language films in BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. As such, there have been multiple occasions of a film being nominated in two of these categories. There has been one tie for the Best Film Award when, in 1962, '' Ballad of a Soldier'' tied with ''The Hustler'' for Best Film From Any Source. Throughout the history of the category, the award has been given to the director(s), the producer(s) or both. * Between 1949 and 1959, 1962–1965, 1970–1976, and in 1979; Only the film its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Redgrave
Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist. Throughout her career spanning over seven decades, Redgrave has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Television Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has also received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of ' in 1958. She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedy ''As You Like It'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BAFTA Fellowship
The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image". The award is the highest honour the Academy can bestow, and has been awarded annually since 1971. Fellowship recipients have mainly been film directors, but some have been awarded to actors, film producer, film/television producers, cinematographers, film editing, film editors, screenwriters and (since 2007) contributors to the video game industry. In 2002, Merchant Ivory Productions became the first organisation to win the award. People from the United Kingdom dominate the list, but it includes over a dozen U.S. citizens and several from other countries in Europe, though none of the latter have been recognized since 1996. In 2010, Shigeru Miyamoto became the first citizen of an Asian country to receive the award, with video game designer Hideo Kojima b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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