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14 unusual facts about British Academy of Film and Television Arts


American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score (lost to the score of The Red Violin) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of The Legend of 1900), and won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in the BAFTA Awards.

Angie Greaves

In 2002 she worked with The Jim Henson Company on the BAFTA-nominated series Construction Site to voice the character Maxine The Concrete Mixer.

Coco Mademoiselle

The film was directed by upcoming English BAFTA-winning director Joe Wright, who has also worked with Knightley in his award-winning films Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007).

Cree Hunters of Mistassini

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Cree Hunters of Mistassini received the award for Best Documentary over 30 minutes at the Canadian Film Awards as well as the Robert Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Empire of the Sun

The screenplay was filmed by Steven Spielberg, to critical acclaim, being nominated for six Oscars and winning three British Academy Awards (for cinematography, music and sound).

GBFTE

Professionals in the industry have long recognised the importance of editing to finished films and television programmes, with awards from the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars), the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs) and many film festivals.

Julie Andreyev

BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Interactive Award (Nominee)

Katie Johnson

The role earned her a British Film Academy award for best British actress.

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars

The film was nominated for the best sound (factual) award for the 2008 British Academy Television Craft Awards.

Pula Film Festival

The awards presented at the festival (called Golden Arenas) are the main national film awards in the country and they serve as the Croatian equivalent of the American Academy Awards, British BAFTA Awards, Spain's Goya Awards, France's César Award, etc.

R. C. Sherriff

He wrote several plays, novels, and screenplays, and was nominated for an Academy award and two BAFTA awards.

His 1955 screenplays, The Dam Busters and The Night My Number Came Up were nominated for best British screenplay BAFTA awards.

Star Wars 1313

In September 2013 while speaking at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Lucasfilm chief technology strategy officer Kim Libreri demonstrated a video of motion capture being processed in real-time by the Star Wars 1313 engine and its assets.

Your Funeral... My Trial

"The Carny" also inspired the 2004 animated short film Jo Jo in the Stars, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Short Film.


A Touch of Larceny

The film was nominated for the BAFTA award for Best British Screenplay but it lost to The Angry Silence.

Betty Blue

The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, as well as winning a César Award for Best Poster.

Blue Jam

Morris himself delivered disturbing monologues, one of which was revamped and made into the BAFTA-winning short film, My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117.

Garfield Kennedy

He produced and directed the Emmy Award-winning 9/11 documentary for the BBC and PBS WGBH Boston, Why the Towers Fell and has completed a series of fiction shorts including the BAFTA Nominated Bye-Child (written and directed by Bernard MacLaverty.

Graham Fink

He also directed a short film ( Z ) for the Millennium, commissioned by David Puttnam which was shortlisted at BAFTA.

Hardcash Productions

Hardcash specialises in current affair programmes and has won three Emmys, three RTS Journalism Awards and a BAFTA for Channel 4's Dispatches.

Paul Wroblewski

At the 2011 BAFTA awards, he gained his 3rd BAFTA for The Only Way Is Essex winner in the category 'YouTube Audience Award'.

The Waltz of the Toreadors

Wolf Mankowitz was nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Screenplay and Sellers was named Best Actor at the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Yvonne Mitchell

She appeared in several prominent film roles over the following three decades, winning a British Film Award for The Divided Heart (1954) and the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival for Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957).