BAFTA Winners 2010 (for films from 2009)

The results are in and The Hurt Locker sweeps the BAFTA's winning 6 awards: Best Film, Director for Kathryn Bigelow, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Sound. Absolutely fantastic news, and thrilling to see Bigelow take home the award. Avatar won 2 awards this evening for Visual Effects and Production. Also in the 2 winner category is The Young Victoria which took home Costumes along with Make Up & Hair.

The acting categories had a combination of locks in the supporting categories with winners being Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds. Lead acting awards went to home base talent of Colin Firth for A Single Man and Carey Mulligan for An Education. I couldn't be more thrilled as they were excellent lead performances. Twilight fans can rejoice as Orange British Rising Star award went to Kristen Stewart.

Also thrilled to see director Duncan Jones get well deserved love with being awarded Outstanding debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for Moon.

Also exciting to see Outstanding British Film go to Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank which opened in Toronto this week, and award for Best Film Not in the English Language went to A Prophet which opens in Toronto on March 5, 2010.

Results thanks to Bafta Online Twitter - that's a first, and much better than waiting for the results especially as there was some confusion over live streams and pre shows and during the show, etc. There is a stream of the awards here, although it's a big post-live but pre-the re-broadcast. See results also posted on the BAFTA website.

BEST FILM
The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Fish Tank - Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Duncan Jones - Director – Moon

DIRECTOR
The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Up in the Air - Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
A Prophet - Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard

ANIMATED FILM
Up

LEADING ACTOR
Colin Firth - A Single Man

LEADING ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan - An Education

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

MUSIC
Up - Michael Giacchino

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd

EDITING
The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski, Chris Innis

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Avatar - Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair

COSTUME DESIGN
The Young Victoria - Sandy Powell

SOUND
The Hurt Locker - Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones

MAKE UP & HAIR
The Young Victoria - Jenny Shircore

SHORT ANIMATION
Mother of Many - Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby

SHORT FILM
I Do Air - James Bolton, Martina Amati

ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD
Kristen Stewart

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Joe Dunton

ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP
Vanessa Redgrave