66th British Academy Film Awards

The 66th award from the British Academy Film Awards took place on February 10, 2013 at the Royal Opera House in London. The film awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) were awarded in 24 categories. The event was hosted by the British actor and presenter Stephen Fry, who had already taken over this function for the eighth time.

As the best movie of Ben Affleck's thriller Argo has been excellent, Affleck also won the award for best director. To the best British film of the James Bond film Skyfall was chosen. The most awards received the musical Les Misérables film with a total of four awards. Steven Spielberg's historical drama Lincoln, which had received ten nominations, the most nominations, went with a single award for Daniel Day- Lewis for best actor out of the race. The award for best actress Emmanuelle Riva won for her role in Michael Haneke's chamber play Love, which was named best foreign language film.

• 3.1 Academy Fellowship
• 3.2 Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

Election procedures

For a nomination at the 66th British Academy Film Awards all feature films were considered, which were published between 1 January and 31 December 2012 in the United Kingdom, or the the case of a planned publication until February 8, 2013 from the lender in advance Academy were presented. For short films and animated shorts special rules applied, so only British productions have been approved for these categories.

In 2013, the number of ballots was reduced to two, which received the announcement of a long list. In the category of Best Film, as well as in the four categories performer all of the approximately 6,500 members of BAFTA could vote. In the other categories, only members of the relevant Chapter of the Academy were eligible to vote on the best performance of a young British writers, director and producers voted on a jury. The nominations in the category of best young actor were determined by a jury of the prize winners, however, was determined as the audience prize in an online vote.

The nominations for the British Academy Film Awards were announced on 9 January 2012. The most nominations received Lincoln with ten nominations, followed by Les Misérables and Ang Lee's film adaptation Life of Pi: Life of Pi, each with nine nominations. Eight nominations received James Bond 007: Skyfall. Of these four films, however, received only Ang Lee a nomination for Best Director.

Award winners and nominees

Best Picture

Argo - Director: Ben Affleck

Best British film

James Bond 007: Skyfall ( Skyfall ) - Director: Sam Mendes

Best Director

Ben Affleck - Argo

Best Actor

Daniel Day- Lewis - Lincoln

Best Actress

Emmanuelle Riva - Love ( Amour )

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables

Best Adapted Screenplay

David O. Russell - Silver Linings ( Silver Linings Playbook )

Best Original Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

Best Original Score

Thomas Newman - James Bond 007: Skyfall ( Skyfall )

Best Camera

Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi: Life of Pi ( Life of Pi )

Best Sound

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

Best Costumes

Jacqueline Durran - Anna Karenina

Best mask

Lisa Westcott - Les Misérables

Best Art

Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch -Robinson - Les Misérables

Best Editing

William Goldberg - Argo

Best Visual Effects

Bill West Hofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik -Jan de Boer, Donald R. Elliott - Life of Pi: Life of Pi ( Life of Pi )

Best Animated Feature Film

Best Animated Short Film

The Making of Long Bird - Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson

Best Short Film

Swimmer - Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw

Best Young Performance

Best Documentary

Searching For Sugar Man - Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn

Best Foreign Language Film

Love ( Amour ), France / Germany / Austria - Michael Haneke and Margaret Menegoz

Best Young Actor ( EE Rising Star Award )

The EE Rising Star Award is an audience prize, the winner will be determined by a telephone vote.

Juno Temple

Prizes

Academy Fellowship

Alan Parker, British film director

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

Tessa Ross; British film and television producer