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HOLLYWOOD UPDATE: The King's Speech leads BAFTA nominations

Golden Globe winners Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, and Christian Bale are among the acting nominees.
by Bang
Published Jan 18, 2011
Colin Firth, who recently won the Golden Globe, is among the Best Actor nominees at this years Orange British Film Awards, or BAFTA, for his role as King George VI in The King's Speech.

The King's Speech leads the way at this year's BAFTA awards with 14 nominations.

The Tom Hooper-directed film about stammering British monarch King George VI is up for Best Film and Best Director, while its star Colin Firth is widely tipped to pick up the accolade for Best Actor.

Colin's co-star Helena Bonham Carter is up for Best Supporting Actress for her role as George's wife, the Queen Mother Elizabeth, and will take on The Fighter star Amy Adams, Barbara Hershey for Black Swan, Another Year actress Lesley Manville, and Miranda Richardson for Made In Dagenham.

The King's Speech is up against Black Swan, Inception, The Social Network, and True Grit in the Best Film category, while Colin will take on Biutiful star Javier Bardem, True Grit actor Jeff Bridges, The Social Network's Jesses Eisenberg, and 127 Hours leading man James Franco in a bid to be named Best Actor.

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As well as being up for Best Film, Black Swan was given a further 11 nominations including Best Actress for its star Natalie Portman, while Darren Aronofsky is in the running for Best Director.

Natalie goes up against 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace, Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, who both starred in The Kids Are All Right, in the Best Actress category.

The Fighter actor Christian Bale, The Social Network's Andrew Garfield, The Kids Are All Right star Mark Ruffalo, The King's Speech actor Geoffrey Rush, and the late Pete Postlethwaite, who starred in The Town, are all in the running to be named Best Supporting Actor.

As was previously announced, Andrew Garfield, Gemma Arterton, Aaron Johnson, Emma Stone, and Tom Hardy will fight it out for the Rising Star Award, which is voted for by the public.

The BAFTA Awards take place at London's Royal Opera House on February 13.

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The full list of nominations for the 2011 BAFTA Awards:

Best Film
Black Swan True Grit

Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
David Fincher - The Social Network
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan - Inception
Danny Boyle - 127 Hours

Best Actor
Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
Colin Firth - The King's Speech
James Franco - 127 Hours
Javier Bardem - Biutiful
Jeff Bridges - True Grit

Best Actress:

Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right
Noomi Rapace - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Natalie Portman - Black Swan
Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit

Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale - The Fighter
Pete Postlethwaite - The Town
Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech


Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams - The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
Barbara Hershey - Black Swan
Lesley Manville - Another Year
Miranda Richardson - Made in Dagenham

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NOOD KA MUNA!

Outstanding British Film:
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
The King's Speech

Made In Dagenham

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer:
The Arbor - Clio Bernard (director), Tracy O'Riordan (producer)
Exit Through The Gift Shop - Banksy (director), Jaimie D'Cruz (producer)
Four Lions - Chris Morris (director/writer)
Monster - Gareth Edwards (director/writer)

Best Foreign Language Film:
Biutiful - Mexico/Spain
The Secret in Their Eyes - Argentina
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Sweden
I Am Love - Italy
Of Gods and Men - France

Best Animated Feature Film:
Toy Story 3
How To Train Your Dragon
Despicable Me

Best Original Screenplay:
Black Swan - Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin
The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
Inception - Christopher Nolan
The Kids are Alright - Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech - David Seidler

Best Adapted Screenplay:
127 Hours - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt
True Grit - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

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Best Original Score:
127 Hours - AR Rahman
Alice in Wonderland - Danny Elfman
How To Train Your Dragon - John Powell
Inception - Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech - Alexandre Desplat

Rising Star Award:
Gemma Arterton
Andrew Garfield
Tom Hardy
Aaron Johnson
Emma Stone

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