BAFTA Nominations 2012

The nominees for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards have been announced.

best film:

The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

outstanding British film:

My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk about Kevin

best film not in the English language:

Incendies
Pina
Potiche
A Separation
The Skin I Live In

best director:

Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn for Drive
Martin Scorsese for Hugo
Tomas Alfredson for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay for We Need to Talk about Kevin

best original screenplay:

The Artist
Bridesmaids
The Guard
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris

best adapted screenplay:

The Descendants
The Help
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

best leading actor:

George Clooney in The Descendants
Jean Dujardin in The Artist
Michael Fassbender in Shame
Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt in Moneyball

best leading actress:

Berenice Bejo in The Artist
Viola Davis in The Help
Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk about Kevin
Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn

best supporting actor:

Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn
Jim Broadbent in The Iron Lady
Jonah Hill in Moneyball
Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Ides of March
Christopher Plummer in Beginners

best supporting actress:

Jessica Chastain in The Help
Judi Dench in My Week with Marilyn
Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids
Carey Mulligan in Drive
Octavia Spencer in The Help


best cinematography:

The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

best editing:

The Artist
Drive
Hugo
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

best production design:

The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

best costume design:

The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
My Week with Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

best make up and hair:

The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2
Hugo
The Iron Lady
My Week with Marilyn

best sound:

The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

best special visual effects:

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
War Horse

best original music:

The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

best animated film:

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Arthur Christmas
Rango

best documentary:

George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Poject Nim
Senna

outstanding British debut by a director or producer:

Richard Ayouade for Submarine
Paddy Considine & Diarmid Scrimshaw for Tyrannosaur
Joe Cornish for Attack the Block
Ralph Fiennes for Coriolanus
Will Sharpe, Tom Kingsley, & Sarah Brocklehurst for Black Pond


The Artist leads with 12 nominations, followed by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with 11. Hugo has nine, but was shut out of the best picture race.

Bejo is nominated as a lead actress, and Albert Nobbs was ineligible.