66th British Academy Film Awards
The 66th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 10 February 2013 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2012. The nominations were announced on 9 January 2013. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2012. Stephen Fry hosted the ceremony, where Argo won Best Film and Best Director for Ben Affleck. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for Lincoln and Emmanuelle Riva won Best Actress for Amour. Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for Django Unchained and Anne Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables. Skyfall, directed by Sam Mendes, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2012. Sir Alan Parker received the BAFTA Fellowship and Tessa Ross garnered the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.
Winners and nominees
[BAFTA Fellowship]
- Sir Alan Parker
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema">BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award">Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
- Tessa Ross
| Best Film | Best Director |
Argo
| Ben Affleck – Argo Zero Dark Thirty |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role | Best Actress in a Leading Role |
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
| Emmanuelle Riva – Amour as Anne Laurent Zero Dark Thirty as Maya |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz Argo as Lester Siegel | Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine The Master as Peggy Dodd |
| Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
| Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell |
| Best Cinematography | Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer |
Life of Pi
| Bart Layton and Dmitri Doganis – The Imposter
|
| Outstanding British Film | Best Documentary |
Skyfall
| Searching for Sugar Man
|
| Best Original Music | Best Sound |
Skyfall
| Les Misérables
|
| Best Production Design | Best Special Visual Effects |
Les Misérables
| Life of Pi
|
| Best Costume Design | Best Makeup and Hair |
Anna Karenina
| Les Misérables
|
| Best Editing | Best Film Not in the English Language |
Argo
| Amour
|
| Best Animated Film | Best Short Animation |
Brave
| The Making of Longbird
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| Best Short Film | EE Rising Star Award |
Swimmer
| Juno Temple''' |
Awards breakdown
;Most wins- 4 wins Les Misérables
- 3 wins Argo
- 2 wins Amour, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, and Skyfall
- 10 nominations Lincoln
- 9 nominations Les Misérables and Life of Pi
- 8 nominations Skyfall
- 7 nominations Argo
- 6 nominations Anna Karenina
- 5 nominations Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty
- 4 nominations Amour and The Master
- 3 nominations ' and Silver Linings Playbook
- 2 nominations' Hitchcock, The Imposter, and Rust and Bone''
In Memoriam
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Jake Eberts
- Ravi Shankar
- Celeste Holm
- Michael Winner
- Ernest Borgnine
- Frank Pierson
- Sylvia Kristel
- Herbert Lom
- Cornel Lucas
- Robert Fuest
- Dinah Sheridan
- Chris Challis
- Charles Durning
- Nora Ephron
- Joyce Redman
- Richard Zanuck
- Patricia Medina
- Chris Marker
- Martin Poll
- Stuart Freeborn
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- Bruce Surtees
- Michael Clarke Duncan
- Tony Scott