What is BAFTA? BAFTA is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in cinema, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.
What are the awards? EE British Academy Film Awards, British Academy Games Awards, British Academy Television Craft Awards, British Academy Children's Awards, Arqiva British Academy Television Awards, British Academy Cymru Awards, British Academy Scotland Awards, BAFTA in Scotland New Talent Awards, The Britannia Awards
Who won what? Adapted Screenplay - Silver Linings Playbook (David O.Russell)
Make up and hair - Les Miserables (Lisa Westcott)
Animated film - Brave (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman)
Original film music - Skyfall (Thomas Newman)
Cinematography - Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
Original screenplay - Django Unchained (Quetin Tarantino)
Costume design - Anna Karenina (Jacqueline Durran)
Outstanding British contribution to cinema - Tessa Ross
Director - Ben Affleck (Argo)
Outstanding British Film - Skyfall (Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan
Documentary - Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn)
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer - Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis (The Imposter)
EE rising star - Juno Temple
Production design - Les Miserables (Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson)
Editing - Argo (William Goldenberg)
Short animation - The Making of Longbird (Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson)
Fellowship - Sir Alan Parker
Film - Argo (Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney)
Short film - Swimmer (Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw)
Film not in the English language - Amour (Michael Heneke, Margaret Menegoz)
How many 'British' winners were there?
British winners included Daniel Day-Lewis (for Best Actor in 'Lincoln')
and Jacqueline Durran (for Best Costume Design in 'Anna Karenina').
Skyfall won Best British Film and Best Film Music, Swimmer won Best
Short Film, Searching for Sugar Man won Best Documentary, Les Miserables
won Best Sound, Best Costume Design. A lot of the BAFTA winners were from America or other nationality but there were still a lot of British winners.
Tessa Ross (one of BAFTA winners)
Tessa Sarah Ross (born 1961), is a BAFTA award winning UK film executive who is the Controlller of Film and Drama at Channel 4. She is also a director of the Royal National Theatre and a governor of the National Film and Television School.
She has been the executive producer of several notable British films including; Billy Elliot (2000), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Four Lions (2010) and The Iron Lady (2011). In the 2010 New Year Honours she was awarded the CBE for services to broadcasting. At the 66th British Academy Film Awards
on 10 February 2013 she received the award for 'Outstanding British
Contribution to Cinema' that is presented annually in honour of Michael Balcon. The award was presented to her by the director Danny Boyle.
In February 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.
Who holds the most power in terms of influencing what films get made and seen?
There are varied stages in the film production cycle. Production, distribution, exhibition and marketing all have different influences on what films are made to be like with the help of audiences, consumers, studios, production companies, writers, stars, directors and all importantly the producer. It is arguable that all of these hold power in the influence of what films are made and seen and in this essay I will explore the ways in which different people influence what films are made and seen.
One arguement, which I myself think is the strongest, is that the audience holds the most power of what films get made and seen. Arguably, the people who physically make the films (producers/writers/production companies/directors) are majorly influenced in what they make by the audience. If the producers for example see that a film such as Harry Potter is doing well through box office stats, they may try to make their film similar to Harry Potter knowing that there is an interest in the fantasy series. At the end of the day, the audience will only go to see a film if they have some sort of interest in it, for example a film such as Twilight had many people interested due to the books which were written before the film was created, so when they film was created, it caused people to speculate in what the films were going to turn out to be like, which meant that they went to see them due to the interest they had in them.
On the other hand, it could also be argued that the studios also have a lot of the power as they choose where the films will be distributed. For example, if the studio decides to distribute a film to a cinema which isn't popular and easy to get to, it could put potential consumers and audience off seeing it which would decrease the amount of people going to see a film. Studios also have the power of what times a cinema shows a film so they could choose different times at different cinemas in order to get more people to see a film in whichever cinema they are closest to, for example Odeon might show a film at 15.30 but Vue might show it at 15.15 which gives the consumer more choice to go to a more convient cinema.
Another argument is that people who illegally watch films on websites such as Priate Bay also influence what films get made and seen. I think this is a strong arguement because if more and more films keep getting watched illegally, film production companies may not make enough profits meaning they might be unable to make films in the future. It could also mean that in the next film the production makes will have a smaller budget meaning the quality of films get worse and worse which might stop cinemas from showing them due to the quality worsening and people becoming disinterested in the films.
In conclusion, I think that all of these are important factors in what films get made and seen but I think that the audience has the biggest impact on what films get made and seen as they are the initially the beginning of the film production cycle as the majority of film making has to be based around what the audience/consumers want because if you make a film which has interest, it won't get seen which will mean all the money on the production will have been wasted.
1. over one weekend, how many separate screenings are there? 79
2. how many films in total are being exhibited? 13
3. how many films are being screened serval times at the same cinema? 8
4. of these, how many are being screened at more than one cinema at the same time? 3
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7. what conclusions can you draw about film distribution in the UK? I have learned from this homework that cinemas usually tend to make sure that the cinema times of when a film is playing don't clash (and they rarely do), I didn't know this before but this is probably due to cinemas wanting as much customers as they can get at different types of the day without having much competition and different times are available at different cinemas to suit a person best. I've also learnt that the majority of films get shown more than once a day.
