BAFTAS 2013 - Research

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.