62nd British Academy Film Awards

The 62nd British Academy Film Awards, hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 8 February 2009, and honoured the best films of 2008.

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Mickey Rourke â€" The Wrestler

• Frank Langella â€" Frost/Nixon
• Dev Patel â€" Slumdog Millionaire
• Sean Penn â€" Milk
• Brad Pitt â€" The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Actress

Kate Winslet â€" The Reader

• Angelina Jolie â€" Changeling
i>Kristin Scott Thomas â€" I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je T'Aime)
• Meryl Streep â€" Doubt
• Kate Winslet â€" Revolutionary Road

Best Animated Film

WALL-E

• Persepolis
• Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

Best Cinematography

Slumdog Millionaire â€" Anthony Dod Mantle

• Changeling â€" Tom Stern
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button â€" Claudio Miranda
• The Dark Knight â€" Wally Pfister
• The Reader â€" Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

Best Costume Design

The Duchess â€" Michael O'Connor

• Changeling â€" Deborah Hopper
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button â€" Jacqueline West
• The Dark Knight â€" Lindy Hemming
• Revolutionary Road â€" Albert Wolsky

Best Director

Danny Boyle â€" Slumdog Millionaire

• Clint Eastwood â€" Changeling
• David Fincher â€" The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard â€" Frost/Nixon
• Stephen Daldry â€" The Reader

Best Editing

Slumdog Millionaire â€" Chris Dickens

There was a tie in this category, leading to six nominations.

• Changeling â€" Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button â€" Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
• The Dark Knight â€" Lee Smith
• Frost/Nixon â€" Dan Hanley and Mike Hill
• In Bruges â€" Jon Gregory

Best Film

Slumdog Millionaire

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader

Best Film â€" British (Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film)

Man on Wire

• Hunger
• In Bruges
• Mamma Mia! The Movie
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Film Not in the English Language

I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)
• Gomorrah (Gomorra)
• Persepolis
• Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

Best Makeup and Hair

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button â€" Jean Black, Colleen Callaghan

• The Dark Knight â€" Peter Robb-King
• The Duchess â€" Daniel Phillips, Jan Archibald
• Frost/Nixon â€" Edouard Henriques, Kim Santantonio
• Milk â€" Steven E. Anderson, Michael White

Best Music (Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music)

Slumdog Millionaire â€" A. R. Rahman

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button â€" Alexandre Desplat
• The Dark Knight â€" James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
• Mamma Mia! â€" Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
• WALL-E â€" Thomas Newman

Best Production Design

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button â€" Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo

• Changeling â€" James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
• The Dark Knight â€" Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
• Revolutionary Road â€" Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
• Slumdog Millionaire â€" Mark Digby, Michelle Day

Best Screenplay â€" Adapted

Slumdog Millionaire â€" Simon Beaufoy

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button â€" Eric Roth
• Frost/Nixon â€" Peter Morgan
• The Reader â€" David Hare
• Revolutionary Road â€" Justin Haythe

Best Screenplay â€" Original

In Bruges â€" Martin McDonagh

• Burn After Reading â€" Ethan and Joel Coen
• Changeling â€" J. Michael Straczynski
• I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) â€" Philippe Claudel
• Milk â€" Dustin Lance Black

Best Sound

Slumdog Millionaire â€" Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp

• Changeling â€" Walt Martin, Alan Robert Murray, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff
• The Dark Knight â€" Lora Hirschberg, Richard King, Ed Novick, Gary Rizzo
• Quantum of Solace â€" Jimmy Boyle, Eddy Joseph, Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor
• WALL-E â€" Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Matthew Wood

Best Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger â€" The Dark Knight

• Robert Downey, Jr. â€" Tropic Thunder
• Brendan Gleeson â€" In Bruges
• Philip Seymour Hoffman â€" Doubt
• Brad Pitt â€" Burn After Reading

Best Supporting Actress

Penélope Cruz â€" Vicky Cristina Barcelona

• Amy Adams â€" Doubt
• Freida Pinto â€" Slumdog Millionaire
• Tilda Swinton â€" Burn After Reading
• Marisa Tomei â€" The Wrestler

Best Visual Effects

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button â€" Eric Barba, Craig Barron, â€" Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams

• The Dark Knight â€" Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin, Tim Webber
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull â€" Pablo Helman
• Iron Man â€" Shane Patrick Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow
• Quantum of Solace â€" Chris Corbould, Kevin Tod Haug

Best Short Animation

A Matter of Loaf and Death â€" Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker

• Codswallop â€" Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
• Varmints â€" Sue Goffe, Marc Craste

Best Short Film

September - Stewart le Maréchal, Esther May Campbell

• Kingsland #1: The Dreamer â€" Kate Ogborn, Tony Grisoni
• Love You More â€" Adrian Sturges, Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber
• Ralph â€" Olivier Kaempfer, Alex Winckler
• Voyages D'Affaires (The Business Trip) â€" Celine Quideau, Sean Ellis

Carl Foreman award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film

Steve McQueen - Hunger (director/writer)

• Simon Chinn - Man on Wire (producer)
• Judy Craymer - Mamma Mia! The Movie (producer)
• Garth Jennings - Son of Rambow (writer)
• Roy Boulter and Solon Papadopoulos - Of Time and the City (producers)

Orange Rising Star Award

Noel Clarke

• Michael Cera
• Michael Fassbender
• Rebecca Hall
• Toby Kebbell

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

Shepperton Studios and Pinewood Studios

Awards breakdown

List of films that received multiple awards:

• 7 Slumdog Millionaire
• 3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

List of films that received multiple nominations:

• 11 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire
• 9 The Dark Knight
• 8 Changeling
• 6 Frost/Nixon
• 5 The Reader
• 4 In Bruges, Milk and Revolutionary Road
• 3 Burn After Reading, Doubt, I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), Mamma Mia! and WALL-E
• 2 The Duchess, Quantum of Solace, Hunger, The Wrestler, Persepolis, and Waltz with Bashir

List of people who received multiple nominations:

• 2 Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet

References

• "Film Nominations in 2009". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2009.