63rd British Academy Film Awards
Date	21 February 2010
Site	Royal Opera House, London
Hosted by	Jonathan Ross
Highlights
Best Film	The Hurt Locker
Best British Film	Fish Tank
Best Actor	Colin Firth A Single Man
Best Actress	Carey Mulligan An Education
Most awards	The Hurt Locker (6)
Most nominations	**Avatar, An Education and The Hurt Locker** (8)
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The 63rd British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 21 February 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2009. 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 2009.

The nominees were announced on 21 January 2010.^[1] Three films received the most nominations in eight categories; Avatar, An Education and The Hurt Locker. District 9 followed with seven.^[2] The Hurt Locker took home the most awards with six. This year marked the first year of the new Academy President, William, Prince of Wales, who presented the BAFTA Fellowship award to Vanessa Redgrave, alongside Uma Thurman.^[3]

Jonathan Ross hosted the ceremony for the fourth consecutive year.

Winners and nominees

Christoph Waltz, Best Supporting Actor winner

BAFTA Fellowship

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Vanessa Redgrave

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

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Joe Dunton

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro Avatar – James Cameron and Jon Landau An Education – Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey Precious – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness Up in the Air – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman and Daniel Dubiecki	Best Direction Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker James Cameron – Avatar Lone Scherfig – An Education Neill Blomkamp – District 9 Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Best Actor in a Leading Role *Colin Firth – A Single Man* as George Falconer** Andy Serkis – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Ian Dury George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis Blake Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sergeant First Class William James	Best Actress in a Leading Role *Carey Mulligan – An Education* as Jenny Mellor** Audrey Tautou – Coco Before Chanel as Coco Chanel Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece Precious Jones Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones as Susie Salmon
Best Actor in a Supporting Role *Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds* as Hans Landa** Alec Baldwin – It's Complicated as Jacob Adler Alfred Molina – An Education as Jack Mellor Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles as Orson Welles Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey	Best Actress in a Supporting Role *Mo'Nique – Precious* as Mary Lee Johnston** Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener Anne-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy as Julia Lennon Kristin Scott Thomas – Nowhere Boy as Mimi Smith Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
Best Original Screenplay The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal The Hangover – Jon Lucas and Scott Moore Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter	Best Adapted Screenplay Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell An Education – Nick Hornby In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche Precious – Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Best Cinematography The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd Avatar – Mauro Fiore District 9 – Trent Opaloch Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson The Road – Javier Aguirresarobe	Best Costume Design The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell Bright Star – Janet Patterson Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier An Education – Odile Dicks-Mireaux A Single Man – Arianne Phillips
Best Editing The Hurt Locker – Bob Murawski and Chris Innis Avatar – Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron District 9 – Julian Clarke Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke Up in the Air – Dana E. Glauberman	Best Makeup and Hair The Young Victoria – Jenny Shircore Coco Before Chanel – Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Madeleine Cafano and Jane Milon An Education – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Sarah Monzani Nine – Peter King
Best Original Music Up – Michael Giacchino Avatar – James Horner Crazy Heart – T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Chaz Jankel	Best Production Design Avatar – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair District 9 – Philip Ivey and Guy Potgieter Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro and Caroline Smith Inglourious Basterds – David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
Best Sound The Hurt Locker – Ray Beckett and Paul N. J. Ottosson Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson and Addison Teague District 9 – Brent Burge, Chris Ward, Dave Whitehead, Michael Hedges and Ken Saville Star Trek – Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger and Ben Burtt Up – Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane	Best Special Visual Effects Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones District 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander and Nicolas Aithadi The Hurt Locker – Richard Stutsman Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Outstanding British Film Fish Tank – Kees Kasander, Nick Laws and Andrea Arnold An Education – Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Lone Scherfig and Nick Hornby In the Loop – Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche Moon – Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker Nowhere Boy – Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Matt Greenhalgh	Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Moon – Duncan Jones (Director) Exam – Stuart Hazeldine (Writer/Director/Producer) Mugabe and the White African – Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock and David Pearson (Director/Producer) Nowhere Boy – Sam Taylor-Johnson (Director) Shifty – Eran Creevy (Writer/Director)
Best Short Animation Mother of Many – Sally Arther and Emma Lazanby The Gruffalo – Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang The Happy Duckling – Gili Dolev	Best Short Film I Do Air – James Bolton and Martina Amati Fourteen – Asitha Ameresekere Jade – Samm Hailay and Daniel Elliott Mixtape – Luti Fagbenle and Luke Snellin Off Season – Jacob Jaffke and Jonathan Van Tulleken
Best Animated Film Up – Pete Docter Coraline – Henry Selick Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson	Best Film Not in the English Language A Prophet – Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud and Jacques Audiard Broken Embraces – Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar Coco Before Chanel – Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassanne and Anne Fontaine Let the Right One In – Carl Molinder, John Nordling and Tomas Alfredson The White Ribbon – Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Ménégoz and Michael Haneke
Rising Star Award Kristen Stewart Carey Mulligan Jesse Eisenberg Nicholas Hoult Tahar Rahim

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
8	Avatar
	An Education
	The Hurt Locker
7	District 9
6	Inglourious Basterds
6	Up in the Air
4	Coco Before Chanel
	Nowhere Boy
	Precious
	Up
2	Crazy Heart
	Fantastic Mr. Fox
	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
	In the Loop
	The Lovely Bones
	Moon
	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
	A Single Man
	Star Trek
	The Young Victoria

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
6	The Hurt Locker
2	Avatar
	Up
	The Young Victoria

References

External links

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