12/02/2012 The British Academy Film Awards

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Good evening and welcome to the most prestigious event in British

cinema. The Orange British Academy Film Awards.

Welcome to the BAFTAS. This is the most important date in British film

calendar. There is lots of very exciting people here tonight.

Stkpwh for one night only, London's historic Royal Opera House plays

host to some of the biggest names in cinema.

I feel like a million dollars. crowds this evening, as always in

London, absolutely fantastic. crowds tonight are terrifying.

Listen. I think that says it all! The stars have dressed in suitable

finery for the occasion. Feel suited and booted. I am wearing

Givency. My Valentino dress. air is thick with anticipation as

we prepare to find out who'll be taking home the much coveted BAFTAS.

Oh, man so many good films, I wouldn't know where to begin.

Artist will do well, I hope Gary wins for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier,

Spy. 11 nominations. Michael Fassbender, Shame was an

extraordinary film. You never know. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

have to say Drive because I'm in it, film of the year for sure.

excited to be in the building. love The Artist. Ladies and

gentlemen, please take your seats for the 2012 British Academy Film

Ladies and gentlemen, paying homage to 50 years of James Bond, please

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, your host for this evening, Mr

Hello. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Please,

please stop. Oh, you have. Ladies and gentlemen, please

redirect your thunderous applause to Thunderball, as performed by the

red hot smoking Welsh dragon that is Sir Tom Jones!

You know, as a rule, we don't do musical song and dance numbers here

at BAFTA because, well let's be honest, song and dance numbers at

awards shows are usually a toe- curling, ear-wiggling eye-watering

embarrassment that make you want to chew your own legs off. But when it

comes to a talent like Sir Tom and a celebration of 50 years of James

Bond in cinema, well, we have an exception that shaters the rule.

But I'm forgetting my manners. My Lords, Iron Ladys, gentlemen,

filmmakers, high powered magnets, stars, starlets, starlings and

assorted media scum, welcome to the Orange British Academy Film Awards,

surely THE most eagerly anticipated event in Britain and indeed London

that could ever be hosted in 2012. I can think of no other event that

would come close. So half a century of James Bond, we are so proud of

it. An enduring collaboration of dashing British style and

eccentricity and that very special American quality of oh, what's the

word... Money. And whilst banging the British drum,

let's bang it a little louder by telling you that last year was a

record-breaking one at the UK box office when takings passed �1

billion for the first time ever. What's more, eight of the top 20

grossing fim films of the year were made here in this country,

including the highest grossing of them all, Harry Potter And The

And that film of course brought to an end a simply staggering era

which has, amongst other things, launched the careers of three young

brilliant sexy British actors, something for which I'm sure

Michael Gambon Maggie Smith and John Hurt will be eternally

grateful for, but we couldn't possibly move on without mentioning

the great British icon in our midst, the Right Honourable Baroness Meryl

Thatcher. I'm guessing this could be the first time in recorded

history that we hear the words, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, win, win,

win, or possibly Meryl Thatcher, trophy snatcher! Who knows, the

secrets are locked up in envelopes yet to be slit open by our panoply

of distinguished presenters who'll be handing out the coveted BAFTA

masks for the likes of actor, actress, director, film and of

course the academy's highest honour, the foal lowship. This grand Royal

Opera House on whose stage Nijinski sang and Carruso danced has

probably never been filmed with so many distinguished people in one

single night. If I shade my eyes to look across the footlights, there

is no face that I don't recognise and which doesn't fill me with oh,

wow, Gary old man, I mean Gary Oldman!

Unfortunately, some people couldn't be here in person tonight, namely

the television audience, we simply didn't have room to fit you all in

here anyway and if we did, who'd be watching. To all of you with your

eyes and ears and with some cases lips on the screen, welcome along,

in fact to make you feel especially welcome, I wonder, Brad, if you

would be a lovely darling and just blow a kiss into the camera for or

TV audience. Can you do that? CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Go on. There we are. Thank you very A nation's heart flutters, or is it

just mine?! Now now with tongues, no, worth a

try anyway! Many, many wonderful films and

performances will be honoured here tonight that my nude scene in

Sherlock Holmes was overlooked by BAFTA doesn't make me bitter or

upset, only really rather grateful that Guy Ritchie decided against

making the film in 3D. What a package... Sorry, what a package we

have now to show you, as we present a review of 2011 in film, as they

used to say in the days of tape and tubes, roll VT. I address you all

tonight as you truly are wizards, How's that for a magic trick?

I've ever seen. Ready to party! Well, there is discourt, may we

bring harmony, where there is error, may we bring truth, where there is

doubt, may we bring faith and where Happy endings only happen in the

movies. The story's not over yet. You want me to speak? When I point

Seriously, it's like your photo Simon, we need to talk. Oh, not

APPLAUSE What are we clapping for? For you...

APPLAUSE What a year!

Now, a final word before we get stuck into it. Let's talk about

that dread bitch whore time, as we all know, it's not the winning,

it's the taking part... And winning. So if you happen to be one of the

lucky ones, don't hang around, rush to the stage, run, run like Usain

Bolt and locked manage to keep your afusions of gratituded to a minimum,

140 characters usually suffices for me, that would be grand. As I've

observed before, no-one in the history of award ceremonies has

ever left one saying, it was good, but I thought it was a bit too

short. So, bearing that in mind, we must get down to business and when

I say we, I mean of course we. Your job is simply to look there and

look sumptuous which you are doing very well indeed at the moment. The

first award this evening is for Special Visual Effects and to

present it, a much-loved Oscar- winning actor so great they named a

country, a cigar and a missile crisis after him. Please welcome,

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Whitney, I will always love you.

APPLAUSE Mr Fry... Mr Fry, your introduction was almost correct,

but as you can see, I'm the kind of guy who likes to make a special

visual effect. It's unbelievable isn't it? In reality I'm George

Clooney, yes, but where Michael Fassbender's manliness. So, I have

the utmost respect for the people who make it all happen on screen.

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Extraordinary achievement in cinema. The BAFTA goes to... Harry Potter

And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Wow! It's a bit scary being first

up. I think we are all just really, really choughed that we've finally

won this. We've been trying for a long, long time, so... APPLAUSE

I would like to say thank you to Warner Brothers, the three Ds, they

know who they are. And everybody who has worked on all of the films.

There's so many great films that we've all contributed to. All The

Artists, everyone, all the work they've given us. Congratulations.

We now leap as lithely as a lightly-luebed leopard to the next

award. Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or

Producer. To present it two glorious Bridesmaids, whose careers

are on such an upwards trajectory they would leave the atmosphere and

reach outer space. Please welcome Chris O'Dowd and Kristen Wiig!

Hi, thank you. It's an honour to be here. I have to admit I get a

little nervous sometimes with presenting with all the awkward you

know. Yes, it is all a bit fake. Between two people. But not now.

it's natural. I was worried, so I wrote a little scene. OK. It is not

a scene. It is just a, I don't wanna... It's on a napkin?

could improvise, but I wouldn't. It's pretty good. OK. Man. So far

that's good. Yep. Man, you are looking so great tonight they

should call you Chris O'Wow! LAUGHTER Good one, Kirsten. They

call you Kristen Wiig because your hair is so pretty. LAUGHTER I just

want to show you that. I went to the trouble. Let's look at the

nominees. For Outstanding Debut by a British

Lovely fireworks. Comedian and broader Joe was

inspired by his love of '80s fantasy film to make this story of

inner city kids versus extraterrestial monsters.

I'm quite sweet really aren't I? Paddy Considine, Diarmid Scrimshaw

for Tyrannosaur. Building on their BAFTA-winning Short Film Dog

Altogether, he befriends a troubled widower played by Peter Mullin.

What's your name? De Niro snir. Ralph Fiennes, Coriolanus. He shot

his directorial debut in Belgrade. A visceral interpretation of

Shakespeare's tragedy about a Will Sharpe, Tom Kingsley and Sarah

Brocklehurst. Black Pond. Directors Will and Tom made this a real

comedy on a budget of just �25,000,000. The boys also did

their own post production and visual effects. It is sheer lunacy

to have a banana at this hour. us, and a wonderful evening of

love-making. Richard Ayoade. Submarine. As well as starring in

the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd Richard has directed videos for the

Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend. Set in Wales Submarine is a stylish

APPLAUSE No bias at all. OK. And the BAFTA

goes to... Paddy Considine and Diarmid Scrimshaw for Tyrannosaur!

I love yous too. I'm Rocky Balbao. That was quite a good impression. I

surprised myself then! Thank you very much to Eric Wilton, the

editor of the film, Nadia Stacey, Danny Gulliver, Dan Winch,

everybody who worked on the crew. Samuel Bottomley, Sian break kin,

Shali Carmen and the principal cast, Eddie Marzan, my hero party Mullin.

Gary Oldman was there at the beginning of this journey, and the

irrepressible and brilliant Olivia Colman. Thank you. APPLAUSE This is

great. I don't feel this BAFTA belongs to me. I feel like it

belongs to everybody who helped make Tyrannosaur. I probably will

keep it, but I would like to thank Paddy for being an amazing writer

and director to work with and I'm proud to count him as a friend.

Thank you very much. APPLAUSE

What an amazing film, Tyrannosaur. If you haven't seen it I do urge

you to. Still to come, the awards for film, actor, actress and the

Fellowship. Of course, this evening is one of celebration. As well as

lauding the nominated films it is my great pleasure to congratulate

BAFTA in Los Angeles on reaching the ripe old age of 256789 I'm sure

they'll be partying wildly with macrobiotic brown rice and lashings

of green team. We spend fraternal greetings. Here in the UK we are

not light on celebrations ourselves. It is going to be a great year for

Great Britain. Later on we shall be street partying like there's no

tomorrow for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and running, hurdling and

vaulting on to the sofa to watch the summer Olympics held here in

the metropolis. It is with those great Games in mind that I embarked

on a film pentathlon or film Athlon if you will, and took a closer look,

in no special order, at the five great works nominated this year for

Best Film. My first treat was the quite brilliant and much talked

about tur deforce which has ravaged everyone who has seen it. Caps

speaks in French I WEPT TO SEE NIT MY LOCAL CINEMA.

UNFORTUNATELY THE NIGHT I WENT THE it's the story of a silent movie

actor and he is a huge star. He meets a young lady. He is going to

fall and she will become a huge star of the talkies.

He is a joker, naive, a seducer. Sometimes arrogant. A nice guy. No

instinct for the future. George Valentine cannot make the

adaptation into talkies and resists. And he hits bottom. Parallel is the

rise of a young actress who is going to become very famous. This

girl Pepe Miller has got what was known as "it". She's definitely got

star quality, which you nights her and George. It's a love story not

only for a man and a woman. It is a APPLAUSE

If the great Louis Prima hadn't written Sing, Sing, Sing the story

would have been poorer. It proved that silence is indeed golden? We

shall see. Spank me twice, ladies and gentlemen. If we haven't

already chanced upon the award for Production Design. Making the

presentation the quite brilliant actress who has made the transition

from stage acting to screen acting almost as the they were more or

less in some way related. Her most recent performance as able even --

Abaileen forced them to recalibrate the critical claim innator. Ladies

and gentlemen, the astonishing Creating the overall look of a film

is a huge responsibility and something that requires the utmost

dedication, creativity and vision. The Production Design teams working

on the nominated films have all shown that those are qualities they

possess in abundance. Let's take a look at their amazing

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work. Harry Potter And The Deathly

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APPLAUSE On behalf of Dante Ferreti,

unfortunately he couldn't be here tonight, I would like to thank all

of you for this amazing award and with all my heart, with all my

heart, I like to thank Martin Scorsese because it's a huge honour

to have been working with him. Congratulations.

Well, we now come to the award for supporting actor and to present it,

last year's winner of supporting actress, a pulsating and breath-

taking British star, who is acting Royalty, in a lot of her films she

acts Royalty, Alice, Queen Elizabeth, King's Speech or the

Queen of the Death Eaters. She infuses every role with her unique

energy, passion, passionate energy and energetic passion. Ladies and

gentlemen, some people think that the world is going to Helena

Hancarte, I would say it's going to APPLAUSE.

Thank you. I think you are doing very well too and I also want to

thank the Queen. OK, so the bigger the pot, the easier it is to act

well because you can have some bad days and you can kind of get away

with it -- the bigger the part. It won't make that much of a

difference but when the part is smaller, you have to come in and

nail it and pray you are not cut too much. So, the five actors who

really nailed it this year in best Wonderfully loud music. Boom, boom,

boom, boom... What kind of music's that? Probably house music.

Who do you want? You, me and the governor, that's it. He's a fund-

raiser. Won't be late. Tell him if he doesn't offer Thompson the

Cabinet position, he's not going to Don't call it my duty. It's my

duty... Ambition. The rest of us, me, the children, we can all go to

hell. Don't worry about me. Where OK, thank you very much, we'll call

you back. Thank you. Come on! Come They wouldn't stand for this

nonsense at the Hippodrome in Eastbourne. You have to be patient

with Marilyn. Trying to teach her to act is like trying to teach Urdu

to a badger! APPLAUSE

And the BAFTA goes to Christopher Plummer for Beginners. APPLAUSE OK,

he's not here, I'll give it to him, but he's got this little message

thank God, it says that BAFTA's spoken now and I feel more at home

here than ever. My deepest thanks for your generosity, faith and

wisdom. I'll get it to him. Thank Up ahead, the awards for actor,

actress and director and we'll present the academy's greatest

honour, the Fellowship. Now time for the second event in my film

pentathlon, the superb emotional challenging journey set in Hawaii

which is The Descendents, as I prefer to call it, my American

cousins. My Twitter feed went ballistic for this film. I kept one

which said "who in reality gets to live on a tropical island while

plotting their next multibillion dollar deal?" from an at Richard

Branson. Ladies and gentlemen, The Descendents. I'm ready to talk,

ready to change. I'm ready to be a real husband and a real father.

Just wake up. Please, Liz, just wake up. What you been going

through, that's a tough deal. Trying to keep my head above water.

A story about mat King, a father and a husband, who's not really

great at either one of those things. I don't know what to do with her.

Maybe if you spent more time with her, she wouldn't act like such a

complete jazz. He is now forced to be in charge of these two girls who

he doesn't know very well. Shut up, you motherless whore. Easy, half-

pipe. Where'd you learn to talk like that?! It's kind of like a lot

of teenagers' relationships with their fathers. I'll be more civil

with him around. Don't ever do that to me again. She loves him and

knows he has a lot to offer but she looks at him as kind of the child

and she kind of takes on the parenting role and has her whole

entire life. You really don't have a clue do you.

Dad, mom was cheating on you. would like to know who the guy was

that my wife was seeing. He's still in his own minutiae and Brian's

able to pay attention to her. might not be able to hear this

right now, but she was lonely. are you? This is a story of his

A marvellous film, will The Descendents of The Descendents

December have a BAFTA mask to take each other to court over? Only the

presenter who opens the envelope will be automobile to tell. The

legendary producer, Alexander Corder. Two exceptional actresses

soon to be seen together playing bond girls in the new Bond film

Skyfall, but even sooner that that, they'll be seen here. Please

Good evening. As Bond women, we are here to celebrate British film.

it's a huge honour to present this award for the Outstanding British

Could be the real thing. If it's genuine, it's gold dust. Its topic

ality makes it suspect. Smiley and suspicious, Percy. The circuit for

me was a turnoff. I realised I was going, going, going, and I was way

Listen, buddy, it's easy to misunderstand something when you

hear it out of context. I didn't not know the context. I am the

context. Shall I be her? Are you APPLAUSE

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And the BAFTA is awarded to Tinker, Thank you. It's easy to be talented

when you're surrounded by talented people and thank you so much for

letting me do this. Tim. You are very welcome. First big thanks has

to go to John Le Carre for a magnificent novel, then entrusting

us with it to turn it into movie 30 years later. Thank you to Peter and

Bridget for a beautiful screen play, a fantastic crew put together by

Robin, fantastic cast led by the beautiful Gary Oldman. And thank

you to Studio Canal for backing this picture, you came in and were

there all the way, thank you to Olivier and Ron and all the others

who work there. It wouldn't have been possible without brilliant

direction and we are very fortunate to have a man who's forensic in

detail and totally inspiring as a director. This award really belongs

to him. Thank you so much. APPLAUSE Well, as we presented the award for

supporting actor a short while ago, we must now maintain the

equilibrium and present the supporting actress award. To

perform the duties required of a presenter, we've got ourselves a

bona fide global phenomenon. We've watched him grow from a boy into a

man. He's bucked the child star trend and somehow avoided

brattishness, eating disorders, addiction, bankruptcy and long-term

incarceration to become a hugely successful and talented adult, a

first in cinema history. Now starring in the chilling Woman

APPLAUSE Thank you very much. I'm delighted

to be here tonight to announce the winner of this award. I've had the

pleasure of working with one of these actresses but I'm glad I

don't have to choose the winner out of such anout standingly talented

No hugging. I'm sorry. It's the A great actress like you has many

other things on her mind. You think I'm a great actress? None of the

rest of us know how to act for the camera. But you do. It's a rare

That's his father? Where is he? I need to see you square on at all

times. I get to come up with the I need the toilet. I need the

APPLAUSE And the BAFTA is awarded to Octavia

CHEERING Well, this is a surprise. Thank you

to the BAFTAs. This is a dream and I have to say, Taylor and Branson

Green, Michael and everybody at Disney, everybody at DreamWorks, my

co-stars, I share this with Jessica Chastain, Viola, all of my scene

partners. Wow! It's been said that The Help is an American movie about

American problems and American history. I am so grateful so you

for seeing past that, because surely oppression and strife knows

no gender, no age, no sexual orientation, and in our case

country, so I appreciate this. So much.

Well, now, round three of my film Athlon saw me skipping along to see

the chillingly subline Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which has

already won an award for best British film. The twists and turns

of this narrative roller coaster kept me on the edge of my seat,

though others did find the plot hard to follow. Again I received a

tweet. Please explain what it is all I'm about that, was from Gary

Oldman. Ladies and gentlemen, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

There's a mole right at the top of the circus. He's been there for

years. You are not talking about this kind of fantasy spies or Bond.

It's a completely different thing, a different genre altogether.

are no gadgets, no gizmos or Aston Martins. Have you got clearance for

that? I'm not bloody chaining it up outside. I know it is one of five

men. All I want from you is one code name. Smiley has to figure out

these people based on how he understands them. It brings out the

human element in all of this. did you make of it, Jim? The theory.

He's a fascinating character because of his discretion, sobriety,

self control. You don't see celebrated in other action spies.

He lets everything come to him. The room temperature changes to him. He

completely and utterly beGiles people into thinking he is harmless.

I will do my utmost. In life you wouldn't notice him but under the

microscope of the drama you scrutinise him and find that this

man is seriously intelligent, wise and cool. I know who he is.

APPLAUSE Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, ladies

and gentlemen, making a mountain of a film out of a mole. Hopeful of

smiley faces all round come the end of the night, but there is no way

of telling, unlike the British Secret Service security at BAFTA is

unbreechable. We now stand at the brink of the award for Original

Screenplay. To present it, two dynamite actors who would you

believe are polar opposites when it comes to gender. He has galloped

into the limelight with a sublime leading role in War Horse. While

aged 11 she dived into it at Merhaids and has remained at the

front of the pack ever since. Jeremy Irvine and Christina Ricci!

APPLAUSE It begins with a blank page. In

time those words become the dialogue you hear, the settings you

see and the emotions you feel when they are brought to life on screen.

Hundreds of drafts and years of rewrites can go into perfecting

every line and stage direction that we as actors can destroy in a

moment just by thinking that we know best. Here are the nominees

Watch out. She's on the prowl. Eat your egg.

Goodness. There you are. It's fine for your father and I to

disagreement that's what a democracy is. He defends the right-

wing of the party and I think you have to be like a demeanted lunatic,

but it doesn't mean we don't respect each other's views, am I

Excuse me. Street fighting. Your lads are seizing drugs with a

street value of $10 million. I wonder what street it is you are

buying your cocaine on as it is not This is your husband? No. No. I

don't know him, I'm sorry. Do you want to go for a walk later?

can't. I can't, I'm sorry. APPLAUSE

And the BAFTA goes to... Michel Hazanavicius.

Thank you. Thank you for the BAFTA. I'm very surprised, because so many

people thought there was no script, because there was no dialogue.

English people are very clever. LAUGHTER Congratulations to you.

And I want to thank all the people who worked on that movie, all the

cast, the crew, the producer, everyone. Everybody made that movie

for a good reason. Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE Well, we come now to the

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award, which is named in

honour of Sir Michael Walcombe. To make the presentation an Oscar-

winning writer, director, who attacks everything he does with

unstoppable drive and unquenchable enthusiasm. I'm delighted to

welcome the almost mythical Billy Bob Thornton. APPLAUSE

OK, the moment you've all been waiting for. An inarticulate guy

who can see about four feet in front of him, with an IQ of just

under 50 to present an award. LAUGHTER And here we go. The re

sipper... I told you. For Outstanding British Contribution to

Cinema is a supremely talented man who is very much an actor's actor,

someone who clearly loves what he does and would be just as happy

performing in a room above a pub than performing in the biggest

films. A Man For All Seasons, Midnight Express, Alien, the

Elephant Man, Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Harry Potter films and Tinker

Tailor Soldier Spy. Those roles alone can give you an indication of

his incredible versatility. He brings a distinction and quality

that takes him out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. I've

known this guy for 20-odd years and recently had the pleasure and

honour of directing him. Here is how you do it. You do a couple of

takes and you say, "John, are you OK?" He says, "Are you happy?" And

I say, "I'm astounded." That's the way you direct him. Let's watch the

work of a guy who is ridiculously I think it is clear that we can

I want this country to realise that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I

want every man woman and child to understand how close we are to

chaos. I want everyone to remember Is this how we fail? Something will

defeat you. The best thing to do is get your ass out of here. Yeah, but

how. Catch the Midnight Express. am not an animal.

I am a human being. I think it's a bleeding miracle

that man should have planted love into every man and every woman,

even though in some of us it's as Look. I cut that with a rusty blade

before I became an informer. A film can change the way people think.

If you must know, how completely, Look inwarned ask yourself not if

there's anything inside that you want, but whether there's anything

inside that you have not yet APPLAUSE

So, ladies and gentlemen, the BAFTA Award for outstanding British

contribution for cinema goes to, CONTINUING APPLAUSE

What am I to do? I speak? I speak, yes! Thank you.

Heaven alone, sit down. Who would have thought all those years ago

that I would be sharing the stage of the Royal Opera House Covent

Garden with Billy Bob Thornton?! How fabulous. Anyway, one of the

difficult things, of course, is my being given an award that you know

you are going to get and not having to wait for the envelope to be

opened is that you are supposed to have had the time to write a speech.

Well, I did but, without giving away too much information, I was

getting up one morning last week and, on my way to the bathroom, and

passing the end of the bed and my wife said to me, can I say

something to you, you remember the other day you read out that speech

that you are going to give on Sunday, and I said yes, yes, are

you sure you are not going to be cross, she said. I said no, I'm not

going to be cross, what about it and she said well, don't. So I

thought well, that's all right, clearly you didn't like it but what

am I going to do, I've got to say something. She said, what I would

like to see you do is stand just as you are standing now in front of

all those peers and have been directly or indirectly responsible

for giving you this honour and simply say "thank you". I have

taken her advice. And I am saying to all of you indirectly and

directly, thank you, particularly, however, to all those directors

that have given me the opportunity to play some of the most wonderful

parts that I would never in a million years have thought of for

myself. It is the reason that I'm standing here is because I am the

addition basically of their imaginations. So I thank them all

from the bottom of my heart and the We come now to the fourth of the

five films of my film athlon, the triumph over adversity is is The

Help. This tackles the delicate area of racial equality with

courage and emotional depth, at least according to my maid whom I

sent to see it for me - no, don't be silly, this is - so sorry, this

is another work that really does restore one's faith in the future

of filmmaking, it's quite something. Ladies and gentlemen, watch this,

The Help. The Help is about unlikely women all coming together

to create change. The Help was the chance for me to be in a movie that

imluem naiting a part of our history that we have a tendency to

be silent about -- illuminating. focuses around certain characters.

It's very hard for Abileen to tell her story because she's been told

she's invisible. All of a sudden someone says, who are you. I want

to interview you. Just graduated with a degree in journalism.

people from very different worlds and in dangerous circumstances come

together and enter each other's lives. I thought I might write my

stories down and read them to you. You said you where about what

disturbs me. I thought you would write something from the point of

view of The Help. I was raised by a coloured woman. We love her and she

loves us, but they can't even use the toilets in our houses. Are you

in there? You are fired! She's vocal because she refuses to be

invisible. It's an interesting dynamic. They start an expose of

sorts with all the maids in Jackson, Mississippi. All right, I'm gonna

do it. We all are. I got to come up with the questions too? Oh.

takes both of the races to work together to get that story out

APPLAUSE Magnificent piece of work. Will the

Help clean Uptonite and do the dishes, bake the cakes, change the

nappies? Anticipation is mounting and all will be revealed soon. Now,

we help ourselfs to our next category which is the Orange

Wednesday's Rising Star Award created in honour of the legendary

casting director Mary Sellway, by far the most prestigious mid-week

based accolade you can receive. This award is particularly special

because it's the only one in which the great British public are

allowed to phone in and vote for the winner. Suffice to say, there

are five young actors in this hall whose mothers have very large phone

bills. To present the award, we have a star already risen, fresh

from her explosive performance in Drive, the very lovely and talented

APPLAUSE To be recognised by the industry is amazing but without the

cinema-goers, none of us would have a job, so this next award is

particularly special because it is the cinema-goers who chose the

winner. Let's see who they've been He has great sensitivity and

passion. Tenderness. I would do anything to be in a film.

talent is so overwhelming. Couldn't imagine anybody better. You can go

now, Carl. Oi,... Adam's grown up in areas much like I've grown up in

and you have the ability to become what people see as quite vicious or

people see as a monster, doesn't mean that's the way you are.

mumsy You are an idiot, Kenneth. Don't talk to me like that, man.

He's extremely handsome, he looks very, very period. Scott

Fitzgerald... Probably tired of people saying that he looked

contemporary. I'm no more than an honest stolen relic locked up here

until you might have use for me. Can we not discuss my public life

in private... I just found the sexy guy with a twinkle in his eye.

fun to watch him work. You're big. Hey, guys. He has the ability to do

something most of us can't do, which is to be funny and a little

sexy. Come on. So charming, nice and funny and a great improviser.

In a world of complete darkness, the sight of the Bank of England,

The sight of the blind but the blind can see.

APPLAUSE Wow. This is mad, this is crazy, I

can't believe I'm in the same place as people like Brad Pitt. This is

so surreal. Thank you, thank you to everyone out there, you know. My

agent, everyone at the management, Danny and Billy, my co-writer, he's

in the audience, all the cast and crew. Thank you to BAFTA for this

because for me it means acceptance and it's not just a win for me,

it's a win for the underdog and it's a win for any young person out

there that's trying to better themselves and that has a dream.

This means a lot. Thank you so much. And thank you to the general public.

APPLAUSE Poor innocent child has yet to

learn the price that's paid for his hours in front of the press.

Still, we come now face-to-face with our next category, documentary,

the genre that each year grows in popularity, status and interest. To

present the award, a supremely gifted actor, baker and unit

cyclist, starred in a ga still-on and three movies with unforgettable

performances in gangster one, A Beautiful Mind, that the Da Vinci

Code and he played the voice of Jarvis in the Iron Man, but he's so

much more than a voice, he has arms, legs, nipples and ears which give

you the perfectly formed Paul APPLAUSE

Good evening. I'm honoured to be making the presentation for this

year's best documentary in what has been an exemplary year for the

genre. That's take a look at the remarkable nominations. George got

his guitar out and played this It just happened. There was no

family discussion about should we, shouldn't we, you know, it was just,

oh, we're having a chimp, we are going to teach it sign language.

Ranked among the all-time greats. How do you feel about being world

champion? It's not a bad feeling at And the BAFTA goes to and I'm

really pleased about this, Asif Frustratingly I just used up my

witty and pithy speech on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Obviously no-

one noticed I didn't say a word but... LAUGHTER I am really, really,

really thrilled that you have honoured this film with an award,

because this film was made by all of us with love. And all that we've

got back from it is love. That deeply cynical word commercialality

which I never utter was never even considered in this situation. We

made this because we loved it and you showed the love back. Thank you

everybody. We want to thank everybody at Working Title. We had

never done a documentary before. We want to thank Universal. We want to

thank the Formula One and motor racing community and the family and

friends of Ayrton Senna for helping us get the film made, and most

importantly we want to thank Ayrton Senna for living sadly such a short

life. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE

This is really, really, really wanted to thank the Senna family

for trusting us with his legacy. When your son dies in circumstances

like that, and you get a bunch of guys who turn up and say, "Listen,

we want to tell the story, we think we are very sensitive, we think we

will absolutely tell it right" it takes a lot of guts to support

people like that. I would like to thank them for doing that.

Believe me, if you know nothing about Formula One racing and you

are not vaguely interested in motor sports you will find Senna one of

the most interesting documentaries you will ever watch.

Ladies and gentlemen, we come now, to take an all too brief few

moments to remember those from our industry who've sadly been taken

from us this year. Though they may no longer be here it is true, as

Cicero said, that memory is the Treasury and guardian of all things.

The faces you will see of the men and women who've died this year are

of beloved colleagues who have enriched our world beyond measure.

We thank them and we bid them sad and fond farewell.

How do you put it around your neck? You don't, lovey, you put it around

your head. You must think I was born yesterday. Sometimes there is

Broken wings mend in time. One day Life has all kinds of things. There

Forgive me my dear fellow but I cannot resist the dramatic and the

setting was so perfect I succumbed to terch takes. This way, what son.

-- temptation, this way, Watson. With great power comes great

I love ya. Why did you love me? I want you to get up right now and

go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad

as hell and I'm not going to take A man needs a little madness or

else... Or else? He never dares cut And I'm going to howl it out and

I'm not going to give a damn what's I do and I'm going to make the

biggest goddamn explosion you ever APPLAUSE

So many I had not known that death had undone so many. Our next

category is Adapted Screenplay. To present it we have a Hollywood

great on screens big and small. Ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome star of the Town, Shrek and Sucker Punch. It's mad man John

Hamm. APPLAUSE Myriad challenges arrive

when attempting to adapt an already successful piece of literature into

an equally successful film. Chief amongst these challenges is were

you it in all the fart jokes. LAUGHTER It's harder than it sounds.

Here are five nominees who live up Hi. I'm Brian. Brian. We may have

met before. Matt King. My wife is Elizabeth King. I think you may

have met her too. This is our All you do is lie to try to get

what you want. You are a Godless woman. And you tried. Ain't you

tired? Everybody who turns 18 or graduates

High School gives two years of service to their country. For that

your education is paid for, period. The beauty is that everybody over

18 who is past the age of eligibility will be for it. And all

of the others? They can't vote. You survived this long I suppose

because of your ato change sides. Serve any master.

-- your ability to change sides. What's this about George? It is

about which master you've been serving.

Moneyball. Be straight with them. No fluff, just facts. "Pete, I have

got to let you go. Jack's office will handle the details." That's

it? Really? Would you rather get a bullet to the head or five to the

chest and bleed to death? Are those my only two options?

APPLAUSE And the BAFTA is presented to...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Oh. I would like to thank The

Artist for not being adapted from a book. LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE There's a lot of other people I

need to thank. Everyone at Working Title. Studio Canal, Focus Features,

my producers, an incredible cast led by Gary Oldman, and our

wonderful director, Tomas Alfredson. Every award for Tinker Tailor

Soldier Spy should have your name on it, and everyone standing on the

shoulders of a giant, John Le Carre, who was so supportive. I though

they will all understand if I accept this award on behalf of

another collaborate ore. My wife Bridget O'Connor died before Tinker

Tailor Soldier Spy was made. She wrote all the good bits and I made

the coffee. Bridget, I love you. I miss you. This is for you. Thank

you so much is. APPLAUSE Now, don't forget coming soon to an

awards ceremony near you we'll be finding out who will be floating

home with the BAFTAs for actor, actress and director, and we'll be

presenting the academy's Fellowship. But now the fifth and final. What

is so genuinely and excited and enthralled me is the variety on

display amongst the five nominees for Best Film this year. They are

proof of the continuing biodiversity and richness that

characterises today's generation of film makers. Take this, the

brutally magnificent and absorbing Drive Less-skilled hands this could

be a routine car thriller, the kind of a picture many might think form

layic with nothing new to offer. As it is Drive is one of those films

whose quality and style never leaves you. Flying Ryanair can be,

how shall I put it, an experience, one I shall certainly never have

again. But driving Ryan Gosling, well, watch this. You give me a

time and a place, I give you a five minute window. If anything happens

in that five minutes I'm yours. I don't carry a gun. I drive.

Driver is a stuntman. If you put him behind the wheel there is

nothing he can't do. Driver gets involved in more neverarious things.

He doesn't understand the difference until he realises that

he falls in love and it is through that process that the machine

eventually takes over the human side. Driver is quite an enigmatic

character. We all have theories who he is but it is best to leave it up

to the audience. You have this family dram ma. At the same time

you've got this intense, violent, visceral revenge film. It is like a

dream that turns into a nightmare. APPLAUSE

Just when you think that a genre has become tired, along comes a

piece of film making like Drive and you remember why you love cinema so

much. Five more to come ladies and gentlemen, in the shape of awards

for actress, actor, film and the Fellowship. The first is the award

for director. It is named in honour of the great Sir David Lean. To

present it is a man I wrote ten paragraphs to express my feelings

for you. But what's the point? Sod Thank you. The director is the most

important force on any film. We gather in support of their vision

because they are our authors. Here are this year's nominees in Best

Got half a story on the table in my club. Tell me? He's been shot.

What's this about? You know where you are spending the afterlife?

yes, I do, as a matter-of-fact. I'm going straight to hell. Eternal

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damnation, the whole bit. Thank you APPLAUSE

And the BAFTA goes to... Thank you again. I'm so proud that

Brad Pitt pronounced my name so well. Thank you. The recognition of

this is the most important and I know that I will have some bad days

because I'm a director so I'll have some bad days, but I will remember

this day, today, as a good day and to thank you very much, thank you.

APPLAUSE Well, women who act for

understandable reasons prefer usually to be called actors, not

actresses, that is until it's awards time and they are prepared

to make an exception and be nominated into the category Best

Actress. We have now arrived at that category. In an ideal world,

to present the award, I would have been able to introduce last year's

winner of Best Actor, the star of a sing Single Man, the King's Speech,

so successful that we would have been bowled over by his presence

with us. But ladies and gentlemen, it turns out we do live in an ideal

world because behold, the Colin Good evening. It's my great

privilege to present in a category in which I've been grievously

overlooked. Actress in a leading role. Let's have a look at the

Just 24 years old, the best part of a person's life. Anniversary of his

death comes every year and I can't breathe. But to everyone else, it's

just another day in Bridge. Perhaps the Right Honourable gentleman

could attend more closely to what I'm saying, rather than how I am

saying it. He may receive a valuable education in spite of

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And the BAFTA goes to... Meryl Oh, my God. Thank you so much. That

couldn't be worse, that couldn't have gone worse!

Oh, gosh. Somebody once said, I think it was Margaret Atwood,

actually I always say it was her but I don't even know if he said

this, but somebody once said, the fate of the well known is to be

misunderstood. The ambition of this film, The Iron Lady, was to look at

the life of The Iron Lady from the inside out and to locate something

real. Something real maybe hidden but truth NFL the life of someone

that we've all decided we all know everything about already. I'm very

proud of the film and I owe so much to Abi Morgan, Pathe, Damian Jones,

for sticking with this, for asking and expecting so much of me. I want

to thank the soulful Jim Broadbent, the divinely gifted Olivia Coleman,

my beloved moths, all 300 beautiful actors and crew that worked on this

Bonn derful film. Half of me is Streep but the other half is win

kin son from Lincolnshire, so I come by it, honestly this part,

thank you very much. I'm so APPLAUSE

Oh, Prince Charming tried the slipper on and it fitted Cinderella

at once. What a happy ending! It follows as the night, the Dame that

if there is to be an award for Best Actress, there should also be one

for Best Actor. To remind us of the nominees and announce the chosen

one, a true Hollywood superstar just knowing she's standing back

there clutching the BAFTA mask and golden envelope makes me all

fluttery, if I say Vanilla Sky, Pirates of the Caribbean, you will

know who I mean. She's so popular, they've even named a popular beach

heath and leisure type common after Good evening. Let's take a look at

the work that the amazing actors nominated for lead actor have done.

What's your longest relationship? Four months. To commit, you would

actually have to give it a shot. did.

We spend our lives looking for the whacknesss in one another's systems.

Don't you think it's time to recognise there is this Little

worse on your side as there is on This is a process, it's a process,

it's a process. OK. I hate losing, I hate it. I hate losing more than

I even want to win. George Clooney, Goodbye, my love., my friend, my

pain, my joy. Goodbye. APPLAUSE And the BAFTA goes to... Jean

Thank you. Michelle, what have you done to me? It's your fault. To be

in the company of such illustrious and talented nominees, Brad Pitt,

Gary Oldman, Michael Fassbender, George Clooney, I'm very, very

proud and I'm sorry, I'm shocked. To receive this award from the

country of Sir Laurence Olivier, William Webb-Ellis and Benny Hill,

it's great. Thank you to those who took the risk of picking a black-

and-white silent movie. You know who you are. Thank you to Nigel and

of course to BAFTA and, as... Sorry And as Buster keeton would say,,

thank you, thank you very much, thank you. Time for the penultimate

award of the evening, Best Film. I don't mind telling you, we went

insane when we thought about who might present this award. We could

have chosen one of the greatest film stars on earth, but we didn't.

As I say, we went mad, we chose two of the greatest film stars on earth,

like really good coffee, great surfing beaches and frankly

mediocre cricket, they come from the land Down Under. Ladies and

gentlemen, Hugh Jackman and Russell G' day everyone. Very brave of them

to give over this stage to a couple of Aussies. We might start saying

things like, call this a locking opera house?! Perish the thought,

all right. Now, I am quivering with irrepressible mouth-watering

delirium at the undulating prospect of this most splendifirous. That's

Stephen's script. Thank God, I didn't auns bloody word. Nobody

does. All right. I think that's yours. Thank you. So, strewth,

cobbers, there's some fair dinkum films nominated in this bopbz

Erekat glory, yes. Great script. Thanks -- bopbzer -- bonzer

category. We have had a look at the five great movies nominated before

Best Film. Before we find out which one will be taking home the BAFTA,

let's remind ourselves of them once You can write my obituary. Dead,

Who is he? Big Gar man? Thief. -- And the BAFTA for Best Film goes

Wow! A beautiful room. Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you

Michel for doing such a great picture. I want to thank Nigel

Green for doing this movie here. I want to give a special thanks to

someone who transformed the silence into a King's speech, Mr Harvey

Weinstein. He's been very good for this movie. We will never forget it

was silent and black and white. Thank you to Berenice Bejo. She's a

great actress. And we are grateful that all the people who helped us

in this movie are here in this room. Thank you so much.

APPLAUSE Oh, goodness graish use me, ladies

and gentlemen. Before we go -- goodness gracious me, ladies and

gentlemen, before we go there is the Fellowship. To present the

award we have a quite extraordinary Oscar nominated actor in a career

spanning an age-defying 60 years of film making in an ocean of roles

which include Ming the Merciless, and Shutter Island. If those

weren't enough he is ensured immortality with his incredible 13

collaborations with the imperishable Ingmar Bergman. Not

only that, for those who know Sweden there is a traditional Chris

drink called Glug. I was given the other day this great man's

legendary recipe. It is called UN Max's Glug. It is unsurpassably

magical and remarkable. Please Max Max Von Sydow Thank you very

much. Ladies and gentlemen, to be awarded

the Fellowship, the highest honour bestowed by this academy, you need

to have made a unique ground- breaking and extraordinary

contribution to the art of film making. Well, tonight's recipient,

ladies and gentlemen, has done just that and much, much more. He is

unquestionably the greatest American film maker of his

generation. A director whose technical mastery and innovation

are unparalleled. His astonishing body of work contains some of the

most iconic movies of all time. Earning him the overwhelming

admiration, respect and love of his friends and peers within the

industry. Two of whom we can hear from now.

Marti, many, many congratulations on this award. To me, you will

always be a very dear friend and a cinematic genius. And I will always

think of you with great respect and affection. Have a wonderful evening.

Hey Marty we spent 20 years making movies, from Taxi Driver, Raging

Bull, and Cape Fear. In the 20 years we've stopped making movies

together we've moved on to attending awards ceremonies. Each

one was a unique experience. I'm sorry I can't be there to be with

you tonight to receive this very special award, the BAFTA Fellowship

award, celebrating you and your extraordinary body of work. It's a

great honour for a great artist and a great friend. Congratulations. I

love you. APPLAUSE

Thank you to Sir Christopher Lee and Robert de Niro. I don't have to

say that I share their opinions and feelings from the bottom of my

Just before I invite this year's recipient up on stage, let us take

a look at some of the titbits of his extraordinary impressive

As far back as I can remember I Come out, come out wherever you are.

You talking to me. I'm here to # I was born in a cross-fire

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Who the lock do you think you're CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen, the recipient of this year's BAFTA Fellowship is

of course the great incomparable Please. Thank you. Thank you so

much. APPLAUSE Really. Sit. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you so much BAFTA and thank you Max for being here

and presenting this to me tonight. It's such an honour. I think just

holding this award is an honour. Actually getting it is like a dream.

For me British cinema was something that was formative. Italian and

British movies were the first movies that I ever saw that weren't

made in America. The Italian films were familiar to me, closer to home.

Closer to what I knew and lived in New York. The British films were

more exotic. More foreign. And they seemed to be in a language that was

familiar but enigmatic. Intriguingly enigmatic. British

films then were what they are still to me now, a mystery and a great

marvel. The rich tradition of British cinema also embraces more

me the peerless craftsmanship of the British crews who help me with

dedication and extraordinary imagination. When making Hugo here

at Shepperton, a film which all of us who worked on it can I hope be

proud. I'm particularly honoured to have worked alongside them, as I am

to be here tonight holding this award. I would like to hope this

BAFTA Fellowship gives me visiting privileges to that same rich

tradition of British cinema that inspired your poets. The BAFTA has

a personal resonance as it is the first award I've shared with

Michael Powell. I think of them as poets and the Knights Templar of

the British cinema. The archers of the tradition actually. It's the

highest, most profound honour for me to stand among them tonight and

with you. I thank you. Well, this magical night of

celebration has ended. Congratulations to you all for

winning, for being nominated, props - it's a thing young people say -

for continuing to advance this great art form of the motion

picture. It has always been true to say that we live in difficult and

dark times. But it has never been truer than today. In times of

austerity, doubt, darkness and fear, films can allow us to escape from

the burdens and hardships of life. And they can shine a light on

injustice. Film can reduce us to quivering wrecks with laughter to

help us forget. And it can stun us with truth to help us remember.

There is no right or wrong genre or style of film. Next year more

stories will have been put together to remind us that the art of movie

storytelling is more alive than ever. And blessed with as much

creative talent as it ever has been in its history. I'm so proud to

have been allowed to stand here tonight as your host. Let's all

keep lining up for tickets and sitting in the dark, support your

local cinema. Live and love film. From us all, thank you and

goodnight. Thank you very much. Presented earlier: Pitch Black

I would just like to say I've dreamed of this moment ever since I

Editing: Senna. It was pure driving. It was real

racing. Guillaume isn't here. He's in Los

Angeles. He didn't give me a note, so I guess if he was here he would

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