BAFTA Awards: Natalie Portman wins the BAFTA Award for best actress

At the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, Natalie Portman won best actress for her performance as a delusional ballerina in the psychological thriller "Black Swan."

Portman is also the front-runner for the Oscar. The top British film awards and the Oscars have been aligning fairly closely in recent years.

She was in competition with Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, who costarred in "The Kids Are All Right," Noomi Rapace for "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and Hailee Steinfeld for "True Grit."

The awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, were handed out in a ceremony at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.

-- Susan King

Photo: Natalie Portman in "Black Swan." Credit: Reuters

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[thereyougo]

All fine actresses, Hailee Steinfeld did a great job for one so young, however Natalie Portman was a tour-de-force in Black Swan and deserves it all. Aronofsky should be winning too because his direction always gets the actors to dig deeper and deeper so his movies are gritty and real, he is quite brilliant.... but you can't win them all I guess.