‘King’s Speech’ dominates BAFTA nominations

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‘The King’s Speech’ dominated the nominations for the Orange British Academy Awards on Monday evening, scoring 14 nominations, followed by ‘Black Swan’ with 12, ‘Inception’ with nine and ‘127 Hours’ and ‘True Grit’ with eight. ‘The Social Network,’ which has won the major critics awards this season, as well as the Critics Choice Movie Awards and the Golden Globe for best film, received six nominations.

Besides best film, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts gave ‘King’s Speech’ nominations for lead actor for Colin Firth, who just won the Golden Globe; supporting actress for Helena Bonham Carter; supporting actor for Geoffrey Rush; director for Tom Hooper; original screenplay for David Seidler, as well as for best British film, cinematography, costume design, editing, makeup and hair, original music, production design and sound.

Joining ‘King’s Speech’ in the best film category are ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘The Social Network’ and ‘True Grit.’

The other best director nominees are Danny Boyle for ‘127 Hours,’ Darren Aronofsky for ‘Black Swan,’ Christopher Nolan for ‘Inception’ and David Fincher for ‘The Social Network.’

Along witjh Firth in the best actor category are Javier Bardem for ‘Biutiful,’ Jeff Bridges for ‘True Grit,’ Jesse Eisenberg for ‘The Social Network’ and James Franco for ‘127 Hours.’
Leading actress nominees are Annette Bening and Julianne Moore for ‘The Kids Are All Right,’ Natalie Portman for ‘Black Swan,’ Noomi Rapace for ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ and Hailee Steinfeld for ‘True Grit.’

Nominated in the supporting actor category are Christian Bale for ‘The Fighter,’ Andrew Garfield for ‘The Social Network,’ the late Pete Postlethwaite for ‘The Town,’’ Mark Ruffalo for ‘The Kids are All Right’ and Rush.

Joining Bonham Carter in the supporting actress category are Amy Adams for ‘The Fighter,’ Barbara Hershey for ‘Black Swan,’ Lesley Manville for ‘Another Year’ and Miranda Richardson for ‘Made in Dangenham.’

Notably missing from the list of nominees were ‘The Fighter’ and its director, David O. Russell, Oscar best actress contender Jennifer Lawrence for ‘Winter’s Bone’ and supporting actress contender Melissa Leo, who just won the Golden Globe, for ‘The Fighter.’

The nominees for animated film are ‘Despicable Me,’ ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and ‘Toy Story 3.’

The awards will be handed out Feb. 13 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London.

For a complete list of nominees go to http://www.bafta.org.

-- Susan King