ATONEMENT TRIUMPHS AT BAFTAS
Posted 10:47pm 02/10/08
ATONEMENT has won the top prize at the British Academy of Film and
Television
Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday (10Feb08), landing the gong for Best Film at the
London ceremony.
The romantic epic, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, triumphed
over
German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others, the
Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men, Ridley Scott's American Gangster, and
Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood to claim the coveted prize.
But McAvoy and Knightley were overlooked in the Leading Actor and Actress
categories, with awards going instead to Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be
Blood and Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose respectively.
Meanwhile, Spanish star Javier Bardem was named best Supporting Actor for
No
Country for Old Men, and British actress Tilda Swinton was honoured as best
Supporting Actress for her role in legal thriller Michael Clayton.
Accepting his award at the capital's Royal Opera House, Bardem said: "I
want
to thank the mummy and daddy of, not mine, (but) Joel and Ethan Coen,
because
without them there would be no film..."
Joel and Ethan Coen also added to their growing collection of awards after
they were presented with the Best Director prize for the Academy
Award-nominated thriller No Country For Old Men.
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