Bafa Noms: Tale Of 2 Cities
By Stuart Kemp
Tuesday, January 28 2003
Tuesday, January 28 2003
Published on AllBusiness.com
New York gangs will battle it out with stocking-clad jazz singers, women in crisis and hobbits as "Gangs of New York" and "Chicago" tied with 12 nominations apiece, "The Hours" nabbed 11 and "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" scored nine in the competition for this year's Orange British Academy Film Awards.
All four were nominated in the best film and the best director categories, according to Monday's announcement by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The Roman Polanski- directed "The Pianist" rounds out both categories.
Nominated for best director are Martin Scorsese for "Gangs of New York," for which he won the Golden Globe, Rob Marshall ("Chicago"), Stephen Daldry ("The Hours"), Peter Jackson ("Two Towers") and Polanski.
"Gangs," released by Entertainment Film Distributors in the United Kingdom, also was nominated for best original screenplay (Jay Cocks, Steve Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan), with Daniel Day-Lewis picking up a nom in the BAFA's leading actor category.
The Buena Vista International-distributed "Chicago" saw three of its actresses score noms: Renee Zellweger in the leading actress category and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah for supporting roles.
A surprise inclusion in the category is last year's Academy Award winner, Halle Berry, who is nominated in the leading actress category for "Monster's Ball." Because the film did not hit last year's deadlines to qualify for the BAFAs, it is included this year.
Eligible films must have been screened for at least seven consecutive days to a public, paying audience by the date of the ceremony itself and/or released during 2002. Previously, movies must have been released during Jan. 1-Dec. 31 of the previous year to qualify for the BAFAs.
Berry will compete against Salma Hayek ("Frida"), Nicole Kidman ("The Hours"), Meryl Streep ("The Hours") and Zellweger.
In addition to Day-Lewis, the actor in a leading role category includes Adrien Brody ("The Pianist"), Nicolas Cage ("Adaptation"), Michael Caine ("The Quiet American") and Jack Nicholson ("About Schmidt").
This year's awards will, for the third year running, have a pre-Oscar date — Feb. 23 — and be presented by writer-actor-comedian Stephen Fry. Cellular phone company Orange is sponsoring the awards for a sixth consecutive year.
Nominations were unveiled Monday by actor Ian McKellen, a regular in Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, at BAFTA's Piccadilly headquarters.
When quizzed about the Hollywood-heavy nominations and the absence of several key British filmmakers — including Mike Leigh and Ken Loach — McKellen joked that he had
All four were nominated in the best film and the best director categories, according to Monday's announcement by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The Roman Polanski- directed "The Pianist" rounds out both categories.
Nominated for best director are Martin Scorsese for "Gangs of New York," for which he won the Golden Globe, Rob Marshall ("Chicago"), Stephen Daldry ("The Hours"), Peter Jackson ("Two Towers") and Polanski.
"Gangs," released by Entertainment Film Distributors in the United Kingdom, also was nominated for best original screenplay (Jay Cocks, Steve Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan), with Daniel Day-Lewis picking up a nom in the BAFA's leading actor category.
The Buena Vista International-distributed "Chicago" saw three of its actresses score noms: Renee Zellweger in the leading actress category and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah for supporting roles.
A surprise inclusion in the category is last year's Academy Award winner, Halle Berry, who is nominated in the leading actress category for "Monster's Ball." Because the film did not hit last year's deadlines to qualify for the BAFAs, it is included this year.
Eligible films must have been screened for at least seven consecutive days to a public, paying audience by the date of the ceremony itself and/or released during 2002. Previously, movies must have been released during Jan. 1-Dec. 31 of the previous year to qualify for the BAFAs.
Berry will compete against Salma Hayek ("Frida"), Nicole Kidman ("The Hours"), Meryl Streep ("The Hours") and Zellweger.
In addition to Day-Lewis, the actor in a leading role category includes Adrien Brody ("The Pianist"), Nicolas Cage ("Adaptation"), Michael Caine ("The Quiet American") and Jack Nicholson ("About Schmidt").
This year's awards will, for the third year running, have a pre-Oscar date — Feb. 23 — and be presented by writer-actor-comedian Stephen Fry. Cellular phone company Orange is sponsoring the awards for a sixth consecutive year.
Nominations were unveiled Monday by actor Ian McKellen, a regular in Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, at BAFTA's Piccadilly headquarters.
When quizzed about the Hollywood-heavy nominations and the absence of several key British filmmakers — including Mike Leigh and Ken Loach — McKellen joked that he had
