Bafta 2008: "Come back to me" best movie, "The Kid" gets four awards
It's the English drama Come back to me by Joe Wright who won the BAFTA Best Feature Film on Sunday February 10th.
The film, which brings together Keira Knightely and James McAvoy, also won the Best Set Award. The kid, biography of Edith Piaf signed Olivier Dahan, created the sensation by dominating the evening with four awards including best actress for Marion Cotillard.
Winner of the Best Film Award, Come back to me nevertheless experienced a night of disappointment by receiving only two awards for 14 citations. French drama The kid Olivier Dahan has collected four awards. His technical qualities have been praised by Baftas for the best music, the best makeup and the best costumes.
Marion Cotillard was awarded Bafta for best actress opposite Cate Blanchett, Ellen Page, Keira Knightley and favorite Julie Christie. The latter consoled herself with the BAFTA of the best British actress for her composition in Far from it.
Daniel Day-Lewis was unsurprisingly awarded the Male Performance Award with his role in There Will Be Blood from Paul Thomas Anderson.
The thriller No Country for Old Men Coen brothers earned them the Bafta for best directors. Roger Deakins won the prize for best photography while Spaniard Javier Bardem won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. The female equivalent of the award fell into Tidla Swinton's purse for Michael Clayton Tony Gilroy.
France has also distinguished itself by winning the prize for best adaptation for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly from Julian Schnabel.
The award for best British film has fallen This is England from Shane Meadows. The lives of others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck left with the Bafta for best foreign film.
Surprise: the young American actor Shia LaBeouf won the Bafta of the revelation of the year for transformers face to Sam Riley in Control.
Saturday, February 9, it is the London critics who delivered their awards. These also sacred Marion Cotillard best actress in 2007. The Best Actor award went to Daniel Day-Lewis again for There Will Be Blood. The film allowed Paul Thomas Anderson to be voted Best Director. No Country for Old Men Coen brothers won the Best Film Award.
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