BAFTA Film Award nominations

The nominees for this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have been announced and the contenters for Best Makeup/Hair are:
The Devil Wears Prada
Nicki Ledermann & Angel De Angelis
Marie Antoinette
Jean-Luc Russier & Desiree Corridoni
Pan’s Labyrinth
TBC
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Ve Neill & Martin Samuel
The Queen
Daniel Phillips.

This year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony will be held on 11 February 2007 at the Royal Opera House in London.

I’m pleased that four movies I’ve really enjoyed have garnered a goodly batch of nominations each: The Queen (10), Pan’s Labyrinth (8), Babel (7), The Last King of Scotland (5), and Volver (only 2, but they are Best Actress & Best Foreign Movie).

But does Casino Royale really deserve nine nominations? It may be the best Bond film since Connery but that only indicates how bad the others were. And what about Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan? The funniest movie of the year surely deserved not to be snubbed even if they had to invent a special category (Most Offensive Character in Movie History?).

Sadly, sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, the designer of the BAFTA mask, died on 29 December 2006. The mask was commissioned in 1955 by Andrew Miller-Jones of the [then] Guild of Television Producers, which later merged with the British Film Academy to become BAFTA.