This season's usual suspects showed up for wins, as well, with Octavia Spencer taking a prize for her work in The Help and Christopher Plummer continuing his unchallenged domination of the Supporting Actor category. Hugo, which has eleven Academy Award nominations, took technical awards for sound and production design, while Gore Verbinski's Rango was honored as the best animated film.
The ceremony, hosted by British wit and national treasure Stephen Fry, also awarded Meryl Streep for her performance as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the acting machine herself maintained her charm and composure even after losing a high heel on the way to the stage. Worth noting that the outstanding Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was acknowledged as the Oustanding British Film, and John Hurt was honored for Outstanding Contribution to British Film.
Here's there full list of BAFTA winners per an official press release:
BEST FILM
THE ARTIST Thomas Langmann
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo,
Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
TYRANNOSAUR Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE SKIN I LIVE IN Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar
DOCUMENTARY
SENNA Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Manish Pandey
ANIMATED FILM
RANGO Gore Verbinski
DIRECTOR
THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
LEADING ACTOR
JEAN DUJARDIN The Artist
LEADING ACTRESS
MERYL STREEP The Iron Lady
SUPPORTING ACTOR
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Beginners
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
OCTAVIA SPENCER The Help
ORIGINAL MUSIC
THE ARTIST Ludovic Bource
CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE ARTIST Guillaume Schiffman
EDITING
SENNA Gregers Sall, Chris King
PRODUCTION DESIGN
HUGO Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
COSTUME DESIGN
THE ARTIST Mark Bridges
MAKE UP & HAIR
THE IRON LADY Marese Langan, Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland
SOUND
HUGO Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2 Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler, David Vickery
SHORT ANIMATION
A MORNING STROLL Grant Orchard, Sue Goffe
SHORT FILM
PITCH BLACK HEIST John Maclean, Gerardine O'Flynn
THE ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
ADAM DEACON
