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Apax Capital Group, a new film fund backed by the Italian government, an Italian insurer and a consortium of other investors, says it plans to spend €1.5 billion (about $1.7 billion) over 10 years on films shot and/or completed in Europe, primarily Italy.

The venture is led by producer Yona Wiesenthal, former CEO of the Israel Broadcast Authority and content chief at Israeli Dbs platform Yes; and by Augusto Pelliccia, Italian film financier and CEO of Augustus Group. They are investors in the fund along with studios, production facilities and film commissions in Italy, Spain and Morocco.

The group has tapped New York real estate entrepreneur Noam Baram as an equity partner in North America to scout for projects by U.S. producers that can be shot in Europe and Italy. He’s currently setting up Apax Capital’s presence Stateside with a few staff between New York and Los Angeles.

Exclusive:Italian producer Emanuele Moretti (Bite) is launching LA and Rome-based production and sales firm Motus Studios.

Out of the gate, Moretti has set up a strategic partnership with Ellen S. Wander’s Film Bridge International to produce and sell movies together. On Motus’s sales slate will be Trevor Donovan movie Hot Water and Engelbert Grech’s Caravaggio Heist.

Motus will co-produce and help finance Peter Greenaway’s upcoming movie Lucca Mortis with Morgan Freeman and producer Kees Kasander, the new Johnny Martin action movie written by Chad Law, Ring Of Fire, and Deep Six by Scott Windhauser.

Moretti, who was previously head of acquisitions at Phoenix Entertainment and CEO of Alberini Films, has produced genre movies including Bite and Deprivation, and served as an executive producer on Lindsay Lohan pic Among The Shadows. He is also a producer on Peter Greenaway’s feature Walking To Paris, about the early...

Morgan Freeman will produce and star in Peter Greenaway’s drama “Lucca Mortis,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Morgan will portray a writer whose last big adventure will very likely be death. Based in New York City’s Little Italy, he takes a sabbatical and travels with his family to Lucca, Italy in order to trace his ancestral roots and clean up the loose ends in his life.

Morgan will produce with Lori McCreary through their Revelations Entertainment alongside Greenaway’s longtime producing partner, Kees Kasander. “Lucca Mortis” is Kasander’s 15th film with Greenaway. The film is scheduled to begin shooting around March 2020.

Greenaway is one of Britain’s leading auteurs whose notable past works include “Prospero’s Books,” “The Cook, the Thief, His Wire & Her Lover,” “The Draughtsman’s Contract” and “Drowning by Numbers.”

“Morgan and I have been fans of Peter’s work for years and we feel...

So what happened before Sergei Eisenstein’s trip to Mexico?

Peter Greenaway is set to write and direct Eisenstein in Hollywood, a chronological prequel to the biographical romantic comedy Eisenstein in Guanajuato. Released in 2015, the film centered on the acclaimed Soviet director and his alleged homosexual affair with a local guide while filming in Mexico in the 1930s.

Eisenstein, who was married and died in 1948, and famed for his 1925 silent movie Battleship Potemkin, is considered one of Russia's greatest directors.

Cinatura UK's Kees Kasander will produce the title, with The Works Film & Television Group's Martin McCabe, Brooke Lyndon-Stanford, Deepak Sikka...

Exclusive: UK sales company Film Constellation launches with drama from Fish Tank producer.

Oscar-nominee Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine) and rising actor Jack Lowden (’71) are set to star in UK drama Cross My Mind, the first film on the slate of fledgling UK sales outfit Film Constellation.

Written by MacArthur Fellowship recipient Naomi Wallace and Bruce McLeod (Flying Blind), the film follows the intense and erotic love affair between a recovering blinded soldier (Lowden) and a married woman (Hawkins) who is taking care of him.

But the clock is ticking, as he is beginning to recover his sight, and the carer is not who the young soldier thinks she is.

Set against Glasgow’s iconic waterfront docks, the feature is produced by Fish Tank producer and Peter Greenaway regular Kees Kasander with Julia Ton under their Cinatura banner alongside John Archer’s Hopscotch Films, who initiated the project together with the late director Antonia Bird, who was on...

Exclusive: Mongrel sells sculptor biopic to France and Switzerland.

Mongrel International has closed key deals on Peter Greenaway’s Walking To Paris, about the early life of acclaimed 20th Century sculptor Constantin Brancusi.

Epicentre has acquired the film for France and Film Co-opi for Switzerland.

The film recreates the year-long trek on foot from Romania to Paris by Brancusi in what is regarded as a formative experience in the modernism pioneer’s life.

Emun Elliott stars with Carla Juri, the breakout lead from the provocative 2013 comedy-drama Wetlands.

Greenaway and his crew are preparing to resume shooting summer sequences in Italy after capturing winter scenes in Italy and Switzerland late last year.

Walking To Paris marks the 14th collaboration between Greenaway and Kees Kasander, who produces alongside Andrea de Liberato, Emanuele Moretti, and Julia Ton.

The producers have earmarked an autumn release for the European co-production between Enjoy Movies, Cobra Film & Cdp, in co-production...

Walking to Paris

Director: Peter Greenaway

Writer: Peter Greenaway

Before he turns 80 years old and cinema dies, auteur Peter Greenaway has announced his plans to finish up thirty projects in the next seven years or so. He’s whittling away at his goal, last year unveiling his first title in a planned trilogy on Sergei Eisenstein at Berlin, the bombastic and beautiful Eisenstein in Guanajuato. With planned projects on Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch and more Eisenstein on the way, Greenaway takes a detour in 2016 with Walking to Paris, a portrait of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, who walked from Bucharest to Paris in 1903 and 1904. British actor Emun Elliott (who has appeared in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and Exodus: Gods and Kings) stars as Brancusi, while Swiss actress Carla Juri (of the infamous Wetlands (review), 2013) and Scottish actor Gianni Capaldi are also in the cast.

Cast: Emun Elliott, Carla Juri, Gianni Capaldi

Production Co.

New film from Pascal Chaumeil, director of A Long Way Down, secures biggest support of more than $500,000; next film in the Department Q series also receives support.

Eurimages is to plough $4.7m (€4,444,000) into 18 feature films and two documentaries, following its latest meeting in London from March 9-12.

Among the titles to receive support is Walking To Paris, from British auteur Peter Greenaway, which received $300,000 (€280,000).

The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer Kees Kasander. The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.

The film is due to begin shooting this month in Switzerland.

Speaking to ScreenDaily about the feature early this year, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building...

British director will premiere Eisenstein in Guanajuato at the Berlinale next month.

Prolific British auteur Peter Greenaway, whose new film Eisenstein in Guanajuato is set to premiere in competition at the Berlinale next month, is about to start work on new feature Walking To Paris.

The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer and former Rotterdam festival stalwart Kees Kasander.

The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.

Speaking to Screen about the feature, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building sculptures out of found materials – wood, stone, sand, snow and ice - leaving a trail of abandoned experimental temporary sculptures across the landscapes of Europe.”

The film is...

New Riga Meetings platform welcomes projects including two projects by Finnish film-maker Aku Louhimies.

Janis Nords’ second feature Mother I Love You and Juris Kursietis’ debut Modris were the big winners at the ¨Great Christopher¨ (¨Lielais Kristaps¨) National Film Competition held during the first edition of the Riga International Film Festival (December 2-12).

Nords, who graduated in film directing from the UK’s Nfts, received the top honour of best film as well as the trophy for best feature film director and best actress (for Vita Varpina’s performance as the single mother trying to make ends meet).

On presenting the direction prize to Nords, the competition jury’s chairman, veteran film director Janis Streics, said that he saw “a bright future ahead for Latvian cinema” on the strength of the line-up for this edition of the national film awards.

Mother I Love You, which is handled internationally by New Europe Film Sales, premiered at the...

Peter Greenaway is to return to the legendary Russian film director Sergey Eisenstein for a second feature, The Eisenstein Handshakes, this time to be located in Switzerland, after the Mexican-set Eisenstein in Guanajato.

Greenaway was in Locarno’s neighbouring town of Ascona on Monday to make an appearance at a showcase of Soviet and Russian films presented by the state film archive Gosfilmofond.

¨During our investigations on Eisenstein [for Eisenstein In Guanajato], we discovered two extraordnary things which make it very relevant to Switzerland,¨ Greenaway explained.

¨The very first film festival in world was created in 1929 in La Sarraz, close to the French border, and it was attended by many important experimental film-makers of the time. And the most important guest was Eisenstein who came to Switzerland with his assistant Alexandrov and his wonderful cameraman Tissé.

¨But what is also extraordinary is that the very first film ever made in Switzerland was directed by Eisenstein, so we have...

Exclusive: Dutch producer to resume his long-standing relationship with Peter Greenaway.

Dutch producer Kees Kasander is to resume his long-standing relationship with British director Peter Greenaway – and they already have several new projects together in the pipeline.

Greenaway’s current production - Eisenstein in Guanajuato (sold by Rezo) - is the first film he has made without Kasander for many years. With Kasander unavailable, it was produced instead by fellow Dutch producers Femke Wolting and Bruno Felix of Submarine alongside Cristina Velasco.

Now, Kasander and Greenaway are back in business together and already looking a long way ahead with 15 projects together.

The next film they are making together is Walking To Paris, a biopic about artist Constantin Brancusi. When he was a young man, Brancusi walked all the way from Romania to Paris. Stealth are in talks to handle international sales. The aim is to start shooting in the autumn.

Kasander is producing...

Exclusive: Dutch producer to resume his long-standing relationship with Peter Greenaway.

Dutch producer Kees Kasander is to resume his long-standing relationship with British director Peter Greenaway – and they already have several new projects together in the pipeline.

Greenaway’s current production - Eisenstein in Guanajuato (sold by Rezo) - is the first film he has made without Kasander for many years. With Kasander unavailable, it was produced instead by fellow Dutch producers Femke Wolting and Bruno Felix of Submarine alongside Cristina Velasco.

Now, Kasander and Greenaway are back in business together and already looking a long way ahead with 15 projects together.

The next film they are making together is Walking To Paris, a biopic about artist Constantin Brancusi. When he was a young man, Brancusi walked all the way from Romania to Paris. Stealth are in talks to handle international sales. The aim is to start shooting in the autumn.

Kasander is producing...

Cedomir Kolar, Kees Kasander among PriForum industry guests.

The sixth edition of the Pristina Film Festival (April 25-May 2) - which this year moved from September to April - features an impressive lineup including opening film Philomena, Oscar-winner Dallas Buyers Club and closing film Nymphomaniac by Lars Von Trier.

The 60-strong lineup includes four world premieres, five international premieres, more than 50 Kosovan premieres and an Indian focus.

This year also sees the festival tie up with the British Council on ‘British Night’, which includes Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, music doc London: The modern Babylon as well as Philomena.

The festival’s Balkan competition includes films from Macedonia, Turkey, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Bosnia, Serbia and Romania.

Industry sessions include ‘Selling Balkan stories to the West’, pitching sessions, case-studies, a ‘West Side Panel’ featuring established producers Cedomir Kolar and Kees Kassander among others, and an ‘East Side Panel’ featuring local and regional industry.

The growing...

Other projects supported by Romania’s film fund include Cristian Mungiu’s Rmd and Tudor Giurgiu’s Apropierea.

Romania’s Centrul National al Cinematografiei (Cnc) has become the latest European film fund to be raided by the ubiquitous film-maker Peter Greenaway for a future project.

Greenaway’s Walking To Paris (Mergand Spre Paris), which is being structured as a co-production between his regular producer Kees Kasander’s UK-based Cinatura, Switzerland’s Cobra Film, France’s Cdp Productions and Romania’s Abis Studio, received 291,000 Ron (€65,000) in the results of the 2013 call for projects.

Walking To Paris centres on the 27-year-old Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi who set off a month-long trek across Europe from Romania to Paris in 1903, and will show how Brancusi’s fight for survival and many adventures during his journey influenced his subsequent work.

Greenaway had previously accessed the Croatian Audiovisual Centre for Goltzius And The Pelican Company and the Polish Film Institute for Nightwatching, while...

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Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles:

Untitled Ben Foster Project – Ex-X-Man, Ben Foster, is ready to make his move behind the camera with this drama from producer Oren Moverman. Plot details weren’t available, but they’re reportedly eying a summer shoot.

Food for Love – British auteur Peter Greenway is reuniting with his Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover producer Kees Kasander to work on this adaptation of Thomas Mann's classic tale of man-boy crush "Death in Venice" for the big screen.

Black Sea – Described as John Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre "set on a submarine", this is one of a few projects in development with writer-director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland).

Berandal – While the Indonesian action flick The Raid is prepping to impress U.S. audiences this spring, filmmaker Gareth Evans is already working on its sequel. Iko Uwais is on board to reprise his role as Rama.

Sunset Song – Terence Davies returns from the Deep Blue Sea with this Scottish-Swedish co-production about a farmer’s daughter coming of age in the early 1900s. Filming is looking to begin later this year or in early 2013.

If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.

Peter Greenaway ("The Pillow Book," "The Baby of Macon") is planning to direct "Food for Love", a new film adaptation of German author Thomas Mann‘s "Death in Venice" says Screen Daily.

The book follows a revered author named Gustav who is staying in Venice and becomes obsessed handsome young teenager named Tadzio.

As a cholera epidemic engulfs the city, Gustav sacrifices his dignity and ultimately his life to this infatuation, despite the pair never talking or touching - only exchanging glances. Luchino Visconti adapted the book previously in 1971.

Filming will take place partly in Venice. Kees Kasander will produce and claims the tone is akin to Greenaway's most famous work "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover".

It's been five years since "Nightwatching," the last feature length effort from Peter Greenaway. And for a guy who declared "cinema is dead" right around the same time, he certainly has a lot left to say within the art form. Screen Daily reports that not only is Greenaway embarking on "Food For Love" an adaptation of Thomas Mann's classic "Death In Venice," he's got a plan that could seem him make a movie per year for the next decade. The director is currently finishing up "Goltzius and the Pelican Company" starring F. Murray Abraham which is being readied for Cannes, after which he'll tackle "Food For Love" with shooting to start in November. Given the director's own unique style which of late has reserved his movies strictly for hardcore arthouse buffs, his producer Kees Kasander reveals that "Food For Love" could be his most accessible film in nearly two.

Two days after we tragically, absurdly lost Theo Angelopoulos to a motorcycle accident late last month, Ecm Records posted a remembrance I've come across just today, thanks to a pointer from Robert Koehler. In a text Angelopoulos contributed to the collection Horizons Touched: The Music of Ecm, he wrote, "There are moments when you hear a piece of music, have a chance conversation with someone or read a text and you get the unexpected feeling of communication at a deeper level, of a common language. In Eleni Karaindrou, I found a musical language which seemed to come into being at the same time as the images in my films. Sounds that were mine before they were born. This is why the way we collaborate has — or at least I think it has — its special characteristics."

Ecm founder Manfred Eicher said in a 1990 interview, "Angelopoulos looks at things in silence. His sense of time,...

Antonia Bird (Priest, Face) is directing one of the features Kees Kasander -- Peter Greenaway's regular producer -- is making with London-based Film & Music Entertainment and post-production house Molinare. The 4-film slate will cost $17.5 million to produce. One of the films, The Domino Effect, is already in the can and editing in the Netherlands. “This isn’t one of those fantasy slates that you read about,” F&Me co-principal Mike Downey tells me. “All 4 films are pretty much financed. We’re just bringing the last slice in.” Bird will helm Cross My Mind in early 2011. UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire and the Netherlands Film Fund are backing this erotic thriller, which plays out between a married, older woman and a young wounded, blinded soldier – but the woman is not who he thinks she is... Arthouse favourite Greenaway will shoot Goltzius and The Pelican Company, about a 16th century Dutch...

Those of you readers with a love of film and access to BBC American might have caught the 2010 BAFTA -- British Academy of Film and Television Arts -- Awards yesterday. It's even possible that you read about the winners before seeing the ceremony, as the BBC-a broadcast aired a couple of hours after the live show.

The big winner of the evening was "The Hurt Locker," also one of this year's top-nominated Academy Awards contenders, alongside "Avatar." The Kathryn Bigelow-directed war story nabbed six awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Meanwhile, "Avatar" only picked up two technical awards, for Best Production Design and Best Visual Effects.

The other surprise of the evening was "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, who picked up the Orange Rising Star Award, which is bestowed by public vote. Duncan Jones' "Moon" also finally got some accolades, scoring the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer,...

The Hurt Locker was named Best Film at the British Academy Film Awards, held at London’s Royal Opera House. The film also won five other awards: Director for Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win the award, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Sound.

Avatar won the BAFTAs for Production Design and Special Visual Effects. Up took home the awards for Animated Film and Music. The Young Victoria won the Costume Design and Make Up & Hair awards.

Carey Mulligan was awarded the BAFTA for Leading Actress for An Education. The Supporting Actress BAFTA went to Mo’Nique for her role in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Colin Firth won the Leading Actor award for A Single Man and the Supporting Actor award was presented to Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds. All four were first-time winners.

Up in the Air won the BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay. A Prophet...

British Academy of Film and Television Arts better known as BAFTA announced its winners for 2010 and you can see the list of winners after the jump.Also Prince William is to succeed Lord Attenborough as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)'s fifth President, it was announced today at the Orange British Academy Film Awards. In his first formal act as President, Prince William will present the actor Vanessa Redgrave with a British Academy Fellowship.Best Film

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Honoring the best and brightest in entertainment, the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) took place in London, England on Sunday evening (February 21).

Held at the Royal Opera House, the big winner ended up being "The Hurt Locker" - which took home Best Director, Original Screenplay and Film on its way to six total awards.

Meanwhile, Carey Mulligan was named Best Actress while Colin Firth scooped up the Best Actor trophy during the evening ceremony.

Other winners included "Twilight" actress Kristen Stewart, who received the Rising Star Award while Vanessa Redgrave was presented with the Academy Fellowship.

The complete list of 2010 BAFTA winners is as follows:

Best Film

Avatar - James Cameron, Jon Landau

An Education - Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey

Winner: The Hurt Locker - Nominees Tbc

Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire - Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

Up In The Air - Ivan Reitman,...

Winners of the 2010 BAFTA Awards have been unraveled in a ceremony held at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London on Sunday evening, February 21. Among those walking away with the coveted prizes were "An Education" star Carey Mulligan and "A Single Man" leading man Colin Firth.

24-year-old Mulligan was announced as the winner of Best Leading Actress by last year's Best Actor winner Mickey Rourke. Besting over the likes of Saoirse Ronan, Gabourey Sidibe, Meryl Streep and Audrey Tautou, she said, "I really didn't expect this at all, so I didn't think of anything to say. Thank you so much BAFTA."

49-year-old Firth, meanwhile, received his Best Leading Actor prize from Kate Winslet. Upon receiving the kudo, he said, "What Tom Ford doesn't know is that I have the email in my outbox telling him that I couldn't possibly do this. I was about to send it when a...

Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" was the big winner at the 2010 Orange British Academy Awards. The Iraq War drama won best film, best director, best original screenplay, best cinematography, best sound and best editing.

"Avatar," nominated in eight categories, won the special visual effects and production design awards.

Colin Firth for "A Single Man" was named best actor, while Carey Mulligan received the best actress award for "An Education." Mo'Nique and Christoph Walt continued to dominated the awards season as each picked up the best supporting actress and actor awards respectively.

2009 BAFTA Awards Winners (highlighted)

Academy Fellowship

Vanessa Redgrave

Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema

Joe Dunton

Best Film

Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau

An Education Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey

The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro

Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

Up In The Air Ivan Reitman,...

Tonight saw the 2010 awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts take place at London's Royal Opera House. The BBC have broadcast the ceremony since, both in the UK and on their BBC America channel though - rather appallingly - this broadcast was purposefully scheduled to not take place live but after a two hour delay. Imagine if the Oscars were broadcast in this way...!? After the break, the full list of winners and a few tidbits about the ceremony as broadcast. Here are the main awards as listed on the BAFTA official winner's list - so not in show order at all. Best Film The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro Outstanding British Film Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer Duncan Jones Director – Moon Director The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow Original Screenplay...

Here’s the list of the official winners from Sunday evening’s Orange British Academy Film Awards. The Hurt Locker took home six of the eight categories they were nominated for – Best Film, Best Director, Original Screenplay, Sound, Editing, and Cinematography. Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the BAFTA Director.

The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro

Director – The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow

Original Screenplay – The Hurt Locker Mark Boal

Leading Actor – Colin Firth A Single Man

Leading Actress – Carey Mulligan An Education

Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress – Mo.Nique Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Outstanding British Film – Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer – Duncan Jones: Director – Moon Music – Up Michael Giacchino Adapted Screenplay – Up In The Air Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner Film Not In...

"The Hurt Locker" isn't feeling any pain right now.

Following on the heels of an original screenplay prize at the Writers Guild of America awards, "The Hurt Locker" took an impressive six awards home from the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars, on Sunday (Feb. 21).

The Iraq war drama won for best film, best director for Kathryn Bigelow, original screenplay for Mark Boal, cinematography, editing and sound.

"The Hurt Locker" has been on a roll lately. Besides the WGA, the Directors Guild of America also recognized Bigelow with their top prize. With the Oscars just around the corner, it bodes well for "The Hurt Locker."

Of interest to the "Twilight" fans is Kristen Stewart's win for the Orange Rising Star Award. Stewart, who plays Bella in the "Twilight" saga and stars in the Sundance hits "The Runaways" and "Welcome to the Rileys," beat out Carey Mulligan,...

As the great and good are quickly ushered out of London's salubrious Royal Opera House, shoved into the nearest waiting limo and whisked to their respective after-show parties, the time has come to tally and take stock of the big winners at this year's British Academy Film Awards.

As with all of the major films awards of 2010 thus far, the big battle at this year's Baftas was between James Cameron's Avatar and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and the big winner on the night was Ms Bigelow who blew away all the competition with a grand total of six awards including (surprisingly but brilliantly) Best Film and Best Director. Avatar, meanwhile, was relegated to two relatively minor awards for Best Production Design and Best Special Effects.

Quite how this will affect the runners and the riders for this year's Oscars remains to be seen but it...

James Cameron’s Avatar (Weta / 20th Century Fox) Best Film Avatar – James Cameron, Jon Landau An Education – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer * The Hurt Locker – Nominees Tbc Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness Up In the Air – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki Outstanding British Film An Education – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby * Fish Tank – Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold In the Loop – Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche Moon – Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker Nowhere Boy – Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-Wood, [...]...

Well, here we are Live at the 2010 Orange BAFTA Awards and I can’t describe what the atmosphere is like. We’re currently waiting for the awards themselves to start and while you’re getting your beverage of choice, check out the photos that I took from the red carpet which I’ll get posted here as fast as I can.

I’ve placed all the nominees below and we’ll be updating them as each winner is announced live from the awards. Each time a winner is announced, I’ll change the winner to bold and red so that you can spot them easily.

Remember, this is a completely interactive evening so please comment on what you think of the results, check out our live tweets here and discuss away as much as you can. Remember to hash-tag your tweets with #BAFTA and then they’ll be easy to...

The 2010 BAFTA nominations have been announced. The British film awards, celebrating talent both homegrown and international has become the main precursor to The Oscars.”The Hurt Locker,” “An Education” and “Avatar” leading the way with eight nods

The surprise on this year’s list is the Peter Jackson-produced and South Africa-set sci-fi film “District 9,” which secured seven nominations, one more than “Inglourious Basterds” and “Up in the Air.“

In the best actor category, nominees include Golden Globe winner Jeff Bridges (“Crazy Heart”), George Clooney (“Air”), Colin Firth ( “A Single Man”), Jeremy Renner (“Locker”) and Andy Serkis (“Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”).

The BAFTA winners will be announced in a ceremony in London at London’s Royal Opera House on February 21.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Best Film

Avatar – James Cameron, Jon Landau An Education – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer The Hurt Locker – Nominees Tbc Precious: Based on the...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has narrowed down its longlist and unveiled the nominations of the 2010 BAFTA awards. "Avatar," "The Hurt Locker," and "An Education" each scored eight nominations but "District 9" was close behind with seven.

"Inglourious Basterds" and "Up in the Air" both received six nominations. The awards will be revealed in London on Feb. 21.

Here's the complete list of the Orange British Academy Film Award Nominations

Film

"Avatar," James Cameron, Jon Landau

"An Education," Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer

"The Hurt Locker," nominees to be confirmed

"Precious," Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

"Up in the Air," Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

Director

"Avatar," James Cameron

"District 9," Neill Blomkamp

"An Education," Lone Scherfig

"The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow

"Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino

Original Screenplay

"The Hangover," Jon Lucas, Scott Moore

"The Hurt Locker," Mark Boal

"Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino

"A Serious Man," Joel Coen,...

An Education, Avatar, and The Hurt Locker each saw eight nods as this year’s BAFTA awards nominees were announced Thursday. District 9 came in with seven while Up In The Air and Inglourious Basterds both received six nominations.

Here’s the list of nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards:

Best Film

Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau An Education Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey The Hurt Locker Nominees Tbc Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness Up In The Air Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

Outstanding British Film

An Education Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold In The Loop Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche Moon Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker Nowhere Boy Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh...

The nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards were announced this morning, and leading with eight each are An Education, Avatar, and The Hurt Locker. The line-up looks much like what we’ve seen in earlier awards with the obvious skew towards British-born selections like Carey Mulligan, underrated comedy In the Loop, and first time director Duncan Jones.

Notable snubs include Bright Star shut out in every category but costume, Avatar missing a spot for screenplay to The Hangover, and Sam Rockwell for Moon.

Winners will be announced February 21. Here are the nominees:

Best Film

Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau

An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer

The Hurt Locker Nominees Tbc

Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

Up In The Air Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

Outstanding British Film

An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig,...

The Brits certainly like our flicks with Avatar and The Hurt Locker scoring eight nominations each from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). However, they didn’t overlook one of their own accomplished films with An Education also grabbing eight nominations. But what’s really impressive about the BAFTA nominations isn’t where they’ll most likely overlap with the Oscar nominations, but where they’re going to diverge. District 9 has seven nominations and matches Avatar in every category except Best Picture and Best Director (but it also has a Best Screenplay nomination, while Avatar does not). I am a little surprised that in their Best Supporting Actor category, they overlooked Peter Capaldi for In the Loop, but you have to love a country where Andy Serkis can get nominated for Best Actor (that’s not meant ironically; it truly is great–we should’ve nominated...

London -- James Cameron's " Avatar," Kathryn Bigelow's " The Hurt Locker" and Lone Scherfig's " An Education" emerged with eight nominations apiece for this year's Orange British Academy Film Awards, including noms for best film and best director.The big surprise on this year's list is the Peter Jackson produced South African set sci-fi " District 9" which secured seven nominations, one ahead of this year's six times nominees " Inglourious Basterds" and " Up in the Air."To win this year's best film award, recent Golden Globe king Cameron and his other worldly blue people drama will have to see off competition from " Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire" and "Up In The Air" as well as "The Hurt Locker" and "An Education."Presented by the British Academy Of Film and Television Arts, the Orange Bafa for best director is a face-off for votes with "District 9" director Neill Blomkamp...

Check out the full list of the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards below!

Best Film

Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau

An Education Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey

The Hurt Locker Nominees Tbc

Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

Up In The Air Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

Outstanding British Film

An Education Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby

Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold

In The Loop Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche

Moon Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker

Nowhere Boy Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer

Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson Directors, Producers –

Mugabe and the White African

Eran Creevy Writer/Director – Shifty

Stuart Hazeldine Writer/Director – Exam

Duncan Jones Director...

After the trial run that was the Golden Globes, award season is getting into full swing proper with this morning's announcement of the BAFTA award nominations. Films getting the nod include Avatar (obviously!) and some perhaps more deserving films such as The Hurt Locker and our very own An Education - which have all collected nominations in eight categories.

See below for the full list.

Best Film

Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau

An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer

The Hurt Locker Nominees Tbc

Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

Up In The Air Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

Outstanding British Film

An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby

Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold

In The Loop Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche

Moon Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones,...

Photo: Orange British Academy Film Awards Today the nominations for the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards were announced and Avatar, An Education and The Hurt Locker lead the way with eight nominations each followed closely by District 9 with seven and Inglourious Basterds and Up In the Air each pulling in six each. The only film not amongst the nomination leaders that was nominated for Best Film is Lionsgate's Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, which did manage four nominations.

Looking over the nominations there are a few that stand out as breaking from the norm, such as Neill Blomkamp (District 9) and Lone Scherfig (An Education) both getting directorial nominations alongside James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino. Both District 9 and An Education have enjoyed plenty of love during the awards season, but this is a nice bonus that both Blomkamp and Scherfig should be proud of.

2009 was an amazing year for British film. The BAFTA longlist has James Cameron’s Avatar and Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air go up against Tarantino’s glorious Basterds and our pick of the year, Duncan Jones’ sublime Moon, we also have A Single Man and An Education showcasing a wealth of talent.

In The Loop is picking up screenwriting awards and Carey Mulligan’s disappointment at the Golden Globes earlier this week may be short lived. Will Avatar leaves will a handful of golden faces to go with its solar system of globes? That so many great films are being placed under a BAFTA shaped spotlight is a testament to the variety and capability of the actors, directors and crews working today.

The BAFTA shortlist is a clear indication that there is much to celebrate in the industry and while the winners may divide critics and audiences when...

The nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010 were released. Final awards are given out at the Royal Opera House on February 21st: Best Film Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer The Hurt Locker Nominees Tbc Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness Up In The Air Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki Outstanding British Film An Education Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby Fish Tank Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold In The Loop Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche Moon Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan [...]...

London -- James Cameron's "Avatar," Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" and Lone Scherfig's "An Education" emerged blinking with eight nominations apiece for this year's Orange British Film Awards including noms for best film and best director.

The big surprise on this year's list is the Peter Jackson produced South African set sci-fi "District 9" which secured seven nominations, one ahead of this year's six times nominees "Inglourious Basterds" and "Up in the Air."

To win this year's best film award, recent Golden Globe king Cameron and his other worldly blue people drama will have to see off competition from "Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire" and "Up In The Air" as well as "The Hurt Locker" and "An Education."

Presented by the British Academy Of Film and Television Arts, the Orange Bafa for best director is a face-off for votes with "District 9" director Neill Blomkamp...

2009 European Film Awards 2009 European Film Award nominations: Nov. 7, 2009 2009 European Film Award winners: Bochum, Germany, on Dec. 12, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke   Best European Film Fish Tank, UK written and directed by Andrea Arnold produced by Kees Kasander & Nick Laws Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In), Sweden directed by Tomas Alfredson written by John Ajvide Lindqvist produced by John Nordling & Carl Molinder Un Prophète (A Prophet), France directed by Jacques Audiard written by Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain based on an original idea by Abdel Raouf Dafri after an original screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri [...]...

Cologne, Germany – Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet," Danny Boyle's Oscar champ "Slumdog Millionaire" and Palme d'Or winner "The White Ribbon" from Austrian director Michael Haneke are the front-runners in a crowded field at this year's European Film Awards.

Audiard's hard-hitting French prison tale, Haneke's austere black-and-white period piece and Boyle's Mumbai-based story of rags-to-riches all picked up nominations in the European film, European director, European screenwriter and European cinematographer categories.

"A Prophet" leads the pack with six nominations, including ones for star Tahar Rahim in the European actor category and an Efa Prix d'Excellence nomination for sound design.

Also in the running for best European film 2009 are Stephen Daldry's Oscar winner "The Reader," Scottish director Andrea Arnold's kitchen sink drama "Fish Tank" and Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film "Let the Right One In."

Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces" was shut out of the best film lineup,...

London -- BBC Films, the pubcaster's standalone filmmaking unit, could lay claim to backing, developing or co-producing titles that Monday laid claim to 26 -- or more than a third -- of the nominations for the upcoming British Independent Film Awards.

The broadcaster's filmmaking unit was involved in a slew of titles mentioned in dispatches including Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," "An Education," directed by Lone Sherfig, Armando Iannucci's "In The Loop" and Jane Campion's "Bright Star."

Also from the BBC Films roster came Tom Hooper's "The Damned United" and Scott Hicks' "The Boys Are Back".

Given the harsh economic times and a perceived lack of co-production opportunities for indie filmmakers, the involvement of broadcasters in movie development and production here in the U.K. is more apparent than ever.

With both the BBC and Channel 4 practically the only broadcasters in town backing big screen ambitions with...

Regarded as one of the most innovative British filmmakers today - Andrea Arnold got that distinction via the film, Red Road - which also happens to be her first feature film. At the recent Cannes, her second feature was received with criticial praise, Fish Tank. The Times Online was very generous about her new film and I quote:

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- - - It's only her second feature film, but with Fish Tank, the British director Andrea Arnold demonstrates that she more than deserves her place in a Cannes competition lineup that includes work from some of the most celebrated directors currently working. And it's fitting that her picture screens alongside the latest from Ken Loach - there is an obvious debt here to his brand of compassionate naturalism. Arnold builds on the humanistic, low key intimacy of her feature debut, Red Road, which won the Jury prize at...