BAFTA Nominations

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced its ballot for 2008 films. The awards recognize excellence in British-made films and television. Categories with works of genre interest are listed below.

Best Film

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

Director

• Changeling Clint Eastwood
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button David Fincher
• Frost/Nixon Ron Howard
• The Reader Stephen Daldry
• Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle

Adapted Screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• The Reader
• Revolutionary Road
• Slumdog Millionaire

Film Not in the English Language

• The Baader Meinhof Complex
• Gomorrah
• I’ve Loved You So Long
• Persepolis
• Waltz with Bashir

Animated Film

• Persepolis
• WALL–E
• Waltz with Bashir

Leading Actor

• Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon
• Dev Patel for Slumdog Millionaire
• Sean Penn for Milk
• Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler

Supporting Actor

• Robert Downey,Jr. for Tropic Thunder
• Brendan Gleeson for In Bruges
• Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt
• Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
• Brad Pitt for Burn After Reading

Music

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Mamma Mia!
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL–E

Cinematography

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

Editing

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• In Bruges
• Slumdog Millionaire

Production Design

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Revolutionary Road
• Slumdog Millionaire

Costume Design

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Duchess
• Revolutionary Road

Sound

• Changeling
• The Dark Knight
• Quantum of Solace
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL–E

Special Visual Effects

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace

Make Up & Hair

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Duchess
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk

Short Animation

• Codswallop
• Varmints
• Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

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