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...surreal moment for the visiting Hollywood élite, and an embarrassing one for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (bafta) hosting its annual version of the Oscars back in February 2002. But the gaffe was also sort of charming, a reminder of what distinguishes the British film industry from its bigger, glossier American counterpart. These days, though, the Orange British Academy Film Awards, known as the baftas, want to be taken seriously. This year's ceremony marks the awards' 60th anniversary and the academy is determined that the evening's only bubbles will come from the champagne...
...bafta and Oscar best film nominee The Queen is a prime example of how to make an utterly British story resonate for filmgoers all over the world. But Paul Greengrass's best directing Oscar nomination for United 93 shows how a British perspective can also work for a very American event. Both films were made with a mix of British and U.S. funding, but both directors know how to get the best stories out of the smallest budgets. "In Britain, you don't necessarily have $50 million to throw at a movie, so you need to come up with something...
British screenwriters aren't the only ones who are good with words. In front of the camera, Britain's leading sirs and reigning dames are known for their cool, clipped precision. Peter O'Toole, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren all have bafta and Oscar nominations this year, and, despite their ability to change accents and appearance, everything they say or do is wrapped in an irrepressible Britishness...
...English language be predominant." That rule was used to reject the U.K.'s original submission, Asif Kapadia's The Warrior, which is in Hindi. A Western take on a Japanese fable transplanted to India, Kapadia's directorial debut earned rave reviews and three nominations at this year's BAFTA awards. The film has a second-generation British director, a British screenwriter and British backers - yet was considered insufficiently British, since it was shot in India with Indian actors speaking Hindi. "I'm appalled," says The Warrior producer Bertrand Faivre. "The Academy is just ignorant about how the world is changing...
...Those who claim some British ancestry will be making their way to the "BAFTA-LA" event on Saturday afternoon. Despite sounding like a Greek pastry, this is actually an acronym for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts-Los Angeles and is the British equivalent of AMPAS (American Motion Picture Arts & Sciences). The L.A. chapter consists of members of the British film industry in self-imposed exile on the West Coast. (Some wags posit that the British contingent in Hollywood is the British film industry in its entirety...