BAFTA Film Winners (2009)

On February 8, 2009, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) , a British charity, hosted their annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation. They are often cited as a British equivalent to the Oscars. The full list of Winners can be seen by going to the BAFTA website. Below are the highlights with the winners in red:

BEST FILM

Slumdog Millionaire

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Reader

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Man on Wire

Hunger

In Bruges

Mamma Mia!

Slumdog Millionaire

THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film

Steve McQueen (Hunger)

Simon Chinn (Man on Wire)

Judy Craymer (Mamma Mia!)

Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow)

Solon Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter (Of Time And The City)

DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Clint Eastwood (Changeling)

David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)

Stephen Daldry (The Reader)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Martin McDonagh (In Bruges)

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (Burn After Reading)

Joe Michael Straczynski (Changeling)

Philippe Claude (I've Loved You So Long)

Dustin Lance Black (Milk

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)

Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)

David Hare (The Reader)

Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
I've Loved You So Long

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Gomorrah

Persepolis

Waltz With Bashir

ANIMATED FILM
Wall•E

Persepolis

Waltz with Bashir

LEADING ACTOR

Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)

Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire)

Sean Penn (Milk)

Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

LEADING ACTRESS

Kate Winslet (The Reader)

Angelina Jolie (Changeling)

Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long)

Meryl Streep (Doubt)

Revolutionary Road (Kate Winslet)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Robert Downey, Jr. (Tropic Thunder)

Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)

Brad Pitt (Burn After Reading)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Amy Adams (Doubt)

Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire)

Tilda Swinton (Burn After Reading)

Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)

MUSIC

A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)

Alexandre Desplat (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight)

Benny Andersson andBjörn Ulvaeus (Mamma Mia!)

Thomas Newman (Wall•E)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Tom Stern (Changeling)

Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight)

Chris Menges and Roger Deakins (The Reader)

COSTUME DESIGN
Michael O'Connor (The Duchess)

Deborah Hopper (Changeling)

Jacqueline West (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Lindy Hemming (The Dark Knight)

Albert Wolsky (Revolutionary Road)

ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD
Noel Clark

Michael Cera

Michael Fassbender

Rebecca Hall

Toby Kebbell

ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP
Terry Gilliam