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This Year's BAFTA Winners - The 'British Oscars'

With less than fourteen days left until the Oscars, the Orange British Film Academy Awards have made their decisions on what is the best of the best from the year past. With a list of nominations not too far off from those of the American Academy Awards, The Hurt Locker has walked away with high honors like "Best Film," "Best Original Screenplay," and more. Maybe this avalanche of a win will change a few predictions on how much The Hurt Locker is actually going to dominate this year's awards. These winners agree with a fair share of my own predictions, and also a few of my own choices. Up in the Air for "Best Adapted Screenplay"? Colin Firth over Jeff Bridges for "Best Actor"? Avatar only winning "Best Production Design" and "Best Special Effects"? Yes, please! Check out below what very well could be cheat sheet for the Oscars, which are coming March 7th: Best Film

The Hurt Locker Avatar Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire An Education Up In The Air

Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year

Fish Tank An Education In The Loop Moon Nowhere Boy

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart George Clooney for Up in the Air Andy Serkis for Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Colin Firth for A Single Man Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker

Best Actress

Saoirse Ronan for The Lovely Bones Carey Mulligan for An Education Meryl Streep for Julie and Julia Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Supporting Actor

Christian McKay for Me and Orson Welles Alfred Molina for An Education Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds Alec Baldwin for It's Complicated

David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction

Neill Blomkamp for District 9 Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds Lone Scherfig for An Education Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker James Cameron for Avatar

Best Screenplay (Original)

The Coen Brothers for A Serious Man Pete Docter and Bob Peterson for Up Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds Jon Lucas and Scott Moore for The Hangover

Best Screenplay (Adapted)

Nick Hornby for An Education Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9 Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air Jessie Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche for In The Loop

Best Cinematography

Avatar District 9 The Road The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds

Best Editing

The Hurt Locker Avatar District 9 Up in the Air Inglourious Basterds

Best Production Design

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Avatar The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus District 9 Inglourious Basterds

Best Costume Design

An Education A Single Man The Young Victoria Bright Star Coco Before Chanel

Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music

Avatar Crazy Heart Fantastic Mr. Fox Up Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Best Makeup/Hair

An Education Nine Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The Young Victoria Coco Before Chanel

Best Sound

District 9 Star Trek Up Avatar The Hurt Locker

Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects

Avatar The Hurt Locker District 9 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Star Trek

Best Film Not In the English Language

The White Ribbon Un Prophete Los abrazos rotos Let the Right One In Coco Before Chanel

Best Animated Feature Film

Fantastic Mr. Fox Coraline Up

Orange Rising Star Award

Jesse Eisenberg Carey Mulligan Kristen Stewart Nicholas Hoult Tahar Rahim

Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer

Duncan Jones, director of Moon Eran Creevy, writer/director of Shifty Sam Taylor Wood, director of Nowhere Boy Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, and David Pearson, directors and producers for Mugabe and the White African

Best Short Animation

The Happy Duckling The Gruffalo Mother of Many

Best Short Film

Mixtape Off Season I Do Air 14 Jade

I Love You Phillip Morris - international trailer review

Adam - DVD