British Academy Film Awards

BAFTA's annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, rewarding the best work of any nationality seen on British cinema screens during the preceding year. Since 2008 the ceremony has been held at the Royal Opera Housein London’sCovent Gardenhaving taken place since 2000 in the flagshipOdeon cinema on Leicester Square. The ceremony previously took place in April or May, but from 2002 onwards has taken place in February, in order to precede theOscars.

In order for a film to be considered for a BAFTA nomination its first public exhibition must be in a cinema and it must have a UK theatrical release in a public UK cinema for no fewer than seven days in the calendar year that corresponds to the upcoming Awards. A film must be feature length and films from all countries are eligible in all categories, with the exception of Outstanding British Film,Outstanding Debut,Short FilmandShort Animationwhich are for British films only.

The 2010 ceremonywas held on 21 February, also at the Royal Opera House. The Major Awards winners in 2010 included:The Hurt Locker (Film); Kathryn Bigelow(Director), for The Hurt Locker;Colin Firth(Leading Actor), for A Single Man;Carey Mulligan(Leading Actress), for An Education;Christoph Waltz(Supporting Actor), for Inglourious Basterds;Mo'Nique(Supporting Actress), for Precious;Mark Boal(Original Screenplay), for The Hurt Locker;Jason ReitmanandSheldon Turner(Adapted Screenplay), for Up In The Air;Michael Giacchino(Music), for Up In The Air;Pete Docter(Animated Film), for Up In The Air.

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Cannes Film Festival; Edinburgh International Film Festival; Berlinale: Berlin International Film Festival; Palm Springs International Short Film Festival; Melbourne International Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival; The Other Venice Film Festival; Arcipelago; Viebbale: Vienna International Film Festival.

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• Film Review: Notting Hill Hugh Grant returns to screens as the star of Notting Hill By BBC News Online's Bella Hurrell

The year was 1994 and white weddings were back in style. Bridal outfitters everywhere blessed Hugh Grant and the film Four Weddings and a Funeral for injecting romance into the cynical 1990s.

Now the self-deprecating English gentleman is back in the follow-up film Notting Hill. The bittersweet romantic comedy is not a sequel but it does portray the same sort of mildly eccentric Brits that the rest of the world - particularly America - seems to find so amusing.

Written by Richard Curtis, famous for his UK comedies like Blackadder, the film is a feelgood summer movie and likely to put Notting Hill indelibly on the tourist map.

Grant plays William Thacker, a bumbling, shy but essentially good sort of chap with a winsome smile.

Thacker is the owner of a rundown bookshop in trendy Notting Hill. Into his life walks movie star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts). A complicated romance ensues with Thacker falling for Scott, and vice versa. Despite the "she loves me, she loves me not" vacillation, a happy ending is never really in doubt.

Notting Hill is less frothy than its successful predecessor and its characters a little more down on their luck. In an after-dinner game where each guest relates their failings, one describes the unsuccessful Thacker as 'used to be handsome but now a bit squishy round the edges'.

The film also deals with the nature of fame. Roberts' Anna Scott, who is hounded by the British tabloids, spends much of her time trying to avoid scandal. She angrily comments that yesterday's news is never forgotten, it just goes into a cuttings file to resurface again and again - a point that has particular resonance for Grant after his 1995 arrest in Hollywood.

Overshadowing Grant and Roberts, the real star of the film is Thacker's slobbish Welsh flatmate Spike, played by Rhys Ifans. Spike spends most of the film lounging around in his greying underwear contemplating life from a pile of pizza boxes and offering sage advice in a hammy Welsh lilt.

Even now, the men's nylon Y-front industry is doubtless rubbing its hands together at the merchandising possibilities.

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