BBC Films celebrate award nominations
Hannah Khalil
Digital Content Producer, About The BBC Blog
BBC Films Philomena starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan
The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards have been announced, and BBC Films are celebrating their six nominations.
Stephen Frears’ film Philomena, (pictured above] starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan based on the Martin Sixsmith book, has been nominated in four categories: Best Picture, Actress in a leading role (Judi Dench), Writing – Adapted Screenplay (Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope) and Music – Original Score (Alexandre Desplat).
BBC Films Saving Mr Banks with Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks
The story of the making of Mary Poppins, Saving Mr Banks, (pictured) also receives a nod in the Music – Original score category (Thomas Newman). While The Invisible Woman, about Dickens’ mistress and directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes is nominated for Costume Design (Michael O’Connor).
What’s more, earlier this month it was revealed that BBC Films have received 11 nominations in the British Academy Film and Television Awards. Again Philomena has a good showing with nominations for Best Film; Outstanding British Film; Adapted Screenplay and Leading Actress.
While Saving Mr Banks has five nominations for Outstanding British Film; Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer (Kelly Marcel); Leading Actress (Emma Thompson); Original Music: (Thomas Newman); and Costume Design (Daniel Orlandi). Good Vibrations receives one nomination for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer (Colin Carberry, Glenn Patterson). And again the Costume Design is recognised in The Invisible Woman.
Thomas M Wright and Elisabeth Moss (pic: BBC/See Saw Films/Parisa Taghizadeh)
Elsewhere congratulations must go to Golden Globe winners, actresses Elisabeth Moss (pictured above) and Jacqueline Bisset who won Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie and Best Supporting Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie respectively for BBC Two’s Top of the Lake (by Jane Campion) and Dancing on the Edge(by Stephen Poliakoff).
The Oscar nominees will need to wait until Sunday 2 March 2014 to find out whether they’ve scooped the coveted statuette. While the BAFTAs are announced on
For a full list of Oscar nominees see the Academy Award website. You can also see all the Golden Globe winners on their website.
Hannah Khalil is Digital Content Producer, About the BBC Website and Blog.
