The 61st British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 10 February 2008 and honoured the best films of 2007.
Atonement won Best Film, while Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, won Best Director for No Country for Old Men, which also went on to win Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for There Will Be Blood, Marion Cotillard won Best Actress for La Vie en Rose (La Môme), and Tilda Swinton won Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton. This Is England, directed by Shane Meadows, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2007.
Winners and nominees
BAFTA Fellowship
Anthony Hopkins
Statistics
In Memoriam
Lois Maxwell
Alex Phillips
Betty Hutton
Freddie Francis
Calvin Lockhart
Brad Renfro
Charles Lane
Laszlo Kovacs
Fernando Fernan-Gomez
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Gordon Scott
Mali Finn
Michel Serrault
Michelangelo Antonioni
Victoria Hopper
Christopher Greenbury
Russell Lloyd
Jane Wyman
Brian Eatwell
Frank Capra Jr. Alex Thomson Peter Handford Marcel Marceau Marit Allen Deborah Kerr Richard Franklin Ulrich Mühe Golda Offenheim Ingmar Bergman Peter Zinner Peter Ellenshaw Heath Ledger
See also
80th Academy Awards
33rd César Awards
13th Critics' Choice Awards
60th Directors Guild of America Awards
21st European Film Awards
65th Golden Globe Awards
28th Golden Raspberry Awards
22nd Goya Awards
23rd Independent Spirit Awards
13th Lumières Awards
19th Producers Guild of America Awards
12th Satellite Awards
34th Saturn Awards
14th Screen Actors Guild Awards
60th Writers Guild of America Awards
References
‘Atonement’ leads BAFTA longlist Variety, 4 January 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2022 Atonements leads nominations People, 16 January 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2022. https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/2008-02-10-bafta-awards_N.htm Time (magazine) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3671093/Baftas-2008-Atonement-wins-top-prize.html