Bafta Crown For Helen Mirren

[sharon_b]

Dame Helen Mirren has been crowned the Bafta queen after she was named Best Actress and her movie took the Best Film prize at Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.

The 61-year-old star was favourite to win after picking up several awards, including a Golden Globe, for her role as Elizabeth II in The Queen.

The film, which is about the Royal Family in the aftermath of Princess Diana's death, beat Babel, The Departed, The Last King of Scotland and Little Miss Sunshine to Best Film.

Dame Helen's film was nominated for 10 gongs, while the latest James Bond movie Casino Royale had nine at the Royal Opera House in central London.

However, there was no joy for 007 star Daniel Craig, who had hoped to become the first Bond to win a Bafta.

He lost out in the Best Actor category to US star Forest Whitaker for his powerful role as the brutal Ugandan leader Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.


The film, based on the book by Giles Foden and shot in Uganda, won a total of three gongs, including Outstanding British Film of the Year and Adapted Screenplay.

Casino Royale, the 21st movie in the Bond franchise, only landed one prize, for Best Sound.

But there was some good news for Bond - French beauty Eva Green, 26, who played Vesper Lynd, won the Orange Rising Star award.

British director Paul Greengrass, 51, took the Best Director title for United 93, a documentary-style retelling of the hijacking and passenger revolt on one of the September 11 planes.

Best Supporting Actor was won by American star Alan Arkin, 72, for his role as a heroin-addicted grandfather in black comedy Little Miss Sunshine.

Jennifer Hudson, 25, the American Idol finalist, was named Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls, the musical film starring Beyonce which is loosely based on the story of The Supremes.

The Winners In Full

Now the glitz and the gladhanding is over, here's a full list of the Bafta winners:

BEST FILM

The Queen

BEST ACTOR

Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

BEST ACTRESS

Helen Mirren - The Queen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Greengrass - United 93

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Last King of Scotland

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR

The Last King of Scotland

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Pan's Labyrinth

ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD - voted for by the public

Eva Green

BEST FILM MUSIC

Babel

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Children of Men

BEST EDITING

United 93

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Children of Men

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Pan's Labyrinth

BEST SOUND

Casino Royale

Sky News: Bafta Crown For Helen
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Another award for Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce is gonna be Pi**ed!. Her award cabinet must be full because she as already won 23 awards for her role in Dreamgirls. I can't say that i am a fan because i havent watch Dreamgirls yet, but its always nice to see someone ego being brought down a few notches in this case Beyonce's.