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The 62nd British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 8 February 2009 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2008. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2008.The nominees were announced on 15 January 2009.WEB,weblink Baftas 2009: full list of nominations, 15 January 2009, The Guardian, 11 February 2024, Two films received the most nominations in eleven categories; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire. The Dark Knight followed with nine.WEB,weblink Film Nominations in 2009, 15 January 2009, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 15 January 2009,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090117024112weblink">weblink 2009-01-17, dead, Slumdog Millionaire took home the most awards with seven.Jonathan Ross hosted the ceremony for the third consecutive year.

Winners and nominees

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BAFTA Fellowship

• Terry Gilliam

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

• Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.{| class=wikitable {{Award categoryBest Film}}

• Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin
  • Frost/Nixon – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard
  • Milk – Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
  • The Reader – Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris

{{Award categoryBest Direction}}

• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
  • Clint Eastwood – Changeling
  • David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
  • Stephen Daldry – The Reader

{{Award categoryBest Actor in a Leading Role}}

• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Robin Ramzinski/Randy Robinson
  • Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
  • Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire as Jamal Malik
  • Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
  • Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk

{{Award categoryBest Actress in a Leading Role}}

• Kate Winslet – The Reader as Hanna Schmitz
  • Angelina Jolie – Changeling as Christine Collins
  • Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler
  • Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long as Juliette Fontaine
  • Meryl Streep – Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

{{Award categoryBest Actor in a Supporting Role}}

• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as Joker
  • Brad Pitt – Burn After Reading as Chad Feldheimer
  • Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges as Ken Daley
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Father Brendan Flynn
  • Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus

{{Award categoryBest Actress in a Supporting Role}}

• Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Maria Elena
  • Amy Adams – Doubt as Sister James
  • Freida Pinto – Slumdog Millionaire as Latika
  • Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Pam/Cassidy
  • Tilda Swinton – Burn After Reading as Katie Cox

{{Award categoryBest Original Screenplay}}

• In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
  • Burn After Reading – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • Changeling – J. Michael Straczynski
  • I've Loved You So Long – Philippe Claudel
  • Milk – Dustin Lance Black

{{Award categoryBest Adapted Screenplay}}

• Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
  • Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
  • The Reader – David Hare (playwright)
  • Revolutionary Road – Justin Haythe

{{Award categoryBest Cinematography}}

• Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle
  • Changeling – Tom Stern
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
  • The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
  • The Reader – Chris Menges and Roger Deakins

{{Award categoryBest Costume Design}}

• The Duchess – Michael O'Connor
  • Changeling – Deborah Hopper
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jacqueline West
  • The Dark Knight – Lindy Hemming
  • Revolutionary Road – Albert Wolsky

{{Award categoryBest Editing}}

• Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens
  • Changeling – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
  • The Dark Knight – Lee Smith
  • Frost/Nixon – Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley
  • In Bruges – Jon Gregory

{{Award categoryBest Makeup and Hair}}

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jean Ann Black and Colleen Callaghan
  • The Dark Knight – Peter King
  • The Duchess – Daniel Phillips and Jan Archibald
  • Frost/Nixon – Edouard F. Henriques and Kim Santantonio
  • Milk – Steven E. Anderson and Michael White

{{Award categoryBest Original Music}}

• Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
  • The Dark Knight – Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
  • Mamma Mia! – Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
  • WALL-E – Thomas Newman

{{Award categoryBest Production Design}}

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo
  • Changeling – James J. Murakami and Gary Fettis
  • The Dark Knight – Nathan Crowley and Peter Lando
  • Revolutionary Road – Kristi Zea and Debra Schutt
  • Slumdog Millionaire – Mark Digby and Michelle Day

{{Award categoryBest Sound}}

• Slumdog Millionaire – Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers and Ian Tapp
  • Changeling – Walt Martin, Alan Robert Murray, John T. Reitz and Gregg Rudloff
  • The Dark Knight – Lora Hirschberg, Richard King, Ed Novick and Gary Rizzo
  • Quantum of Solace – Eddy Joseph, Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor and Jimmy Boyle
  • WALL-E – Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Matthew Wood

{{Award categoryBest Special Visual Effects}}

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness and Edson Williams
  • The Dark Knight – Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin and Tim Webber
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Pablo Helman, Marshall Krasser and Steve Rawlins
  • Iron Man – Shane Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow and Hal Hickel
  • Quantum of Solace – Chris Corbould and Kevin Tod Haug

{{Award categoryOutstanding British Film}}

• Man on Wire – Simon Chinn and James Marsh
  • Hunger – Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch, Steve McQueen and Enda Walsh
  • In Bruges – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin and Martin McDonagh
  • Mamma Mia! – Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman, Phyllida Lloyd and Catherine Johnson
  • Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy

{{Award categoryOutstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer}}

• Hunger – Steve McQueen (Writer/Director)
  • Mamma Mia! – Judy Craymer (Producer)
  • Man on Wire – Simon Chinn (Producer)
  • Of Time and the City – Roy Boulter and Sol Papadopoulos (Producer)
  • Son of Rambow – Garth Jennings (Writer)

{{Award categoryBest Short Animation}}

• A Matter of Loaf and Death – Steve Pegram, Nick Park and Bob Baker
  • Codswallop – Greg McLead and Myles McLead
  • Varmints – Sue Goffe and Marc Craste

{{Award categoryBest Short Film}}

• September – Stewart Le Marechal and Esther May Campbell
  • The Business Trip – Celine Quideau and Sean Ellis
  • Kingsland 1: The Dreamer – Kate Ogborn and Tony Grisoni
  • Love You More – Sam Taylor-Johnson, Patrick Marber, Anthony Minghella and Caroline Harvey
  • Ralph – Olivier Kaempfer and Alex Winckler

{{Award categoryBest Animated Film}}

• WALL-E – Andrew Stanton
  • Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
  • Waltz with Bashir – Ari Folman

{{Award categoryBest Film Not in the English Language}}

• I've Loved You So Long – Yves Marmion and Philippe Claudel
  • The Baader Meinhof Complex – Bernd Eichinger and Uli Edel
  • Gomorrah – Domenico Procacci and Matteo Garrone
  • Persepolis – Marc-Antoine Robert, Xavier Rigault, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
  • Waltz with Bashir – Serge Lalou, Gerhard Mexiner, Yael Nahlieli and Ari Folman

{{Award categoryRising Star Award}}

• Noel Clarke
  • Michael Cera
  • Michael Fassbender
  • Rebecca Hall
  • Toby Kebbell

Statistics

{{col-float}}{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"|+ Films that received multiple nominations! style="background:#BDB76B;| Nominations! style="background:#BDB76B;| Film 11The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button| Slumdog Millionaire| 9| The Dark Knight| 8Changeling (film)>Changeling| 6Frost/Nixon (film)>Frost/Nixon| 5The Reader (2008 film)>The Reader 4| In BrugesMilk (2008 American film)>MilkRevolutionary Road (film)>Revolutionary Road 3| Burn After ReadingDoubt (2008 film)>Doubt| I've Loved You So LongMamma Mia! (film)>Mamma Mia!| WALL-E 2The Duchess (film)>The DuchessHunger (2008 film)>Hunger| Man on WirePersepolis (film)>Persepolis| Quantum of Solace| Waltz with BashirThe Wrestler (2008 film)>The Wrestler{{col-float-break}}{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"|+ Films that received multiple awards! style="background:#BDB76B;| Awards! style="background:#BDB76B;| Film| 7| Slumdog Millionaire| 3The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button{{col-float-end}}

In Memoriam

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• Charlton Heston
• John Daly
• Patrick McGoohan
• Harold Pinter
• Jonathan Bates
• Claude Berri
• Youssef Chahine
• Anthony Minghella
• Jules Dassin
• Richard Widmark
• Van Johnson
• Michael Crichton
• Roy Scheider
• Malcolm Cooke
• Mel Ferrer
• Isaac Hayes
• John Michael Hayes
• Charles Joffe
• Harry Lange
• Sydney Pollack
• Robert Mulligan
• Stan Winston
• Mark Shivas
• Cyd Charisse
• Les Ostinelli
• Kon Ichikawa
• David Watkin
• Paul Newman

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See also

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• 81st Academy Awards
• 34th César Awards
• 14th Critics' Choice Awards
• 61st Directors Guild of America Awards
• 22nd European Film Awards
• 66th Golden Globe Awards
• 29th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 23rd Goya Awards
• 24th Independent Spirit Awards
• 14th Lumières Awards
• 20th Producers Guild of America Awards
• 13th Satellite Awards
• 35th Saturn Awards
• 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 61st Writers Guild of America Awards

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References

{{reflist}}{{BAFTA Film Awards Chron}}