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The 2012 BAFTA Award Winners: Colin Firth Really is Prince Motherf***ing Charming

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (20)

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The BAFTAs, or the British Academy Awards, were held last night, and in a sign of what I believe is to come for the Oscars this year, The Artist was the big winner, as well as Jean Dujardin, who won for best actor. He had a very busy weekend, flying from Paris to New York for a live taping of “Saturday Night Live,” before heading back to England to accept his awards. Here’s his very sweet acceptance speech.

Meanwhile, Meryl undeservedly took home best actress, but it was kind of worth it after Colin Firth rescued her shoe all Prince Charming-like.

Here is the list of all the winners.

Best Picture: The Artist

Best Actor: Jean Dujardin - The Artist

Best Actress: Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady

Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

Best Supporting actress: Octavia Spencer - The Help

Best Supporting actor: Christopher Plummer - Beginners

Best Animated film: Rango

Best Documentary: Senna

Most Outstanding British film: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Film not in the English language: The Skin I Live In

Most Outstanding debut: Tyrannosaur

Best Adapted screenplay: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan

Best Original screenplay: The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius

Best Original score: The Artist - Ludovic Bource

The Rising star award: Adam Deacon

The Academy fellowship: Martin Scorsese

Most Outstanding contribution to British cinema: John Hurt









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Comments

I'm sick of Firth and his pandering, stuffy-cheeked, spoon-fed 'Britishness'. I refused to be charmed. REFUSE!

And just because it can't be said enough: fuck you, Meryl. Fuck you for agreeing to take on any Thatcher role that doesn't show her sodomising Satan once a decade in exchange for a little bit more kerosene pumping through those lizard veins.

Posted by: zeke the pig at February 13, 2012 11:06 AM

Is that a shot of the BAFTAs or a shot of British Parliament circa 1930s?

Posted by: John W at February 13, 2012 11:22 AM

Oh my God, I didn't think it was possible to love him more, but now I do.
In lieu of panties, women will now be throwing their shoes at him.

Posted by: Lemon Poundcake at February 13, 2012 11:45 AM

Why can't we have Stephen Fry as Oscar host this year? He's so damn charming and funny and all kinds of wonderful. Same can be said for Mr. Firth.

Jean Dujardin is the French Jon Hamm.

ALMODOVAR!

Posted by: SugarKane at February 13, 2012 11:53 AM

AAARRGGHH!!

There I was enjoying a nice moment with Colin Firth and all of a sudden Eddie Redmayne's face appears. It's like the opposite of a sorbet bewteen courses.

Also, I second everything in Zeke the Pig's second paragraph.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 13, 2012 11:58 AM

I can't believe the Brits gave an award to anything involving Thatcher not getting blown off the planet!!! I love la Streep but not even she could make me sympathize with that fascist bitch.

Next Clooney is gonna get an Oscar for a sweet but honest portrayal of Reagan... Blah.

Posted by: marigi at February 13, 2012 12:22 PM

What makes Meryl so undeserving? Is it not an amazing performance?

Posted by: Sara Tonin at February 13, 2012 12:31 PM

Sara Tonin
I have not seen the film (nor do I plan to) so my read on this may be inaccurate, but from the trailers, I would say it's not a very good performance. She doesn't sound like Thatcher very much at all. It's almost as if she's using her Julia Child voice but dressed up like Thatcher. And in one clip I saw, she had very much softened Thatcher's mannerisms and demeanor.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 13, 2012 1:01 PM

Can we just clone Colin Firth? I'm totally okay with this world being overrun by tall, handsome British gentlemen who speak as if every word is wrenched through decades of repressed upbringing and schooling.

Posted by: Pants at February 13, 2012 1:02 PM

I have not seen the film (nor do I plan to) so my read on this may be inaccurate, but from the trailers, I would say it's not a very good performance.

"Based on the trailers" and the one clip you saw from the move that you don't plan on seeing? I know that trailers are edited to basically give away the entirety of the plot, but I didn't know that they boiled down the entirety of performances as well.

Posted by: Jast at February 13, 2012 1:38 PM

I must say this, I agree with Dustin Rowlands, the woman (regardless of her role in this movie) is a national goddamned treasure.

Posted by: lawyergirl06 at February 13, 2012 2:49 PM

Oh Colin.

Posted by: Leelee at February 13, 2012 2:50 PM

Dujardin was classy. Charming. Streep is brilliant - I haven't seen her film yet

Posted by: Beau at February 13, 2012 5:13 PM

Meryl was a-fucking-mazing in The Iron Lady. She is the only one who deserved to win because she gave the best performance! She deserved every bit of her award and I hope she wins the Oscar.

Posted by: Jane at February 13, 2012 8:02 PM

I may have actually said, out loud, "swoon" and sort of wished I'd tripped on the BAFTA stage so Colin Firth would go all Prince Charming and put my shoe back on.

Totally agree with Stephen Fry for Oscar Host - someone print the t-shirts and buttons.

Posted by: Kelly O at February 13, 2012 8:49 PM

Quote "And just because it can't be said enough: fuck you, Meryl. Fuck you for agreeing to take on any Thatcher role that doesn't show her sodomising Satan once a decade in exchange for a little bit more kerosene pumping through those lizard veins.
Posted by: zeke the pig at February 13, 2012 11:06 AM" /quote

That is a vile thing to say about anybody.

Also, you seem to have internalised some deeply unpleasant Christian neuroses: not only do you envisage the subject of your psychosexual anger having sex with the devil but you have her performing sodomy which, to a Christian mind, is the worst kind of sex. I don't know what kind of religious upbringing you had but it clearly hasn't made you a better person. Maybe you should try a less viciously judgemental theology.

Posted by: Ballymena Bob at February 13, 2012 11:36 PM

Ballymena Bob, I can't for the staunchly atheist life of me tell if you're being ironic or not.

Posted by: zeke the pig at February 14, 2012 6:35 AM

Thatcher wasn't great, often not even very good, but she was hardly Satan as people make her out to be. Maybe the U.K could have voted her out at her first re-elction, or the second.

Posted by: Mia at February 14, 2012 6:58 AM

Mia,

She was worse than Satan. She demolished entire swathes of the industries of the north, leaving whole communities ruined in her wake.

She will be cremated, not buried after Westminster Abbey refused to allow her to be interred there; too many people would have flocked to dance on her grave.

I for one would have been one of them.

Posted by: nevin at February 14, 2012 12:17 PM

She was worse than Satan? What? That is a bit of an exaggeration. I think Hitler may be somebody likely to be described like that. But Margaret Thatcher? She made a lot of unpopular decisions helped along with a large number of her cabinet members. Hating the leading figure of the party is what all those rats below her want you to think. Why do you think they kicked her out? So that they could all the blame at her. It wasn't the middle ages, she did not have absolute power. People need to learn where to place their anger.

Posted by: Jane at February 14, 2012 2:47 PM