Miss Piggy has proved that she can glam it up with the rest of the stars. The  picture above shows her looking fabulous arriving at the premiere of The Muppets back in November, and now she will be preparing to be the centre of attention yet again. It has been announced that the glamorous piggy, who is the long-time love interest of Kermit the Frog, will be the official red carpet host for the BAFTAs.

These prestigious film awards will be taking place this Sunday, 12th February, and Miss Piggy will be right there on the front-line. It will be her job to bring back the interviews everyone is waiting for, and by all accounts she is not planning on holding back. She is reportedly especially looking forward to grilling the likes of George Clooney, Michael Fassbender and Jean Dujardin who are all up for the category of Leading Actor – only the best for our famous Muppet!

Miss Piggy has said that she “will be asking questions that only moi would dare ask” – which should certainly make for some entertaining viewing. We can’t wait to see what questions she has in mind to fire at the unsuspecting actors and actresses, as well as finding out who the winners will be. The BAFTAs will be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday, 12th February at 9pm and the BAFTA Red Carpet Show With Miss Piggy will air on Monday, 13th February.

Since the first Academy Awards in 1929, votes have been sent through the post. However thanks to their partnership with the company Everyone Counts, who develop software for internet elections, the Academy have decided to move their voting ballots to the web.

The move is intended to make it easier for members to vote. This way they can submit their electronic ballots wherever they are in the world.

Now ignoring the obvious point that many of the older members might not even have an email address, let alone know how to use an online voting system, computer security experts have warned that the new system will be vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Everyone Counts claim that their “multiple layers of security” and “military-grade encryption techniques” help keep voting honest and protected from less noble members of society. So naturally there has been deep scepticism from members of the computer sciences community.

“Everybody would like there to be secure internet voting, but some very smart people … can’t figure out how to do it,” said professor of computer science at Stanford University, David Dill, the founder of Verified Voting.

“If someone casts a ballot for best actor A and the vote is recorded for best actor B, the voter has no way of knowing the ballot has been altered, and the auditor won’t be able to see it either.”

Government elections do not allow online voting for this very reason, and while the Oscars do not hold the same significance, the Academy has prided itself on the secrecy of its voting for the last 80 years.

The 84th Academy Awards is to be held on 26th February 2012. Hugo, The Artist, War Horse, Moneyball, The Help, The Descendants, The Tree of Life, Midnight in Paris and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close will fight it out for Best Picture.

What do you think? Will the votes be tampered with next year?

Some of the usual suspects have made the list – The Artist and Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady being two good examples – but there are some accolades that go to some great media. Here’s the list itself, starting with the awards given out by regional film critics:

Film of the Year: The Artist

Filmmaker: Michel Hazanavicius – director, The Artist

Screenwriter: Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Actor: Michael Fassbender – Shame

Actress: Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady

Rising Star: Tom Hiddleston – War Horse, Thor, The Deep Blue Sea, Midnight in Paris

Not too many surprises there, to be honest – the aforementioned films have had considerable critical buzz, and despite some people not too happy about The Artist revealing itself as a silent film, the regional critics have spoken. Now comes the UK public vote section of the awards, which may be ever-so-slightly different:

British Film of the Year: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Animated Film: Arthur Christmas

Family Film: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

British Film Star: Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Film Blog: CineVue

Most Anticipated Film of 2012: The Dark Knight Rises

This is a list with a slightly different vibe – a little more focused on family and fun, and of course, R-Patz’s inclusion in the list proves it’s a public list – critics generally aren’t a fan of the Twilight series, and often by extension, anyone in them.

Next year’s RAFAs could look very different – there are a lot of major blockbusters hitting screens in 2012, and I’d wager Martin Freeman will take something home for The Hobbit, having been a British television mainstay for years. Oh, and no, we didn’t enter the RAFAs. That’s why there’s no “The Film Review” next to “Film Blog”. Seems unfair of us to enter if we’d crush everyone so utterly. But who knows, next year, we just might.

There were some surprises, The Artist did not win EVERYTHING, as is expected at awards this year. Although Jean Dujardin did pick up the award for Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading role, pipping the likes of Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio to the podium. The biggest winner at these awards was actually The Help (cast pictured above), with a total of three. These included Outstanding Performance By A Cast In A Motion Picture, and Octavia Spencer beating Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn) and Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), among others, to clinch Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Leading Role.

A special moment was reserved for Dick Van Dyke to present Mary Tyler Moore with the Screen Actors Guild’s 2011 Life Achievement Award (pictured left). This award is designed to recognise both career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment, with previous winners including Ernest Borgnine, Clint Eastwood and Elizabeth Taylor.

Awards were also dished out to those in television series, including Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock and Jessica Lange for American Horror Story. The hilariously awkward Modern Family clinched a rather unsurprising, yet very well-deserved win, as the whole cast were recognised with the Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble In A Comedy Series award (pictured right).

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and TV series Game of Thrones both received awards for stunt ensembles, which is well deserved seeing as they are both based in the supernatural world and it would be hard for us mere mortals to do some of those things…

There were plenty of gorgeous dresses and many awards. Brad and Ange were there, as well as couple Stacey Keibler and George Clooney. Among those presenting the awards were Kevin Bacon (pictured left), Bérénice Bejo and Natalie Portman. Here is the full list of nominees and winners:

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
JEAN DUJARDIN / George – “THE ARTIST” (The Weinstein Company)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
VIOLA DAVIS / Aibileen Clark – “THE HELP” (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER / Hal – “BEGINNERS” (Focus Features)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
OCTAVIA SPENCER / Minny Jackson – “THE HELP” (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
THE HELP (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures)

PRIMETIME TELEVISION

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
PAUL GIAMATTI / Ben Bernanke – “TOO BIG TO FAIL” (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
KATE WINSLET / Mildred Pierce – “MILDRED PIERCE” (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
STEVE BUSCEMI / Enoch “Nucky” Thompson – “BOARDWALK EMPIRE” (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
JESSICA LANGE / Constance – “AMERICAN HORROR STORY” (FX)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy – “30 ROCK” (NBC)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
BETTY WHITE / Elka Ostrovsky – “HOT IN CLEVELAND” (TV Land)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
MODERN FAMILY (ABC)

SAG HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (WARNER BROS. PICTURES)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
GAME OF THRONES (HBO)

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Screen Actors Guild Awards 48th Annual Life Achievement Award
MARY TYLER MOORE

The canine star of Hugo, Blackie is a giant Doberman who plays a crucial and well executed part in the Oscar-nominated film as Sacha Baron Cohen’s attack dog. However the poor animal was left out of the nominations for a Golden Collar Award, much to the disappointment of his director. The Golden Collar Awards are given to performing dogs and the first annual awards ceremony will be held on 13 February at the Hotel Palomar, Los Angeles.

In a letter to the LA Times, Scorsese lamented Blackie’s snub in the ‘Best Dog in a Theatrical Film’ category, urging readers to contact the organisers of the awards in support of his canine friend.

“How could she not be nominated?” Scorsese wrote. He made reference to the Jack Russell Uggie, who has received two nominations for his roles in both Water For Elephants and The Artist.

“Uggie plays a nice little mascot who does tricks and saves his master’s life in one of the films, while Blackie gives an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorises children,” Scorsese went on.

Challenging roles like this should get recognition he said, “I’m proud of Blackie, who laid it on the line and dared to risk the sympathy of her audience.”

In response to his rather eloquent argument, the event’s organisers Dog Daily News have said that: “Rather than engage in a war of words over the merits” of the two dogs, they will request the panel of 14 judges add Blackie as the sixth nomination … if she receives 500 or more write-in nominations via its Facebook page.

Scorsese certainly has the public under his thumb. More than 400 supporters have already submitted their nominations in the 24 hours since his letter was published, so we have no doubt the required number will be reached.

Other dogs in the running include: Denver from the comedy drama 50/50, Hummer from Young Adult and Cosmo from Beginners.

So, is this unfair or was Blackie snubbed? Let us know!

There’s quite a range of stuff here, and I’m super-happy that Indie Game: The Movie went away a winner, as the buzz about it in the week leading up to awards night was considerable – I even spotted Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich calling it “fantastic”.

If there’s one thing I will say, it’s that their awards stream – on their site - was horrible. Constantly cutting out and stuttering, trying to keep track of the ceremony was an absolute nightmare, at least in the UK – and that’s before and after troubleshooting my connection. Poor form, but I’m happy for both the Sundance organisers and those who won awards. Even happy for those who didn’t. Why? You got chosen for Sundance! So without further ado, the awards themselves.

Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Beasts of the Southern Wild

Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): The House I Live In

World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic): Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)

World Cinema Jury Prize (Documentary): The Law in These Parts

Audience Award (U.S. Dramatic): The Surrogate

Audience Award (U.S. Documentary): The Invisible War

World Cinema Audience Award (Dramatic): Valley of Saints

World Cinema Audience Award (Documentary): Searching for Sugar Man

Best of NEXT Audience Award: Sleepwalk with Me

U.S. Directing Award (Dramatic): Middle Of Nowhere

U.S. Directing Award (Documentary): The Queen of Versailles

World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic): Teddy Bear

World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary): 5 Broken Cameras

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Safety Not Guaranteed

World Cinema Screenwriting Award: Young & Wild

U.S. Documentary Editing Award: Detropia

World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: Indie Game: The Movie

Excellence in Cinematography Award (U.S. Documentary): Chasing Ice

Excellence in Cinematography Award (U.S. Dramatic): Beasts of the Southern Wild

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic: My Brother the Devil

World Cinema Cinematography Award (Documentary): Putin’s Kiss

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change: Love Free or Die

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing: Smashed and Nobody Walks

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting: The Surrogate

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision: Can

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit: Searching for Sugar Man

Short Film Audience Award: The Debutante Hunters

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Thoroughly deserved and a long time coming! British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) made the announcement on the 27th January ahead of their awards ceremony next month.

And John himself seems overwhelmed by the honour. “I know that film means a great deal to me but I had no idea that I meant so much to film. I feel very honoured,” he said after the announcement.

The Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award was introduced in 1978 to honour the great producer (and grandfather to Daniel Day-Lewis) Sir Michael Balcon. Now Hurt, whose most recent film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is an awards contender, will join fellow recipients: Mike Leigh, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jarman and Mary Selway.

Universally acclaimed for his acting talent, Hurt’s vast range of distinguished performances have shaped an impressive career spanning six decades.

He might be well known to younger audiences as the wand maker Mr Ollivander in the Harry Potter franchise, the series which coincidentally won the same prize last year. Hurt had a supporting role in three of the films.

Away from Harry Potter however, he is no stranger to the British Academy, having won three BAFTAs and gained a further four nominations. A notable example is his Best Actor award for his stellar performance in The Elephant Man in 1981.

And that is just the BAFTAs. Aside from his two Academy Award nominations, he has worked alongside industry icons like Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier and Steven Spielberg, and played intriguing characters like Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Sir Richard Rich in A Man of All Seasons.

Speaking about John Hurt, the Chairman of BAFTA, Tim Corrie said: “John Hurt is an actor who is both exciting and fascinating to watch. He is one-of-a-kind, an iconic figure, and BAFTA is delighted to take this opportunity to honour his outstanding contribution to cinema.”

The actor will receive the accolade on Sunday 12 February at the Orange British Academy Film Awards in the Royal Opera House in London.

Spielberg’s epic war film, War Horse and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo have six nominations each, closely followed by Moneyball and The Descendants which each have five nominations.

This year, the Best Picture category has nine contenders – including The Artist, The Descendants, Moneyball, Midnight In Paris, War Horse and Martin Scorsese’s enchanting children’s film, Hugo.

Directors Michael Hazanavicius, Alexander Payne, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick and Steven Spielberg, are up against each other for the Best Director Award.

There is no surprise to see that Rooney Mara has made it to the Best Actress shortlist after her stunning performance in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. However, she will be competing against Michelle Williams for My Week With Marilyn, Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady, Glenn Close for Albert Nobbs and Viola Davis for The Help.

Demián Bichir and Jean Dujardin have been nominated for Best Actor, alongside British performer, Gary Oldman and American heart-throbs George Clooney and Brad Pitt.

Interestingly, the Best Original Screenplay category sees the all-female, American comedy, Bridesmaids get a nomination. It will be up against Midnight In Paris, A Separation, Margin Cell and The Artist.

Melissa McCarthy has scooped herself a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Bridesmaids. Her hilarious role in the chick-flick comedy really brought the film alive, which means her competitors – Janet McTeer, Jessica Chastai, Octavia Spencer and Bérénice Bejo – have some tough competition.

It seems strange that Drive was left out of the major categories, only being nominated for Best Sound Editing. In addition, Speilberg’s Tintin has been snubbed for Puss in Boots and Kung Fu Panda 2 in the Best Animated film category. Plus, why doesn’t the hilarious Bridesmaids stand out as being Best Film-worthy, despite having managed to bag itself two nominations?

However, it is fantastic to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo achieve so many nominations; the stunning, icy, Nordic landscapes have put it in the Best Cinematography category.

The Oscars are only a matter of weeks away – the prestigious ceremony is taking place on the 26th February at the Kodak Theatre in LA. We are really excited to find out who the winners will be; we will keep you posted!

Below is the full list of nominees for the 2012 Oscars.

BEST PICTURE
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse

BEST DIRECTOR
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants – Alexander Payne
Hugo – Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick

BEST ACTOR
Demián Bichir – A Better Life
George Clooney – The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt – Moneyball

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Nick Nolte – Warrior
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

BEST ACTRESS
Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis – The Help
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Bérénice Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer – The Help

BEST ANIMATED FILM
A Cat in Paris
Chico & Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Descendants – Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Hugo – John Logan
The Ides of March – George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Moneyball – Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
Margin Call – J.C. Chandor
Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi

ART DIRECTION
The Artist – Production Design: Laurence Bennett, Set Decoration: Robert Gould
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Production Design: Stuart Craig, Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Hugo – Production Design: Dante Ferretti, Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
Midnight in Paris – Production Design: Anne Seibel, Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
War Horse – Production Design: Rick Carter, Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo – Robert Richardson
The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki
War Horse – Janusz Kaminski

COSTUME DESIGN
Anonymous – Lisy Christl
The Artist – Mark Bridges
Hugo – Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre – Michael O’Connor
W.E. – Arianne Phillips

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Hell and Back Again
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth
Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Pina
Undefeated

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
God Is the Bigger Elvis
Incident in New Baghdad
Saving Face
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

BEST FILM EDITING
The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants – Kevin Tent
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
Moneyball – Christopher Tellefsen

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Bullhead – Belgium
Footnote – Israel
In Darkness – Poland
Monsieur Lazhar – Canada
A Separation – Iran

BEST MAKEUP
Albert Nobbs – Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
The Iron Lady – Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Adventures of Tintin – John Williams
The Artist – Ludovic Bource
Hugo – Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
War Horse – John Williams

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Man or Muppet – The Muppets, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Real in Rio – Rio, Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Dimanche/Sunday – Patrick Doyon
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
La Luna – Enrico Casarosa
A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
Wild Life – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

BEST LIVE FILM
Pentecost – Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
Raju – Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
The Shore – Terry George and Oorlagh George
Time Freak – Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
Tuba Atlantic – Hallvar Witzø

BEST SOUND EDITING
Drive – Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Ren Klyce
Hugo – Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
War Horse – Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

BEST SOUND MIXING
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
Moneyball – Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
War Horse – Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and
Stuart Wilson

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
Hugo – Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and
Alex Henning
Real Steel – Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

Unlike last year’s choice of jury president, US actor Robert De Niro, not all of you will have heard of Moretti, but that’s not to say that he doesn’t know his stuff. Moretti was given recognition by Cannes back in 1994, when he won the award for Best Director for Caro diario (Dear Diary) – a Italian language, semi-autobiographical film, which also starred Moretti in the lead role.

He also won the prestigious Palme d’Or award in 2001 for his drama film, La stanza del figlio (The Son’s Room). A festival favourite, he’s also had four more of his films shown at Cannes over the years, including last year’s religious comedy Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) – and so really, if you haven’t heard of him before, then more fool you.

Moretti served as a jury member at the 50th Cannes Film Festival back in 1997, and the festival organisers have been quoted as saying that Moretti’s films “are the incarnation of all the best in cinema over the past 30 years”.

Moretti himself has reportedly described being chosen to head up the jury as, “a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility”. Other members of the jury are expected to be announced over the coming months.

Other directors to have taken on the role of jury president in the past include Quentin Tarantino, Wong Kai-Wai, Stephen Frears and Sean Penn. It’s safe to say that Moretti’s films tend to be a little less mainstream than those of De Niro, and it will be interesting just how niche this year winners are – the 2011 jury handed the festival’s highest prize, the Palme d’Or, to Terrence Malick’s experimental film, The Tree of Life.

The 65th Cannes Film Festival will run from 16th-27th May 2012.

Leading the pack is the hot favourite for Best Film: The Artist. The French masterpiece received 12 nominations in total, which include: Best Film, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Leading Actor and Actress acknowledgements for Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo.

The film is up against: The Descendants, Drive, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Help for Best Film.

Meanwhile Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is nominated in 11 categories, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo has nine, and British effort My Week with Marilyn boasts six nominations. The Help and War Horse scored a total of five acknowledgements apiece, while the Harry Potter crew will be pleased with their four nominations for Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

The nominees in the acting categories are a fairly predictable bunch. Dujardin is up against George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Gary Oldman for the Lead Actor accolade. And My Week with Marilyn‘s Michelle Williams is up for the Lead Actress title, with competition from Bejo, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis and Tilda Swinton.

The nominees for the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award, were announced earlier this month too, with an eyebrow-raising lack of actresses to vote for. This year our choice is between: Adam Deacon, Chris Hemsworth, Chris O’Dowd, Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston.

On a plus note, the ceremony will be hosted by national treasure Stephen Fry instead of usual pick, Jonathan Ross. The ceremony will take place at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Sunday 12th February 2012.

See the full list of non-mentioned nominations:

Outstanding British Film
My Week With Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need To Talk About Kevin

Outstanding Debut
Attack the Block – Joe Cornish
Black Pond – Will Sharpe, Tom Kingsley, Sarah Brocklehurst
Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes
Submarine – Richard Ayoade
Tyrannosaur – Paddy Considine, Diarmid Scrimshaw

Director
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
Drive – Nicolas Winding Refn
Hugo – Martin Scorsese
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Tomas Alfredson
We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lynne Ramsay

Supporting Actress
Carey Mulligan - Shame
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Octavia Spencer – The Help
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Judi Dench - My Week With Marilyn

Supporting Actor
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn
Jim Broadbent – The Iron Lady
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Phillip Seymour Hoffman – The Ides of March

Documentary
George Harrison: Living In The Material World
Project Nim
Senna

Original Screenplay
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
The Guard – John Michael McDonagh
The Iron Lady – Abi Morgan
Midnight In Paris – Woody Allen

Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
The Help
The Ides Of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Animated Film
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Arthur Christmas
Rango

Original Music
The Artist – Ludovic Bource
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Hugo – Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
War Horse – John Williams

Cinematography
The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo - Robert Richardson
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Hoyte van Hoytema
War Horse – Janusz Kaminski

Editing
The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
Drive - Mat Newman
Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
Senna – Gregers Sall, Chris King
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Dino Jonsater

Production Design
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

Costume Design
The Artist – Mark Bridges
Hugo - Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre – Michael O’Connor
My Week With Marilyn – Jill Taylor
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Jacqueline Durran

Sound
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

Make-Up & Hair
The Artist – Julie Hewett, Cydney Cornell
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
Hugo – Morag – Ross, Jan Archibald
The Iron Lady – Marese Langan
My Week With Marilyn – Jenny Shircore

Special Visual Effects
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Hugo
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
War Horse