The nominations for the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards have been announced and there are a bunch of Potter related nominations. The nominations are as follows:
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS – The Fighter HELENA BONHAM CARTER – The King’s Speech
BARBARA HERSHEY – Black Swan
LESLEY MANVILLE – Another Year MIRANDA RICHARDSON – Made in Dagenham
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Nominees TBC
BLACK SWAN – Dan Schrecker HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 – Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait’Hadi, Christian Manz
INCEPTION – Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb
TOY STORY 3 – Nominees TBC
MAKE UP & HAIR
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Nominees TBC
BLACK SWAN – Judy Chin, Geordie Sheffer HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 – Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
THE KING’S SPEECH – Frances Hannon
MADE IN DAGENHAM – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
ORIGINAL MUSIC
127 HOURS – AR Rahman
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Danny Elfman
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – John Powell
INCEPTION – Hans Zimmer THE KING’S SPEECH – Alexandre Desplat
The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 13 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 has been nominated for some Critics’ Choice Awards. The awards will air on January 4th at 9pm est. You can vote by heading to this page!
Best Makeup (against Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan and True Grit)
Best Visual Effects (against Alice in Wonderland, Inception and Tron: Legacy)
The following and nominations are for films that Harry Potter actors are in:
Best Picture: The King’s Speech (Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall)
Best Supporting Actress: Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
Best Acting Ensemble: The King’s Speech (Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall)
The nominations for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced and a few Harry Potter stars have been nominated for their work in other films! The nominations are as follows:
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role:
HELENA BONHAM CARTER / Queen Elizabeth – “THE KING’S SPEECH” (The Weinstein Company)
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
THE KING’S SPEECH (The Weinstein Company)
HELENA BONHAM CARTER / Queen Elizabeth
MICHAEL GAMBON / King George V
TIMOTHY SPALL / Winston Churchill
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO)
KELLY MACDONALD / Margaret Schroeder
USA Today has a new report where they interview Helena Bonham Carter and Tom Felton about their characters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
In the latest installment, Lestrange fairly begs to murder Harry Potter, lunging forward with unbridled bloodlust. “I just base her on a really, really naughty, horrible child,” says Bonham Carter. “She’s got arrested development. She’s totally unpredictable. You have no real idea of how she’s going to react.” She also is “the ultimate witch,” the actress says. “Kids are genuinely terrified by me on the street, which is quite funny.”
She didn’t relish the scene in which she tortures Hermione (Emma Watson). “It was pretty hard,” she says. “The sadistic part doesn’t come naturally to me. The oddness definitely does, but the sadism doesn’t.” All must have been forgiven. Watson and Bonham Carter happily socialized during filming. They discussed Hermione’s character, since in the final film installment, out in July, Bonham Carter impersonates Hermione. “We went to tea and had long chats,” Bonham Carter says.
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“He’s a character who’s very defined,” Felton says. “He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you’re supposed to hate him. You’re supposed to build up as much dislike for the character as you can until we get to Book 6. We hate him even more for the first half of that book because we think he’s up to something and we know he’s going to do some damage. But it’s not until we actually see why he’s in that position and see him break down on two or three occasions that we actually start to feel a bit sorry for him. This guy’s a horrible victim of circumstances and terrible parenting.”
Felton says director David Yates explained Malfoy’s position in a way that hit home. “The Muggle (non-wizard) equivalent of what Draco was technically asked to do is like a terrorist group giving you a gun and saying, ‘Shoot your president in the head or we’re going to shoot you.’ God! Imagine a 16-year-old having to take that on! And that continues in the seventh book, when we really see him struggle. He’s a boy amongst men in a world that he does not want to be in. Every minute he stays there, he knows he’s not cut from the same cloth as those people.”
In a new interview with Hero Complex Helena Bonham Carter discusses Bellatrix and the Harry Potter series.
“There’s nothing like it [Potter filming], it’s been a nice tribe,” Bonham Carter said. “I love going back year after year. It’s refreshing. A lot of times in this business, it’s so transitory — it’s just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it’s over – but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure. It was fantastically well-organized, the [assistant directors] are simply unbelievable, the best. The communication has always been seamless. It’s been a way for me to have work I can count on; I knew I was going to be working but the [screen time for the] role was limited and that was perfect, anything more than part-time takes away such a chunk of time and space and focus. It has been perfect for me, and I will miss it.”
“Bellatrix has really good fun, and she’s been a bit of surprise to me, in fact,” Bohnam Carter said. “It wasn’t really there on the page. When I took it on, I found there wasn’t a huge amount to go by in the script, and I read the book and she wasn’t necessarily on the page there either, so I did ask [four-time “Potter” film director] David Yates if I could bring a bit of other things or are these the Bibles? And he said yes, certainly, and apparently J.K. Rowling was very pleased with it when she saw it, and the childish dimension and the fact that she’s totally savage, that was a bit of departure.”
There’s often nervous laughter when Bellatrix is on screen, and for the actress, that’s the sound of success. ”I just felt she had to make an impression because there wasn’t much time in which to do so. And she had to be terrifying. She needed to be somebody you didn’t know what to feel towards. One moment she’s horribly revolting but then also weirdly sexy, maybe, or just disturbing to the mind when you watch her. There’s a lot of decaying, too, with the bad teeth. She’s been in prison for so long. The mad hair. She’s someone who has seen better times but still carries herself with the memory of what she was. She’s almost like someone who’s had too many surgeries and thinks they’re beautiful but in fact has gone the way wrong. There’s a lot of people like that now. For some reason, I can’t live with the joke that now you can either be old or you can be creepy. That’s the choice. Sad, isn’t it?”
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