BAFTA Award Winners 2006

Brokeback Mountain wins 4, Memories of a Ghisa wins 3 and Crash win 2 BAFTA Awards.........

*From MediaGuardian:

BBC1's Bafta Film Awards coverage attracted just 3 million viewers and a 12% audience share between 9pm and 10pm, according to unofficial overnights.
When coverage resumed after the BBC1 10pm news, the remainder of the show drew 2.9 million viewers and a 16% audience share between 10.15pm and 11.20pm.

But the movie awards' ratings decline has been swift and precipitous - two years ago it attracted 5.7 million viewers and a 24% audience share.
Last year the ceremony moved from its normal Sunday night berth to Saturday evening, drawing 4.4 million viewers and a 20% audience share.

Also intesting to note that the Brits hardly won an award this year - apart from the British Film catagory and some actree that wasn't even born in the UK. But it's good that the Bafta's awarded films on their talent not on their country of origin.

Here are the winners of the BAFTA 2006 Film Awards:

Rising Star Award:
James McAvoy

Best Film:
Brokeback Mountain

Best British Film:
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit

Best Actor in a leading role:
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote

Best Actress in a leading role:
Reese Witherspoon - Walk The Line

Best Actor in a supporting role:
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain

Best Actress in a supporting role:
Thandie Newton - Crash

Original Screenplay:
Crash - Paul Haggis/Bobby Moresco

Adapted Screenplay:
Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry/Diana Ossana

The David Lean Award for achievement in direction:
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain

The Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British Director/Producer or Writer in their first feature film:
Joe Wright (Director) - Pride & Prejudice

Best film not in the English language:
De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrete

The Anthony Asquith Award for achievement in film music:
Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams

Cinematography:
Memoirs of a Geisha

Editing:
The Constant Gardener

Production design:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Costume design:
Memoirs of a Geisha

Sound:
Walk the Line

Achievement in special visual effects:
King Kong

Make Up and Hair:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Short Animation Film:
Fallen Art

Short Film:
Antonio's Breakfast