BAFTA Awards 2013 Winners, Results & Recap: Argo Wins Best Film; Becomes Oscar Front-Runner

On Feb. 10 the British Academy Awards will hand out their prestigious Film Awards.

The organization comprised of Oscar voters, is generally known as one of the best Academy Awards predictors.   

This year the nominees for Best Film are "Argo," "Les Miserables," "Lincoln," "Life of Pi," and "Zero Dark Thirty."

Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Ben Affleck (Argo), Ang Lee (Life of Pi), Michael Haneke (Amour), and Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) will compete for the Best Director award.

The Lead Actor nominees are Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln), Ben Affleck (Argo), Joaquin Phoenix (The Master), Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), and Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables.

The Best Actress race will be disputed by Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Emmanuelle Riva (Amour), Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone), and Helen Mirren (Hitchcock).

The Supporting Actress nominees are Amy Adams (The Master), Helen Hunt (The Sessions), Sally Field (Lincoln), Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables), and Judi Dench (Skyfall).      

Phillip Seymour Hoffman (The Master), Javier Bardem (Skyfall), Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln), Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained), and Alan Arkin (Argo) comprise the Best Supporting Actor race.

Among the stars expected to show up are Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Craig, Alicia Vikander, Marion Cotillard, Ben Affleck, Elizabeth Olsen, Suraj Sharma, and Andrea Risborough.

The ceremony will be held at the Royal Opera House and will be hosted by Stephen Fry.

List of Winners:

Best British Film-Skyfall

Best Short Film-Swimmer

Best Animation Short FIlm-The Making of Long Bird

Best Costume Design-Jacqueline Durran- Anna Karenina

Best Makeup-Lisa Westcott- Les Miserables

Best Animated Film-Brave

Best Sound-Les Miserables

Best Editing-William Goldenberg-Argo

Best Cinematography-Claudio Miranda-Life of Pi

Best Original Score-Thomas Newman-Skyfall

Best Original Screenplay-Quentin Tarentino-Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actor-Christoph Waltz-Django Unchained

Outstanding Debut by a Bristish Writer, Director or a Producer-Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis-The Imposter 

Best Special Visual Effects-Life of Pi

Best Supporting Actress-Anne Hathaway-Les Miserables

Best Adapted Screenplay-David O. Russell-Silver Linings Playbook

Best Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema-Tessa Ross

Best Film Not in the English Language-Amour

Rising Star Award-Juno Temple

Best Documentary-Search for Sugarman

Best Production Design-Eve Stewart-Les Miserables

Best Director-Ben Affleck-Argo

Best Actress-Emmanuelle Riva-Amour

Best Actor-Daniel Day-Lewis-Lincoln

Best Film-Argo

The Fellowship Awards-Sir Alan Parker