Baftas 2012 longlist
The full list of contenders in the first round of voting for this year’s British Academy Film Awards.
Via The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/06/baftas-2012-longlist).
The Guardian first film award 2012: our shortlist
On Friday, we announced the shortlist for the Guardian first album award; today it’s the turn of the first film. Previous winners have included The Arbor, Unrelated and Sleep Furiously; this year, after exhaustive polling of the Guardian’s film writing team, the 10 debut films jostling for the big one take in everything from an alien-attack thriller set in London to a Danish Afghan-war documentary. We will lock the judges – who include Guardian film team Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks and Catherine Shoard – in a room next week, and hammer out a result. The winner will receive a handsome piece of glass and plastic purchased, as Michael Hann revealed on Friday, from the trophy shop round the corner. Nevertheless, bragging rights will be awesome.
Via The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/jan/10/first-film-award-2012-shortlist).
