Friday, November 14, 2008

British Academy of Film and Television Arts 2008

Similar to the Oscar and Emmy awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts annually recognizes their top movie and TV shows. Want to know what's popular 'across the pond'? Take a peek at these recent winners:

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Atonement
By Wright, Joe
2008/04 - Universal
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In this drama based on the critically acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, a childhood lie irrevocably changes the lives of several people forever. When 13-year-old Briony Tallis misinterprets a moment of flirtation between her older sister Cecilia and a servant's son, Robbie Turner, her confusion causes her to finger Robbie as the perpetrator of a crime. ...More

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No Country For Old Men
By Coen, Joel
Coen, Ethan
2008/04 - Paramount
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A hunter stumbles upon a dead body, $2 million and a stash of heroin in the woods. He absconds with the cash, but brutal thief Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with a local sheriff on his trail. ...More

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
By Schnabel, Julian
2008/04 - Miramax
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In 1995, author and Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a stroke that put him in a coma; he awakened mute and completely paralyzed. Mathieu Amalric stars in this adaptation of Bauby's autobiography, which he dictated by blinking. ...More

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The Lives of Others
By Henckel von Donnersmarck, Florian
2007/06 - Sony Pictures
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The East German government ensures its claim to power with a system of control and surveillance. An agent investigating an artistic couple gets immersed into their lives. ...More

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Cranford
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2008/05 - Warner Home Video
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Academy Award winner Dame Judi Dench leads a stellar cast in this Emmy-nominated BBC miniseries adaptation of the classic novels of celebrated Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. Stage and screen veterans Imelda Staunton and Eileen Atkins also star this complicated portrait of a group of women inhabiting a town wrestling with modernity and the inevitability of change. ...More


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