The nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2008 were announced at a special press conference recently. Hilary Bevan Jones, Chairman of the Academy, introduced actresses Naomie Harris (28 Day Later and Pirates of the Caribbean) and Kelly Reilly (Pride & Prejudice and Mrs. Henderson Presents) who announced the short-listed names for 10 of the 23 categories.
The Orange British Academy Film Award winners will be announced at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on Sunday 10th February. The awards will be hosted for the second year by Jonathan Ross, and will be broadcast on BBC One.
Champagne Taittinger is the Official Champagne to the Academy for the sixth year running. Special BAFTA branded Magnums and bottles of Champagne Taittinger Brut Reserve Non Vintage have been produced to be served at the ceremony and After Show Party. Nominees will also take home a bottle and limited edition cooler bag each, in the official gift box.
Said Lynn Murray, Marketing Director of UK agents Hatch Mansfield:
“The BAFTAs are one of the benchmarks for quality filmmaking and broadcasting and we are delighted to continue Taittinger’s long association with the Academy.”
Competition
To mark the run up to the Film Awards in February, Champagne Taittinger is delighted to offer interested publications the opportunity to run a competition incorporating the special BAFTA-branded Champagne Taittinger NV bottle as the prize.
The Orange British Academy Film Awards are presented annually to ‘recognise, honour and reward individuals for outstanding achievement in films produced worldwide and released in UK cinemas’. In 2001, the Film Awards were moved, in order to be announced prior to the Oscars, a move that has been widely praised by the film industry.
The awards will also contain a Film Not in an English Language Award. Title Sponsor Orange will be running the 60 Seconds of Fame and Rising Star Award initiatives in 2008. 60 seconds of Fame is a short film-making competition for budding film makers, based on this year’s theme ‘Unite’. The Orange Rising Star Award, voted for by the British public, honours a young actor or actress who has demonstrated exceptional talent and ambition and who has begun to capture the imagination as a film star in the making.
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