The BAFTA nominations are as expected as Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe win

BAFTA, the British Academy for Film and Television Arts, has released a list of nominees in advance of its February 12th awards ceremony. Nothing all too surprising here, with plenty of love being shown for THE ARTIST, HUGO, and TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY. Though DRIVE received nominations for both Best Film and Best Director, which is pretty damn cool considering how it has been more or less ignored by awards organizations thus far.

I have two questions upon seeing this list, however: 1) Where is Rooney Mara, and 2) with THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN being nominated for both Best Animated Feature Film and Special Visual Effects, where do we draw the line between the two? Do we even need to?

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The 2012 Academy Fellowship
MARTIN SCORSESE

Best Film:
THE ARTIST
THE DESCENDANTS
DRIVE
THE HELP
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

Best Director:
THE ARTIST – Michel Hazanavicius
DRIVE – Nicolas Winding Refn
HUGO – Martin Scorsese
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – Tomas Alfredson
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN – Lynne Ramsay

Outstanding British Film:
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
SENNA
SHAME
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Best Actor:
Brad Pitt – MONEYBALL
George Clooney – THE DESCENDANTS
Jean Dujardin – THE ARTIST
Michael Fassbender – SHAME
Gary Oldman – TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

Best Actress:
Berenice Bejo -THE ARTIST
Meryl Streep – THE IRON LADY
Michelle Williams – MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Tilda Swinton – WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Viola Davis – THE HELP

Supporting Actor:
Christopher Plummer – BEGINNERS
Jim Broadbent – THE IRON LADY
Jonah Hill – MONEYBALL
Kenneth Branagh – MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Philip Seymour Hoffman – THE IDES OF MARCH

Supporting Actress:
Carey Mulligan – DRIVE
Jessica Chastain – THE HELP
Judi Dench – MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Melissa McCarthy – BRIDESMAIDS
Octavia Spencer – THE HELP

Best Animated Feature Film:
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN
ARTHUR CHRISTMAS
RANGO

Best Original Screenplay:
THE ARTIST – Michel Hazanavicius
BRIDESMAIDS – Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
THE GUARD – John Michael McDonagh
THE IRON LADY – Abi Morgan
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS – Woody Allen

Best Adapted Screenplay:
THE DESCENDANTS – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
THE HELP – Tate Taylor
THE IDES OF MARCH – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
MONEYBALL – Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan

Best Film Not In the English Language:
INCENDIES – Denis Villeneuve, Luc Déry, Kim McGraw
PINA – Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel
POTICHE – François Ozon, Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
A SEPARATION – Asghar Farhadi
THE SKIN I LIVE IN – Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar

Best Original Music:
THE ARTIST – Ludovic Bource
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
HUGO – Howard Shore
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – Alberto Iglesias
WAR HORSE – John Williams

Best Cinematography:
THE ARTIST – Guillaume Schiffman
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Jeff Cronenweth
HUGO – Robert Richardson
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – Hoyte van Hoytema
WAR HORSE – Janusz Kaminski

Special Visual Effects:
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 2
HUGO
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
WAR HORSE

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The rest of the nominess can found in full on the BAFTA website.