George Clooney and Brad Pitt re-compete for the award as Best Actor in the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Previously the two actors who had acted in a movie title, namely ‘Ocean Eleven’ are both nominated for the Best Actor category in the event the Critic’s Choice Movie Awards and the Golden Globe Awards.

In either event, Clooney successfully defeating the lover Angelina Jolie. Meanwhile, the movie ‘The Artist’ successful won the award as Best Film at the event Critic’s Choice Movie Awards and the Golden Globe Awards also ‘harvest’ nomination.

Quoted from page Aceshowbiz, silent film made by director Michel Hazanavicius is superior with 12 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, and Actor and Best Actress. Following behind ‘The Artist’ is the movie ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ which won a total of 11 nominations. Other movies that get nominated for more than one among others, ‘Hugo’, ‘My Week with Marilyn’, ‘The Help’, and ‘War Horse’.

The names of nominees was announced by actor Daniel Radcliffe and Holliday Grainger as well as Chairman of BAFTA, Tim Corrie on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 local time. The top event will dsielenggarakan BAFTA Awards at the Royal Opera House, London, on 12 February 2012.

Here’s a list of BAFTA nominees 2012 as quoted by Reuters:

1. Best Film: ‘The Artist’, ‘The Descendants’, ‘Drive’, ‘The Help’, ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’
2. Outstanding British Film: ‘My Week With Marilyn’, ‘Senna’, ‘Shame’, ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’, ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’
3. Outstanding British Debut: ‘Attack the Block’, ‘Black Pond,’ ‘Coriolanus’, ‘Submarine’, ‘tyrannosaur’
4. Film Not In The Home Language: ‘Incendies’,’ Pina ‘,’ Potiche ‘,’ A Separation ‘, The Skin I Live In’
5. Documentary: ‘George Harrison: Living in the Material World’, ‘Project Nim’, ‘Senna’
6. Animated Film: ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’, ‘Arthur Christmas’, ‘Rango’
7. Director: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), Martin Scorsese (Hugo), Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
8. Original Screenplay: ‘The Artist’, ‘Bridesmaids’, ‘The Guard’, ‘The Iron Lady’, ‘Midnight In Paris’
9. Adapted Screenplay: ‘The Descendants’, ‘The Help’, ‘The Ides of March;’, ‘Moneyball’, ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’
10. Leading Actor: Brad Pitt (Moneyball), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), George Clooney (The Descendants), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Michael Fassbender (Shame)
11. Leading 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)
12. 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)
13. Supporting Actress: Carey Mulligan (Drive), Jessica Chastain (The Help), Judi Dench (My Week with Marilyn), Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids), Octavia Spencer (The Help)