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| Eight Bafta nods for An Education | Eight Bafta nods for An Education |
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| British film An Education is battling major Hollywood movies Avatar and The Hurt Locker with eight nominations each at the British Academy Film Awards. | British film An Education is battling major Hollywood movies Avatar and The Hurt Locker with eight nominations each at the British Academy Film Awards. |
| An Education's Carey Mulligan is up for best actress alongside Meryl Streep and Audrey Tautou, with further nods for best film and director Lone Scherfig. | An Education's Carey Mulligan is up for best actress alongside Meryl Streep and Audrey Tautou, with further nods for best film and director Lone Scherfig. |
| District 9 has seven nominations, while Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Up In The Air have six nominations each. | District 9 has seven nominations, while Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Up In The Air have six nominations each. |
| The awards takes place at London's Royal Opera House next month. | The awards takes place at London's Royal Opera House next month. |
| Sci-fi epic Avatar, named best movie drama at Sunday's Golden Globes, is also up for best film, as is Iraq drama The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. | |
| Avatar director James Cameron once again goes head to head with ex-wife Bigelow in the best director category. Cameron beat Bigelow in the same category at the Golden Globes. | |
| Also shortlisted for best film are Precious, the hard-hitting tale of a high school student coping with issues including teenage pregnancy and sexual abuse, and recession-era drama Up In The Air, starring George Clooney. | |
| In the best actor category, Clooney goes head to head with fellow Americans Jeff Bridges - for his role as a heavy-drinking country music singer in Crazy Heart - and Jeremy Renner for the Hurt Locker. | |
| But they face competition from British actors Colin Firth for A Single Man, and Andy Serkis, for Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. |