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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 on 8 February. | |
| The main nominations were announced by British actors Matthew Good and Romola Garai at Bafta's London headquarters. | |
| Hard-hitting tale | |
| Sci-fi epic Avatar, named best movie drama at Sunday's Golden Globes, is also shortlisted for best film, as is Iraq drama The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. | Sci-fi epic Avatar, named best movie drama at Sunday's Golden Globes, is also shortlisted for best film, as is Iraq drama The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. |
| George Clooney is nominated for best actor for Up In The Air | |
| They are joined by 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. | They are joined by 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Danish director Scherfig, Quentin Tarantino and South Africa's Neill Blomkamp - for District 9 - complete the line-up. | Danish director Scherfig, Quentin Tarantino and South Africa's Neill Blomkamp - for District 9 - complete the line-up. |
| 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. | 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. | But they face competition from British actors Colin Firth for A Single Man, and Andy Serkis, for Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. |
| Streep, up for her portrayal of cookery guru Julia Child in Julie and Julia, won the best actress Bafta for The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1982 and has been nominated a further nine times. | |
| Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique are nominated for their roles in Precious | |
| She is joined in the running for best actress by 24-year-old Mulligan, Tatou - for her role as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel - and Saoirse Ronan, for The Lovely Bones, as well as newcomer Gabourey Sidibe for Precious. | |
| But there is no place in the line-up for Dame Helen Mirren - winner of the best actress Bafta in 2007 for The Queen. | |
| Her role as Tolstoy's wife in The Last Station earned her a Golden Globe best actress nomination were she went up against fellow Briton Emily Blunt - for The Young Victoria - who has also missed out on a Bafta nod. | |
| An Education, which is partly funded by BBC Films, is also nominated in categories including best British film - where it will compete against movies including political satire In The Loop and Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy. | An Education, which is partly funded by BBC Films, is also nominated in categories including best British film - where it will compete against movies including political satire In The Loop and Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy. |
| In addition to Bafta's eight nominations for An Education, actress Carey Mulligan is also nominated for the publically voted Orange Rising Star Award alongside Twilight's Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Jessie Eisenberg and A Prophet's Tahar Rahim. |