Winners of the 2010 Bafta awards

The Baftas are either a good indication of next month's Academy Award achievers, or just a watered-down version of the Oscars that holds no interest for people outside of the UK. *adopts cheery newscaster voice* Here are the winners!

If there was any doubt that this was a British awards ceremony, nominees and guests had to brave the typical English drizzle as well as the announcement that Prince William will be taking over from Richard Attenborough as the new president of Bafta.

That's rain and royalty. Throw in a cup of tea, a red telephone box and a bumbling bobby on the street and those yanks would have been in a right old English tizzle. Altogether now: #"Knees up, Muvver Braahn..."#

Ahem. And the winners are:

Best Film
The Hurt Locker

Outstanding British Film
Fish Tank

Director
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

Leading Actor
Colin Firth - A Single Man

Leading Actress
Carey Mulligan - An Education

Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress
Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer
Duncan Jones - Moon

Original Screenplay
Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker

Adapted Screenplay
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air

Film Not In The English Language
A Prophet

Animated Film
Up

Music
Michael Giacchino - Up

Cinematography
Barry Ackroyd - The Hurt Locker

Editing
The Hurt Locker

Production Design
Avatar

Costume Design
The Young Victoria

Sound
The Hurt Locker

Special Visual Effects
Avatar

Make Up & Hair
The Young Victoria

Short Animation
Sally Arthur & Emma Lazenby - Mother Of Many

Short Film
James Bolton & Martina Amati - I Do Air

The Orange Rising Star Award (Voted For By The Public)
Kristen Stewart

So that's a whole lotta loving for The Hurt Locker, with some kudos given to Colin Firth, A Prophet and, pleasingly, Duncan Jones' Moon. However, despite Avatar's eight nominations, the Na'vi only impressed in the technical categories - maybe it's not a Best Picture Oscar shoo-in after all?

And Kristen Stewart won the public's vote for Orange's Rising Star Award? That'll be a public made up of Twi-hards with mobile phone bills higher than their IQs then.

Just think, the Oscars are coming in two weeks' time, and then we can just concentrate on discussing how good Kick Ass is.