Jan 10 2013

BAFTA

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in cinema, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.

Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

The 2012 winner, announced on 16 October, was Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Kathryn Ann Bigelow

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951)^[1] is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and television director. Her films includeNear Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), Strange Days (1995), The Weight of Water (2000), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Hurt Locker (2008) andZero Dark Thirty (2012). The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama.

With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director,^[2] the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing,^[3] the BAFTA Award for Best Direction,^[4] and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director.^[5] She also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for Strange Days.

In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year.