Bigelow Bests Cameron at the BAFTA Awards as The Hurt Locker Wins Big

It seems Kathryn Bigelow is the odds-on favorite going into the Academy Awards, as The Hurt Locker won six BAFTA trophies tonight, including Best Film and Best Director. Inside, video of Bigelow's acceptance speeches and a full winner's list.

Here's Bigelow's acceptance speech after beating out ex-husband James Cameron for Best Director.

And here's Bigelow's—and her fellow producers'—speech after The Hurt Locker won for Best Film (again besting Cameron's Avatar), bringing its BAFTA total to a leading six.

After last month's Golden Globes, where Cameron won Best Director and Best Picture awards for Avatar, it seemed he was favored for the Oscars. When Bigelow won the Director's Guild of America's award for Outstanding Direction a week later, though—becoming the first female to do so—odds makers were thrown a loop and it once again became a toss-up. When adding tonight's BAFTA domination by Bigelow to the equation, it seems she's poised to win the battle of the exes two Sundays from now.

But if there's one thing Hollywood—and Big Brother—has taught us, it's to expect the unexpected. And in 14 days, we'll all have the answer.

Until then, here's a full list of tonight's BAFTA winners.

ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP
VANESSA REDGRAVE

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
JOE DUNTON

BEST FILM
THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
FISH TANK Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
DUNCAN JONES Director – Moon

DIRECTOR
THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE HURT LOCKER Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
UP IN THE AIR Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
A PROPHET Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard

ANIMATED FILM
UP Pete Docter

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

MUSIC
UP Michael Giacchino

CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE HURT LOCKER Barry Ackroyd

EDITING
THE HURT LOCKER Bob Murawski, Chris Innis

PRODUCTION DESIGN
AVATAR Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair

COSTUME DESIGN
THE YOUNG VICTORIA Sandy Powell

SOUND
THE HURT LOCKER Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones

MAKE UP & HAIR
THE YOUNG VICTORIA Jenny Shircore

SHORT ANIMATION
MOTHER OF MANY Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby

SHORT FILM
I DO AIR James Bolton, Martina Amati

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
KRISTEN STEWART

[BBC America | BAFTA.org]

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