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'SLUMDOG' 'BUTTON' LEAD BRITISH ACADEMY AWARDS
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Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” and David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” leads the field in the nominations for the British Academy Film Awards with 11 apiece.
The noms were announced by British actresses Gemma Arterton and Hayley Atwell Thursday ayem at BAFTA’s London headquarters.
The 11 noms from 13 longlist mentions for “Slumdog” keeps up the awards season momentum for Boyle’s Mumbai-set thriller, which collected in all four Golden Globe categories it was up for last weekend.
Globe winners Boyle, Simon Beaufoy — for adapted screenplay — and composer A.R. Rahman are all BAFTA nommed.
Next best after “Slumdog” and “Button” are “The Dark Knight” with nine noms — including a posthumous recognition for supporting actor Heath Ledger — and Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling,” with eight.
Best film prize nominees are “Slumdog,” “Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk” and “The Reader.” Director nominees are the same, other than “Milk” helmer Gus Van Sant missing out and Eastwood coming in.
In total, “Frost/Nixon” has six noms, “The Reader” has five and “In Bruges,” “Milk” and “Revolutionary Road” all boast four.
“Button” and “Frost/Nixon” led in the BAFTA longlists revealed by Daily Variety last week, with 14 mentions each.
Best Brit film is a shootout between “Slumdog,” “Hunger,” “In Bruges,” “Man on Wire” and “Mamma Mia!,” the biggest grossing pic of 2008 — and all time — at the U.K. box office.
AMERICAN IDOL RETURNS WITH CUT IN RATINGS
Fox's American Idol made another triumphant return to the air Tuesday night, but with "only" 30.07 million viewers.
While that number trounced everything in sight -- not only for the night but for the season -- it was nevertheless down 10 percent from the 33.41 million who tuned in to the season opener of Idol a year ago.
Nevertheless, viewership rose sharply during the two-hour telecast, beginning with just 18.04 million in the first half hour and peaking in the third half hour with 32.76 million. Surprisingly, CBS, with its strong Tuesday-night lineup, lost few viewers to the new Idol.
Its long-running NCIS was able to pull in 18.48 million viewers, down just 3 percent from a week earlier, while freshman hit The Mentalist managed to attract 18.09 million viewers, down 7.6 percent from the previous week. NBC's The Biggest Loser performed decently in a two hour special which averaged 8.75 million viewers.
But ABC's lineup might just as well have been scrubbed, with two back-to-back episodes of Scrubs averaging just 4.5 million viewers.
WATCH FILMS
CLASSIC FILMS
BY GENRE
Doubt
Gran Torino
The Wrestler
The Reader
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Valkyrie
Bedtime Stories
Marley and Me
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
The Day the Earth Stood Still
