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Following yesterday's success at the Golden Globes, it has been announced today by the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) that The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of 'The Unicorn' has been nominated for two awards.

It has been put forward in the Best Animated Film category, and for Best Special Visual Effects.

The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday February the 12th, at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

Good luck on the night!

I hope they win! They deserve it!

*crossing fingers*

I think they should win, they should!

No Baftas for Tintin, I'm afraid.

Best Animated Film went to Rango, and Best Special Visual Effects to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2.

It's a shame Tintin didn't win, but a hardly a surprise. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is a British film, and the BAFTAs are an orgy of celebration for the British film industry, so naturally they chose Harry Potter over Tintin.

I haven't seen Rango yet, but it has had very, very good reviews and it will probably win the Oscar. As for Tintin's Oscar chances, I doubt it will beat The Artist when it comes to Best Music Score, alas.

As I said when the nominations were announced on Facebook, "Why was it not nominated for adaptation?"

That's not true at all. The Bafta film awards are open to all nationalities. There is a separate award for Outstanding British Film, Writer, Director, etc. I think the reason Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2 won Best Special Visual Effects this time round is probably because the Harry Potter films have been nominated for the award for every film they've made, yet they've consistently failed to win it. They've lost out to The Lord Of The Rings (all three films), King Kong, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Golden Compass, Benjamin Button, Avatar and Inception. None of these were British films. So, this really was the last chance to give one of the Harry Potter films this particular award.

I'd also point out that The Artist won seven awards - including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor - and that's not a British film either; they may indeed celebrate film, but as Harrock says, nationality doesn't come into it.

Perhaps because it was pretty free with the bits it did adapt, and a large portion of it was created specifically for the film? It was an amalgam of an adaptation and an original screen-play, and probably was felt to be too far from its source.

In the past few years, the BAFTAs have been criticised for giving too many awards to non-British films, and probably in response to that, more films have been nominated for awards from Britain, such as Daniel Craig getting a Best Actor(!) nomination for Casino Royale and, this year, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy having a nomination for virtually all the major categories.

Of the 37 movies nominated (not counting the short films), 15 could be called British. I'm sorry, I like the BAFTAs (I watched it), but there is a bias towards British movies.

That is not necessarily a bad thing either, as so few ever seem to make it big and they need all the help and publicity they can get.

Cheer up. Britain may have lost out in its own BAFTAs but Britain's Adele did sweep the Grammys all by herself.

(Yes, I'd never even heard of her until the Grammy awards either.)