[photo]Park‘s ’Birthday Boy' Won Brithsh Academy Film Award
Jamie Foxx won the Award for Actor in a Leading Role for Ray , and the film also won the Sound BAFTA. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won BAFTAs for Original Screenplay and Editing . The Motorcycle Diaries won the Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music and Film Not in the English Language .
The Alexander Korda Award for the Outstanding British Film of the Year was given to My Summer of Love and Amma Asante won the Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British Director, Producer or Writer in their first feature film for A Way of Life, which she wrote and directed.
Clive Owen won the BAFTA for Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Closer , Sideways won the BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay , The Day After Tomorrow won the Award for Achievement in Special Visual Effects and Collateral won for Cinematography .
The Short Film BAFTA was won by The Banker and Birthday Boy won the Award for Short Animation .
The Orange Film of the Year, the only award presented at the ceremony that is voted for by members of the public, went to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban .
The composer John Barry was honoured with the Academy Fellowship. Awarded annually in the Gift of Council, the Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by The Academy. John has been BAFTA nominated on numerous occasions and won the Anthony Asquith BAFTA Award for The Lion In Winter.
Angela Allen was this year’s recipient of the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema . The Award has been given since 1978 in memory of one of the founder members of the British Academy. Angela has enjoyed an illustrious career as a script supervisor and worked with John Huston on many films, including The African Queen, The Misfits and Wise Blood. Since forming a highly successful working relationship with Franco Zeffirelli, her work has included Tea with Mussolini , Jane Eyre and the recent Callas Forever .
The Awards were hosted for the fifth time by Stephen Fry and took place on Saturday 12th February at the Odeon, Leicester Square. They were produced by Initial (part of Endemol UK) and broadcast on BBC ONE the same evening.
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another press release from Japan Media Arts Festival
about Birthday Boy
Artist： PARK Sejong
[Korea/Australia]
PARK Sejong
PARK Sejong is from South Korea. He was 31 when he moved to Australia although he first visited there in 1994 to complete an English language course. He graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2004 with a Master's degree in Digital Media, having previously worked as a 2D animator and published illustrator both in Korea and Australia. Birthday Boy is Sejong's first 3D CGI film.
I'd like to say thank you to the Japan Media Arts Festival for giving me the Excellence Prize in the Animation Division. It is a great honor to receive this award from a country where animation is of such a high standard. I have been inspired by the very famous Japanese animator MIYAZAKI Hayao throughout my life. I would also like to thank the Australian Film Television and Radio School for their ongoing supportand to my fantastic crew.
In a Korean village during the Korean War, a boy was playing by himself on his birthday, imagining himself fighting in the front line alongside his father, who has been sent to the battlefront. He is too young to under- stand the meaning of the parcel which has arrived conveying his father's remains. The most moving scene comes when the boy places a screw taken from a crashed fighter onto a rail track and waits for the train to come. I admire the creator's skill in enlarging the natural desire for "bravery" into a common expression for children of any country in the world through the symbolism inherent to animation. This is a film that looms far above the standard set by many other more overt anti-war films.
