Hotel Chocolat Tiddly BAFTA heads
(Someone somewhere will remember that George Clooney had one in a red carpet interview)
BAFTA Awards 2012 Programme
Selected words from Prince William's (HRH The Duke of Cambridge) letter as President of the Academy:
"Every nominee – regardless of winning – is an inspiration to those who want to improve their craft...Martin Scorsese is a man whose influence on film is unquestionable; his vision and commitment to challenging the conventions of the art form are just two reasons why his Fellowship is so thoroughly deserved."
Selected words from BAFTA chairman Tim Corrie's welcome message:
"Let us also celebrate everyone in the industry whose hard work and creativity has given us so many moments of pure, cinematic joy. Tonight, BAFTA rewards the greatest of these achievements, in order to enthuse new audiences over the art form and to galvanise the next generation of filmmaking talent."
Behind the cover
The Academy asked artist Eda Akaltun to interpret this year's five Best Film nominees and produce a collectable set of brochure covers to give to all attendees on the night. So she took her trademark collage and printmaking technique and applied it to four very differently stylised films. The cut and paste, marbled and detailed compositions are duller than usually seen from her, with grey tones and very brief glimpses of colour, but this is what gives the covers a distinctly cinematic feel (as also seen on last year's covers by Adam Simpson). Her method involved picking her favourite scene or looking at what visuals were available to her to capture each movie.
I'm not sure if each cover does their film justice; there is not much happening in The Help and The Descendants covers, and neither represent their story-lines well (despite the latter being a visual interpretation of Clooney's infamous opening lines, "My friends think that just because we live in Hawaii, we live in paradise...Do they think we're immune to life?") But I guess she too shone a greater light on the The Artist, Drive and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, quite representative of the BAFTA nominations. Here are her four other cover designs:
I'm not sure if each cover does their film justice; there is not much happening in The Help and The Descendants covers, and neither represent their story-lines well (despite the latter being a visual interpretation of Clooney's infamous opening lines, "My friends think that just because we live in Hawaii, we live in paradise...Do they think we're immune to life?") But I guess she too shone a greater light on the The Artist, Drive and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, quite representative of the BAFTA nominations. Here are her four other cover designs:
Thank you to BAFTA and The Times for the above mentioned merchandise.
Photograph credits: Sejal Kapadia
BAFTA brochure cover visuals from BAFTA.org
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