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The Artist and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy top
the Richard Attenborough Film Awards
RAFAntastic!
Regional critics’ vote
Film of the Year: The Artist
Filmmaker of the Year: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Screenwriter: Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
Actor: Michael Fassbender (Shame)
Actress: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)   
Rising Star: Tom Hiddleston (War Horse, Thor, The Deep Blue Sea, Midnight in Paris)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Artist took top honours at the prestigious 2012 Richard Attenborough Film Awards, named after the legendary British filmmaker Lord Attenborough and voted for by the country’s regional film critics and the general public.
Tinker picked up three awards – two in the public vote: British Film of the Year and Best British Film Star, Gary Oldman, who played George Smiley and one in the regional critics’ vote: Best Screenwriter, Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan.
But it lost out to the internationally- acclaimed French silent film The Artist as the critics’ Film of the Year.
The Artist’s director Michel Hazanavicius, also picked up the critics’ award for Filmmaker of the Year. Accepting the award, and the Best Film Award, he said: “It’s a thrill and a privilege to be accepting these two awards. It’s such an amazing honour to be recognised by the regional film critics in the UK and on a personal note I’d like to say I’m so very proud because I absolutely love British cinema.!
Michael Fassbender won Best Actor for his role as a sex addict in the controversial drama Shame and Meryl Streep took the Best Actress
Public vote
British Film of the Year, in association with ITV’s The Alan Titchmarsh Show: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Animated Film, in association with What’s On TV: Arthur Christmas
Family Film, in association with the Birmingham Mail: The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
British Film Star, in association with The Herald, Glasgow: Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
Film Star, in association with Newsquest Group: Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part1)
Most Anticipated Film of 2012, in association with Cineworld Cinemas: The Dark Knight Rises
Film Blog: CineVue
2010/11
 Film of the Year: The Social Network
 Filmmaker of the Year: Christopher Nolan (Inception)
 Best Actress: Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo/
The Girl Who Played With Fire/
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest)
 Best Actor: Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
Screenwriter: Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
 Rising Star: Chloe Moretz
(Kick-Ass, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Let Me In)
 All-Time Legend: Sir Michael Caine
 2009
 Film of the Year: Up
 Filmmaker of the Year:
James Cameron (Avatar)
 Best Actor: Sam Rockwell (Moon)
 Best Actress: Carey Mulligan (An Education)
 Screenwriter: Jason Reitman/ Sheldon Turner (Up in The Air)
 Rising Star: Carey Mulligan (An Education)
 All Time Legend: Sir Richard Attenborough
The previous RAFA winners
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2008
 Film of the year: Slumdog Millionaire
 Filmmaker of the year: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
 Best Actor: Mickey Rourke
(The Wrestler)
 Best Actress: Kate Winslet
(The Reader)
 Rising Star: Dev Patel
(Slumdog Millionaire)
 Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh  
 2007
 Film of the year: Atonement
 Filmmaker of the year:
Joe Wright (Atonement)
 Best Actor: James McAvoy (Atonement)
 Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age,
I'm Not There)
 Rising Star: Sam Riley (Control)
 Screenwriter: Christopher
Hampton (Atonement)
 2006               
 Film of the year:
Pan’s Labyrinth
 Filmmaker of the year: Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth)
 Best Actor:  Forest Whitaker
(The Last King of Scotland)
 Best Actress: Dame Helen
Mirren (The Queen)
 Newcomer: Abigail Breslin
(Little Miss Sunshine)
The 2012 RAFA winners
I SPY A WINNER:
 Gary Oldman was named Best Actor as George Smiley
honour for The Iron Lady, in which she played former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher looking back on her career in politics. She said: “I am humbled by this distinction and very grateful to each individual who voted for me.
“The support that I received from every one of the more than 200 British actors and from the perfectly splendid crew enable me to feel confident to approach this very difficult role.”
And four roles – in War Horse, Thor, The Deep Blue Sea and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris – secured the Rising Star nod for Tom Hiddleston.
Accepting the award he said: “I am incredibly grateful to the UK’s regional film critics for this great compliment and huge encouragement.
“Lord Attenborough has long been a hero of mine, so this is a double honour.”
Peter Straughan, who accepted the Screenwriter of the Year award for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which he co-scripted with his late wife Bridget O’Connor, said: “I’m thrilled that Bridget and I have won this award, especially as it is associated with such a great filmmaker and was voted for by so many critics and writers from around the country. It means a great deal to me and is a wonderful tribute to my late wife’s work.”
In the public vote Arthur Christmas was awarded Best Animated Film and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn Best Family Film.
Twilight’s Robert Pattinson was named Film Star of the Year and another dark adventure, Christopher Nolan’s Batman epic The Dark Knight Rises, was the Most Anticipated Film of 2012.
AWARDS: Michel Hazanavicius with his wife Bérénice Bejo, who co-starred in The Artist; Rising Star Tom Hiddleston; and Screenwriter of the Year Peter Straughan
And the winners are ...