BAFTA nominations: Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams to go head to head
Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams will go head to head for a BAFTA this year as the nominations for this year's award ceremony were revealed.
The BAFTAs are following in the footsteps on the Golden Globes that saw Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams pick up the top awards for best actress.
Meryl Streep's performance as Margaret Thatcher in the Iron Lady has already seen her pick up the top gong at the Golden Globes but she faces stiff competition from the My Week with Marilyn actress who picked up the award for best performance in a comedy/musical.
Meryl Streep has been nominated for a BAFTA
British actress Tilda Swinton is also up for the BAFTA for her role in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
BAFTA released the nominations this morning
George Clooney and Brad Pitt are both up for Best Actor for their roles in The Descendants and Moneyball respectively.
Best Film is also hotly contended with predictably The Artist and The Descendants both being up for the award.
George Clooney could pick up the BAFTA for Best Actor to follow his Golden Globe
Veteran actor Christopher Plummer is up for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Beginners.
LIST OF BAFTA NOMINATIONS 2012
BEST FILM
THE DESCENDANTS Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
DRIVE Marc Platt, Adam Siegel
THE HELP Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Simon Curtis, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Adrian Hodges
SENNA Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Manish Pandey
SHAME Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Abi Morgan
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo,
Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Lynne Ramsay, Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno,
Rory Stewart Kinnear
ANIMATED FILM
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN Steven Spielberg
ARTHUR CHRISTMAS Sarah Smith
RANGO Gore Verbinski
DIRECTOR
THE ARTIST Michel Hazanavicius
DRIVE Nicolas Winding Refn
HUGO Martin Scorsese
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Tomas Alfredson
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Lynne Ramsay
LEADING ACTOR
GEORGE CLOONEY The Descendants
LEADING ACTRESS
MICHELLE WILLIAMS My Week with Marilyn
TILDA SWINTON We Need to Talk About Kevin
SUPPORTING ACTOR
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Beginners
JIM BROADBENT The Iron Lady
JONAH HILL Moneyball
KENNETH BRANAGH My Week with Marilyn
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Ides of March
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN Drive
JESSICA CHASTAIN The Help
JUDI DENCH My Week with Marilyn
MELISSA MCCARTHY Bridesmaids
OCTAVIA SPENCER The Help
ORIGINAL MUSIC
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
HUGO Howard Shore
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Alberto Iglesias
WAR HORSE John Williams