"Constant Gardener" Got 10 BAFTA Nominations

After the Golden Globes Awards, everybody is thrilled about The Orange British Academy Film Awards incoming on 19 February 2006.

Today, the Academy announced the nominees of this year's awards. And so, "The Constant Gardener" was the big winner when nominations were announced for BAFTA, the British film industry's annual awards.

The adaptation of the John le Carre's novel was up for 10 nominations, including best picture, best actor for Ralph Fiennes and best actress for Rachel Weisz, who earlier this week won a Golden Globe in Hollywood.

The Academy Award-nominated director of "City of God" was the one who directed the movie based on the best-seller written by le Carre. The plot is a pretext to present the highly serious problems that people in Africa have to deal with.
In Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle, played by Rachel Weisz is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, played by Ralph Fiennes, will leave the matter to them. But they are totally wrong, as haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth, a conspiracy more far complicated than Quayle could ever have imagined.

Next in line, with nine nominations apiece, were gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain" and "Crash", which explores race and class among young Americans.

With six nominations came "Good Night, And Good Luck", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Pride & Prejudice".

And here comes a first: George Clooney will be competing against himself when the awards are announced on February 19. He was nominated best actor in a supporting role for both "Syriana" and "Good Night, And Good Luck".