"Brokeback Mountain" was the big winner at last night's BAFTA Film Awards, taking four nods including Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Direction and Actor In A Supporting Role (Jake Gyllenhaal) awards.
Reese Witherspoon won best actress her performance in the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line", Philip Seymour Hoffman took best actor for "Capote", and "Crash" landed best original screenplay and supporting actress for Thandie Newton. "Memoirs of a Geisha" won the most technical awards with wins for music, costume and cinematography.
On the home front "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" landed outstanding British film of the year, whilst "Pride and Prejudice" director Joe Wright took a special achievement award.
Meanwhile over in the US, the Visual Effects Society's fourth annual VES Awards took place last week at the Hollywood Palladium. Peter Jackson's "King Kong" and Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" was a tie by each winning three of the VES' six top awards.
Finally, the two top editing prizes at the 56th Annual American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards went to Lions Gate Films' "Crash" and Twentieth Century Fox's "Walk the Line" on Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.
