UNITED KINGDOM: Actress Meryl Streep joins fellow BAFTA winners Jean Dujardin and Michel Hazanavicius at star-studded after party.

Record ID: 593332

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Actress Meryl Streep joins fellow BAFTA winners Jean Dujardin and Michel Hazanavicius at star-studded after party.
  • Date: 13th February 2012
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 12, 2012) (REUTERS) ( ** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) FRONT GATES OF GROVESNOR HOUSE IN MAYFAIR GROVESNOR HOTEL SIGN RED CARPET GUESTS ARRIVING BEST ACTOR JEAN DUJARDIN SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS DUJARDIN POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS HOLDING HIS BAFTA STATUETTE PHOTOGRAPHERS DUJARDIN TALKING TO TV CREWS (SOUNDBITE) (English) BEST ACTOR JEAN DUJARDIN SAYING: "Ya, thank you to BAFTA, thank you I'm shocked, it's an honour, really it's an honour. Ah, it was already and amazing nominate with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and the win is unbelievable." (SOUNDBITE) (French) BEST ACTOR JEAN DUJARDIN SAYING: "I was very enotional on stage and I am still very emotional. I still can't get used to this. Each time it's a surprise and you're there in this big room with all these people looking at you and its very powerful. But there you go, I am trying to make the most of it each time. And thanks. Thanks a lot. Thanks to BAFTA. Thank you. I am very happy." BEST DIRECTOR MICHAEL HAZANAVICIUS SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS HAZANAVICIUS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH BAFTA STATUETTES (SOUNDBITE) (English) BEST DIRECTOR MICHAEL HAZANAVICIUS SAYING: "It's great, and that's really naturally touching. I'm very proud of, and I'm very proud that everybody got recognition and that the film was celebrated, so it's really a collective thing and even if it's best director or best actor that doesn't mean really nothing. What's important is they love the movie and we made the movie all together and so I think that means just best crew. That's what I mean." (SOUNDBITE) (French) DIRECTOR MICHAEL HAZANAVICIUS SAYING: "So we won 7 BAFTAS. 7 prizes is enormous and I am very happy and I think it's the work of the whole team that is being rewarded - best film, best actor, director, music - everything one could want and that means that people really liked the film and yes it's the work of the whole team because the film we made - like all films - is team work so this award is shared with the whole team." BEST ACTRESS MERYL STREEP ARRIVES ON THE RED CARPET STREEP POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH BAFTA PHOTOGRAPHERS STREEP ENTERING THE GROVESNOR HOUSE DIRECTOR OF SENNA ASIF KAPADIA POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH BAFTA FOR BEST EDIT (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF SENNA ASIF KAPADIA SAYING: "To win best documentary, the first year that I have had a documentary award, so we're very, very honoured to be the crew to win the first one. But also to break out of that category to win and best editing is amazing. That's the unreal one actually to be the best edited." DIRECTOR OF SENNA ASIF KAPADIA TALKING TO PRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF SENNA ASIF KAPADIA SAYING: "The producer started on the film in 2004 so they've been on it for seven or eight years -- and I've been on it for about five years, so it's been a long slog. It's as long as it takes to make a fiction film, you know, there's no difference, it's no easier. But it's been a great feeling, it's a great feeling." PHOTOGRAPHERS WITH RED CARPET
  • Embargoed: 28th February 2012 12:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA5L590USWO51U7WU3RHIRYCQC8
  • Story Text: Newly-crowned BAFTA winners Jean Dujardin and Meryl Streep celebrate their triumph at post ceremony bash in London on Sunday (February 12).
    Dujardin, who went away with the BAFTA Best Actor trophy for his role of silent movie star George Valentine in "The Artist" said he still felt a little overwhelmed.
    "Thank you to BAFTA, thank you I'm shocked, it's an honour, really it's an honour. Ah, it was already and amazing nominate with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and the win is unbelievable."
    Dujardin emerged as the winner in what proved to be a competitive category of leading actors, which included George Clooney ("The Descendants"), Brad Pitt ("Moneyball"), Gary Oldman ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy") and Michael Fassbender ("Shame").
    Overall, the silent film proved to be the biggest winner of the night, garnering a total of seven awards, which included Best Film and also Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius.
    For the filmmaker the win is a testament to the whole team which helped make the movie.
    "It's great, and that's really naturally touching. I'm very proud of, and I'm very proud that everybody got recognition and that the film was celebrated, so it's really a collective thing and even if it's best director or best actor that doesn't mean really nothing. What's important is they love the movie and we made the movie all together and so I think that means just best crew. That's what I mean," he said.
    Meryl Streep walked away with the Best Actress gong for her performance as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" earlier in the evening. She is now the favourite to win the same title at the Academy Awards due to be held in Los Angeles on February 26. It is the second BAFTA for the American, who also won a Best Actress gong for "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1981.
    Other winners that evening included director Asif Kapadia, whose film "Senna" won Best Documentary and the Editing prize.
    "To win best documentary, the first year that I have had a documentary award, so we're very, very honoured to be the crew to win the first one. But also to break out of that category to win and best editing is amazing. That's the unreal one actually to be the best edited," he said.
    For Kapadia it is a triumphant ending to a long project.
    "The producer started on the film in 2004 so they've been on it for seven or eight years -- and I've been on it for about five years, so it's been a long slog. It's as long as it takes to make a fiction film, you know, there's no difference, it's no easier. But it's been a great feeling, it's a great feeling," he said.
    Actress Naomi Harris was also among the guests attending the bash at London's Grosvenor House.
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