Kristen Stewart and Carey Mulligan Nominated for Orange BAFTA Rising Star Award
Twilight star Kristen Stewart and An Education’s Carey Mulligan have been nominated for this year’s Orange BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Stewart’s Adventureland co-star Jesse Eisenberg, ex-Skins actor Nicholas Hoult and A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim complete the nominees for the prize.
Some of the previous winners of the award include Eva Green, James McAvoy, Shia LaBeouf and Noel Clarke, who announced the list at BAFTA headquarters today.
“Winning the Orange Rising Star Award in 2009 was the highlight of my year,” Clarke said. “The fact that the award is the only one voted for by the public made it even more special. Since winning I have gone on to direct a brand new feature which is due to be released in the summer and I hope this year’s winner finds the accolade as beneficial to their career as I have.”
The jury, which includes Clarke, BAFTA producer and chair David Parfitt and actor Jason Isaacs, selected the nominees from a list of recommendations from BAFTA members.
The public can vote for their favourite actor via text message and online, with the winner announced at the BAFTA ceremony on February 21.
The Academy was formed on 16 April 1947, when a group of the most important names in British film production got together in a room at the Hyde Park Hotel. Their main purpose was “to recognise those who had contributed outstanding creative work toward the advancement of British film.”
The Academy has been through many changes since 1947, but their fundamental purpose has remained the same.