65th British Academy Film Awards "The Artist" won seven awards out of its twelve nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin. Meryl Streep won Best Actress for "The Iron Lady". Christopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for "Beginners" and Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress for "The Help". "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", directed by Tomas Alfredson, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2011. Director Martin Scorsese was given the BAFTA Fellowship and Sir John Hurt garnered the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. 65th British Academy Film Awards The 65th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor Churchill in "The Gathering Storm" "'2004 Bill Nighy as Cameron Lloyd in "State of Play" "'2005 Rhys Ifans as Peter Cook in "Not Only But Always" "'2006 Mark Rylance as Dr. David Kelly in "The Government Inspector" "'2007 Jim Broadbent as Frank Pakenham in "Longford" "'2008 Andrew Garfield as Jack Burridge / Eric Wilson in "Boy A" "'2009 Stephen Dillane as Anthony Hurndall in "The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall" In 2010, BAFTA split the category into Leading Actor and Supporting Actor. This is the list of BAFTA TV Awards for Leading Actor. The following people have been awarded the British