'In the Loop' wins British Comedy Award

In the Loop was named best British comedy on Saturday at the British Comedy Awards.

There were also a few other awards handed out over the weekend:
Peter Capaldi was named the runner-up for In the Loop in the best supporting actor category (Christoph Waltz won for Inglourious Basterds) by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association yesterday. In the Loop was also a runner-up to Up in the Air in the best screenplay category.

The New York Film Critics Online gave the film its best ensemble award yesterday.

And finally the New York Film Critics' Circle awarded In the Loop its best screenplay prize.

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Peter Capaldi on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Peter Capaldi appeared with Craig last night to promote In the Loop. Peter and Craig were in a band together when they were younger, and they're both so cute in the interview. The interview is posted below:

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Robert Carlyle and Peter Capaldi win Scottish Baftas

Robert Carlyle won the Bafta Scotland award for best TV actor for The Unloved and Peter Capaldi won for the award for best actor for In the Loop. Peter Capaldi couldn't make it to the ceremony because according to In the Loop director Armando Iannucci - who picked up the award on his behalf - he was "flogging the film in LA because it's the start of the award season there. He was gutted to find out it had clashed with this." Robert Carlyle talked about what it meant to win:

"It's lovely, it's a fantastic thing, I was saying earlier on to people, I mean, ten years ago, to be honest with you, you wouldn't have thought too much of this, it was always nice to get a wee-kind of nod - but the quality of the nominations now is just getting higher and higher."

"The acting awards this year and last year - there's so many top quality Scots male actors at the moment that to be included amongst any kind of list of nominees you've got to be happy with that. You've got to be pleased with that. So, it's really come up, I think." [Yahoo! News UK]

You can go here for a full list of the winners.

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Scottish BAFTA 2009 nominations

The nominations for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2009 were announced today.

In the Acting in Film category Peter Capaldi is nominated for In The Loop as is Stephen McCole for Crying with Laughter.

In the Acting in TV - Male category David Tennant has been nominated for Doctor Who, Robert Carlyle for The Unloved, and Bill Patterson for Spanish Flu - The Forgotten Fallen.

In addition to Peter Capaldi's nomination, In The Loop has nominations for director Armando Ianucci and writers Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche, and Armando Ianucci.

Dougray Scott's New Town Killers also received three nominations for best feature film, best director (Richard Jobson), and best actor (James Pearsons).

Crying with Laughter is also nominated for best feature film and best writing.

BAFTA Scotland Awards will be web-cast, the full awards will be streamed live on the internet, giving people outside of Scotland the chance to watch. You can watch the at www.baftascotland.co.uk when the winners are announced on Sunday, November 8 at the Glasgow Science Centre. Go here for the full list of nominees.

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