Olivia Colman BAFTA snub causes Twitter storm

BAFTA whipped up a storm on Twitter after failing to nominate ‘Tyrannosaur’s’ Olivia Colman in the Best Actress category for their 2012 awards.

As the biggest British film awards, BAFTA typically champion the best of British and it was thought that Colman would get the nod. However they chose to back the likes of ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ and ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ instead.

The actress, who is most famous for playing Sophie in ‘Peep Show’, began trending on Twitter only a short while after the nominations were announced, albeit with a misspelled surname (‘Coleman’), something which was soon corrected by the masses.

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Empire magazine news editor and ‘Film 2012’ regular Chris Hewitt tweeted, “Usually indifferent to Baftas, but overlooking Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur is a disgrace.”

Actor David Mitchell, who works with Colman on 'Peep Show' said, "Glad to hear there's been Twitter outrage at Olivia Colman's ridiculous omission from the BAFTA noms. There CAN'T be 5 better performances."

Comedian David Baddiel added, “In a perfect world Olivia Colman would be up for a BAFTA; but in that world comedy wouldn't be a lesser artform, and so would Kristen Wiig”.

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In ‘Tyrannosaur’ - directed by actor Paddy Considine -  Colman plays Hannah, a victim of domestic violence who flees her abusive husband and forms a relationship with a widower prone to fits of anger (played by Peter Mullan).

Berenice Bejo for ‘The Artist’, Michelle Williams for ‘My Week of Marilyn’, Tilda Swinton for ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’, Viola Davis for ‘The Help’ and favourite Meryl Streep for ‘The Iron Lady’ were nominated for the award.

It’s not all doom and gloom for the film however. It was nominated in a packed Best British Debut category alongside Richard Ayoade ‘s ‘Submarine’ and Joe Cornish’s ‘Attack The Block’.

Colman did however win a British Independent Film Award for the role.