Comparing and Contrasting: The BAFTA and Oscar Winners, including your analysis and perspective on the 'Britishness' of the films

List of British Oscar Winners:

Daniel Day-Lewis: Daniel Day-Lewis is a British born actor (From Greenwich, London, UK) and is the only person in film history to win the award for 'Best Actor' in the Oscars three times- with Day-Lewis being an important figure in the history of British cinema, head of the famous Ealing Studios. His first major film role as an actor was in the 1994 film titled 'Bounty', and in his career he has won 3 Oscars, won 88 different awards, and has been nominated 33 times.

Searching for Sugar Man: Searching for Sugar Man won 'Best Documentary Feature' at the 2013 Oscars.With its Swedish-British origin, this is what makes this documentary film a British Oscar Winner. This documentary film was directed by Malik Bendjelloul, initally realising the film in London before it expanding to New York and Los Angles. Searching for Sugar Man, a film detailing the efforts of two Cape Town fans in the late nineteen-nineties, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out if the rumored death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true, and, if not, to discover what had become of him.

Skyfall: Skyfall is the 23rd movie in a succession of a successful line of James Bond movies. The list of Bond actors are as follows (in chronological order): Barry Nelson, David Niven, Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. The film was produced by Eon Productions, based in London Piccadilly and is based within Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. As of March 2013 it is the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time, and the second-highest-grossing film of 2012. The film won two Oscars for 'Outstanding British Film' and 'Best Film Music'.

The main reason why there are more British winners at the BAFTAS rather than the Oscars is that the BAFTAS are a British based award ceremony, with specific categories specially for only British films and 'British produced' films and music etc. As the Oscars are more international, there are greater contenders for the crown, so to speak, in terms of who gets the award- and with more global competition, comes less of a chance for a British film to snap up an award.