BAFTA Announce Orange Rising Star Nominees

09-01-2008 10:10

Yesterday Eva Green, the 2007 winner, announced this year’s nominees for the Orange Rising Star Award.The award recognises five international actors and actresses who have demonstrated exceptional talent and have begun to capture the imagination of the public as a star in the making.The five nominees are: Shia LeBeouf, Sienna Miller, Ellen Page, Sam Riley and Tang Wei. The Orange Rising Star Award is unique as it is the only Award presented at the Orange British Academy Film Awards to be voted for by the British public. Eva Green said: 'I was delighted to receive the award last year, winning was a huge surprise. The nominees I was up against would all have been worthy winners of the award so I was thrilled when the public voted me as The Orange Rising Star.'This year’s five nominees are all actors who have really stood out in their work and I’m sure we’ll see a lot more of them throughout 2008.'A jury, chaired by producer Duncan Kenworthy and consisting of respected industry figures, including director John Madden, Empire Executive Editor Ian Nathan and last year’s winner, Eva Green, selected the five nominees from a long list of recommendations put forward by the film industry and BAFTA members.Finola Dwyer, Chairman of the BAFTA Film Committee, said: 'This is the third year of the Orange Rising Star Award which has previously been awarded to the huge talents of James McAvoy & Eva Green, who, since they won, have both gone on to show why they were worthy winners.'