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Rahman loses out on BAFTA 

The Oscar-winning musician was in the race for his second BAFTA award after being nominated for Danny Boyle’s ‘127 Hours’.

Even though the 45-year-old composer failed to grab a trophy at Sunday’s ceremony, he has already bagged the Best Original Song award at the 16th Critics’ Choice Awards last month for his number ‘If I Rise’ from ‘127 Hours’.

Meanwhile, Royal drama ‘The King’s Speech’ swept BAFTAs with seven awards, including Best Picture and acting trophies for Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter.

While Firth took home the Best Actor award for his portrayal of King George VI and his struggle to overcome a stutter, Carter bagged the Best Supporting Actress trophy and the Best Supporting Actor went to Geoffrey Rush for the same film. The Tom Hooper-directed film, nominated in 14 categories, also won the Outstanding British film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Music awards at the Sunday night’s gala.

Natalie Portman took home the Best Actress trophy for her role of a troubled ballerina in ‘Black Swan’. Facebook-founding drama ‘The Social Network’ and Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ won three awards each.

David Fincher won the Best Director award for ‘The Social Network’. The film also bagged the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing trophies.

Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer ‘Inception’ won Best Production Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects. ‘Toy Story 3’ was named the Best Animated film while fantasy adventure ‘Alice In Wonderland’ emerged winner in the Costume Design and Make-up department. Tom Hardy was given the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star gong and wizard franchise ‘Harry Potter’ was awarded for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. — PTI

Lady Antebellum wins 5 Grammys

Los Angeles, February 14 
Country music group Lady Antebellum emerged as a big winner taking home five trophies at the 53rd Grammy Awards while biggies like Lady Gaga and Eminem followed close with three and two golden gramophones, respectively. Antebellum’s ‘Need You Now’ won the Record of the Year and Best Country Album Grammys while the title track bagged the Song of the Year, Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals and Best Country Song awards at Sunday night's ceremony held at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles.

Pop diva Lady Gaga took home the Best Short Form Music Video and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for ‘Bad Romance’ while her ‘The Fame Monster’ was named the Best Pop Vocal Album.

Though hip hop star Eminem was nominated in 10 major categories, he only managed to win two Grammys -- Best Rap Solo Performance Grammy for ‘Not Afraid’ and Best Rap Album for ‘Recovery’.

Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' hit collaboration 'Empire State of Mind' won two gongs -- Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Best Rap Song.

Arcade Fire’s ‘The Suburbs’ grabbed the Album of the Year Grammy, beating Eminem's ‘Recovery’, Lady Antebellum's 'Need You Now', Gaga's 'The Fame Monster' and Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream'.

Esperanza Spalding pipped Justin Bieber, Drake, Florence & The Machine and Mumford & Sons to be named the Best New Artist.

Bruno Mars won the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for ‘Just The Way You Are’. Beatles legend Paul McCartney won the Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for ‘Helter Skelter’ while Keith Urban won the Best Male Country Vocal Performance for ‘Till Summer Comes Around’.

Rap superstar Usher’s ‘Raymond V Raymond’ was named the Best Contemporary R&B Album while Rihanna took home the Best Dance Recording gong for her 'Only Girl (In The World)’. The Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Grammy went to Michael Buble's ‘Crazy Love’. Meanwhile, the three Indian contenders failed to strike gold at the awards. New York-based Indian-American artiste Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, Vijay Iyer and Sandeep Das were in the race. Tandon was nominated in the Best Contemporary World Music Album category for 'Soul Call', a collection of ancient Sanskrit chants but lost out to 'Throw Down Your Heart, Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Tracks' by Bela Fleck. Iyer, whose album 'Historicity' was nominated in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category, was beaten by late artist James Moody's 'Moody 4B'. Delhi-based tabla player Sandeep Das, who was nominated in the Classical Crossover category for The Silk Road Ensemble's album 'Off The Map' lost out to 'Tin, Christopher: Calling All Dawns'. — PTI