Actress Helena Bonham Carter is also shortlisted for her supporting role in period drama The King's Speech, while Tom Hooper gets a best director nod.
Starring Octavia Spencer, who won the best supporting actress Oscar last year for her role in civil rights drama The Help, it was written and directed by first-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler.
Macfadyen, best known for his role in the BBC spy drama Spooks, will star opposite Keira Knightley, the Screen Daily film industry website said.
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Billie Piper is nominated for her role in clinical drugs trial drama The Effect, while the best actress category is completed by Hattie Morahan for A Doll's House and Kristin Scott Thomas for Old Times.
Set in East Germany in 1980, this German-language drama stars Nina Hoss in the title role of a physician who, after her banishment to a small-town clinic, is as icy toward her colleagues as she is caring and compassionate toward her patients.
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The actress has played a leading role in the controversial plastic surgery drama since it began in 2003.
So, too, the role he plays in the popular drama series, Packed to the Rafters, where he burnishes his "ordinary Australian" credentials.
Vanessa Whitburn, the editor of BBC Radio 4 drama series The Archers, is retiring from her role after 22 years.
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In 2007, he had a leading role in BBC Two's political drama Party Animals, in which he played a parliamentary researcher.
In the first few weeks of 2004, the BBC will bring us England Expects - a harsh drama about the far right with Steven Mackintosh (of Care, the 2000 drama about child abuse) in a typically strong role.
Hill's role as Charlie Young on the hit NBC drama is his debut on a regular TV series, but he's no stranger to the limelight.
Nickleby is played by fellow British actor, Charlie Hunnam, who is best known for his role as a gay schoolboy in controversial Channel 4 drama Queer As Folk.
Earlier this year the Philadelphia native was shortlisted for a Golden Globe award for his role in Arbitrage, a New York-based drama set in the risky world of high finance.
In 1998, he played a journalist in glam rock drama Velvet Goldmine opposite Ewan McGregor, but it was his role in 2000's American Psycho that drew the most attention since his Spielbergian debut.
In a new trailer for Broken City, a crime drama featuring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, Twitter plays a starring role.
There is even a feeling, a faint sense sometimes that we have been relegated to the role of walk-on in someone else's drama, that as citizens we are crucial and yet somehow ... extraneous.
Chancellor's Bafta nomination is for her role as war correspondent Lix Storm in Abi Morgan's drama The Hour about the launch of the BBC's first topical news programme in 1956.
Stevens will take the role of Morris Townsend, played by Montgomery Clift in the Hollywood drama.
Ford is sponsoring this fall's commercial-free premiere of 24, a gripping terrorist drama on Fox, and getting long-form ads before or afterward and a role for the new Ford F-150.
"Alongside programmes like Doctor Who, Torchwood and Pobol y Cwm, the potential move of Casualty to Wales could play a central role in our drive to build a sustainable and world class centre of excellence for drama in Wales, " she said.
Paltrow - who previously had a singing role in 2000 film Duets - features on two eligible tracks taken from her country music drama, Country Strong.
Consider police officer Troy Smith, who is serving a similar role, albeit in a different field, on the set of the post-Katrina cop drama K-Ville.
Controversy continues to boost the Kathryn Bigelow-directed drama's profile, but great word-of-mouth seems to be playing just as big of a role in "Zero Dark Thirty's" success.
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