James McAvoy was nominated for a British Academy Film Award.
Atonement (film) . It also garnered fourteen nominations at the 61st British Academy Film Awards , winning both Best Film and Production Design , and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture -- Drama . The British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) is an independent charity that supports , develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image -- film , television and game in the United Kingdom . James McAvoy . The critically acclaimed romantic drama war film Atonement ( 2007 ) earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination and his second BAFTA nomination .