It may be cold and miserable outside but the film award season is here to keep you company on these nasty winter evenings. The glitz and glamour of Hollywood will be descending on our capital very soon as London once again hosts the BAFTA awards ceremony. There’s nothing quite like the BAFTA’s, which are essentially a British version of the Oscars, it is an event which celebrates all that is good about British film. It even has something the other ceremonies don’t; a fan voted award honouring the up-and-comers in the acting circuit.
This morning Stephen Fry and Sam Claflin braved getting up whilst it was still dark to host the award announcements at the prestigious BAFTA building. 2014 was a very strong year for film, with the early releases of this year well up for the challenge. Earlier this week we brought you the EE Rising Star nominations (here if you missed it) and we can now reveal whose up for everything else.
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
PADDINGTON
PRIDE
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
’71
UNDER THE SKIN
THE IMITATION GAME
BEST FILM
BIRDMAN
BOYHOOD
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
THE IMITATION GAME
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
BEST DIRECTOR
Richard Linklater BOYHOOD
Wes Anderson THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
James Marsh THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Damien Chazelle WHIPLASH
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu BIRDMAN
LEADING ACTOR
Michael Keaton BIRDMAN
Eddie Redmayne THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Ralph Finnes THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Jake Gyllenhaal NIGHTCRAWLER
Benedict Cumberbatch THE IMITATION GAME
LEADING ACTRESS
Reese Witherspoon WILD
Julianne Moore STILL ALICE
Amy Adams BIG EYES
Felicity Jones THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Rosamund Pike GONE GIRL
SUPPORTING ACTOR
J.K Simmons WHIPLASH
Steve Carrell FOXCATCHER
Mark Ruffalo FOXCATCHER
Ethan Hawke BOYHOOD
Edward Norton BIRDMAN
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette BOYHOOD
Keira Knightley THE IMITATION GAME
Renee Russo NIGHTCRAWLER
Emma Stone BIRDMAN
Imelda Staunton PRIDE
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BIRDMAN Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo
BOYHOOD Richard Linklater
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Wes Anderson
NIGHTCRAWLER Dan Gilroy
WHIPLASH Damien Chazelle
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
AMERICAN SNIPER Jason Hall
GONE GIRL Gillian Flynn
THE IMITATION GAME Graham Moore
PADDINGTON Paul King
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Anthony McCarten
CINEMATOGRAPHY
BIRDMAN Emmanuel Lubezki
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Robert Yeoman
IDA Lukasz Zal, Ryzsard Lenczewski
INTERSTELLAR Hoyte van Hoytema
MR. TURNER Dick Pope
SOUND
AMERICAN SNIPER Walt Martin, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
BIRDMAN Thomas Varga, Martin Hernández, Aaron Glascock, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Wayne Lemmer, Christopher Scarabosio, Pawel Wdowczak
THE IMITATION GAME John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Martin Jensen
WHIPLASH Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann
ORIGINAL MUSIC
BIRDMAN Antonio Sanchez
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Alexandre Desplat
INTERSTELLAR Hans Zimmer
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Jóhann Jóhannsson
UNDER THE SKIN Mica Levi
EDITING
BIRDMAN Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Barney Pilling
THE IMITATION GAME William Goldenberg
NIGHTCRAWLER John Gilroy
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Jinx Godfrey
WHIPLASH Tom Cross
PRODUCTION DESIGN
BIG EYES Rick Heinrichs, Shane Vieau
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock
THE IMITATION GAME Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald
INTERSTELLAR Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
MR. TURNER Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts
COSTUME DESIGN
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Milena Canonero
THE IMITATION GAME Sammy Sheldon Differ
INTO THE WOODS Colleen Atwood
MR. TURNER Jacqueline Durran
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Steven Noble
MAKE UP & HAIR
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Frances Hannon
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White
INTO THE WOODS Peter Swords King, J. Roy Helland
MR. TURNER Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Jan Sewell
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Nicolas Aithadi
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White
INTERSTELLAR Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Elaine Constantine (Writer/Director) NORTHERN SOUL
Gregory Burke (Writer), Yann Demange (Director) ’71
Hong Khaou (Writer/Director) LILTING
Paul Katis (Director/Producer), Andrew De Lotbiniere (Producer) KAJAKI: THE TRUE STORY
Stephen Beresford (Writer), David Livingstone (Producer) PRIDE
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
THE BIGGER PICTURE Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka
MONKEY LOVE EXPERIMENTS Ainslie Henderson, Cam Fraser, Will Anderson
MY DAD Marcus Armitage
BRITISH SHORT FILM
BOOGALOO AND GRAHAM Brian J. Falconer, Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
EMOTIONAL FUSEBOX Michael Berliner, Rachel Tunnard
THE KÁRMÁN LINE Campbell Beaton, Dawn King, Tiernan Hanby, Oscar Sharp
SLAP Islay Bell-Webb, Michelangelo Fano, Nick Rowland
THREE BROTHERS Aleem Khan, Matthieu de Braconier, Stephanie Paeplow
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
IDA
LEVIATHAN
THE LUNCHBOX
TRASH
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
DOCUMENTARY
VIRUNGA
20 FEET FROM STARDOM
20,000 DAYS OF EARTH
FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
CITIZEN FOUR
ANIMATED FILM
BIG HERO 6
THE BOXTROLLS
THE LEGO MOVIE
Surprisingly it is THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL that leads with eleven nominations, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING and BIRDMAN are close behind with ten. As you can see there are a lot of strong contenders with the Best Actor category the hardest to call. The winners will be announced during the ceremony which will once more be held at the very posh Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on Sunday 8th February.
