Tuorhoth’s BAFTA 2015 predictions

The King’s Speech, The Artist, Argo, 12 Years a Slave and now who? The countdown begins as our predictions for the 2015 British Academy Film Awards are in. Below you can find our picks from the greatly tightly fought race between Birdman, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything. In the acting categories, awards regulars Julianne Moore, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ralph Fiennes and Amy Adams are going up against new-to-the-scene Michael Keaton, Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch and Rosamund Pike. For director, newcomer Damien Chazelle may cause an upset for Richard Linklater, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu or Wes Anderson.

Best Film:

1. The Theory of Everything
2. Boyhood
3. The Imitation Game
4. Birdman
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Director

1. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Birdman
2. Richard Linklater – Boyhood
3. James Marsh – The Theory of Everything
4. Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Damien Chazelle – Whiplash

Best Actor:

1. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
2. Michael Keaton – Birdman
3. Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
4. Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
5. Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Actress:

1. Julianne Moore – Still Alice
2. Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
3. Reese Witherspoon – Wild
4. Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
5. Amy Adams – Big Eyes

Best Supporting Actor:

1. JK Simmons – Whiplash
2. Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
3. Edward Norton – Birdman
4. Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
5. Steve Carell – Foxcatcher

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
2. Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
3. Imelda Staunton – Pride
4. Emma Stone – Birdman
5. Rene Russo – Nightcrawler

Best Original Screenplay:

1. Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
2. Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone, Armando Bo – Birdman
4. Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
5. Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Graham Moore – The Imitation Game
2. Anthony McCarten – The Theory of Everything
3. Paul King, Hamish McColl – Paddington
4. Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
5. Jason Dean Hall – American Sniper

Best Cinematography:

1. Hoyte Van Hoytema – Interstellar
2. Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman
3. Dick Pope – Mr Turner
4. Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski – Ida
5. Robert Yeoman – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Outstanding British Film:

1. Pride
2. The Theory of Everything
3. The Imitation Game
4. Paddington
5. Under the Skin
6. ’71

Best Animated Film:

1. The Lego Movie
2. The Boxtrolls
3. Big Hero 6

EE Rising Star:

1. Jack O’Connell (Starred Up, Unbroken, ’71)
2. Margot Robbie (About Time, The Wolf of Wall Street, Tarzan, Suicide Squad)
3. Gugu Mbatha Raw (Belle, Beyond the Lights, Jupiter Ascending)
4. Miles Teller (Divergent, That Awkward Moment, Two Night Stand, Whiplash, The Fantastic Four)
5. Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars, White Bird in a Blizzard)

The BAFTAs commence tomorrow.