Welcome to our BAFTA hub for 2015. Tonight is the biggest night of the British film calender as the esteemed academy elects its triumphant films, directors and stars. Keep on refreshing the page for the latest updates.
If you’re not preoccupied before the ceremony, try out our prediction game. Rank the nominees for Best Film, Director, Actor/Actress, Supporting Actor/Actress, Cinematography, British Film and Rising Star from 1-5. If your number one pick is correct you receive five points, number two gets four, number three gets three and so on. Comment your score from a maximum of 59. Unsure where to start? Try our own predictions as a primer. Get the full nominations list here.
The red carpet lineup is amassing: Benedict Cumberbatch! Eddie Redmayne! Keira Knightley! Steve Carell! Ralph Fiennes! Ethan Hawke! Mike Leigh! Jack O’Connell! Michael Keaton! Mark Strong!
Here we go!
Stephen Fry begins his annual interrogation of the esteemed audience members. Rosamund Pike! Julie Walters! Edward Norton!
Outstanding British Film:
The Theory of Everything
Pride
Under the Skin
The Imitation Game
’71
Paddington
Beckham awards the first win of the night. Does that put Theory in the front seat for Best Film?
Special Visual Effects:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Guardians of the Galaxy
It missed out on the main categories but it made up here. Jones and Hawking’s humour shining through again.
Supporting Actor:
Steve Carell – Foxcatcher
Edward Norton – Birdman
Ethawn Hawke – Boyhood
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
JK Simmons – Whiplash
Witherspoon on her way to Leading Actress as she awards J Jonah Jameson a BAFTA.
Next two British greats award a third.
Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema:
BBC Films (Revolutionary Road, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Jane Eyre, Made in Deganham, Notes on a Scandal, Billy Elliott, Coriolanus, Pride, An Education, Quartet, In the Loop, Philomena, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa)
The Butler’s Cuba Gooding Jr dishes out the second acting category.
Supporting Actress:
Rene Russo – Nightcrawler
Emma Stone – Birdman
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Imelda Staunton – Pride
A rising star and Bilbo himself award Birdman’s first win.
Cinematography:
Mr Turner (Dick Pope)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Robert Yeoman)
Interstellar (Hoyte Van Hoytema)
Ida (Lukasz Zal)
Birdman (Emmanuel Lubezki)
The ever sharply suited Loki and MI6 Head celebrate a great career beginning.
British Debut:
’71
Northern Soul
Lilting
Kajaki
Pride
A fitting tribute to a true great, Lord Richard Attenborough, from Prince William and Robert Downey Jr.
Best Actress favourite Julianne Moore arrives.
Best Original Screenplay:
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro Gonalez Inarritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone, Armando Bo -Birdman
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
Two JJ Abrams collaborators on stage. Shared universe? It’s all a conspiracy!
Foreign Language:
Leviathan
The Lunchbox
Two Days, One Night
Ida
Trash
He’s semi-bald! Future Lex Luthor Jesse Eisenberg and Noomi Rapace turn up.
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Anthony McCarten – The Theory of Everything
Graham Moore – The Imitation Game
Jason Dean Hall – American Sniper
Paul King – Paddington
We taking a minute off to honour the In Memoriam section.
X-Men’s James McAvoy arrives – we forgot he was Scottish again.
EE Rising Star:
Gugu Mbatha Raw
Miles Teller
Shailene Woodley
Jack O’Connell
Margot Robbie
Your new one to watch is Jack O’Connell, one of the many protogee’s of E4’s Skins who’s starred in the acclaimed likes of Starred Up, Unbroken and ’71.
Brick is back.
Director:
Alejandro Gonzale Inarritu – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
James Marsh – The Theory of Everything
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Only God Forgive’s Kristen Scott Thomas compliments her opposite number.
Leading Actor:
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Another crossover in the work: Superman V Captain America!
Leading Actress:
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Amy Adams – Big Eyes
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Reese Witherspoon – Wild
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
That was a surprise: Tom Cruise!
Film:
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Boyhood
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fellowship:
Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, Life is Sweet, High Hopes, Career Girls, Abigail’s Party, All or Nothing, Topsy Turvy, Secrets and Lies, Naked, Vera Drake, Happy Go Lucky, Another Year)
Here comes the quickfire awards.
Original Music:
Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Documentary:
Citizenfour
Makeup and Hair:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Production Design:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
British Short Film:
Boogaloo and Graham
British Short Animation:
The Bigger Picture
Editing:
Whiplash
Sound:
Whiplash
Animated Film:
The Lego Movie
Costume Design:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
We managed 53/59 so comment how you did. Here’s the winners leaderboard.
The Grand Budapest Hotel – 5
Boyhood, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash – 3
Ida, Interstellar, The Lego Movie, Pride, Citizenfour, Still Alice, Birdman – 1
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