BAFTA Nominations for 2014 are in: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Gravity, Philomena and 12 Years a Slave lead the way

A couple of days ago, we brought you the scoop on the nominees for BAFTA’s Rising Star Award. Now the rest of the nominations have come in and there’s a couple of the usual surprises and snubs.

Best Film

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Outstanding British Film

Gravity

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Philomena

Rush

Saving Mr Banks

The Selfish Giant

Outstanding Debut For a British Writer, Director or Producer

Colin Carberry (Writer), Glenn Patterson (Writer) Good Vibrations

Kelly Marcel (Writer) Saving Mr. Banks

Kieran Evans (Director/Writer) Kelly + Victor

Paul Wright (Director/Writer), Polly Stokes (Producer) For Those in Peril

Scott Graham (Director/Writer) Shell

Best Director

Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave

David O’Russell – American Hustle

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay

Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell – American Hustle

Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine

Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron – Gravity

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis

Bob Nelson – Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay

John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave

Richard LaGravense – Behind the Candelabra

Billy Ray – Captain Phillips

Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – Philomena

Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Leading Actor

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Leonardo Di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Best Leading Actress

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr Banks

Judi Dench – Philomena

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper – American Hustle

Daniel Bruhl – Rush

Matt Damon – Behind the Candelabra

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Julia Roberts – August: Osage County

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Oprah Winfrey – The Butler

Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine

Best Foreign Language Film

The Act of Killing

Blue is the Warmest Colour

The Great Beauty

Metro Manila

Wadjda

Best Documentry

The Act of Killing

The Armstrong Lie

Blackfish

Tim’s Vermeer

We Steal Secret: The Story of WikiLeaks

Best Animated Film

Despicable Me 2

Frozen

Monsters University

Best Original Music

12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer

The Book Thief – John Williams

Captain Phillips – Henry Jackman

Gravity – Stephen Price

Saving Mr Banks – Thomas Newman

Best Cinematography

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Saving Mr Banks

Best Editing

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Rush

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Production Design

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Behind the Candelabra

Gravity

The Great Gatsby

Best Costume Design

American Hustle

Behind the Candelabra

The Great Gatsby

The Invisible Woman

Saving Mr Banks

Best Make-up and Hair

American Hustle

Behind the Candelabra

The Butler

The Great Gatsby

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Sound

All is Lost

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Rush

Best Special Visual Effects

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Iron Man 3

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best British Short Animation

Everything I Can See From Here

I am Tom Moody

Sleeping with the Fishes

Best British Short Film

Island Queen

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Orbit Ever After

Room 8

Sea View

The EE Rising Star Award

Dane DeHaan

George MacKay

Lupita Nyong’o

Will Poulter

Lea Seydoux

12 Years a Slave has an impressive haul with 9 nominations, as did American Hustle, but Gravity leads the way with 11. Captain Phillips scored 6 and Philomena, Saving Mr Banks, Behind the Candelabra, The Wolf of Wall Street, Blue Jasmine, Nebraska and Inside Llewyn Davis all made a great impression. Rush, The Great Gatsby, Gravity and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug all dominated the technical awards. Something I’m not convinced by is the nominees of the Best British Film award. Mandela, Philomena and The Selfish Giant are fair enough but is having a Brit on the producing credits really justifying Gravity (directed by a Mexican), Rush (directed by a Oklahoman) and Saving Mr Banks (directed by a Texan).

As for who will win, Best Film I’d narrow it down to 12 Years, American Hustle and Captain Phillips. Sandra Bullock (Gravity) may just pip Emma Thompson (Saving Mr Banks) to Best Leading Actress while I reckon Tom Hanks has Best Actor in the bag. Oprah Winfrey and Daniel Bruhl seem  like the most likely to respectively win Best Supporting Actress and Actor.

Alfonso Cuaron is my favourite for Best Director and I also predict American Hustle to win Best Original Screenplay and either The Wolf of Wall Street or Philomena for Best Adapted. I’d bet on Frozen for Best Animated Film but Gravity would probably win the most awards on the night but it’ll miss out on the main award of Best Film.

The event itself is on February 16th and here, on Tuorhoth Movies, we hope to be bringing live as-it-happens news updates so stay tuned. By for now!

Awards special with BAFTA Rising Star and PGoA nominations

The PGoA, or Producers Guild of America, aren’t the most mainstream of Award Ceremonies but they often give us a sneak peek at what’s going to make it big at the Oscars and BAFTAs. The nominated entries were:

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:

American Hustle – Producers: Megan Ellison, Jon Gordon, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle – Director: David O’Russell

Blue Jasmine – Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum – Woody Allen

Captain Phillips – Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin – Paul Greengrass

Dallas Buyers Club – Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter – Jean Marc Vallee

Gravity – Alfonso Cuaron, David Heyman – Alfonso Cauron

Her – Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay – Spike Jonze

Nebraska – Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa – Alexander Payne

Saving Mr Banks – Ian Collie, Alison Owen, Philip Steuer – John Lee Hancock

12 Years a Slave – Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner – Steve McQueen

The Wolf of Wall Street – Riza Aziz, Emma Koskoff, Joey McFarland – Martin Scorsese

Outstanding Producer of an Animated Theatrical Motion Picture:

The Croods –  Kristine Belson, Jane Hartwell – Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders

Despicable Me 2 – Janet Healy, Chris Meledandri – Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud

Epic – Jerry Davis, Lori Forte – Chris Wedge

Frozen – Peter Del Vecho – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

Monsters University – Kori Rae – Dan Scanlon

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:

A Place at the Table – Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush – Kristi Jacobsen, Lori Silverbush

Far Out Isn’t Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story – Brad Bernstein, Rick Cikowski – Brad Bernstein

Life According to Sam – Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine, Miriam Weintraub – Sean Fine, Andrea Nix

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks – Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger – Alex Gibney

Which Way Is The Front Line From Here?  The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington – James Brabazon, Nick Quested – Sebastian Junger

If you really want the TV results than I’ll skip over them quickly. In the mini-series and TV movies category, the nominees were American Horror Story: Asylum, Behind the Candelabra, Killing Kennedy, Phil Spector and Top of the Lake. The Norman Felton Award for episodic drama was spearheaded by Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Homeland and House of Cards while the Danny Thomas Award for episodic comedy nominations of 2014 featured 30 Rock, Arrested Development, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and Veep.

The only other scrap of news from today would be the confirmation of BAFTA’s Rising Star nominees. The award, now sponsored by EE, has had previous winners such as James McAvoy, Shia LaBeouf, Eva Green, Kristen Stewart and Tom Hardy while unlucky nominees have included Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Chris O’Dowd, Eddie Redmayne, Elizabeth Olsen, Rachel McAdams, Michelle Williams, Emily Blunt, Naomie Harris, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Sienna Miller, Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Rebecca Hall, Gemma Arteton, Adnrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Carey Mulligan, Suraj Sharma, Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Andrea Riseborough so we can expect big things from this year’s lot.

Lupita Nyong’o is one of the breakout stars of harrowing Oscar favourite 12 Years a Slave who’s picked up a Rising Star nom but I’m afraid that this means she won’t be in consideration for Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs. Lea Seydoux is a French actress who took the lead role in Palme D’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour which’ll certainly pick up Best Foreign Language Film. George MacKay is one of the busiest young British actors of the moment after bringing out lead roles in Sunshine on Leith, For Those in Peril and How I Live Now all on the same day, October 4th. Will Poulter has moved on from Son of Rambo and being the best thing in the third Narnia film to producing hits with successful comedies Wild Bill and We’re the Millers. Dane DeHaan is ready-made box office material after proving himself as one to watch with Chronicle, Lincoln, Kill Your Darlings, Lawless and The Place Beyond the Pines as well as landing the huge role of Harry Osborn in this year’s superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

The rest of this year’s BAFTA nominees will be announced this Wednesday so expect full coverage from Tuorhoth Movies. By for now!

Star Wars 7 for Britain open auditions, Gemma Arteton part of search for 2014 BAFTA Rising Star and Favreau for Jungle Book

I remember names like Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Kermode being part of the judging panel for the BAFTA Rising Star Award over the years. Now Gemma Arteton, who’s impressed in supporting roles in Quantum of Solace, Prince of Persia and Clash of the Titans and recently starred with Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck in thriller Runner Runner, has been recruited by the British Academy of Film and Television to help select next year’s nominees and winner alongside Empire Magazine’s Chris Hewitt, Harry Potter’s casting director Karen Lindsay-Stewart, In Bruges producer Peter Czernin and Nanny McPhee director Kirk Smith. If you think it’s a random pick at today’s talented youth then think again. Previous winners of the award include James McAvoy (2005), Eva Green (2006), Shia LaBeouf (2007), Noel Clarke (2008), Kristen Stewart (2009), Tom Hardy (2010), Adam Deacon (2011) and most recently Juno Temple.

Jon Favreau started his directing career with family fantasies like Elf and Zathura. After that, he took to the more adult superhero franchise starters Iron Man and Iron Man 2. He took a quick break to TV, directing episodes of The Office, Revolution and About A Boy, but he’s back to cinema next year with Robert Downey Jr comedy Chef (May 9th 2014). He’s now in talks for a new remake of the classic Disney animation The Jungle Book, itself based upon the Rudyard Kipling novel.

Deadline interviewed the man on his new project. “I can’t say that much, but there is an interesting take that could be very cool and the hope is to relaunch a family brand with certain mythic elements. It is my first real family film since Elf, and there are action elements and visual effects that I feel like my experience on the Iron Man films are going to be useful.”

The aforementioned Benedict Cumberbatch, Saorise Ronan, Sullivan Stapleton, Daniel Day Lewis and more recently Chiwetel Ejiofor are just some of the names rumoured to be in JJ Abrams sci-fi epic reboot Star Wars: Episode VII. It’s now revealed that Disney will be recruiting for roles with open auditions throughout the UK. Here’s the casting call.

Seeking young woman to play 17-18 year old. Must be beautiful, smart and athletic. Open to all ethnicities (including bi and multi-racial) Must be over 16.  

Rachel – Was quite young when she lost her parents. With no other family, she was forced to make her way in a tough, dangerous town. Now 17, she has become street smart and strong. She is able to take care of herself using humor and guts to get by.  Always a survivor, never a victim, she remains hopeful that she can move away from this harsh existence to a better life. She is always thinking of what she can do to move ahead.

Seeking young man to play 19-23 years old. Must be handsome, smart and athletic. Must be over 18.  

Thomas – Has grown up without a father’s influence. Without the model of being a man, he doesn’t have the strongest sense of himself. Despite this he is smart, capable and shows courage when it is needed. He can appreciate the absurdities in life and understands you can’t take life too seriously.

I first thought that Thomas and Rachel don’t sound like the kind of names that you’d find in the Star Wars universe but they could be the working names of Han and Leia’s children to throw the public of the scent. The names I mentioned above were all of well established stars so they’ve got to try and mix up the cast with some unfamiliar, but, talented, faces. After all, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher had seen very little screen time before landing the roles of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia while Alec Guinness was already a screen legend at the time of A New Hope’s release. We’re likely to do a special on what the future Star Wars titles could be in the future.

A meet and greet with casting directors will be coming to:

Amolfini Art Centre, Bristol – November 9th and 10th, 11 am to 3 pm

Progress Centre, Manchester – November 16th and 17th, 10 am to 2 pm

South Block Wasp Studios, Glasgow – November 16th and 17th, 10 am to 2 pm

Filmbase, Dublin – November 23rd and 24th, 10.30 am to 2.30 pm

Apiary, London – November 23rd and 24th, 10 am to 2 pm

You will also need warm clothing as some venues may not be heated and bring a headshot of yourself for the casting directors to keep. You could be landing a four year long role on the world’s biggest franchise so good luck!

Star Wars: Episode VII – Christmas 2015

The Jungle Book – 2016?