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!
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