Last night the 2014 BAFTA Awards took place, hosted by Stephen Fry from London’s Royal Opera House and it was 12 Years a Slave taking Best Film and Best Actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor while Gravity was honored for Outstanding British Film and Alfonso Cuaron was named Best Director. Interestingly enough, 12 Years a Slave only won the two awards while Gravity was the night’s biggest winner taking home an additional four awards in technical categories, including Score (Steven Price) and Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki).
It’s interesting to see a list of winners where Dallas Buyers Club wasn’t nominated for a single award considering its two main characters played by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto are, more or less, considered locks to win Best Actor and Supporting Actor. As for the BAFTA Awards, it was Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) taking Best Supporting Actor and while Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) added another Best Actress award to her mantle it was Jennifer Lawrence (America Hustle) taking Best Supporting Actor.
America Hustle‘s Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell won for Best Original Screenplay while the Adapted Screenplay award went to Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena).
I have included all of the night’s winners directly below and have also already updated the Oscar Overture with the BAFTA winner for Best Film as well as added the wins for Gravity and Captain Phillips at the Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards.
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 BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
- Kieran Evans (Director/Writer) (Kelly + Victor)
- Colin Carberry (Writer) and Glenn Patterson (Writer) Good Vibrations)
- Kelly Marcel (Writer) (Saving Mr. Banks)
- Paul Wright (Director/Writer) and Polly Stokes (Producer) (For Those in Peril)
- Scott Graham (Director/Writer) (Shell)
DIRECTOR
- Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
- Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
- David O. Russell (American Hustle)
- Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)
- Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (American Hustle)
- Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)
- Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón (Gravity)
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)
- Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena)
- John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
- Richard LaGravenese (Behind the Candelabra)
- Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)
- Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)
LEADING ACTOR
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
- Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
- Christian Bale (American Hustle)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)
LEADING ACTRESS
- Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
- Amy Adams (American Hustle)
- Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
- Judi Dench (Philomena)
- Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
- Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
- Daniel Bruhl (Rush)
- Matt Damon (Behind the Candelabra)
- Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
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)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- The Great Beauty
- The Act of Killing
- Blue Is the Warmest Colour
- Metro Manila
- Wadjda
DOCUMENTARY
- The Act of Killing
- The Armstrong Lie
- Blackfish
- Tim’s Vermeer
- We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks
ANIMATED FILM
- Frozen
- Despicable Me 2
- Monsters University
ORIGINAL MUSIC
- Gravity – Steven Price
- 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer
- The Book Thief – John Williams
- Captain Phillips – Henry Jackman
- Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman
CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
- 12 Years a Slave – Sean Bobbitt
- Captain Phillips – Barry Ackroyd
- Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel
- Nebraska – Phedon Papamichael
EDITING
- Rush – Dan Hanley and Mike Hill
- 12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker
- Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
- Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
- The Wolf of Wall Street – Thelma Schoonmaker
PRODUCTION DESIGN
- The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn
- 12 Years a Slave – Adam Stockhausen and Alice Baker
- American Hustle – Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler
- Behind the Candelabra – Howard Cummings
- Gravity – Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woodlard
COSTUME DESIGN
- The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin
- American Hustle – Michael Wilkinson
- Behind the Candelabra – Ellen Mirojnick
- The Invisible Woman – Michael O’Connor
- Saving Mr. Banks – Daniel Orlandi
MAKE-UP & HAIR
- American Hustle – Evelyne Noraz and Lori McCoy-Bell
- Behind the Candelabra – Kate Biscoe and Marie Larkin
- The Butler – Debra Denson, Beverly Jo Pryor and Candace Neal
- The Great Gatsby – Maurizio Silvi and Kerry Warn
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor and Rick Findlater
SOUND
- Gravity – Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri and Chris Munro
- All Is Lost – Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg and Gillian Arthur
- Captain Phillips – Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro and Oliver Tarney
- Inside Llewyn Davis – Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay and Greg Orloff
- Rush – Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer, Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, and Frank Kruse
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
- Gravity – Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould and Nikki Penny
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
- Iron Man 3 – Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
- Pacific Rim – Hal Hickel, John Knoll, Lindy De Quattro and Nigel Sumner
- Star Trek Into Darkness – Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton, Patrick Tubach and Roger Guyett
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
- Sleeping With the Fishes
- Everything I Can See From Here
- I Am Tom Moody
BRITISH SHORT FILM
- Room 8
- Island Queen
- Keeping Up With the Joneses
- Orbit Ever After
- Sea View
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
- Will Poulter
- Dane DeHaan
- George McKay
- Lupita Nyong’o
- Lea Seydoux
