2014 BAFTA Award Winners Led by '12 Years a Slave' and 'Gravity'

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 CuarÃ³n (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 CuarÃ³n and JonÃ¡s CuarÃ³n (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 CuarÃ³n 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