The 2015 BAFTA Awards have been revealed and if you’re of the group that believes they hold any kind of influence over the Oscars or serve as any kind of predictor, well, you may be moving Boyhood back to the top line of your Best Picture and Director predictions as Richard Linklater‘s twelve-year project took home three wins including Best Picture, Director and Supporting Actress, though it was The Grand Budapest Hotel, which lead the nomination field with 11 noms, that lead all winners taking home five awards, all below the line outside of the win for Best Original Screenplay.
Personally I’m not ready to move Birdman below Boyhood in either Picture or Director as it only took home one award, Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki, though one interesting category to keep an eye on is Best Actor at the Oscars as the precursors suggest it will be Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) taking home the win after winning not only a BAFTA award, but also a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award. I still have Michael Keaton on that top line and I’m still not ready to move Redmayne to #1.
Otherwise, no big surprises here though fans of The Lego Movie will be happy to see that while it wasn’t nominated for an Oscar, it picked up another Animated Feature Film win with the BAFTA org.
I’ve included the full list of nominees below with the winners highlighted in bold red text.
Best Film
- Birdman
- Boyhood
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- The Theory of Everything
Best Director
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
- Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
- Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- James Marsh (The Theory of Everything)
- Damien Chazelle (Whiplash
Best Actor In A Leading Role
- Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
- Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
- Michael Keaton (Birdman)
- Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything
Best Actress In A Leading Role
- Amy Adams (Big Eyes)
- Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
- Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
- Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
- Reese Witherspoon (Wild
Best Actor In A Supporting Role
- Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
- Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
- Edward Norton (Birdman)
- Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
- J.K. Simmons (Whiplash
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
- Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
- Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
- Rene Russo (Nightcrawler)
- Imelda Staunton (Pride)
- Emma Stone (Birdman
Best Original Screenplay
- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo (Birdman)
- Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
- Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler)
- Damien Chazelle (Whiplash
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Jason Hall (American Sniper)
- Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
- Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)
- Paul King (Paddington)
- Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything
Outstanding British Film
- ’71
- The Imitation Game
- Paddington
- Pride
- The Theory of Everything
- Under the Skin
Best Documentary
- 20 Feet From Stardom
- 20,000 Days On Earth
- Citizenfour
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Virunga
EE Rising Star Award
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
- Jack O’Connell
- Margot Robbie
- Miles Teller
- Shailene Woodley
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
- Elaine Constantine (Northern Soul)
- Gregory Burke, Yann DeMange (’71)
- Hong Khaou (Lilting)
- Paul Katis, Andrew De Lotbiniere (Kajaki: the True Story)
- Stephen Beresford, David Livingstone (Pride
Best Film Not In the English Language
- Ida
- Leviathan
- The Lunchbox
- Trash
- Two Days, One Night
Best Animated Film
- Big Hero 6
- The Boxtrolls
- The Lego Movie
Best Original Music
- Antonio Sanchez (Birdman)
- Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)
- Johann Johannsson (The Theory of Everything)
- Mica Levi (Under the Skin
Best Cinematography
- Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)
- Robert Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Lukasz Zal, Ryzsard Lenczewski (Ida)
- Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar)
- Dick Pope (Mr. Turner
Best Editing
- Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione (Birdman)
- Barney Pilling (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- William Goldenberg (The Imitation Game)
- John Gilroy (Nightcrawler)
- Jinx Godfrey (The Theory of Everything)
- Tom Cross (Whiplash)
Best Production Design
- Rick Heinrichs, Shane Vieau (Big Eyes)
- Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana McDonald (The Imitation Game)
- Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis (Interstellar)
- Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts (Mr. Turner
Best Costume Design
- Milena Canonero (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Sammy Sheldon Differ (The Imitation Game)
- Colleen Atwood (Into the Woods)
- Jacqueline Durran (Mr. Turner)
- Steven Noble (The Theory of Everything)
Best Makeup and Hair
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Into the Woods
- Mr. Turner
- The Theory of Everything
Best Sound
- American Sniper
- Birdman
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- Whiplash
Best Special Visual Effects
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Interstellar
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
Best Short Film
- Boogaloo And Graham
- Emotional Fusebox
- The Karman Line
- Slap
- Three Brothers
Best Short Animation
- The Bigger Picture
- Monkey Love Experiments
- My Dad
