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Summary of results:
12 Years A Slave has won Best Film, and Chiwetel Ejiofor has won Leading Actor.
Gravity has won six awards, including Director and Outstanding British Film.
American Hustle has won three awards, including Original Screenplay and Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence.
Cate Blanchett has won Leading Actress for Blue Jasmine
Barkhad Abdi has won Supporting Actor for Captain Phillips, his debut film.
The Great Gatsby has won two awards (for Costume and Production Design).
Philomena, The Act of Killing, The Great Beauty, Frozen and Rush have won one award each.
WINNER INFORMATION:
Categories listed in order of presentation and will be updated as the ceremony progresses.
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Presented by Oprah Winfrey
This award is presented in honour of Alexander Korda. It is presented to the producer, director and writer(s) of the film.
This award was created to recognise initiative and endeavour in British film, aiming to reward outstanding and original British filmmaking which shows exceptional creativity and innovation. To be eligible, a film must have significant British creative involvement and be certified as British under one of the UK Film Council’s three definitions (http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/qualifying). Only exceptionally will a non - certified film be considered. A special chapter of BAFTA members vote to decide five nominations; a specially assembled jury then picks a sixth nomination from the ten films .
WINNER:
GRAVITY - Alfonso Cuarón (Producer/Director/Writer), David Heyman (Producer), Jonás Cuarón (Writer)
Gravity is the story of an astronaut’s struggle for survival when her shuttle is destroyed by space debris.
Alfonso Cuarón won the Film Not in the English Language category for Pan’s Labyrinth in 2007, and the Feature Film category at the 2004 Children’s Awards for Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004. He was also nominated for Outstanding British Film for Harry Potter, and for Film Not in the English Language and Original Screenplay for And Your Mother Too in 2003.
Heyman produced the Harry Potter films, for which he was nominated twice in this category and six times in the feature category at the British Academy Children’s Awards (winning twice). He was also nominated for a British Academy Television Award for producing the David Hare drama Page 8.
Jonás Cuarón is Alfonso’s son. His other credits include writing, directing and producing Anangaaq and The Year of the Nail.
Gravity is also nominated for Best Film. Alfonso Cuaron is also nominated for Original Screenplay, Editing, Director and Best Film.
Previous nominations:
Alfonso Cuarón : 5 (2 wins) Includes a British Academy Children’s Awards win
Heyman: 9 (2 wins) Includes six British Academy Children’s Award nominations (2 wins) and a British Academy Television Award nomination
Jonás Cuarón: None.
Watch Alfonso Cuarón’s 2007 BAFTA Life in Pictures interview
SHORT FILM and SHORT ANIMATION
Presented by Samantha Barks & Luke Evans
The Short Film Awards are open to entries from the UK only and provide an opportunity for British filmmakers to demonstrate their skills to the world. This Award encourages the essential growth and development of new talent within the British film industry. Films are only eligible if they demonstrate a substantial British contribution in the majority of the following areas: production company, finance, director, producer, writer, key animation talent, principal cast and crew. Films must be no more than 40 minutes in duration. Nominations for these awards are decided by a jury, and the winners voted for by a special chapter of BAFTA members.
For more information about the BAFTA tour of the nominated films in the shorts categories, click here
SHORT FILM
WINNER
ROOM 8 - James W. Griffiths (Director), Sophie Venner (Producer)
A prisoner makes a fantastical discovery when thrown into a cell with a terse and unsettling inmate; but in an audacious endeavour to escape his captors, he unearths a malevolent trick and the secrets of the cell are fully revealed.
Griffiths graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2011.
Previous nominations: None
SHORT ANIMATION
WINNER
SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES - Yousif Al-Khalifa (Director), James Walker (Producer), Sarah Woolner (Writer),
Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger, more at ease with her fish than her customers, until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.
All three nominees are recent graduates from the National Film and Television School.
Previous nominations:None
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Presented by Richard E Grant & Olga Kurylenko
This award is presented to the Production Designer and the Set Decorator.
WINNER
THE GREAT GATSBY -Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator)
Martin is a costume and production designer, and is nominated in both categories for The Great Gatsby. She won both categories for Strictly Ballroom in 1993, and was nominated in both for Moulin Rouge in 2002. She also won Production Design for William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet in 1998. All of the above films were directed by her husband, Baz Luhrmann.
Dunn previously worked with Martin on Australia. Her other credits include House of Wax, Ghost Ship and The Island of Dr Moreau.
Previous nominations: Martin: 5 (3 wins), Dunn: None
SOUND
Presented by Richard E Grant & Olga Kurylenko
The Sound award is presented to up to five of the film’s key sound team members, usually the Sound Designer and/or Supervising Sound Editor, the Re - Recording Mixer(s) and the Production Mixer(s)
WINNER
GRAVITY -Glenn Freemantle (Sound Designer/ Supervising Sound Editor), Skip Lievsay (Re-recording Mixer), Christopher Benstead (Music Editor), Niv Adiri (Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer), Chris Munro (Production Mixer)
Freemantle won this category in 2009 for Slumdog Millionaire, and was also nominated for 127 Hours and Backbeat.
Lievsay was previously nominated for his work on True Grit, No Country for Old Men and The Silence of the Lambs, and is also nominated this year for Inside Llewyn Davis.
Benstead’s other credits include Thor, Clash of the Titans, Nine and Sleuth.
Adiri’s other credits include The Book Thief, Quartet, Dredd, The Woman in Black, Shame and Marley.
Munro won this category in 2007 for Casino Royale, and was also nominated for Quantum of Solace, Black Hawk Down and Backbeat; he is also nominated this year for his work on Captain Phillips.
Previous nominations:
Freemantle: 3 (1 win), Lievsay: 3, Munro: 4 (1 win), Benstead, Adiri: None
EDITING
Presented by Imogen Poots & Jack Huston
WINNER
RUSH - Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
Hanley and Hill have a long standing editing partnership, and have worked together on all of Ron Howard’s films since Night Shift in 1982. They were previously nominated in this category for Apollo 13 in 1996 and Frost/Nixon in 2009
Previous nominations: Both: 2
DOCUMENTARY
Presented by Imogen Poots & Jack Huston
The award will be presented to the key creative talent behind the film, usually the director(s); if a producer equally shared the creative input with the director, both names may be submitted.
WINNER
THE ACT OF KILLING -Joshua Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer invited the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads to re-enact their many murders in the style of the American movies they love; he has described the result as “a documentary of the imagination”.
Oppenheimer’s previous films include The Globalisation Tapes and The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase.
Previous nominations: None
MAKE UP & HAIR
Presented by Douglas Booth & Sam Claflin
WINNER
AMERICAN HUSTLE - Evelyne Noraz (Department Head Make Up), Lori McCoy-Bell (Department Head Hair/Personal Hair Stylist for Bradley Cooper), Kathrine Gordon (Hair Design for Amy Adams and Christian Bale)
Noraz’s other credits include The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Adjustment Bureau and Tower Heist.
McCoy-Bell has been personal hair stylist for Bradley Cooper on another of other films including The Hangover trilogy, Silver Linings Playbook, The Place Beyond the Pines, and Limitless.
Gordon’s credits include Moneyball, 3:10 to Yuma, Walk the Line, Ocean’s Eleven and Transformers.
Previous nominations: None
COSTUME DESIGN
Presented by Douglas Booth & Sam Claflin
WINNER
THE GREAT GATSBY - Catherine Martin
Martin is a costume and production designer, and is nominated in both categories for The Great Gatsby. She won both categories for Strictly Ballroom in 1993, and was nominated in both for Moulin Rouge in 2002. She also won Production Design for William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet in 1998. All of the above films were directed by her husband, Baz Luhrmann.
Previous nominations: 5 (3 wins)
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Presented by Tinie Tempah & Laura Mvula
Films are eligible for this category if more than 50% of the music in them was written specifically for the film. This award is presented in honour of Anthony Asquith.
WINNER
GRAVITY -Steven Price
Price’s other credits as composer include Attack the Block and this year’s The World’s End. Earlier credits as a Music Editor include Paul, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, Made of Honour, and Batman Begins.
Previous nominations: None
ANIMATED FILM
Presented by Gillian Anderson & David Oyelowo
This award is presented to the key creative talent behind the film, usually the Director(s).
WINNER
FROZEN - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee (Directors/ Writers)
Disney film loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen.
Buck’s previously directed Disney’s Tarzan, and wrote Pocahontas. Lee previously wrote Wreck It Ralph.
Previous nominations: None
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Presented by Steve Coogan
This award is presented in honour of Carl Foreman.
This award is for a writer, director or producer‘s first feature film; they may have film credits in other roles prior to this film
WINNER
KIERAN EVANS (Director/Writer) -Kelly + Victor
For more information about Kieran Evans and the other nominees in this category, click here (18 KB)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Presented by Emma Thompson
WINNER
BARKHAD ABDI - Captain Phillips
Abdi plays Abduwali Muse, the leader of a group of Somali pirates who hijack an American container ship.
Abdi was born in Somalia, but moved to Minneapolis at the age of 14. Captain Phillips is his film debut.
Previous nominations: None
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Presented by Helen McCrory & Ray Winstone
WINNER
GRAVITY -Emmanuel Lubezki
Lubezki won this category in 2007 for Children of Men (also directed by Alfonso Cuaron). His other credits include The Tree of Life, Ali, Sleepy Hollow, Reality Bites and Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien.
Previous nominations: 1 (1 win)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Presented by Leonardo Di Caprio
WINNER
JENNIFER LAWRENCE -American Hustle
Lawrence plays Rosalyn Rosenfeld, the unpredictable wife of the con artist played by Christian Bale.
Lawrence was nominated in the Leading Actress category last year for her role in David O.Russell’s previous film, Silver Linings Playbook; she was also nominated for the Rising Star Award in 2012. Her other credits inc Winter’s Bone, X-Men: First Class, and the Hunger Games films.
Previous nominations: 1
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Presented by Juliet Stevenson
This award is presented in honour of Michael Balcon. The award is in the gift of the Academy
PETER GREENAWAY
For more information about this award, and see:
* Peter Greenaway To Receive Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema Award 13 February 2014
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Presented by Stanley Tucci
WINNER
AMERICAN HUSTLE -Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Russell won Adapted Screenplay last year for his previous film, Silver Linings Playbook. His other films include The Fighter, I Heart Huckabees and Three Kings. He is also nominated for Director for American Hustle.
This is Singer’s second feature credit after 2009’s The International.
The original screenplay by Singer was titled American Bulls**t, and was based more closely on the real life case of Melvin Weinberg, but Russell’s rewrote the characters as fictional caricatures of their real life counterparts.
Previous nominations: Russell : 1 (1 win), Singer: None.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Presented by Amy Adams
WINNER
PHILOMENA -Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
Based on The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, by Martin Sixmith (played by Coogan in the film).
Coogan has a number of Television Award nominations (and three wins) for his character Alan Partridge, and also won for his performance in The Trip in 2011. He was nominated for Outstanding Debut at the Film Awards for writing The Parole Officer, in which he also starred; his other film roles include 24 Hour Party People, Around the World in 80 Days, Night at the Museum, Coffee & Cigarettes, A Cock & Bull Story and this year’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
Pope is a producer and writer, and is currently Head of Factual Drama at ITV; he won a British Academy Television Award for producing See No Evil: The Moors Murders, and has been nominated on 6 other occasions in drama categories as a writer and/or producer. His other film credits include Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman.
Previous nominations:
Coogan: 10 (4 wins) Includes 9 nominations (4 wins) for the British Academy Television Awards
See full details of Coogan’s previous nominations and wins
Pope: 7 (1 win) All for British Academy Television Awards
See full details of Popes’s previous nominations and wins
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD
This awards is voted for by the public.
Presented by Alicia Vikander & Eddie Redmayne
WINNER
WILL POULTER
For more information about this award, Will Poulter and this year’s other nominees, click here.
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Presented by Kiefer Sutherland
This category rewards excellence both in Special Effects (physical effects created during filming, like explosions, models etc.) and Visual Effects (computer generated imagery added in post-production).
WINNER
GRAVITY -Tim Webber (Visual Effect Supervisor), Chris Lawrence (CG Supervisor), David Shirk (Animation Director), Neil Corbould (Special Effects Supervisor), Nikki Penny (Executive Producer)
Webber has been previously nominated in this category three times, for Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, Children of Men, and The Dark Knight.
Corbould has won this category three times (for The Fifth Element, Saving Private Ryan and The Day After Tomorrow) and been nominated on four other occasions.
Previous nominations: Webber- 3, Corbould- 7 (3 wins), Others- None.
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Presented by Joely Richardson & Matthew Modine
This award is presented to the Producer(s) and Director of the film.
WINNER
THE GREAT BEAUTY -Paolo Sorrentino (Director/Writer), Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima
Italian
A reflective drama about a well-known writer who takes stock of his life after receiving a shock from his past shortly after his 65th birthday.
Sorretino’s previous films include This Must Be the Place and The Consequence of Love, which were both also produced by Giuliano and Cima.
Previous nominations: None
LEADING ACTOR
Presented by Uma Thurman
WINNER
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR - 12 Years a Slave
Ejiofor plays Solomon Northrop, a free man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana.
Ejiofor was nominated for the Rising Star Award in 2006. His other credits include Dirty Pretty Things, Serenity, Kinky Boots and Children of Men.
Previous nominations: None
DIRECTOR
Presented by Michael Sheen & Maggie Gyllenhaal
This award is presented in honour of David Lean.
WINNER
GRAVITY -Alfonso Cuarón
Cuarón won the Film Not in the English Language category for Pan’s Labyrinth in 2007, and the Feature Film category at the 2004 Children’s Awards for Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004. He was also nominated for Outstanding British Film for Harry Potter, and for Film Not in the English Language and Original Screenplay for And Your Mother Too in 2003.
He is also nominated for Original Screenplay, Editing, Best Film and Outstanding British Film for Gravity this year.
Previous nominations: 5 (2 wins) Includes a British Academy Children’s Awards win
Watch Cuarón’s 2007 BAFTA Life in Pictures interview
LEADING ACTRESS
Presented by Tom Hardy
WINNER
CATE BLANCHETT - Blue Jasmine
Blanchett plays Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis, a rich Manhattan socialite who suffers a breakdown after her husband is imprisoned for fraud.
Blanchett won this award for her performance as Elizabeth I in 1999, and was nominated again when she reprised the role in The Golden Age in 2008. She also won Supporting Actress for her role as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator, and was also nominated for supporting roles in The Talented Mr Ripley in 2000 and I’m Not There in 2008. Her other roles include Babel, Notes on a Scandel, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Previous nominations: 6 (2 wins)
Watch Blanchett’s 2006 BAFTA Life in Pictures interview
BEST FILM
Presented by Christoph Waltz
This award is presented to the producers of the film
WINNER
12 YEARS A SLAVE -Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen
The true story of Solomon Northrup, a free man who was kidnapped and forced into slavery on cotton plantations.
This is McQueen’s third feature film. He won the Outstanding Debut category for his first feature, Hunger in 2008. Hunger was also nominated for Outstanding British Film, as was his second feature, Shame, in 2012. He is also nominated for Director and Adapted Screenplay for 12 Years a Slave. Prior to moving to features, McQueen was a successful video artist, and won the Turner Prize in 1999.
Best known as an actor, Pitt has been nominated for Leading Actor twice (for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Moneyball) and once for Supporting Actor (for Burn After Reading), but he was also nominated for Best Film in 2009 as the producer of The Departed.
Katagas’s previous films include Killing Them Softly and The Next Three Days; Gardner and Kleiner both previously produced World War Z and Eat Pray Love.
Previous nominations: Pitt: 4, Mcqueen: 3 (1 win), Others: None
FELLOWSHIP
Presented by Jeremy Irons & HRH Prince William
HELEN MIRREN
For more information about Helen Mirren, and the BAFTA Fellowship, click here
Watch Helen Mirren's BAFTA Life in Pictures interview from January 2013