A bit of background. The British Academy of Film and Television has several award types. Film, Television, Television Craft, Games and Children's each have their own awards ceremonies. The film awards are the ones most commonly referred to and reported on in the States. The Britannia Awards are part of BAFTA Los Angeles. Benedict Cumberbatch won the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year for the truly amazing year he had appearing in five major feature films and starring in television's Sherlock. The Britannia Awards celebrate individual achievement and awards are giving to people and not films. There are also BAFTA branches in Scotland, Wales and New York. The gist is that the Brits are really organized. While there are certainly other British awards, the highest honors come from one organization. It would be like if the Oscars and the Emmys had one Academy, plus additional entities.
BAFTA results can shed light on Oscar categories that remain unclear. The closest Oscar races are in the Best Original Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Foreign Film, and Best Documentary Feature categories. American Hustle has a slight edge over Her for Original Screenplay, The Great Gatsby is ahead of Gravity for Production Design and if it wins the BAFTA, it may be another indication that Gatsby has it. The splashiest picture usually wins the category. For Foreign Film, The Great Beauty is running in the front for the Oscar. Documentary Feature is probably the closest race of the year. 20 Feet From Stardom is leading among Oscar experts but The Act of Killing is close behind.
12 Years A Slave is expected to win Best Film, much like the Oscars. Outstanding British Film is a close race between Philomena and Gravity, with Philomena having a slight edge. Reflecting a global film community, only one of the nominees for Outstanding British film is simply a British picture, The Selfish Giant. Rush needs little interpretation though it was filmed in England and Germany, it featured a British crew and an American director. Gravity is considered a British Film despite its two stars being Hollywood actors and that it is set in space, not Britain. It was filmed in the UK and its groundbreaking visual effects were made in Britain, with a British crew. Director Alfonso Cuarón lives in Britain. If there is a question of a film's Britishness if it receives 16/31 criteria, it is British. Elements include, having the dialogue in the English language, being set in the UK, using British locations, director, cast, writer, composer and producer.
Winners at the BAFTAs and red carpet coverage will be posted Sunday night. The long list of nominees follows.
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
DIRECTOR
12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
American Hustle, David O Russell
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón
The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese
LEADING ACTOR
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
LEADING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr Banks
Judi Dench, Philomena
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Daniel Brühl, 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, Lee Daniels' The Butler
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle, Eric Warren Singer and David O Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón
Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Nebraska, Bob Nelson
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
Behind the Candelabra, Richard LaGravenese
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR, OR PRODUCER
Good Vibrations, Colin Carberry (writer) and Glenn Patterson (writer)
Saving Mr. Banks, Kelly Marcel (writer)
Kelly + Victor, Kieran Evans (director/writer)
For Those in Peril, Paul Wright (director/writer)
Shell, Scott Graham (director/writer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Act of Killing
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
The Great Beauty
Metro Manila
Wadjda
DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Tim's Vermeer
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks
ANIMATED FILM
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
ORIGINAL MUSIC
12 Years a Slave, Hans Zimmer
The Book Thief, John Williams
Captain Phillips, Henry Jackman
Gravity, Steven Price
Saving Mr. Banks, Thomas Newman
CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 Years a Slave, Sean Bobbitt
Captain Phillips, Barry Ackroyd
Gravity, Emmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn Davis, Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska, Phedon Papamichael
EDITING
12 Years a Slave, Joe Walker
Captain Phillips, Christopher Rouse
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
Rush, Dan Hanley and Mike Hill
The Wolf of Wall Street, Thelma Schoonmaker
PRODUCTION DESIGN
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
The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn
COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle, Michael Wilkinson
Behind the Candelabra, Ellen Mirojnick
The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin
The Invisible Woman, Michael O'Connor
Saving Mr. Banks, Daniel Orlandi
MAKEUP AND HAIR
American Hustle, Evelyne Noraz and Lori McCoy-Bell
Behind the Candelabra, Kate Biscoe and Marie Larkin
Lee Daniels' 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
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Rush
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Everything I Can See From Here
I Am Tom Moody
Sleeping With the Fishes
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Island Queen
Keeping Up With the Joneses
Orbit Ever After
Room 8
Sea View
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Dane DeHaan
George MacKay
Lupita Nyong'o
Will Poulter
Léa Seydoux
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