BAFTA NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED - GRAVITY LEADS

BAFTA nominations were announced bright and early this morning. Leading the field is Gravity with 11 mentions, and American Hustle, whose popularity only continues to grow among voters, receives 10. As does 12 Years a Slave - not a British Film, alas, and so not up for that award, though fellow Best Picture nominees Gravity and Philomena are. BAFTA are clearly angling for Oscar influence this year, after their old, curious but strangely satisfying, process of long-listing was scrapped last year. Captain Phillips makes a strong showing with nine nominations, and Behind the Candelabra, a theatrical release in the UK, also fares very well. I expect Michael Douglas wasn't far off landing a Leading Actor nomination, and that were it also a cinema release in the US, it might have had a good chance in the Best Film and Direction categories here. As with every year, the ceremony will take place two weeks exactly before the Oscars, so this year that's the 16th of February.

Best Film

12 Years a Slave (Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt)

American Hustle (Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon, Charles Roven and Richard Suckle)

Captain Phillips (Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Scott Rudin)

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman)

Philomena (Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward and Gabrielle Tana)

David Lean Award for Direction

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)

Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

David O. Russell (American Hustle)

Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Leading Actor

Christian Bale (American Hustle)

Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)

Best Leading Actress

Amy Adams (American Hustle)

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Judi Dench (Philomena)

Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

Daniel Brühl (Rush)

Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)

Matt Damon (Behind the Candelabra)

Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

Best Supporting Actress

Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)

Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)

Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

Best Original Screenplay

Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón (Gravity)

Bob Nelson (Nebraska)

David O. Russell and Eric Singer (American Hustle)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena)

Richard LaGravenese (Behind the Candelabra)

Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)

John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)

Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Cinematography

Barry Ackroyd (Captain Phillips)

Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave)

Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)

Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska)

Best Editing

Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (Gravity)

Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (Rush)

Christopher Rouse (Captain Phillips)

Thelma Schoonmaker (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave)

Best Production Design

Alice Baker and Adam Stockhausen (12 Years a Slave)

Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler (American Hustle)

Howard Cummings (Behind the Candelabra)

Beverley Dunn and Catherine Martin (The Great Gatsby)

Rosie Goodwin, Andy Nicholson and Joanne Woodlard (Gravity)

Best Costume Design

Catherine Martin (The Great Gatsby)

Ellen Mirojnick (Behind the Candelabra)

Michael O’Connor (The Invisible Woman)

Daniel Orlandi (Saving Mr. Banks)

Michael Wilkinson (American Hustle)

Best Sound

Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay and Chris Munro (Gravity)

Gillian Arthur, Micah Bloomberg, Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns and Brandon Proctor (All Is Lost)

Chris Burdon, Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Oliver Tarney and Mark Taylor (Captain Phillips)

Danny Hambrook, Stefan Korte, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler and Martin Steyer (Rush)

Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay and Greg Orloff (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Best Special Visual Effects

David Clayton, Joe Letteri, Eric Reynolds and Eric Saindon (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)

Neil Corbould, Chris Lawrence, Nikki Penny, David Shirk and Tim Webber (Gravity)

Burt Dalton, Ben Grossmann, Roger Guyett and Pat Tubach (Star Trek Into Darkness)

Lindy DeQuattro, Hal T. Hickel, John Knoll and Nigel Sumner (Pacific Rim)

Bryan Grill, Daniel Sudick, Christopher Townsend and Guy Williams (Iron Man 3)

Best Make Up & Hair

Kate Biscoe and Marie Larkin (Behind the Candelabra)

Debra Denson, Candace Neal and Beverly Jo Pryor (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

Rick Findlater, Peter King and Richard Taylor (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)

Lori McCoy-Bell and Evelyne Noraz (American Hustle)

Maurizio Silvi and Kerry Warn (The Great Gatsby)

Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music

Henry Jackman (Captain Phillips)

Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)

Steven Price (Gravity)

John Williams (The Book Thief)

Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)

Best Animated Film

Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud)

Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee)

Monsters University (Dan Scanlon)

Best Documentary

The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)

The Armstrong Lie (Alex Gibney)

Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)

Tim’s Vermeer (Penn Jillette, Teller and Farley Ziegler)

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (Alex Gibney)

Best Film Not in the English Language

The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen)

Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Brahim Chioua, Abdellatif Kechiche and Vincent Maraval)

The Great Beauty (Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano and Paolo Sorrentino)

Metro Manila (Mathilde Charpentier and Sean Ellis)

Wadjda (Haifaa Al Mansour, Gerhard Meixner and Roman Paul)

Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuaroón and David Heyman)

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Justin Chadwick, William Nicholson, Anant Singh and David M. Thompson)

Philomena (Steve Coogan, Stephen Frears, Jeff Pope, Tracey Seaward and Gabrielle Tana)

Rush (Andrew Eaton, Ron Howard and Peter Morgan)

Saving Mr. Banks (Ian Collie, John Lee Hancock, Kelly Marcel, Alison Owen, Sue Smith and Philip Steuer)

The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard and Tracy O’Riordan)

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Colin Carberry – writer, and Glenn Patterson – writer (Good Vibrations)

Scott Graham – director / writer (Shell)

Kieran Evans – director / writer (Kelly + Victor)

Kelly Marcel – writer (Saving Mr. Banks)

Polly Stokes – producer, and Paul Wright – director / writer (For Those in Peril)

Best British Short Film

Island Queen (Nat Luurtsema and Ben Mallaby)

Keeping Up with the Joneses (Selina Lim, Michael Pearce and Megan Rubens)

Orbit Ever After (Chan Chee Lan, Len Rowles and Jamie Magnus Stone)

Room 8 (James W. Griffiths and Sophie Venner)

Sea View (Anna Duffield and Jane Linfoot)

Best British Short Animation

Everything I Can See from Here (Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus and Sam Taylor)

I am Tom Moody (Ainslie Henderson)

Sleeping with the Fishes (Yousif Al-Khalifa, James Walker and Sarah Woolner)

EE Rising Star Award

Dane DeHaan

George MacKay

Lupita Nyong’o

Will Poulter

Léa Seydoux