BAFTA nominations announced

dark crystal

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/baftas/10557749/Bafta-Awards-2014-the-nominations.html

Main categories:

BEST FILM
12 Years a Slave, Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen
American Hustle, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon
Captain Phillips, Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
Philomena, Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward





OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman, Jonás Cuarón
Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, David M. Thompson, William Nicholson
Philomena, Stephen Frears, Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward, Jeff Pope
Rush, Ron Howard, Andrew Eaton, Peter Morgan
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock, Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer, Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan




OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Colin Carberry (Writer), Glenn Patterson (Writer) for Good Vibrations
Kelly Marcel (Writer) for Saving Mr Banks
Kieran Evans (Director/Writer) for Kelly + Victor
Paul Wright (Director/Writer), Polly Stokes (Producer) for For Those in Peril
Scott Graham (Director/Writer) for Shell




FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Blue is the Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval
The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima Metro Manila Sean Ellis, Mathilde Charpentier Wadjda Haifaa Al-Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul





DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer
The Armstrong Lie, Alex Gibney
Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Tim’s Vermeer, Teller, Penn Jillette, Farley Ziegler
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, Alex Gibney





ANIMATED FILM
Despicable me 2, Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Frozen, Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Monsters University, Dan Scanlon





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





ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle, Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
Unside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, 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, Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter





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, The Butler
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine




No real surprises there, although I am genuinely surprised to see the absence of 'Prisoners' from awards season this year. I genuinely thought Hugh Jackman would at least get a few nods for his mighty lead performance in the film. I do find the almost complete lack of recognition for the film rather disappointing.


Also, The Wolf of Wall Street and August: Osage County haven't even been released in the UK yet, so how these two films are even in contention for a British award is a little puzzling.




Anyway, my predictions:


Best Film: 12 Years a Slave


Outstanding British film: Gravity


Outstanding Debut, British writer, director or producer: Kelly Marcel


Film not in the English language: Blue is the Warmest Colour


Documentary: The Act of Killing


Animated film *Having not seen any of them!*: Frozen


Director: Alfonso Cuaron (although Steve McQueen, being a British director, also stands a great chance)


Original screenplay: Inside Llewyn Davis


Adapted screenplay: 12 Years a Slave (or Captain Phillips, can't decide!)


Leading actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor


Leading actress: Cate Blanchett


Supporting actor: Michael Fassbender


Supporting actress: Lupita Nyong'o

gazzer

Nothing for Dallas Buyers Club but The Wolf of Wall Street is nominated but that is not released in the cinema here yet either

Sad Professor

BAFTA's eligibility requirements are very generous. As Gravity's nomination for outstanding British film shows.

Bullseye1

I was wondering how Gravity fit into that category.

Sad Professor

It was shot and produced in the UK.

Bullseye1

Fair enough so.

Sad Professor

It's still not a genuine British film. All the money came from the US. The actors are American, the director is Mexican. It would be like calling Star Wars a British film. It would be different if the film had a notable British influence, but it doesn't.

johnny_ultimate

You'd hope it doesn't win out over the genuinely interesting British films from last year - although some of them weren't even nominated :rolleyes:

BAFTAs are a farce anyway, just the same old predictable prestige films the Oscars obsess over, with no room for surprises or offbeat choices. Just look at the animation section: while 2013 wasn't quite a vintage year for animated cinema, it's like they don't even care animated films are produced outside the American studios. It shouldn't just be whatever is submitted: they should actively seek out films worth flagging and awarding.

Bullseye1

Sad Professor wrote: »

It's still not a genuine British film. All the money came from the US. The actors are American, the director is Mexican. It would be like calling Star Wars a British film. It would be different if the film had a notable British influence, but it doesn't.

Isn't the producer British and don't they get the awards for best film. I think he was also responsible for the Harry Potter movies.

JP Liz V1

I'm delighted for Fassbender hopefully he lands an Oscar nom too

Sad Professor

Bullseye1 wrote: »

Isn't the producer British and don't they get the awards for best film. I think he was also responsible for the Harry Potter movies.

The producer usually accepts best film awards on behalf of the director, cast and crew, yeah. But his nationality isn’t really relevant to the nationality of the film IMO. The main identifiers should be source of financing, location of filming, cultural influence and nationality of director and writer/source material.

Gravity is US-funded, UK-shot, Mexican directed and written and culturally very American. Any claim to it being British is tenuous. In contrast, I don’t think anyone would dispute that the Bond films are British despite getting their financing from America.

Bullseye1

Aren't producers also responsible for sourcing finance. They do have a significant role in getting movies made but I agree that the movie more international than British.

dark crystal

Sad Professor wrote: »

BAFTA's eligibility requirements are very generous. As Gravity's nomination for outstanding British film shows.

Some explanation here from the chair of BAFTA's film committee as to how a films 'nationality' comes to be decided:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26048992

Looking forward to the ceremony later. Bookies have 12 Years a Slave as favourite to sweep the boards tonight. Good news for Fassbender (fingers crossed!).

JP Liz V1

Sad Professor wrote: »

BAFTA's eligibility requirements are very generous. As Gravity's nomination for outstanding British film shows.

And it has won outstanding British film

Mars Bar

Frozen will surely win the Animation award

Although I'd love Despicable Me 2 to win it!

Mars Bar

I find it awful hard to tell when Emma Thompson isn't acting!

JP Liz V1

12 Years a Slave won best film and best actor

Xenji

I take it that Dallas Buyers Club did not receive any nominations due to its UK release date?

Da Shins Kelly

Surprised at some of the winners, to be honest. Jennifer Lawrence again? What everyone is seeing in that performance I have no idea.

ThirdMan

Lupita Nyong'o was robbed. Twice.

delbertgrady

They were pretty poor. Kicking proceedings off with Tinie Tempah rapping and throwing shapes as he walked through the audience was cringeworthy.

They lacked any sort of atmosphere. I like Stephen Fry, but his material was weak, and pulling up two of the screenplay award winners (David O. Russell and Jeff Pope) on their grammar in their acceptance speeches was neither clever nor funny. It just came across as pedantic crankiness on his part.

I was delighted that Philomena got Best Adapted Screenplay though, and would love it to get the Oscar too.

Cuaron got Director for Gravity. No surprise there, really. In fact, a few were predictable, though Dallas Buyers Club was completely absent from the running, presumably due to its release date in the UK, which skewed the voting a bit. Because McConaughey and Leto weren't in the running, their respective awards went to Chiwetel Ejiofor and Barkhad Abdi, who seemed genuinely astounded to win for Captain Phillips.

I was glad Will Poulter won the Rising Star award too. I hated Son of Rambow, but he was excellent in Wild Bill and We're the Millers.

JP Liz V1

delbertgrady wrote: »

I was glad Will Poulter won the Rising Star award too. I hated Son of Rambow, but he was excellent in Wild Bill and We're the Millers.

But to win over the likes of Dane DeHaan, Lupita Nyong'o and Léa Seydoux

Gillespy

ThirdMan wrote: »

Lupita Nyong'o was robbed. Twice.

Was that the only injustice of the night? Jennifer wasn’t even there, the usual reason giving for her winning along with crazy campaigning or her popularity or Harvey Winstein. Admittedly, it is easy to see why so many want Lupita to win, it’s natural given the tragic subject matter of the movie. Look past that and Jennifer does what any deserving Supporting Actress is supposed to do in her movie. The general consensus of any reviews I read was that she was great and in some she was its only highlight. Wonder what June Sqibb makes of this, the two youngsters 2-2 going into the Oscars. At any rate, Lupita will win the Oscar and seeing the hysteria caused by Jennifer winning, it will better for her not to this time.

Da Shins Kelly

Gillespy wrote: »

Was that the only injustice of the night? Jennifer wasn’t even there, the usual reason giving for her winning along with crazy campaigning or her popularity or Harvey Winstein. Admittedly, it is easy to see why so many want Lupita to win, it’s natural given the tragic subject matter of the movie. Look past that and Jennifer does what any deserving Supporting Actress is supposed to do in her movie. The general consensus of any reviews I read was that she was great and in some she was its only highlight. Wonder what June Sqibb makes of this, the two youngsters 2-2 going into the Oscars. At any rate, Lupita will win the Oscar and seeing the hysteria caused by Jennifer winning, it will better for her not to this time.

I actually thought she was the weakest of the lot in the film. I think Christian Bale did a good job and Amy Adams, and Bradley Cooper held his own, but I thought the Jennifer Lawrence character was pretty poorly developed. Didn't see what the fuss was about the performance at all. It was a fairly standard performance of a character that isn't all that compelling.