The 2014 EE British Academy Film Awards

The 2014 EE British Academy Film Awards took place at the Royal Opera House last night, hosted by the suave and quintessentially British, Stephen Fry. The awards recognise and celebrate the wealth of content and talent in the British film industry. DCM’s Commercial Director, Joe Evea, was in attendance and admitted to being a little star struck when coming face to face with some of the brightest stars in the industry, including Leonardo DiCaprio.

Gravity collected the most awards, six in total, including Best Director and Outstanding British Film. Although 12 Years a Slave surprisingly only collected two awards, it picked up the coveted Best Picture prize and Best Actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor. American Hustle won three awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Hollywood golden girl, Jennifer Lawrence and Best Original Screenplay. Best Actress went to Cate Blanchett, as expected, for her terrific performance in Blue Jasmine and Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope picked up the Best Adapted Screenplay award for their touching and witty script for Philomena.

Perhaps the most surprising and pleasing award was former limousine driver Barkhad Abdi winning the Best Supporting Actor award, ahead of Michael Fassbender, for his mesmerising performance opposite Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips.

12 Years a Slave and Martin Scorsese’s epic, The Wolf of Wall Street, will probably be the most disappointed, with the afore-mentioned Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o missing out on acting awards for 12 Years a Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street failing to pick up a single award. Both will be expecting to do better at the upcoming Academy Awards on 2 March but with no obvious favourite and Dallas Buyers Club coming into contention after being snubbed by BAFTA, it really is wide open.

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The full list of nominees and winners follows below.

Best picture

Winner: 12 Years a Slave

Nominees:

American Hustle Captain Phillips Gravity Philomena

Best British film

Winner: Gravity

Nominees:

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Philomena Rush Saving Mr Banks The Selfish Giant

Best director

Winner: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

Nominees:

Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave David O Russell, American Hustle Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best actor

Winner: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Nominees:

Christian Bale, American Hustle Bruce Dern, Nebraska Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips

Best actress

Winner: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Nominees:

Amy Adams, American Hustle Sandra Bullock, Gravity Judi Dench, Philomena Emma Thompson, Saving Mr Banks

Best supporting actor

Winner: Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Nominees:

Bradley Cooper, American Hustle Daniel Brühl, Rush Matt Damon, Behind the Candelabra Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Best supporting actress

Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Nominees:

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave Julia Roberts, August: Osage County Oprah Winfrey, The Butler

Best original screenplay

Winner: American Hustle, Eric Warren Singer, David O Russell

Nominees:

Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Nebraska, Bob Nelson

Best adapted screenplay

Winner: Philomena, Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

Nominees:

12 Years a Slave, John Ridley Behind the Candelabra, Richard LaGravenese Captain Phillips, Billy Ray The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter

Best foreign film

Winner: The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima

Nominees:

The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval Metro Manila, Sean Ellis, Mathilde Charpentier Wadjda, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Pau

Best documentary

Winner: The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer

Nominees:

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

Best animation

Winner: Frozen, Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

Nominees:

Despicable Me 2, Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin Monsters University, Dan Scanlon

Best cinematography

Winner: Gravity, Emmanuel Lubezki

Nominees:

12 Years a Slave, Sean Bobbitt Captain Phillips, Barry Ackroyd Inside Llewyn Davis, Bruno Delbonnel Nebraska, Phedon Papamichael

Best editing

Winner: Rush, Dan Hanley, Mike Hill

Nominees:

12 Years a Slave, Joe Walker Captain Phillips, Christopher Rouse Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger The Wolf of Wall Street, Thelma Schoonmaker

Best production design

Winner: The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

Nominees:

12 Years a Slave, Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker American Hustle, Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler Behind the Candelabra, Howard Cummings Gravity, Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woodlard

Best costume design

Winner: The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin

Nominees:

American Hustle, Michael Wilkinson Behind the Candelabra, Ellen Mirojnick The Invisible Woman, Michael O'Connor Saving Mr Banks, Daniel Orlandi

Best make up and hair

Winner: American Hustle, Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell

Nominees:

Behind the Candelabra, Kate Biscoe, Marie Larkin The Butler, Debra Denson, Beverly Jo Pryor, Candace Neal The Great Gatsby, Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

Best sound

Winner: Gravity, Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro

Nominees:

All Is Lost, Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg, Gillian Arthur Captain Phillips, Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro, Oliver Tarney Inside Llewyn Davis, Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff Rush, Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer, Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse

Best original music

Winner: Gravity, Steven Price

Nominees:

12 Years a Slave, Hans Zimmer The Book Thief, John Williams Captain Phillips, Henry Jackman Saving Mr Banks, Thomas Newman

Best special visual effects

Winner: Gravity, Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny

Nominees:

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds Iron Man 3, Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick Pacific Rim, Hal Hickel, John Knoll, Lindy DeQuattro, Nigel Sumner Star Trek Into Darkness, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton, Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett

Best British short animation

Winner: Sleeping with the Fishes, James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

Nominees:

Everything I can see from Here, Bjørn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor I Am Tom Moody, Ainslie Henderson

Best British short film

Winner: Room 8, James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner

Nominees:

Island Queen, Ben Mallaby, Nat Luurtsema Keeping up with Joneses, Megan Rubens, Michael Pearce, Selina Lim Orbit Ever After, Chee-Lan Chan, Jamie Stone, Len Rowles Sea View, Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Winner: Keiran Evans (Director/Writer), Kelly + Victor

Nominees:

Colin Carberry, (Writer), Glenn Patterson (Writer), Good Vibrations Kelly Marcel, (Writer), Saving Mr Banks Paul Wright (Director/Writer), Polly Stokes (Producer), For Those in Peril Scott Graham, (Director/Writer), Shell

The EE Rising Star award (voted for by public)

Winner: Will Poulter

Nominees:

Dane DeHaan George MacKay Lupita Nyong'o Léa Seydoux