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Early this morning, the British Academy of Film and TV Arts (BAFTA), played host to the announcement of the nominees for the upcoming EE British Academy Film Awards 2014. Tom Linay, Film Specialist at DCM, gives us his thoughts on this mornings announcements.
Alfonso Cuaron’s sci-fi spectacular, Gravity leads the way at this year’s BAFTAs with 11 nominations. 12 Years A Slave and American Hustle are just behind with 10 each and Captain Phillips with nine. The nominations were announced by Helen McCrory and Luke Evans at BAFTA HQ this morning.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern and Christian Bale will contest the Best Actor category, with Matthew McConaughey perhaps unlucky to miss out. Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Emma Thompson, Judi Dench and Sandra Bullock will all be hoping to scoop the Best Actress prize.
The biggest surprise is a relatively paltry four nominations for Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street, which was nominated for Best Director but not Best Film. Gravity was nominated for Best Film, Director and Actress for Sandra Bullock and surprisingly, Best British Film. The film may have American actors and a Mexican director but it was filmed at Pinewood and Shepperton studios, the painstaking post production was conducted at Framestore in London and producer David Heyman is British.
On a personal level, I’d have loved to have seen Adele Exarchopoulos recognised for Blue Is The Warmest Colour. She delivered what I believe to be the best performance by any actor in the last year and Before Midnight’s piercing script should have been nominated but it’s churlish to complain with so many high quality films on the list.