BAFTA nominations

Good morning! David here, up bright (so to speak) and early (definitely) to bring you this year's nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Awards. These are the last set of nominations before AMPAS weighs in next week, so these are the last hints you might get for any surprises and any big wave of British support that might be coming.

Your headlines: Gravity leads the pack, with 12 Years A Slave and a surprisingly strong American Hustle - scoring four acting nominations - just behind, while Dallas Buyers' Club misses out everywhere, and June Squibb is omitted for Sally Hawkins. Nat will be weighing in later today with what it all means for the Oscars, but please get discussing in the comments with your own thoughts. And if you'd like to save yourself some reading, watch Helen McCrory and Luke Evans reveal eleven of the categories:

BEST FILM 

12 Years A Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Only Philomena sticks out here. Is this what the British pack will go to bat for?

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM 

Gravity

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Philomena

Rush

Saving Mr. Banks

The Selfish Giant

Nice to see The Selfish Giant squeeze in here - a throwback to the halcyon days when this category was won by films like Fish Tank and wasn't quite so... expensive.

DIRECTOR 

Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave

David O. Russell, American Hustle

Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips

Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell, American Hustle

Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine

Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón, Gravity

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis

Bob Nelson, Nebraska

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

John Ridley, 12 Years A Slave

Richard LaGravenese, Behind the Candelabra

Billy Ray, Captain Phillips

Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope, Philomena

Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

Behind the Candelabra is back in theatrical form to throw your predictions out of whack.

LEAD 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

Bale! It was a very strong showing for American Hustle, with a full quartet of acting nominations.

LEAD ACTRESS 

Amy Adams, American Hustle

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Judi Dench, Philomena

Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Adams knocks Streep out! Dench and Thompson were never going to miss here. There's definitely some wiggle room in the accepted five, though if Adele Exarchopoulos was going to make a move, you sense this would have been the place. 

SUPPORTING ACTOR 

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Daniel Brühl, Rush

Bradley Cooper, American Hustle

Matt Damon, Behind the Candelabra

Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave

Jared Leto misses out - and I believe Dallas Buyers' Club was eligible - but with Matt Damon his replacement, it's unlikely to threaten him at the Oscars. 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave

Julia Roberts, August: Osage County

Oprah Winfrey, The Butler

Squibb misses out, but Nebraska did well for such an "American" film. But this could augur well for Sally.

WadjdaFILM 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

The Armstrong Lie

Blackfish

Tim's Vermeer

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

These categories have completely different criteria to AMPAS' stricter selection, but you could still be spying pockets of support.

ANIMATED FILM 

Despicable Me 2

Frozen

Monsters University

CINEMATOGRAPHY 

Sean Bobbitt, 12 Years A Slave

Barry Ackroyd, Captain Phillips

Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity

Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis

Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska

EDITING 

Joe Walker, 12 Years A Slave

Christopher Rouse, Captain Phillips

Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger, Gravity

Dan Hanley & Mike Hill, Rush

Thelma Schoonmaker, The Wolf of Wall Street

PRODUCTION DESIGN 

Adam Stockhausen & Alice Baker, 12 Years A Slave

Judy Becker & Heather Loeffler, American Hustle

Howard Cummings, Behind the Candelabra

Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin & Joanne Woodlard, Gravity

Catherine Martin & Beverley Dunn, The Great Gatsby

COSTUME DESIGN 

Michael Wilkinson, American Hustle

Ellen Mirojnick, Behind the Candelabra

Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby

Michael O'Connor, The Invisible Woman

Daniel Orlandi, Saving Mr. Banks

MAKE-UP AND HAIR 

Evelyne Noraz & Lori McCoy-Bell, American Hustle

Kate Biscoe & Marie Larkin, Behind the Candelabra

Debra Denson, Beverly Jo Pryor & Candace Neal, The Butler

Maurizio Silvi & Kerry Warn , The Great Gatsby

Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor & Rick Findlater, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

ORIGINAL MUSIC 

Hans Zimmer, 12 Years A Slave

John Williams, The Book Thief

Henry Jackman, Captain Phillips

Steven Price, Gravity

Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks

SOUND

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

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

Inside Llewyn Davis - Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff

Rush - Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer, Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS 

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

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 De Quattro, Nigel Sumner

Star Trek Into Darkness - Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton, Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER 

Colin Carberry & Glenn Patterson (writers), Good Vibrations

Kelly Marcel (writer), Saving Mr. Banks

Kieran Evans (director/writer), Kelly + Victor

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

Scott Graham (director/writer), Shell

Particularly great nominations there for Scott Graham and Kieran Evans, whose films I lauded during my coverage of the London Film Festival for TFE back in 2012 - Shell and Kelly + Victor.

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

Everything I Can See From Here - Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor

I Am Tom Moody - Ainslie Henderson

Sleeping With the Fishes - James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

BRITISH SHORT FILM 

Island Queen - Ben Mallaby, Nat Luurtsema

Keeping Up With the Joneses - Megan Rubens, Michael Pearce, Selina Lim

Orbit Ever After - Chee-Lan Chan, Jamie Stone, Len Rowles

Room 8 - James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner

Sea View - Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD 

Dane DeHaan

George MacKay

Lupita Nyong'o

Will Poulter

Léa Seydoux

The BAFTA winners are announced on Sunday 16 February.

Comments

[Joel V]

Oh BAFTA.. Who needs sleep aids when these nominations will do?