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.
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WadjdaFILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE