The 2014 BAFTA Awards took place on Sunday night and, after all was said and done, Gravity proved to be the night’s biggest winner. The movie, an epic space tragedy featuring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, and a hella lot of CGI work, took home a whopping six awards — including Best British Film. While some people were, honestly, a bit shocked by Gravity‘s immense success, the biggest award of the night went to 12 Year’s a Slave, which scored Best Film. Chiwetel Ejiofor was named Best Actor.
This awards season has been quite interesting; some might even say volatile. American Hustle has had a successful run this season and continued it’s run by scoring three awards.
Steven McQueen, who accepted the Best Film award for 12 Years a Slave, said in his acceptance speech, “There are 21 million people in slavery now as we sit here. I just hope that 150 years from now our ambivalence will not allow another film-maker to make this film.”
Cate Blanchett, who picked up the Best Actress award for her work in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, dedicated her award to the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose death sent emotional waves throughout all of Hollywood. She said, “You raised the bar and all we can do in your absence is to continue raising it. Phil, buddy, this is for you, you bastard, I hope you’re proud.” Cate always seems like such a class act and her dedication to the actor, whose talent was unrivaled, proved both touching and appropriate.
Check out the list of nominees below, including the winners that scored the coveted awards within each category. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below. Do you think Gravity should’ve dominated the night? Is this a prediction of how the Oscars are going to go?
2014 BAFTA Awards Nominees and Winners (winners listed in blue)
Best film
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Outstanding British film
Gravity
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Philomena
Rush
Saving Mr Banks
The Selfish Giant
Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)
Actress
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Emma Thompson (Saving Mr Banks)
Supporting actor
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Daniel Bruhl (Rush)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Matt Damon (Behind the Candelabra)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Supporting actress
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
Oprah Winfrey (The Butler)
Director
Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
David O Russell (American Hustle)
Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Adapted screenplay
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
Behind the Candelabra
Captain Phillips
The Wolf of Wall Street
Original screenplay
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Animated film
Frozen
Despicable Me 2
Monsters University
Documentary
The Act of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Tim’s Vermeer
We Steal Secrets
Foreign film
The Great Beauty
The Act of Killing
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Metro Manila
Wadjda
Cinematography
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Costume design
The Great Gatsby
American Hustle
Behind the Candelabra
The Invisible Woman
Saving Mr Banks
Editing
Rush
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Wolf of Wall Street
Make-up and hair
American Hustle
Behind the Candelabra
The Butler
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Music
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
The Book Thief
Captain Phillips
Saving Mr Banks
Production design
The Great Gatsby
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Behind the Candelabra
Gravity
Sound
Gravity
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
Inside Llewyn Davis
Rush
Visual effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness
Short animation
Sleeping with the Fishes
Everything I Can See From Here
I Am Tom Moody
Short film
Room 8
Island Queen
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Orbit Ever After
Sea View
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Kieran Evans (writer-director, Kelly + Victor)
Colin Carberry, Glenn Patterson (writers, Good Vibrations)
Scott Graham (writer-director, Shell)
Kelly Marcel (writer, Saving Mr Banks)
Paul Wright. Polly Stokes (writer-director and producer, For Those in Peril)
Rising Star award
Will Poulter
Dane DeHaan
George MacKay
Lupita Nyong’o
Lea Seydoux
