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‘Gravity’ Named Outstanding British Film at BAFTA Awards

Alfonso Cuarón’s 3D space epic Gravity leads last night’s BAFTA Film Awards with six wins, including the prize for Outstanding British Film. 

Alfonso Cuarón’s 3D space epic Gravity led last night’s BAFTA Film Awards with six wins, including the prize for Outstanding British Film. Despite its Mexican director and U.S. cast, the American-backed Gravity was filmed in the U.K. and its widely-acclaimed visual effects were made in Britain.

Taking home more awards than any other film, Gravity also picked up prizes for Best Visual Effects, Cinematography, Sound, and Original Music, while Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director. The other contenders for Best Visual Effects included The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Iron Man 3, Pacific Rim and Star Trek Into Darkness.

In a tie with American Hustle for the most nominations this year, Gravity is nominated for ten awards at the Oscars, including Best Picture. In the Best Visual Effects category, Gravity is pitted against The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Iron Man 3, The Lone Ranger and Star Trek Into Darkness.

The full list of nominees and winners for the 2014 BAFTA Film Awards is shown below:

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

Source: British Academy of Film and Television Arts

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Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.