The BAFTA Awards Best Picture is “12 Years A Slave”, while “Gravity” won 5 Awards including Best British Film. “12 Years A Slave” also won 2 other awards. This was reported by various entertainment news, February 16 & 17, 2014.
Keiran Evans was the lucky winner for new directors: “Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.”
Famous actor Tom Hanks did not win Best Actor but his co-star Barkhad Abdi won Best Supporting Actor.
Tom Hank tweeted his support:
Tom Hanks @tomhanks 1h
“Barkhad Abdi! BAFTA winner! He IS the captain now ! Somali champion !!!“
The complete list of winners of the BAFTA Awards, which was held on Sunday, February 16, 2014 are the following:
Best Actress – Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine”
Best Actor – Chiwetel Ejiofor in “12 Years a Slave”
Best Supporting Actress – Jennifer Lawrence in “American Hustle”
Best Supporting Actor – Barkhad Abdi in “Captain Phillips”
Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón in “Gravity”
Best Animation – Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee in “Frozen”
Best Editing – Dan Hanley and Mike Hill in “Rush”
Best Costume Design– Catherine Martin in “The Great Gatsby”
Best Make Up and Hair – Lori McCoy-Bell and Evelyne Noraz in “American Hustle”
Best Adapted Screenplay – Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope in “Philomena”
Best Original Screenplay – David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer in “American Hustle”
Best Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki in “Gravity”
Best Foreign – Nicola Giuliano, Paolo Sorrentino, and Francesca Cima in “The Great Beauty”
Best Documentary – Joshua Oppenheimer in “The Act of Killing”
Best Production Design – Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn in “The Great Gatsby”
Best Sound – Christopher Benstead, Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Chris Munro and Niv Adiri in “Gravity”
Best Original Music – Steven Price in “Gravity”
Best Special Visual Effects – Neil Corbould, Tim Webber, David Shirk, Chris Lawrence and Nikki Penny in “Gravity”
Best British Short Animation – Sarah Woolner, James Walker and Yousif Al-Khalifa in “Sleeping with the Fishes”
Best British Short Film – James W. Griffiths and Sophie Venner in “Room 8”