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2014 BAFTA Awards: ‘Gravity’ Wins Best British Film, Best Director for Alfonso Cuaron

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The space disaster film with its Mexican director based in London, and American film stars, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, won Best British Film on Sunday. “Gravity’ swept the 62nd BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Academy) winning a total of six, including best director for Alfonso Cuaron. “12 Years a Slave” won best film overall.

The British producer David Heyman, along with London resident Alfonso Cuaron and his son Jonas qualified this film as a British production. “Gravity” also won four craft awards for cinematography, original music, sound, and special visual effects.

“Dallas Buyers Club” was not nominated for any BAFTA Fim Awards, thus leaving the door wide open for the best actor and supporting actor categories. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s riveting performance in “12 Years a Slave” captured best actor. “Captain Phillips” Barkhad Abdi finally won best supporting actor as the steely Somali pirate.

One of the biggest surprises of the night was Jennifer Lawrence’s win over another favorite, Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”), for best supporting actress in “American Hustle.” Lawrence was not on hand to accept her award.

Actor Jeremy Irons and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, presented Helen Mirren with a lifetime achievement award. Prince William stated, “An extremely talented British actress whom I should probably call ‘Granny.’ The latter was in reference to Mirren’s Oscar-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in 2006’s “The Queen.”

The BAFTA “In Memoriam tribute” honored the recent passing of Shirley Temple Black, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Peter O’Toole.

Here is a complete list of winners for the 2014 BAFTA Awards.

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

“Gravity”

Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman, Jonás Cuarón

BRITISH SHORT FILM

“Room 8”

James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

“Sleeping with the Fishes”

James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

PRODUCTION DESIGN

“The Great Gatsby”

Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

SOUND

“Gravity”

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

EDITING

“Rush”

Dan Hanley, Mike Hill

DOCUMENTARY

“The Act of Killing”

Joshua Oppenheimer

MAKE UP & HAIR

“American Hustle”

Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell

COSTUME DESIGN

“The Great Gatsby”

Catherine Martin

ORIGINAL MUSIC

“Gravity”

Steven Price

ANIMATED FILM

“Frozen”

Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

Kieran Evans

(Director-Writer) “Kelly + Victor”

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”

CINEMATOGRAPHY

“Gravity”

Emmanuel Lubezki

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award

Peter Greenaway

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

“American Hustle”

Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

“Philomena”

Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

EE RISING STAR

Will Poulter

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

“Gravity”

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

“The Great Beauty”

LEADING ACTOR

Chiwetwl Ejiofor, “12 Years A Slave”

DIRECTOR

Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”

LEADING ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

BEST FILM

“12 Years a Slave”

BAFTA Fellowship

Helen Mirren

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