The BAFTA Awards - Sunday 8th February 2015.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts held their annual film awards for the 68th time on Sunday evening earlier this week at London's Royal Opera House, and hosted for the tenth time by Actor, Raconteur, and Television personality Stephen Fry. With the Golden Globes, AACTA's, Screen Actors Guild and now the BAFTA's all done, this leaves only the Grand Daddy of them all later this month - the Academy Awards on 22nd February.

Summarised below are the main winners & grinners from the UK's film night of nights which for my mind was a little one sided in the final analysis with many great movie offerings being overlooked that hitherto have been lauded from on high. As I'm not on the judging panel though I accept no responsibility - those that did win clearly gave notable and outstanding performances/services all round, but as always with such things you could debate the decisions for or against those that won and those that lost all night long! So with that in mind . . . the winners are :-

Best Film : 'Boyhood'
Best British Film : 'The Theory of Everything'
Best Animated Film : 'The LEGO Movie'
Best Documentary Film : 'Citizenfour'
Best Foreign Language Film : 'Ida'

Best Actor in a Lead Role : Eddie Redmayne for 'The Theory of Everything'
Best Actress in a Lead Role : Julianne Moore for 'Still Alice'
Best Actor in a Supporting Role : J.K.Simmons for 'Whiplash'
Best Actress in a Supporting Role : Patricia Arquette for 'Boyhood'

Best Direction : Richard Linklater for 'Boyhood'
Best Adapted Screenplay : Anthony McCarten for 'The Theory of Everything'
Best Original Screenplay : Wes Anderson for 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'

Best Production Design : 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Best Costume Design : 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Best Make-up & Hair : 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Best Special Visual Effects : 'Interstellar'
Best Music Score : Alexandre Desplat for 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
In the final analysis 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' won five awards from a total eleven nominations and did the best on the day, with the runners up coming from 'The Theory of Everything' which won three awards from ten nominations, and both 'Boyhood' and 'Whiplash' picking up three wins each from five nominations each. Although receiving multiple nominations too, I was surprised that none of 'Birdman', 'The Imitation Game', 'Nightcrawler', 'Mr. Turner' or 'Interstellar' fared better.

That's it then for another year from the BAFTA's with just the icing on the cake to come - keep watching the movies and keep reading this Blog for more movie Reviews, Previews, News and Views and your final wrap on the Oscar's in just over a week!

-Steve, at Odeon Online-