"Gravity" Floats Away With 11 BAFTA Nominations

"Gravity" leads all films this year with 11 nominations including best film and outstanding British film.         

              

The space blockbuster "Gravity" crashed into cloud 9 Wednesday morning after receiving 11 EE British Academy Film Award (BAFTAs) nominations, the most of any film this year.

"Gravity" was nominated for best film, outstanding British film, best director, best actress for its star, Sandra Bullock, and best original screenplay, and six technical nods. The film was a co-production between the British company Heyday Films and the Mexican company Esperanto films.

In addition to his nomination for directing, Alfonso Cuarón earned the most individual nominations this year with five, earning his four other nominations as a producer, writer and editor of the film. He shares his nomination for outstanding British film with producer David Heyman and co-writer, his son, Jonas Cuarón. This bring Alfonso's total BAFTA nominations up to nine.

Not far behind in nominations was "12 Years a Slave" and "American Hustle" earning 10 each, both competing for best film and best director. While "12 Years" sought three acting nods (actor- Chiwetel Ejiofor, supp. actor- Michael Fassbender and supp actress- Lupita Nyong'o), "American Hustle" earned a nomination in all of the acting categories (leads Amy Adams and Christian Bale, supporting for Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper). The "American Hustle" cast earned the same nominations at the Golden Globes, with Adams and Bale competing in the comedic races.


Lawrence and Cooper received their second consecutive acting nominations under David O. Russell's direction, after competing in the lead categories for "Silver Linings Playbook" last year.

Rounding out the best film slate are "Captain Phillips" and "Philomena." "Captain" earned nine nominations overall including film, director (Paul Greengrass) actor (Tom Hanks) and supporting actor (Barkhad Abdi). "Philomena" star Judi Dench earned a best actress nomination for her portrayal of the title character, chalking up her 15th film nomination from BAFTA.

Winners will be announced live at the Royal Opera House in London on February 16.

In the director race is Cuarón, Russell and Greengrass is Steve McQueen for "12 Years A Slave" and Martin Scorsese for "The Wolf of Wall Street." All of these directors are previous BAFTA winners in a wide array of categories.

Emma Thompson ("Saving Mr. Banks) is contending for lead actress against Adams, Bullock, Dench and Cate Blanchett in "Blue Jasmine." Meryl Streep's work in "August: Osage County" was a noticeable omission from the lineup

The lead actor lineup includes an Oscar boost for "Wolf" star Leonardo DiCaprio, who was denied a nomination from his peers at the Screen Actors Guild awards. He competes against, Bales, Ejiofor, Hanks and "Nebraska's" Bruce Dern.

"Rush" star Daniel Bruhl earned a best supporting actor nomination as Forumla F1 racer Niki Lauda. He competes against Matt Damon in "Behind the Candelabra," for which he received an Emmy nomination for lead actor, but lost to co-star Michael Douglas. "Behind" was released to cinemas in the U.K. and was broadcast on HBO in the states. The other nominees are Abdi, Cooper and Fassbender.

The supporting actress race includes Sally Hawkins ("Blue Jasmine"), Lawrence, Nyong'o, Julia Roberts ("August: Osage County") and Oprah Winfrey ("The Butler."). Nyong'o is also nominated for the publicly-voted EE Rising Star Award.

A full list of nominations are listed below.

BEST PICTURE
"12 Years a Slave"
"American Hustle"
"Captain Phillips"
"Gravity"
"Philomena"

BEST 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"

BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, "American Hustle"
Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
Tom Hanks, "Captain Phillips"

BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, "American Hustle"
Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"
Judi Dench, "Philomena"
Emma Thompson, "Saving Mr. Banks"


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi, "Captain Phillips"
Daniel Bruhl, "Rush"
Bradley Cooper, "American Hustle"
Matt Damon, "Behind the Candelabra"
Michael Fassbender, "12 Years a Slave"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, "Blue Jasmine"
Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
Julia Roberts, "August: Osage County"
Oprah Winfrey, "The Butler"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"American Hustle"
"Blue Jasmine"
"Gravity"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"Nebraska"

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"12 Years a Slave"
"Behind the Candelabra"
"Captain Phillips"
"Philomena"
"The Wolf of Wall Street"

BEST BRITISH FILM
"Gravity"
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
"Philomena"
"Rush"
"Saving Mr. Banks"
"The Selfish Giant"

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
"The Act of Killing"
"Blue is the Warmest Color"
"The Great Beauty"
"Metro Manila"
"Wadjda"

BEST ANIMATED FILM
"Despicable Me 2"
"Frozen"
"Monsters University"

BEST DOCUMENTARY
"The Act of Killing"
"The Armstrong Lie"
"Blackfish"
"Tim's Vermeer"
"We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"12 Years a Slave"
"Captain Phillips"
"Gravity"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"Nebraska"

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
"American Hustle"
"Behind the Candelabra"
"The Great Gatsby"
"The Invisible Woman"
"Saving Mr. Banks"

BEST EDITING
"12 Years a Slave"
"Captain Phillips"
"Gravity"
"Rush"
"The Wolf of Wall Street"

BEST MAKEUP & HAIR
"American Hustle"
"Behind the Candelabra"
"The Butler"
"The Great Gatsby"
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
"12 Years a Slave"
"American Hustle"
"Behind the Candelabra"
"Gravity"
"The Great Gatsby"

BEST MUSIC
"12 Years a Slave"
"The Book Thief"
"Captain Phillips"
"Gravity"
"Saving Mr. Banks"

BEST SOUND
"All is Lost"
"Captain Phillips"
"Gravity"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"Rush"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
"Gravity"
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"
"Iron Man 3"
"Pacific Rim"
"Star Trek Into Darkness"

BEST BRITISH DEBUT
Colin Carberry, Glenn Patterson (Writers), "Good Vibrations"
Kelly Marcel (Writer), "Saving Mr. Banks"
Kieran Evans (Director/Writer), "Kelly + Victor"
Paul Wright (Director/Writer), Polly Stokes (Producer), "For Those in Peril"
Scott Graham (Director/Writer), "Shell"

BEST SHORT FILM
"Island Queen"
"Keeping Up with the Joneses"
"Orbit Ever After"
"Room 8"
"Sea View"

BEST SHORT ANIMATION
"Everything I Can See From Here"
"I Am Tom Moody"
"Sleeping with the Fishes"

RISING STAR AWARD
Dane DeHaan
George MacKay
Lupita Nyong'o
Will Poulter
Lea Seydoux