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News Simon Brew 17 Feb 2014 - 06:31

Gravity, 12 Years A Slave and American Hustle lead this year's collection of BAFTA Film Award winners. Here's the full list...

Last night, lots of people headed off to London's Royal Opera House, where Stephen Fry hosted the British Academy Film Awards. That's the BAFTAs to you and us.

The BAFTAs used to be one of those ceremonies where people sent speeches to be read by other people, but these days, it seems really quite posh. Most of the nominees seemed to be in attendance, even those who didn't win, and if it carries on at this rate, the BBC may actually show us the whole event, rather than editing it down to two hours, to be shown a further two hours after it actually took place.

Anyway, the big winners turned out to be Gravity, which snared six gongs, American Hustle, which got three,...

After claiming the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty also won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film. The other nominations in this category were The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer, Blue Is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche, Metro Manila by Sean Ellis and Wadjda by Haifaa Al-Mansour.

12 Years a Slave won the BAFTA for Best Film while Gravity took home 6 BAFTAs including Best British Film, Best Director and Best Special Visual Effects.

Complete list of awards:

Best picture: 12 Years a Slave

Best British film: Gravity

Best director: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

Best actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Best actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best supporting actor: Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Best supporting actress: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Best original screenplay: American Hustle, Eric Warren Singer, David O Russell

Best adapted screenplay: Philomena, Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

Best foreign language film: The Great Beauty,...

With two weeks to go until the 86th Academy Awards are handed out in Hollywood, all eyes were on London as the Ee British Academy Film Awards were announced Sunday evening from the Royal Opera House.

12 Years A Slave was named Best Film with Chiwetel Ejiofor winning leading actor. Gravity won six awards including British Film, Director, Original Music, Cinematography, Sound and Special Visual Effects, while American Hustle won three BAFTAs for Original Screenplay, Make Up & Hair, and Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence.

Leading Actress was presented to Cate Blanchett for playing the title role in Blue Jasmine – her third BAFTA win ­– and in his feature film debut Barkhad Abdi won Supporting Actor for Captain Phillips.

Hosted by Stephen Fry, the ceremony featured a live performance from multi-platinum-selling artist Tinie Tempah and Mercury Prize nominee Laura Mvula.

Dame Helen Mirren was the recipient of the BAFTA Fellowship, Outstanding British Contribution...

Steve McQueen talks about modern slavery as 12 Years A Slave wins best film; Cate Blanchett dedicates her BAFTA to Philip Seymour Hoffman; Barkhad Abdi says Greengrass believed in him before he believed in himself.Click here for the full list of winners

Host Stephen Fry welcomed the star-studded crowd by saying the BAFTAs are “the greatest night of the British film calendar, if there is such a thing.” He joked that there were “faces so familiar you want to lick them.”

He welcomed guests including Prince William, President of the Academy, into “the plush womb of the resplendent Royal Opera House” in Covent Garden, London.

Fry got Leonardo DiCaprio to blow a kiss into the camera.

Tinie Tempah and Laura Mvula kicked off the show with a duet of Heroes, and Tempah set the mood for a lively evening by high-five-ing Prince William.

Outstanding British Film

Oprah Winfrey, nominated for The Butler, presented the Outstanding...

Steve McQueen talks about modern slavery as 12 Years A Slave wins best film; Cate Blanchett dedicates her BAFTA to Philip Seymour Hoffman; Barkhad Abdi says Greengrass believed in him before he believed in himself.

Host Stephen Fry welcomed the star-studded crowd by saying the BAFTAs are “the greatest night of the British film calendar, if there is such a thing. “ He joked that there were “faces so familiar you want to lick them.”

He welcomed guests including Prince William, President of the Academy, into “the plush womb of the resplendent Royal Opera House” in Covent Garden, London.

Fry got Leonardo DiCaprio to blow a kiss into the camera.

Tinie Tempah and Laura Mvula kicked off the show with a duet of Heroes.

Oprah Winfrey, nominated for The Butler, presented the Outstanding British Film prize to Gravity. Producer David Heyman said the prize was “beyond belief and best of all it recognises everybody involved with the film, we...

12 Years A Slave wins best film; Cate Blanchett dedicates her BAFTA to Philip Seymour Hoffman; Gravity rakes in awards for Best Director, British Film, Sound, Music, Cinematography and VFX awards; Barkhad Abdi is surprise winner of Supporting Actor, Coogan and Pope win for Philomena’s Adapted Screenplay;

Host Stephen Fry welcomed the star-studded crowd by saying the BAFTAs are “the greatest night of the British film calendar, if there is such a thing. “ He joked that there were “faces so familiar you want to lick them.”

He welcomed guests including Prince William, President of the Academy, into “the plush womb of the resplendent Royal Opera House” in Covent Garden, London.

Fry got Leonardo DiCaprio to blow a kiss into the camera.

Tinie Tempah and Laura Mvula kicked off the show with a duet of Heroes.

Oprah Winfrey, nominated for The Butler, presented the Outstanding British Film prize to Gravity. Producer David Heyman said the prize was “beyond...

British live action and animated shorts to screen in cinemas from 28 February.

BAFTA has revealed that a feature-length package of films nominated in the British Short Film and British Short Animation categories at this year’s Ee British Academy Film Awards will screen in UK cinemas from Feb 28 and will tour internationally.

Selected screenings will be followed by a Q&A with nominated filmmakers who will discuss their working process and creative inspirations. The activity is part of BAFTA’s ongoing work to spotlight British-based filmmaking talent.

Following the first-ever theatrical release of nominated shorts in 2013, BAFTA is partnering for a second year with specialist distributor the Independent Cinema Office (Ico), which will handle all UK theatrical bookings, and the British Council, which will tour the nominated films internationally through their network of offices in 110 countries.

The UK-wide rollout of BAFTA Shorts 2014 begins with a special screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (Ica) in London on Feb...