The 2014 EE British Academy Film Awards took place on a surprisingly dry and pleasant evening at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, and it was a night without too many surprises.
The big winner of the evening - both in numbers and in spirit - was Gravity, with a grand total of 6 awards. It won Outstanding British Film for producers David Heyman and Alfonso Cuaron, as well as gongs for Best Director, Cinematography, Sound, Original Music and Special Visual Effects.
But the main award of the evening, Best Film, went to 12 Years A Slave, which also captured Best Actor courtesy of Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Though the film didn't take home the big prizes, the feel-good triumph was surely Barkhad Abdi, who won Best Supporting Actor for Captain Phillips.
American Hustle got the BAFTA for Original Screenplay, and deservedly took home Best Hair & Make Up, so all those tiny hair curlers and comb-over wigs didn't go to waste. Elsewhere in the more aesthetic categories, The Great Gatsby had a good run, winning for both Production Design and Costume Design. Best Editing went to Rush, with Ron Howard accepting the gong on behalf of his regular editors Dan Hanley and Mike Hill.
Joshua Oppenheimer won Best Documentary for his extraordinary film, The Act Of Killing, and took the opportunity to speak out about the Indonesian genocide.
Two wins, however, were no surprise at all, given they were pre-announced. Peter Greenaway was awarded a BAFTA for Outstanding Contribution to British Film, while Dame Helen Mirren received the Academy Fellowship.
Stephen Fry did an admirable job as the bearded master of cermonies, entertaining the absurdly famous and beautiful audience with his soothing, tweed-infused tones. No Gervais-esque controversies to be found here, people, though he did take the opportunity to flirt with Leonardo DiCaprio, Sam Claflin and Douglas Booth. But if we're honest, who wouldn't?
You can read our minute-by-minute accounts of tonight's ceremony and the red carpet, where you'll see our real-time thoughts and terrible jokes about tonight's winners, losers and wardrobe malfunctions (maybe).
The full list of nominees and winners is below.
BEST FILM
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Gravity
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Philomena
Rush
Saving Mr. Banks
The Selfish Giant
**OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
**Kieran Evans (Director/Writer) Kelly + Victor
Colin Carberry (Writer), Glenn Patterson (Writer) Good Vibrations
Kelly Marcel (Writer) Saving Mr. Banks
Paul Wright (Director/Writer), Polly Stokes (Producer) For Those in Peril
Scott Graham (Director/Writer) Shell
**DIRECTOR
**Alfonso Cuarón - *Gravity
*Steve McQueen - 12 Years A Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf Of Wall Street
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell - American Hustle
Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón - Gravity
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
Bob Nelson - Nebraska
**ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
**Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope - *Philomena
*John Ridley - 12 Years A Slave
Richard LaGravenese - Behind The Candelabra
Billy Ray - Captain Phillips
Terence Winter - The Wolf Of Wall Street
**LEADING ACTOR
**Chiwetel Ejiofor - *12 Years a Slave
*Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
**LEADING ACTRESS
**Cate Blanchett - *Blue Jasmine
*Amy Adams - American Hustle
Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks
Judi Dench - Philomena
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Daniel Bruhl - Rush
Matt Damon - Behind the Candelabra
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Oprah Winfrey - The Butler
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
**FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE **
The Great Beauty
The Act Of Killing
Blue Is The Warmest Colour
Metro Manila
Wadjda
DOCUMENTARY
The Act Of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Tim's Vermeer
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks
**ANIMATED FILM
**Frozen
Despicable Me 2
Monsters University
**ORIGINAL MUSIC
**Gravity - *Steven Price
*12 Years A Slave - Hans Zimmer
The Book Thief - John Williams
Captain Phillips - Henry Jackman
Saving Mr. Banks -* Thomas Newman*
**CINEMATOGRAPHY
**Gravity - *Emmanuel Lubezki
*12 Years A Slave - Sean Bobbitt
Captain Phillips - Barry Ackroyd
Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
**EDITING
**Rush - *Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
*12 Years A Slave - Joe Walker
Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
The Wolf Of Wall Street -* Thelma Schoonmaker*
**PRODUCTION DESIGN
**The Great Gatsby - *Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn
*12 Years A Slave - *Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker
*American Hustle - Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
Behind The Candelabra - Howard Cummings
Gravity - Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woodlard
**COSTUME DESIGN
**The Great Gatsby - *Catherine Martin
*American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson
Behind The Candelabra - E**llen Mirojnick
The Invisible Woman - Michael O’Connor
Saving Mr. Banks - Daniel Orlandi
MAKE UP & HAIR
American Hustle - Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell
Behind The Candelabra - Kate Biscoe, Marie Larkin
The Butler -* Debra Denson, Beverly Jo Pryor, Candace Neal*
The Great Gatsby - Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater
**SOUND
**Gravity - *Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro
All Is Lost - Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg, Gillian Arthur*
Captain Phillips - *Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro, Oliver Tarney *
Inside Llewyn Davis - *Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff
RUSH Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer, Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse*
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity - *Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny *
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - *Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds *
Iron Man 3 - *Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick *
Pacific Rim - *Hal Hickel, John Knoll, Lindy De Quattro, Nigel Sumner *
Star Trek Into Darkness - Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton, Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Sleeping With The Fishes
Everything I Can See From Here
I Am Tom Moody
**BRITISH SHORT FILM
**Room 8
Island Queen
Keeping Up With The Joneses
Orbit Ever After
Sea View
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Will Poulter
Dane DeHaan
George McKay
Lupita Nyong'o
Lea Seydoux