68th British Academy Film Awards (2015)

The 68th British Academy Film Awards were held on 8 February 2015 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2014. Stephen Fry hosted the ceremony for the tenth time in the award's history. The films that multiple awards included The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash.
- WINNER

Best British Film

The Theory of Everything - James Marsh, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten
'71 - Yann Demange, Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch, Gregory Burke
Paddington - Paul King, David Heyman
Pride - Matthew Warchus, David Livingstone, Stephen Beresford
The Imitation Game - Morten Tyldum, Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman, Graham Moore
Under the Skin - Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Nick Wechsler, Walter Campbell

Best Foreign Langauge Film

Ida - Pawel Pawlikowski, Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol, Ewa Puszczynska
Leviathan - Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov
The Lunchbox - Ritesh Batra, Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga
Trash - Stephen Daldry, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Kris Thykier
Two Days, One Night - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd

Best Director

Boyhood - Richard Linklater
Whiplash - Damien Chazelle
Birdman - Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Theory of Everything - James Marsh
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson

Best Leading Actor

The Theory of Everything - Eddie Redmayne
The Imitation Game - Benedict Cumberbatch
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Ralph Fiennes
Nightcrawler - Jake Gyllenhaal
Birdman - Michael Keaton

Best Leading Actress

Still Alice - Julianne Moore
Big Eyes - Amy Adams
The Theory of Everything - Felicity Jones
Gone Girl - Rosamund Pike
Wild - Reese Witherspoon

Best Special Visual Effects

Interstellar - Paul Franklin, Scott R Fisher, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett
Guardians of the Galaxy - Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Nicolas Aithadi
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R Christopher White
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbaue

Best Screenplay Adapted

The Theory of Everything - Anthony McCarten
American Sniper - Jason Dean Hall
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Paddington - Paul King, Hamish McColl
The Imitation Game - Graham Moore

Best Screenplay Original

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
Whiplash - Damien Chazelle
Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy
Birdman - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo
Boyhood - Richard Linklater

Best Cinematography

Birdman - Emmanuel Lubezki
Mr Turner - Dick Pope
Interstellar - Hoyte van Hoytema
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Robert Yeoman
Ida - ?ukasz ?al and Ryszard Lenczewski

Best Editing

Whiplash - Tom Cross
Birdman - Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
Nightcrawler - John Gilroy
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Barney Pilling
The Imitation Game - William Goldenberg
The Theory of Everything - Jinx Godfrey

Best Costume Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Milena Canonero
Into the Woods - Colleen Atwood
Mr Turner - Jacqueline Durran
The Imitation Game - Sammy Sheldon Differ
The Theory of Everything - Steven Noble

Best Supporting Actor

Whiplash - J K Simmons
Foxcatcher - Steve Carell
Boyhood - Ethan Hawke
Birdman - Edward Norton
Foxcatcher - Mark Ruffalo

Best Supporting Actress

Boyhood - Patricia Arquette
The Imitation Game - Keira Knightley
Nightcrawler - Rene Russo
Pride - Imelda Staunton
Birdman - Emma Stone

Best Make-Up and Hair

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier
Guardians of the Galaxy - Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White
Into the Woods - Peter Swords King, J Roy Helland
Mr Turner - Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener
The Theory of Everything - Jan Sewell

Best Short Animation

The Bigger Picture - Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka
Monkey Love Experiments - Ainslie Henderson, Cam Fraser, Will Anderson
My Dad - Marcus Armitage

Best Short Film

Boogaloo and Graham - Brian J Falconer, Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
Emotional Fusebox - Michael Berliner, Rachel Tunnard
Slap - Islay Bell-Webb, Michelangelo Fano, Nick Rowland
The Kármán Line - Campbell Beaton, Dawn King, Tiernan Hanby, Oscar Sharp
Three Brothers - Aleem Khan, Matthieu De Braconier, Stephanie Paeplow

Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film

The Theory of Everything
The Imitation Game
Pride
'71
Paddington
Under the Skin

Best Animated Film

The Lego Movie - Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Big Hero 6 - Don Hall, Chris Williams
The Boxtrolls - Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable

Best Documentary

Citizenfour - Laura Poitras
20 Feet from Stardom - Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, Gil Friesen
20, 000 Days on Earth - Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
Finding Vivian Maier - John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Virunga - Orlando Von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

EE Rising Star Award

Jack O'Connell
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Margot Robbie
Miles Teller
Shailene Woodley

Best Original Film Music

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock
Big Eyes - Rick Heinrichs, Shane Vieau
Interstellar - Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
Mr Turner - Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts
The Imitation Game - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Pride - Stephen Beresford (Writer)
Pride - David Livingstone (Producer)
'71 - Gregory Burke (Writer)
'71 - Yann Demange (Director)
Northern Soul - Elaine Constantine (Director/Writer)
Kajaki - Paul Katis (Director/Producer)
Kajaki - Andrew de Lotbiniere (Producer)
Lilting - Hong Khaou (Director/Writer)

Best Film From Any Source

Boyhood - Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland
The Imitation Game - Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman
The Theory of Everything - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten
Birdmand - Alejandro G Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W Skotchdopole
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson
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