"Boyhood",
a
coming-of-age
story
about
growing
up,
Sunday
night
won
the
top
honours
of
Best
Film
and
Best
Director
at
the
British
Academy
of
Film
and
Television
Arts
(BAFTA)
Awards,
where
"The
Grand
Budapest
Hotel" walked
away
with
five
trophies.
Directed
by
Richard
Linklater,
who
was
absent
from
the
ceremony,
"Boyhood" is
a
groundbreaking
film
about
growing
up
which
was
shot
with
the
same
actors
a
few
days
at
a
time
over
12
years.
It
also
won
the
Best
Actress
nod
for
Patricia
Arquette.
The
ceremony
saw
maximum
awards
being
bagged
by
"The
Grand
Budapest
Hotel",
which
was
leading
the
BAFTA
nominations
list
this
year
with
a
mention
in
11
categories.
It
won
for
Costume
Design,
Production
Design,
Makeup
and
Hair,
Original
Music
and
Original
Screenplay.
India's
only
hope
this
year
was
the
Nimrat
Kaur
and
Irrfan
Khan
starrer
critically
acclaimed
"The
Lunchbox"
in
the
Film
Not
in
the
English
Language
category.
But
it
lost
to
Polish
drama
"Ida"
at
the
event,
the
red
carpet
of
which
saw
Nimrat
striking
a
pose
in
a
pink
designer
gown.
In
the
Best
Actor
category,
Eddie
Redmayne
triumphed
for
his
portrayal
of
well-known
physicist
Stephen
Hawking
in
"The
Theory
of
Everything",
which
also
won
Outstanding
British
Film
and
Best
Adapted
Screenplay.
Hawking
also
made
an
appearance
at
the
film
awards
gala
with
his
family
members.
The
Best
Actress
winner
at
the
event,
held
at
the
Royal
Opera
House,
was
Julianne
Moore,
for
her
moving
portrayal
of
a
woman
succumbing
to
Alzheimer's
in
"Still
Alice".
Movie
"Whiplash"
received
three
awards,
including
Best
Editing,
Best
Sound
and
the
Best
Supporting
Actor
for
J.K.
Simmons,
who
essayed
a
tyrannical
and
ruthless
music
teacher
Terence
Fletcher
in
it.
"Birdman"
won
only
one
award
for
Best
Cinematography.
It
went
to
Emmanuel
Lubezki,
who
has
won
this
category
twice
previously.
"The
Lego
Movie"
received
the
BAFTA
for
Animated
Film,
and
Special
Visual
Effects
Award
was
presented
to
"Interstellar".
Meanwhile,
the
trophy
for
Best
Documentary
was
won
by
the
team
behind
"Citizenfour".
Writer
Stephen
Beresford
and
Producer
David
Livingstone
received
the
award
for
Outstanding
Debut
by
a
British
Writer,
Director
or
Producer
for
their
first
feature
film
"Pride".
The
EE
Rising
Star
Award,
voted
for
by
the
public,
was
presented
to
Jack
O'Connell,
while
the
special
award
for
Outstanding
British
Contribution
to
Cinema
was
presented
to
BBC
Films
in
their
25th
year.
Mike
Leigh,
whose
films
include
"Naked",
"Secrets
&
Lies",
"Vera
Drake"
and
"Mr.
Turner",
received
the
Fellowship,
the
highest
honour
the
BAFTA
can
bestow.
It
was
presented
to
him
by
Imelda
Staunton
and
Sally
Hawkins.
The
ceremony
was
hosted
by
Stephen
Fry,
and
it
was
his
tenth
year
as
host.