BAFTA Predictions

Will Blue score a few mentions from the Brits?

Next week will feature several Oscar posts, so I thought I'd take a crack at predicting the BAFTA nominees this year. Here are my last-minute predictions. I'm sure I'll get many of these wrong.

Best Film:
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
12 Years a Slave

Alt: The Wolf of Wall Street

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

Alt: Stephen Frears, Philomena

Best Actor:

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Alt: Christian Bale, American Hustle

Best Actress:

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Alt: Amy Adams, American Hustle

Best Supporting Actor:

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Brühl, Rush
Steve Coogan, Philomena
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club 

Alt: Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Supporting Actress:

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Scarlett Johansson, Her
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Léa Seydoux, Blue is the Warmest Color

Alt: Naomi Harris, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Best Adapted Screenplay:

August: Osage County
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Alt: Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Original Screenplay:

American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska

Alt: Saving Mr. Banks

Best Production Design:

American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave

Alt: Saving Mr. Banks

Best Cinematography:

Captain Phillips
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Rush
12 Years a Slave

Alt: Her

Best Costume Design:

American Hustle
Behind the Candelabra
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave

Alt: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Best Film Editing:

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Rush
12 Years a Slave

Alt: The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Music:

Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Philomena
Rush
12 Years a Slave

Alt: Her

Best Makeup and Hair:
American Hustle
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Rush
12 Years a Slave

Alt: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Best Sound:
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Rush
12 Years a Slave

Alt: Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Visual Effects:

Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Man of Steel
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Pacific Rim

Alt: Rush

Best British Film:

Filth

Philomena

Rush

The Selfish Giant

Le Week-end

Alt: The Invisible Woman

Best Animated Film: 
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University

Alt: The Croods

Best Documentary Film:

The Act of Killing

Leviathan

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

Stories We Tell

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Alt: Blackfish

Best Foreign Language Film:

Blue is the Warmest Color
Gloria
The Great Beauty
In the House
Wadjda

Alt: Love is All You Need

Best Debut by British Writer, Director or Producer:

Scott Graham, Shell
Steven Knight, Hummingbird
Jeremy Lovering, In Fear
Rufus Norris, Broken
Paul Wright, For Those in Peril

Alt: Mike Lerner, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer