The winners of this year’s BAFTA film awards have been announced – with two films thus far coming out on top.
Stephen Hawking biopic, The Theory of Everything, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood stood out at tonight’s ceremony.
The legendary cosmologist himself was there to present an award as the BAFTAs recognised some of the past year’s top indie films, with drumming drama Whiplash and British film Pride both receiving gongs.
The Grand Budapest Hotel won awards for costume design, make-up and hair, original music and for the work of the director himself on the script.
Boyhood has received the best film award, along with best director for Linklater and best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette.
The film follows one character growing up in Texas from the age of six to eighteen with the actress undertaking a 12-year role as an ageing mother struggling to hold the family together.
Eddie Redmayne was named best actor for his role as Stephen Hawking in the Theory of Everything, which also received the Outstanding British Film award.
It also won the best adapted screenplay category for Anthony McCarten’s script.
Julianne Moore was named best actress for her performance in Still Alice.
The best supporting actor award went to J.K.Simmons for his portrayal of a drill sergeant-like composer in Whiplash.
The film has also won the best sound and editing awards.
Prince William and Robert Downey Jnr also paid tribute to former BAFTA president, the late Richard Attenborough, hailing his “ceaseless passion”.
Meanwhile, one of the UK’s best and hardest working directors received the BAFTA Fellowship award.
Mike Leigh arrived on stage with no scores to settle despite his acclaimed J.M.W. Turner biopic, Mr Turner, missing out at the awards.
The new dimensions and stunning visuals of deep space in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar have also been recognised in the special visual effects category.
The best animated film winner was The Lego Movie – which proved a surprise hit last summer after being embraced by both adults and children alike.
Edward Snowden documentary, CitzenFour, was named the best doc.
Emmanuel Lubezki’s non-stop, engrossing camerawork in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman has won him the best cinematography award.
Meanwhile, 1960s-set Ida was named the best film not in the English language.
The black-and-white Polish gem – about a young nun who discovers her parents were Jews killed during the German occupation of Poland – featured in many critics top ten films of 2014 list.
BBC Films has been awarded the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema title.
Writer Stephen Beresford and producer David Livingstone were awarded the outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer gong for drama Pride.
The film is about the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign in the small town of Onllwyn, Wales, in 1984.
While Jack O’Connell has been named this year’s EE Rising Star for his stand-out roles in 71′, Unbroken and British prison drama, Starred Up last year.