Ritesh Batra's 'Lunchbox' lost out to Polish film 'Ida' for Best film Not in English.
Richard Linklater's coming-of-age drama Boyhood won three of the biggest awards at the BAFTA 2015 including the best picture and director but whimsical drama The Grand Budapest Hotel walked away with maximum five trophies. Boyhood, a moving, groundbreaking film about growing up and shot with the same actors for over 12 years, was named the best film at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), hosted by comedian Stephen Fry. The Theory of Everything garnered three awards including leading actor at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards hosted by comedian Stephen Fry, but The Imitation Game failed to convert any of its nine nominations.
Linklater, 54, won the best director trophy while Patricia Arquette, 46, bagged the best supporting actress gong for her portrayal of a divorced mother struggling to raise two kids. Accepting her award, an emotional Arquette said Linklater had made a film like no other, which had broken "the rules of cinema... You made an ordinary story extraordinary."
Eddie Redmayne was named the best actor for his role in The Theory of Everything. He beat competition from his closest rival and fellow countryman Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game), Ralph Fiennes (Budapest), Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Michael Keaton (Birdman). The Stephen Hawking biopic won two more awards -- adapted screenplay and outstanding British film -- while The Imitation Game failed to win any trophy despite its nine nominations. Redmayne, 33, dedicated the award to his family, to the cast and crew and Hawking, "for reminding me of the great strength that comes from the will to live a full and passionate life."
The physicist attended the ceremony and received a standing ovation as he presented the special visual effects award to space-faring epic Interstellar.
The award for leading actress went to Julianne Moore for her portrayal of a linguistics professor grappling with Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice. "Thank you for including me among these beautiful performances both British Felicity, Rosamund and American Amy and Reese I'm honoured to be honoured with you tonight," she said while acknowledging fellow nominees.
The Grand Budapest Hotel, the story of a legendary concierge and his young protege, dominated the craft categories and won best original music, makeup and hair, costume design, production design, as well as best original screenplay for its absent director Wes Anderson.
JK Simmons won the supporting actor category for his portrayal of a domineering jazz teacher in Whiplash. The film, shot by American director Damien Chazelle in just 19 days, also picked up the awards for editing and sound. Whiplash, based on Chazelle's experiences in the Princeton High School Studio Band, won three awards including best editing, best sound and best supporting actor award for JK Simmons as the tyrannical, perfection-seeking music teacher Terence Fletcher.
Thanking Chazelle, his wife, children, and parents, Simmons said, "The whole experience has been a gift to me."
Mexican Emmanuel Lubezki won the cinematography award for his work on Birdman, but the show business satire failed to pick up the big prizes that some commentators had tipped it for.
Fry joked about his recent marriage - one of the most high-profile same-sex unions since they became legal in the United Kingdom last year - and paid tribute to the late British actor and director Richard Attenborough.
Twenty-four-year-old British actor Jack O'Connell picked up the Rising Star award, the only prize voted on by the public.
The winner of the best documentary was Laura Poitras' gripping Citizenfour, which documents Edward Snowden's efforts to expose the scale of NSA post-9/11 spying. It was a predicted triumph as well as the only award where there was no one to pick it up.
The Lego Movie won the animated film category, while Ritesh Batra's epistolary romance The Lunchbox lost out the trophy in the non-English best film category at the BAFTA Awards to Polish-Danish drama movie Ida. The film, which won widespread international acclaim, following its screening at Cannes Film Festival in 2013 also stars Irrfan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui besides Nimrat playing an ignored housewife. Ida, which is also nominated for a best foreign film Oscar, is a black-and-white film about a Polish nun (Agata Trzebuchowska) who discovers she is Jewish and her parents were murdered by those who offered them sanctuary.
Boogaloo and Graham, the story of two boys growing up in Belfast, won British short film. The Bigger Picture won the British short animation category.
Stephen Beresford and David Livingstone won the Debut award for writing and producing Pride, the story of an unlikely collaboration between gay activists and miners during the British miners' strike of 1984.
The BAFTAs are the major awards in the British film industry, and are among a series of such events culminating in the Oscars, the top prizes in the movie world, due to be handed out in Los Angeles on February 22. BAFTA results are an indicator of how the winners' list may play out at the upcoming Oscars.
It was Fry's 10th year as host, first as a newlywed. He walked into the audience to get a kiss from actors Michael Keaton and Edward Norton.
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