The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood big winners at BAFTA 2015
February 09, 2015 09:55
Coming-of-age drama Boyhood won three of the biggest awards at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards 2015 but it was Wes Anderson's whimsical drama The Grand Budapest Hotel that dominated the ceremony by taking home five trophies.
Boyhood, a moving, groundbreaking film about growing up, was shot with the same actors for over 12 years, bagged the best film, best director for Richard Linklater while Patricia Arquette, 46, won the best supporting actress for the portrayal of a doting divorced mother of two kids.
The award for leading actress went to Julianne Moore for her unbearably moving role of a woman succumbing to Alzheimer's in Still Alice.
Eddie Redmayne triumphed in the best actor category for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything after beating Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game), Ralph Fiennes (Budapest), Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Michael Keaton (Birdman).
The biopic also won best adapted screenplay and outstanding British film.
The Grand Budapest Hotel, which dominated the craft categories, won best original music, makeup and hair, costume design, production design, as well as best original screenplay for its absent director Anderson.
Whiplash, a film written and directed by Damien Chazelle based on his experiences in the Princeton High School Studio Band, came away with three awards including best editing, best sound and best supporting actor award for JK Simmons as the tyrannical and ruthless music teacher Terence Fletcher.
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