BAFTA 2015 predictions

Here are my BAFTA 2015 predictions as my previous prediction posts for the Oscars and the BRITs predicted in bold and fangirl ones in italics and underlined.

Best film

Birdman

Boyhood

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Imitation Game

The Theory of Everything

Outstanding British film

'71

The Imitation Game

Paddington

Pride

The Theory of Everything

Under The Skin

Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game

Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler

Michael Keaton - Birdman

Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything

Actress

Amy Adams - Big Eyes

Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything

Julianne Moore - Still Alice

Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl

Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Supporting actor

Steve Carell - Foxcatcher

Ethan Hawke - Boyhood

Edward Norton - Birdman

Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher

JK Simmons - Whiplash

Supporting actress

Patricia Arquette - Boyhood

Rene Russo - Nightcrawler

Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game

Imelda Staunton - Pride

Emma Stone - Birdman

Director

Wes Anderson - Grand Budapest Hotel

Damian Chazelle - Whiplash

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Birdman

Richard Linklater - Boyhood

James Marsh - The Theory of Everything

Adapted screenplay

American Sniper - Jason Hall

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

The Imitation Game - Graham Moore

Paddington - Paul King

The Theory of Everything - Anthony McCarten

Original screenplay

Birdman - Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Armando Bo

Boyhood - Richard Linklater

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson

Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy

Whiplash - Damien Chazelle

Animated film

Big Hero 6

The Boxtrolls

The Lego Movie

Documentary

20 Feet from Stardom

20,000 Days on Earth

Citizenfour

Finding Vivian Maier

Virunga

Foreign film

Ida

Leviathan

The Lunchbox

Trash

Two Days, One Night

Please note I cant predict with films I struggle to understand

Cinematography

Birdman - Emmanuel Lubezki

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Robert Yeoman

Ida - Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski

Interstellar - Hoyte van Hoytema

Mr Turner - Dick Pope

Costume design

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Imitation Game

Into the Woods

Mr Turner

The Theory of Everything

Editing

Birdman - Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Barney Pilling

The Imitation Game - William Goldenberg

Nightcrawler - John Gilroy

The Theory of Everything - Jinx Godfrey

Whiplash - Tom Cross

Make-up and hair

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Frances Hannon

Guardians of the Galaxy - Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White

Into the Woods - Peter Swords King, J Roy Helland

Mr Turner - Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener

The Theory of Everything - Jan Sewell

Music

Birdman - Antonio Sanchez

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat

Interstellar - Hans Zimmer

The Theory of Everything - Johann Johannsson

Under the Skin - Mica Levi

Production design

Big Eyes - Rick Heinrichs, Shane Vieau

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock

The Imitation Game - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald

Interstellar - Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis

Mr Turner - Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts

Sound

American Sniper - Walt Martin, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman

Birdman - Thomas Varga, Martin Hernandez, Aaron Glascock, Jon Taylor, Frank A Montaño

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wayne Lemmer, Christopher Scarabosio, Pawel Wdowczak

The Imitation Game - John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Martin Jensen

Whiplash - Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann

Visual effects

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett

Guardians of the Galaxy - Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Nicolas

Aithadi

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R Christopher White

Interstellar - Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

British short animation

The Bigger Picture - Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka

Monkey Love Experiments - Ainslie Henderson, Cam Fraser, Will Anderson

My Dad - Marcus Armitage

British short film

Boogaloo and Graham - Brian J Falconer, Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney

Emotional Fusebox - Michael Berliner, Rachel Tunnard

The Karman Line - Campbell Beaton, Dawn King, Tiernan Hanby, Oscar Sharp

Slap - Islay Bell-Webb, Michelangelo Fano, Nick Rowland

Three Brothers -S Aleem Khan, Matthieu de Braconier, Stephanie Paeplow

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Elaine Constantine (writer/director Northern Soul)

Gregory Burke, Yann Demange (writer and director '71)

Hong Khaou (writer/director Lilting)

Paul Katis, Andrew De Lotbiniere (director/producer and producer Kajaki: The True Story)

Stephen Beresford, David Livingstone (writer and producer Pride)

Rising Star award

Gugu Mbatha-Raw - voted for Gugu

Jack O'Connell

Margot Robbie

Miles Teller

Shailene Woodley

The Cumberbomb Unleashed

Benedict Cumberbatch photobombing Meryl Streep. 

When I was sifting through the tweets regarding the Golden Globes looking for the ultimate juice to go into this years awards season of legendary legend post at the end of the awards season. The first person is of course, 'The Cumberbatch' doing the famous 'Cumberbomb' to Meryl Streep. I think it should go into the legendary legend post at the end, because no one can photobomb like Benedict Cumberbatch. of course this is not his first Cumberbomb because he also did the Cumberbomb to U2 at The Academy Awards in 2014. 

Benedict photobombing U2.

I just think it shows humanity and normality in a society when celebrities are seen to be God like, when in actual fact they are like you or me but with this important job to do. It is something I would do if I was at The Academy Awards because it creates a memory at the end of the day. So why wouldn't you have fun and a laugh. I think this is a guy who can't believe where his career has got him to even though he is a spectacularly phenomenal actor and jousts wants to embrace his life to the max. So there you go, my reasoning for the Cumberbomb going into the finale pice of Legendary legend post.

Brit Awards Nominations

Here is the full list of Brit Award nominations with my predictions for the winners in bold.

BRITISH MALE SOLO
Damon Albarn
Ed Sheeran
Geroge Ezra
Paolo Nutini
Sam Smith

BRITISH FEMALE SOLO
Ella Henderson
FKA Twigs
Jessie Ware
Lily Allen
Paloma Faith 

BRITISH GROUP 
Alt-J
Clean Bandit
Coldplay
One Direction
Royal Blood

BEST BRITISH ALBUM
Alt-J – This Is All Yours
Ed Sheeran – X
George Ezra – Wanted On Voyage
Royal Blood – Royal Blood
Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour

BRITISH BREAKTHROUGH
Chvrches
FKA Twigs
George Ezra
Royal Blood
Sam Smith

BEST BRITISH SINGLE WITH CAPITAL FM
Calvin Harris – 'Summer'
Clean Bandit ft Jess Glynne – 'Rather Be'
Duke Dumont ft Jax Jones – 'I Got U'
Ed Sheeran – 'Thinking Out Loud'
Ella Henderson – 'Ghost'
George Ezra – 'Budapest'
Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars – 'Uptown Funk'
Route 94 ft Jess Glynne – 'My Love'
Sam Smith – 'Stay With Me'
Sigma – 'Nobody to Love'

BRITISH VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Calvin Harris – 'Summer'
Charli XCX – 'Boom Clap'
Duke Dumont ft Jax Jones – 'I Got U'
Ed Sheeran – 'Thinking Out Loud'
Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars – 'Uptown Funk'
One Direction – 'You And I'
Rita Ora – 'I Will Never Let You Down'
Route 94 ft Jess Glynne – 'My Love'
Sam Smith – 'Stay With Me'
Sigma – 'Nobody To Love'

INTERNATIONAL GROUP
5 Seconds of Summer but only because the young ones at choir would kill me if I didn't pick them. I have never really heard of the other groups 
The Black Keys
First Aid Kit
Foo Fighters
The War On Drugs

INTERNATIONAL FEMALE
Beyonce
Lana Del Ray
Sia
St Vincent
Taylor Swift - love her album 1989 

INTERNATIONAL MALE
Beck
Hozier
Jack White
John Legend
Pharrell Williams - my favourite song of all time - so uplifting 

CRITIC'S CHOICE 
James Bay - WINNER
George The Poet
Years & Years

Information courtesy of Cosmopolitan UK

Oscars 2015 nominations list

The Oscars 2015 nominations list in full. The logical predictions will be in bold but the fan girl ones will be underlined and in italics

Best Picture

"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Selma"
"The Theory of Everything"
"Whiplash"

Best Director
Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
Bennett Miller, “Foxcatcher”
Morten Tyldum, "The Imitation Game"

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, “Two Days, One Night”
Felicity Jones, "The Theory of Everything"
Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"
Rosamund Pike, "Gone Girl"
Reese Witherspoon, "Wild"

Best Actor
Steve Carell, "Foxcatcher" 
Bradley Cooper, “American Sniper”
Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Imitation Game"  I would love for to get an Oscar I admire his work and I hope to work with him one day
Michael Keaton, "Birdman"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything"

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"
Laura Dern, “Wild”
Keira Knightley, "The Imitation Game"
Emma Stone, "Birdman"
Meryl Streep, "Into the Woods"

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, "The Judge"
Ethan Hawke, "Boyhood"
Edward Norton, "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo, "Foxcatcher"
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice”
Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash"
Jason Hall, “American Sniper”
Anthony McCarten, "The Theory of Everything"
Graham Moore, "The Imitation Game"

Best Original Screenplay
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye, "Foxcatcher" 
Dan Gilroy, "Nightcrawler"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo, "Birdman"
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"

Best Foreign Language Film
"Leviathan"
"Ida"
"Tangerines"
“Timbuktu”
"Wild Tales"

I don't know with this category 

Best Documentary Feature
"CITIZENFOUR"
“Finding Vivian Maier”
"Last Days in Vietnam"
“The Salt in the Earth”
"Virunga”

Best Animated Feature
"Big Hero 6"
"The Boxtrolls"
"How to Train Your Dragon 2"
“Song of the Sea”
"The Tale of The Princess Kaguya"

Best Film Editing
"American Sniper"
"Boyhood"
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
"The Imitation Game"
"Whiplash"

Best Original Song
"Everything is Awesome" from "The LEGO Movie" (written by Shawn Patterson)
"Glory" from "Selma" (written by Common and John Legend)
"Grateful" from "Beyond the Lights" (written by Diane Warren)
"I’m Not Gonna Miss You" from "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me" (written by Glen Campbell)
"Lost Stars" from "Begin Again" (written by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood)

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" 
Alexandre Desplat, "The Imitation Game"
Johann Johannsson, "The Theory of Everything"
Gary Yershon, “Mr. Turner”
Hans Zimmer, "Interstellar"

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, "Unbroken"
Emmanuel Lubezki, "Birdman" 
Dick Pope, "Mr. Turner"
Robert Yeoman, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, “Ida”

Best Costume Design
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
“Inherent Vice”
"Into the Woods"
Maleficiant 
"Mr. Turner"

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
"Foxcatcher"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Guardians of the Galaxy"

Best Production Design
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
“The Imitation Game”
“Interstellar”
"Into the Woods"
"Mr. Turner"

Best Sound Editing
"American Sniper"
“Birdman”
"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies"
"Interstellar"
"Unbroken"

Best Sound Mixing
"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
“Interstellar”
"Unbroken"
“Whiplash”

Best Visual Effects
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"
"Guardians of the Galaxy"
"Interstellar"
"X-Men: Days of Future Past"

Best Short Film, Live Action
"Aya"
“Boogaloo and Graham”
“Butter Lamp”
“Parvaneh”
"The Phone Call"

Best Short Film, Animated
"The Bigger Picture"
"The Dam Keeper"
"Feast"
"Me and My Moulton"
“A Single Life”

Best Documentary, Short Subject
“Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1”
"Joanna"
"Our Curse"
“The Reaper”
"White Earth"

I have not really seen the short films so I don't feel objective enough to comment.

Information courtesy of The Huffington Past 

The Imitation Game Review.

Brilliant! Spectacular! The story of the year. A beautiful story of a tortured man told through beautiful cinematography, acting, writing and pure love, frustration and perfection by all involved.

The film is about the work of World War II code breaker and mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock, Star Trek into Darkness). It touches on the beautiful relationship between Alan and fellow code breaker and mathematician Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley - A Dangerous Method, Atonement). It is a thoroughly thought out piece of drama that dramatizes aspects of Alan's childhood with the love of his life to his work to Bletchley Park to his questioning at the  police station about his homosexuality.

If you want to know about the British Film Industry, this is the film for you. For me, this film celebrates the beauty of the British Film Industry with the best British actors, locations and crew. It beautifully foretells the story of a tortured war hero who lost the love of his life at a young age and then was mistreated by the government of the time for being homosexual. I believe that this is because the director Morten Tyldum understood that this is a story of British History which needed to stay with its home - Great Britain, British actors and actual real locations from the actual stories. I must say that the beauty of this film is helped by the all British ensemble made up of phenomenal actors Allen Leech and Matthew Goode to name just a few. This is the film for Britain to be proud but for British people to be proud of their heritage.

It is my belief that this film is a true celebration of individuality, because it is about the portrayal of a man who sticks to his individuality. The film creates these beautiful characters brings a fresh new reality to a story EVERYONE has to know and appreciate the brilliance of.

Every single actor and actress in the film, should feel proud for creating this beautiful story. The lead actor Benedict Cumberbatch understood the brilliance and vulnerability of this person is so utterly memerizing to the point I was hanging on his every word of his portrayal. I think Cumberbatch increased his game because he had the ultimate leading lady in Keira Knightley who portrayed Alan's Turing's best friend and love interest Joan Clarke. I loved Keira's portrayal because not only did she understand Joan, she understood the beauty of the relationship. I hope the Academy sees the beauty of this film and not only award the film but these two phenomenal actors who deserve every single piece of recognition for their portrayals. For me, this is the pair's year for EXTREMELY HAPPY TIMES.

Pure beauty and excellence which celebrates a war hero with elegance and style. The film you all must see!!

Heroes.

For my hero he knows who he is and he knows who he is and he knows he is stuck with me no matter what. 

Heroes don’t grow on trees,
But they are a special seed.
They blow in the breeze,
But they stay there forever and ever.

They care with all their hearts,
Even with their own battles.
You can hear their voices coming out through the anguish, pain and the screams.
They are always there for ice creams too.

They live for others through their hardships.
They smile at you as if it is second nature,
even though they struggle to smile at you.

Heroes are rare, unique and totally special.
Heroes are brought from heaven,
with a huge heart of gold.

Heroes appreciate the little things,
Which makes you appreciate them even more to the point,
You say you love them at least once a day.

I love my hero, forever in my heart.

Sensing love to all your heroes ahead of this Remembrance Day.  xxx

Remembrance Day - A Time for Family.

I found myself surprisingly reflective this Remembrance Sunday. I was grateful of what I have because for so many young people. War has changed their lives. They live without a parent for months on end sometimes over Christmas or a Birthday. Then in the worst case they may have had to grow up without their Mum or Dad. They are my inspiration because to grow up without your parents from a young age must be daunting and scary all in one with what young people have to adjust too without it., I thought I am so grateful for my family the fact that we celebrate everyone's birthday with a family meal and spend Christmas together.

Then I thought it is great to be grateful, thankful and inspired. Then there is the fact that so many servicemen and servicewomen come home expecting their life to go back to way it was, but it doesn't. It is not just the fact that these soldiers only get paid £20,000 - £40,000 dependent on the rank with the majority being £20,000. They protect countries and young people from dangerous situations. They have to then come back to reality unable to work. It is great that we have the Invictus Games but can every solider afford to be a part of this phenomena.

Let celebrate these amazing individuals who are or have protected their country and fought in their country's name. I shall never forget how fortunate I am.

Happy Remembrance Day!