Blue Is the Warmest Color lands its First Major Picture Nomination

The London Film Critics (much like the American critics with the Oscars) do no vote for the BAFTAs (the British Academy Awards). However, much like the American Film Critics, what they vote for can be quite telling of what it is they support.

For a film like Blue Is the Warmest Color to land amongst the Best Picture race can either be shrugged off as a "critics' pick", or you can see that there is support for it that will not only carry into the BAFTA's, but the Oscars when it comes time for the "British contingent" to cast their votes. While it will not likely end up amongst the Best Picture nominees, its place in Foreign Film is almost assured, after there were some doubts as to whether or not the film's explicit sexuality would turn off voters.



Film of the Year:

• Blue Is the Warmest Color
• Blue Jasmine
• Frances Ha
• Gravity
• The Great Beauty
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Nebraska
• 12 Years A Slave
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Director of the Year:

• Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
• Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
• Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
• Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty
• Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Screenwriter of the Year:

• Ethan & Joel Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
• Spike Jonze, Her
• Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope, Philomena 
• John Ridley, 12 Years A Slave
• Terrence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

British Film of the Year:

• A Field in England
• Filth 
• Philomena
• Rush
• The Selfish Giant

Foreign Language Film of the Year:

• Blue Is the Warmest Color
• Caesar Must Die
• Gloria
• The Great Beauty 
• A Hijacking

Documentary of the Year:

• The Act of Killing
• Beware of Mr. Baker
• Levianthan
• Stories We Tell
• We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Actor of the Year:

• Bruce Dern, Nebraska
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
• Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
• Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips

Actress of the Year:

• Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
• Sandra Bullock, Gravity
• Judi Dench, Philomena
• Adele Exarhopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color
• Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha

Supporting Actor of the Year:

• Bakhardi Abdi, Captain Phillips
• Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave
• James Gandolfini, Enough Said
• Tom Hanks, Saving Mr. Banks
• Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Supporting Actress of the Year:

• Naomie Harris, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
• Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
• Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
• Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave
• June Squibb, Nebraska

British Actor of the Year:

• Christian Bale, American Hustle/Out of the Furnace
• Steve Coogan, Alan Patridge/Alpha Papa/The Look of Love/Philomena/ What Maisie Knew
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
• Michael Fassbender, The Counselor/12 Years A Slave
• James McAvoy, Filfth/Trance/Welcome to the Punch

British Actress of the Year:

• Judi Dench, Philomena
• Lindsay Duncan, About Time/Last Passenger/Last Week-end
• Naomie Harris, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
• Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
• Emma Thompson, Beautiful Creatures/Saving Mr. Banks

Young British Performer of the Year:

• Conner Chapmen, The Selfish Giant
• Saorsie Ronan, Byzantium/The Host/How I Love Now
• Eloise Laurence, Broken
• George MacKay, Breakfast with Johnny Wilkinson/ For Those in Peril/How I Live Now/Sunshine
• Shaun Thomas, The Selfish Giant

Breakthrough British Filmmaker:

• John S. Baird, Filth 
• Scott Graham, Shell
• Marcus Morkou, Papadopoulos & Sons
• Rufus Norris, Broken
• Paul Wright, For Those in Peril