Retrospective 2014 – A Year in Film

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February

An interesting mix

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February saw a continuation of the January trend of Oscar-contender releases with original and captivating movies like the brilliant Dallas Buyers Club and Her, as well as the unexpectedly brilliant animation of the year The Lego Movie and George Clooney’s all-star cast World War II movie The Monuments Men.

And the award goes to…

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The road to the Oscars continued with the British equivalent taking place in glitzy central London with the 67th edition of the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), notable winners were;

Best Film

12 Years a Slave

Outstanding British Film of the Year

Gravity

David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction

Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity

Best Actor and Actress

Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave

and

Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor and Actress

Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips

and

Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle

Best Screenplay (Original)

Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell for American Hustle

Best Screenplay (Adapted)

Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope for Philomena

BAFTA Fellowship

Helen Mirren

Those We Lost: The passing of giants

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February was a tough month for the Movie industry with the loss of legendary comedy actor/director/writer Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day) from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis at 69, as well as the passing of screen icon and first child movie star Shirley Temple from natural causes at 85.

Perhaps more shocking was the sudden death of Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a drug overdose at the age of 46.

Not blessed with leading-man looks, Hoffman was to become one of the greatest character-actors of his or any other generation with roles and performances as varied as they were powerful, from the shy repressed production assistant in Boogie Nights to Truman Capote in Capote for which he won the Oscar and everything in between, unforgettable and irreplaceable.

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