Arts+CultureBlogsThe best of the BAFTAsOur take on the event's winners, from Gravity to rising star Will PoulterShareLink copied ✔️February 17, 2014Arts+CultureBlogsTextBrooke McCord BEST PICTURE – 12 Years a Slave (2013) Scooping up the award for Best Picture was Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, set in the plantations of slave-era Louisiana. Dazed cover star Lupita Nyong’o is Patsey, a young slave who is an object of fixation for Master Epps (Michael Fassbender). The film is adapted from the autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free-born north American black man who was sold in chains into the south. Lupita Nyong'o on the cover of Dazed February IssuePhotography by Sharif Hamza, Styling by Robbie Spencer BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO FILM – Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway won the prestigious British Contribution to Cinema award for over three decades of thought-provoking filmmaking, starting with his 1980 debut The Falls. "I feel that cinema at its very best is an artform of great sophistication and complication, which is capable of holding multiple meanings,” he mused in this passionate 2007 interview with Dazed's Tim Noakes. Well worth a revisit Peter Greenaway in Social Stereotype BEST BRITISH FILM – Gravity (2013) At the end of last year, we spoke to Alfonso Cuarón and Tim Webber about Gravity, shedding some light on their absurdist originality as they spilled a few secrets on the making of the emotional and visually perplexing technological wonder. Not only did they rack up BAFTAs for Best British Film, Best Cinematography, Best Special Visual Effects, Best Sound and Best Original Music, but Cuarón also won Best Director. Six is the magic number. Alfonso Cuarón directs Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in Gravity BEST ACTRESS – Cate Blanchett AnOther’s 25th edition cover star, Cate Blanchett, left the BAFTAs with the Best Actress award for her stellar performance as Jasmine, a former Manhattan socialite abandoned by high society, in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine (2013). Although Jasmine is penniless and alone, she remains arrogant and deluded. It’s a classic Allen offering of human-led, compelling tragicomedy. Cate Blanchett for AnOther Magazine A/W13Photography by Willy Vanderperre, styling by Olivier Rizzo THE EE RISING STAR AWARD – Will Poulter Will Poulter, who won the EE Rising Star award, voted for by the public, was selected by Hammer & Tongs’ Garth Jennings for Dazed back in October as one to watch. In the interview with the promising young British acto, we learned that he had, as a schoolboy, been saddled with both dyspraxia and dyslexia, and described himself as “destined not to achieve”. Poulter has since starred in a variety of films, the most recent being the big-budget comedy We’re the Millers (2013). Will Poulter, Dazed September 2013Photography by Eloise Parry BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – The Great Gatsby (2013) Of course Baz Luhrmann’s explosive 3D film adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece was destined to pick up a BAFTA or two, winning an award for both Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. Eighteen months since Carey Mulligan finished filming the movie and took a break from acting, she was back in front of the camera for our January Dazed cover speaking about her latest role in Inside Llewyn Davis. “I don’t know why I was so freaked out!" she said, talking about her Gatsby-related anxiety dreams. "I guess I felt I’d been pretty under the radar up to that point, so Gatsby was scary. But nothing terrible happened.” Carey Mulligan, Dazed January 2014Photography by Rankin, Styling by Cathy EdwardsExpand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREWhy did Satan start to possess girls on screen in the 70s?Learn the art of photo storytelling and zine making at Dazed+LabsZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney 8 essential skate videos from the 90s and beyond with Glue SkateboardsThe unashamedly queer, feminist, and intersectional play you need to seeParis artists are pissed off with this ‘gift’ from Jeff KoonsA Seat at the TableVinca Petersen: Future FantasySnarkitecture’s guide on how to collide art and architectureBanksy has unveiled a new anti-weapon artworkVincent Gallo: mad, bad, and dangerous to knowGet lost in these frank stories of love and loss