Courtesy of Fox UKArts+Culture / NewsThe Grand Budapest Hotel sweeps nominations for BAFTA awardsThe Wes Anderson hotel caper is nominated in 11 categories, including best director and best filmShareLink copied ✔️January 9, 2015Arts+CultureNewsText Zing Tsjeng The BAFTAs have just announced their nominations for 2015. Besides first-time composer Mica Levi's nod, there's also one surprise development: the runaway success of The Grand Budapest Hotel. After being largely overlooked by other film awards, Wes Anderson's candy-coloured hotel caper has been nominated in the most number of categories. The Grand Budapest Hotel has 11 nominations under its belt, beating out the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything by a single category. The movie is up for best film, best original screenplay, best actor for Ralph Fiennes and best director for Anderson. Jeff Goldblum, who plays the stern lawyer Deputy Kovacs, told Dazed of the film: "It's a dream job. It's just a very unusual, wonderful experience making a movie with Wes Anderson. He's spectacular." Anderson took inspiration from the work of the late Viennese author Stefan Zweig (not least his luminous writings on the grand hotels of Europe), saying: "Many of the ideas expressed and/or explored in Grand Budapest we stole directly from Zweig’s own life and work." Watch the trailer for The Grand Budapest Hotel below: Head here to check out all our coverage of The Grand Budapest Hotel, including interviews with Wes Anderson and Bill Murray. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.TrendingHow Prince almost ended up in The Fifth ElementThe Purple One backed out because Jean Paul Gaultier’s costumes were ‘too effeminate’Arts+CultureMusicThe 5 best songs from Drake’s new albums (plural) OnFashionHow On and Loewe are shaping the future of footwear SamsungLife & CultureWhat went down at Dazed Club’s drop-in skate session with SamsungBeauty10 of the hottest Instagram accounts fusing art, sex and eroticaArt & PhotographySex, Clubs, Dissent: This photo book presents a history of queer nightlifeMusicSalem: Get to know the prodigal sons of witch houseMusic‘On his Temu era’: The internet reacts to Drake’s three-album drop Life & CultureIs veganism a privilege? Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy