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Baftas 2015: British hopefuls ready for red carpetBenedict Cumberbatch, Felicity Jones, Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike and Eddie Redmayne are among the British stars hoping to win a Bafta on Sunday.
Other stars expected on the red carpet at London’s Royal Opera House include Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Ethan Hawke, Michael Keaton and Reese Witherspoon.
The ceremony, hosted by Stephen Fry, is the biggest awards event in the British film calendar.
Surreal comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel leads the pack with 11 nominations.
Showbiz satire Birdman and Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything are each nominated in 10 categories. Colin Paterson speaks to Stephen Fry about the nominations for the 2015 Baftas
The Baftas take place exactly two weeks before the Academy Awards in Hollywood and can often be an indicator of who will go on to win an Oscar.
The last six winners of the Bafta for best film have gone on to win the best picture Oscar. Last year’s winner, 12 Years a Slave, won two Baftas and three Oscars.
Amanda Berry, Bafta chief executive, said 69% of Bafta and Oscar winners over the last 10 years have been same: “I think that makes us enough of a predictor to be relevant, but not too much the same to be a carbon copy.”
This year the Bafta nominees in the four main categories are:
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