’12 Years A Slave’ star, Lupita Nyong’o and her brother Peter Nyong’o have received customised bottles of Coke courtesy of the brand’s hugely successful ‘Share a Coke’ campaign. The Share a Coke campaign will see over 1,000 names appear on all brands of Coca Cola. It will encourage people to share bottles of coke with names/nicknames of their loved ones appearing on the pack(s).
Alex Ekubo, Flower Girl, Half of a Yellow Sun, Lupita Nyong'o, others shine at the 9th Screen Nation Film&Television Awards. (Full list of winners)
BAFTA Awards: Chiwetel Ejiofor wins Best Actor for '12 Years A Slave'. (Full list of winners)
FULL LIST OF WINNERS!
(1) Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
(2) Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
(3) Best Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
(4) Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
(5) Best Picture: 12 Years A Slave
(6) Best British Film: Gravity
(7) Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
(8) Best Original Screenplay: American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)
(9) Best Adapted Screenplay: Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
(10) Best Foreign: The Great Beauty Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima
(11) Best Documentary: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
(12) Best Animation: Frozen, Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
13) Best Cinematography: Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
(14) Best Editing: Rush, Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
(15) Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn
Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin
(16) Best Make Up and Hair: American Hustle, Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell
(17) Best Sound: Gravity, Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro
(18) Best Original Music: Gravity, Steven Price
(19) Best Special Visual Effects: Gravity – Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny
(20) Best British Short Animation: Sleeping with the Fishes, James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa
(21) Best British Short Film: Room 8, James W. Griffiths & Sophie Venner
(22) Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: Keiran Evans (Director/Writer), Kelly + Victor
(23) The EE Rising Star Award (voted for by public): Will Poulter
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
The name Chiwetel Ejiofor might not easily ring a bell but as far as acting is concerned, the British-Nigerian actor is a force to reckon with, this is evident in the type of films he features in, nominations and prestigious awards on his shelf. Recently, he played the role of Odenigbo in writer, Chimamanda’s book turned movie, ‘Half Of a Yellow Sun.’ After losing out to Matthew Mcconaughey at the just-concluded 2014 Golden Globes awards, the prolific thespian has landed another huge nomination.
For his exceptionally brilliant performance in the movie, ’12 years a slave’, he has been shortlisted in the Best Actor category of this year’s Oscars. The ‘Dirty Pretty things’ star was nominated alongside Christian Bale (American Hustle), Bruce Dern (Nebraska), Leonardo Dicaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street), Matthew Mcconaughey (Dallas Buyers Club).