Watch trailers and find out more about the Adapted Screenplay nominees in 2015.
AMERICAN SNIPER
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner
- Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
- Clint Eastwood has been BAFTA-nominated 3 times, and was awarded The Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film in 2006.
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- Find out more about Clint Eastwood winning The Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film in 2006 >
GONE GIRL
- Director: David Fincher
- Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris
- With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
- David Fincher previously won the BAFTA for Director for The Social Network in 2011, and was BAFTA-nominated for his direction of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button in 2009.
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THE IMITATION GAME
- Director: Morten Tyldum
- Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Rory Kinnear, Matthew Goode
- During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
- The Imitation Game is director Morten Tyldum’s English-language directorial debut.
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- See BAFTA's Interview with Allen Leech on BAFTA Guru >
- Watch BAFTA's Interview with Rory Kinnear on BAFTA Guru >
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PADDINGTON
- Director: Paul King
- Starring: Nicole Kidman, Huge Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Colin Firth and Julie Walters
- After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, Paddington, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home.
- Listen to the full BAFTA feature, Julie Walters: A Life in Television >
- Read an article on BAFTA Guru about The Phone Call, starring Sally Hawkins >
- View the full BAFTA feature, Colin Firth: A Life in Pictures >
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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
- Director: James Marsh
- Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones
- The story of the physicist Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde, the literature student he fell in love with while studying at Cambridge University in the 1960s
- Stephen Hawking gave the producers permission to use his “voice” in the film - the audio from his speech synthesizer.
- Watch BAFTA's Interview with Eddie Redmayne on BAFTA Guru >
- Watch BAFTA's Interview with Felicity Jones on BAFTA Guru >
- See all BAFTA wins and nominations for director James Marsh >