Gravity leads the way at BAFTA nominations with 11 nods including Best Actress for Sandra Bullock… as 12 Years A Slave and American Hustle follow closely behind

This year's BAFTA nominations were announced on Wednesday morning by Harry Potter's Helen McCrory and Hobbit star, Luke Evans.

Top movie, Gravity has topped the board with an impressive eleven nominations. Sandra Bullock received a nod for Leading Actress for her role as astronaut Ryan Stone in the space-themed movie.

The epic film, which also stars George Clooney, is nominated in the following categories: Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Director for Alfonso Cuarón, Original Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects.

Sandra Bullock has been nominated for Leading Actress for her role in Gravity

12 Years a Slave and American Hustle follow closely behind and are each nominated in ten categories while Captain Phillips has nine.

Behind the Candelabra and Saving Mr. Banks are each nominated five times.

Philomena, Rush and The Wolf of Wall Street have four nominations. Blue Jasmine, The Great Gatsby, Inside Llewyn Davis and Nebraska have each been nominated three times. The Act of Killing, The Butler and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug have two nominations apiece.

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in new film Gravity

Leading Actress: Sandra Bullock (left) and Emma Thompson (right) have both received BAFTA nominations

12 Years a Slave is nominated for Best Film, Director for Steve McQueen, Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing and Production Design.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in America's deep south in the movie is nominated for Leading Actor.

Ejiofor, who grew up in London, said: 'I continue to be immensely proud of the recognition this film is getting around the world.

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It's his year: Chiwetel Ejiofor is nominated for Leading Actor for his role in 12 Years A Slave

Nominees British director Steve McQueen and his leading man Chiwetel Ejiofor seen at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala are both nominated for Bafta Awards for 12 Years A Slave

'There is, of course, something particularly special about receiving a Bafta nomination from home.'

William Hill made the film and Chiwetel Ejiofor, huge odds on favourites to win awards. 12 Years A Slave is 2/5 to win best film at the annual ceremony, while British actor, Ejiofor is 1/4.

Michael Fassbender is nominated for Supporting Actor and Lupita Nyong’o is nominated for Supporting Actress.

American Hustle receives nominations for Best Film, Director for David O. Russell, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair.

FULL LIST OF BAFTA 2014 NOMINATIONS

Best Film
Gravity

12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Captain Philips
Philomena
Leading Actor 

Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Tom Hanks, Captain Philips
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf Of Wall Street
Bruce Dern, Nebraska

Supporting Actor
Michael Fassbender,  12 Years A Slave
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Matt Damon, Behind The Candelabra
Daniel Brühl, Rush
Leading Actress

Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Supporting Actress 
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years A Slave
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
Oprah Winfrey, The Butler
Outstanding British Film

Gravity
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Rush

Director 

Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
David O. Russell, American Hustle

Paul Greengrass, Captain Philips
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf Of Wall Street

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Writer/Director Paul Wright and Producer Polly Stokes, For Those in Peril
Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson (Writers), Good Vibrations
Kieran Evans (Writer/Director), Kelly + Victor
Scott Graham (Writer/Director), Shell
Kelly Marcel (Writer), Saving Mr. Banks.
Original Screenplay
Gravity
American Hustle

Blue Jasmine
Nebraska
Inside Llewyn Davis

Original Music

Gravity
Captain Philips
Saving Mr. Banks
The Book Thief

Editing
Gravity
12 Years A Slave
Captain Philips
Rush

Production Design

Gravity
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Behind The Candelabra
The Great Gatsby

Costume Design
American Hustle
Behind The Candelabra
Saving Mr. Banks
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman

Make Up & Hair

American Hustle
Behind The Candelabra
The Butler
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Sound
Gravity
Captain Philips
All Is Lost
Rush
Inside Llewyn Davis
Special Visual Effects
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness
Gravity 
Film Not in the English Language

Blue is the Warmest Colour
The Great Beauty
Metro Manila
Wadjda
The Act of Killing
Animated Film
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University.
The British Short Animation
Everything I Can See From Here
I Am Tom Moody
Sleeping With the Fishes
British Short Film
Island Queen
Keeping Up With the Joneses,
Orbit Ever After
Room 8

Sea View
EE Rising Star Award

Dane DeHaan
George MacKay
Lupita Nyong’o
Will Poulter
Léa Seydoux
Adapted Screenplay

12 Years A Slave
Captain Philips
Philomena
Behind The Candelabra
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Cinematography
Gravity
12 Years A Slave
Captain Philips
Nebraska
Inside Llewyn Davis

Breaking news: Helen McCory and Luke Evans announced the nominations at the EE British Academy Film Awards in London on Wednesday morning

In response to the news of the film’s nominations, American Hustle's co-writer and director, David O. Russell, commented:

'Mind blowing. Humbled and beyond grateful to be recognised by BAFTA in this way.

'It means everything to have our actors and our craftspeople, who put their hearts into this picture, acknowledged.'

American Hustle official trailer

Is that a perm? Bradley Cooper (left) is up for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Richie DiMaso in American Hustle

Christian Bale is nominated for Leading Actor and Amy Adams is nominated for Leading Actress, whilst Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are nominated for Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress.

Captain Phillips is nominated in the following categories: Best Film, Director for Paul Greengrass, Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing and Sound. Tom Hanks is nominated for Leading Actor and Barkhad Abdi is nominated for Supporting Actor.

Philomena completes the Best Film line-up, with three further nominations in Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay and Leading Actress for Judi Dench.

This is Dame Judi's 15th acting nomination, breaking the BAFTA record. She said of the acknowledgement: 'I'm very proud to be associated with this film and I thank BAFTA voters for the nomination. I'm honoured and thrilled to be in such fine company.'

And Dame Judi's reaction to her record breaking nominations: 'That shows how old I am!'

Every day is a hustle: Bradley Cooper is one of Bafta's supporting actor nominees

Behind the Candelabra is nominated in Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair. Matt Damon is nominated for Supporting Actor.

Saving Mr. Banks receives nominations for Outstanding British Film, Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, Original Music and Costume Design. Emma Thompson is nominated for Leading Actress.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is nominated for Outstanding British Film, alongside Gravity, Philomena, Rush, Saving Mr. Banks and The Selfish Giant.

Double act: Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio seen at the 2014 National Board Of Review Awards Gala on Tuesday night

Cheers! Leonardo DiCaprio is up for Leading Actor for his role as Jordan Belfort in Wolf Of Wall Street

Leonardo DiCaprio is nominated in Leading Actor for The Wolf of Wall Street, which is also nominated in Director for Martin Scorsese, Adapted Screenplay and Editing.

A thrilled DiCaprio said: 'I am truly honored to be nominated today by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

'These nominations reflect the determination of an extraordinary cast, crew and of course the great Marty Scorsese.'

Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins are nominated as Leading Actress and Supporting Actress for Blue Jasmine, for which Woody Allen also receives a nomination for Original Screenplay.

Blanchett has been winning rave reviews for her performance in the movie and is 2/7 to win Best Actress, according to William Hill.

Bruce Dern is nominated as Leading Actor for Nebraska. The film receives two further nominations for Original Screenplay and Cinematography.

Julia Roberts and Oprah Winfrey complete the Supporting Actress line-up for August: Osage County and The Butler respectively. The Butler receives one further nomination for Make Up & Hair.

Daniel Brühl completes the Supporting Actor category for Rush, which also receives nominations for Outstanding British Film, Editing and Sound.

Joel and Ethan Coen receive an Original Screenplay nomination for Inside Llewyn Davis, which is also nominated for Cinematography and Sound. All Is Lost completes the nominations for Sound.

Will he win? Tom Hanks receives a nod for Leading Actor for Captain Phillips

The Great Gatsby is nominated for Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair. Also nominated for Make Up & Hair is The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which receives one further nomination for Special Visual Effects. The Invisible Woman receives a nomination for Costume Design.

John Williams receives an Original Music nomination for The Book Thief. Iron Man 3, Pacific Rim and Star Trek Into Darkness join Gravity and The Hobbit: The Desolation in the Special Visual Effects category.

The Act of Killing receives two nominations for Film Not in the English Language and Documentary. Also nominated in the Documentary category are: The Armstrong Lie, Blackfish, Tim’s Vermeer, and We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks.

In second place: 12 Years A Slave is up for ten BAFTA nominations

Writer/Director Paul Wright and Producer Polly Stokes are nominated for Outstanding Debut for For Those in Peril.

They are joined by Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson (Writers) for Good Vibrations, Kieran Evans (Writer/Director) for Kelly + Victor, Scott Graham (Writer/Director) for Shell and Kelly Marcel (Writer), who is due to write the script for the forthcoming 50 Shades Of Grey film, for Saving Mr. Banks.

Blue is the Warmest Colour, The Great Beauty, Metro Manila and Wadjda are nominated alongside The Act of Killing to complete for Film Not in the English Language.

The Animated Film nominees are Despicable Me 2, Frozen and Monsters University.

Leading actor: Matt Damon has been recognised for his role in Behind The Candelbra

The British Short Animation nominations are Everything I Can See From Here, I Am Tom Moody and Sleeping With the Fishes and the British Short Film nominations are Island Queen, Keeping Up With the Joneses, Orbit Ever After, Room 8 and Sea View.

The nominees for the EE Rising Star Award, announced earlier this week, are Dane DeHaan, George MacKay, Lupita Nyong’o, Will Poulter and Léa Seydoux.

This audience award is voted for by the British public and presented to an actor or actress who has demonstrated exceptional talent and promise.

Flower power: Sally Hawkins has been nominated for Leading Actress for her role in Blue Jasmine

Film critic Mark Kermode said he expected Gravity  to provide the main competition to 12 Years A Slave for prizes.

He said: 'The nice surprise has been, in the case of 12 Years A Slave, not only has it been nominated for best film and best director, you've got a best supporting actor nomination for Lupita Nyong'o, who's terrific.

'And just a couple of days ago got a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star award so that's two nominations for her.

She's got a chance: Blanchett has been winning rave reviews for her performance in Blue Jasmine and is 2/7 to win Best Actress

'Great to see Chiwetel Ejiofor nominated for best actor, his performance is absolutely outstanding, although he's up against Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips - that's going to be a pretty tough title fight.

'When it comes to wins you're looking at 12 Years A Slave and Gravity. American Hustle has done well numerically in the nominations, I'd be surprised if it did as well when it comes to the awards themselves.'

The ceremony will be hosted by Stephen Fry and will be broadcast exclusively on BBC One and BBC One HD, preceded by a red carpet show on BBC Three. The ceremony is also broadcast in all major territories around the world.

The BAFTAs are considered an indicator of likely success at Hollywood's Academy Awards two weeks later. 

The EE British Academy Film Awards take place on Sunday 16 February at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.