UPDATE 2! Star Wars: The Force Awakens Wins BAFTA for Special Visual Effects. John Boyega Gets the Rising Star Award. He Starts Working on Episode VIII Tomorrow!
John Boyega is really a man hard at work. Tonight he attended the British Academy Film Awards where he won the EE Rising Star Award, and tomorrow (February 15) he will start working on Star Wars: Episode VIII at 6 am (UK time).
Boyega revealed his schedule speaking on the red carpet ahead of the actual event that took place at London’s Royal Opera House.
Boyega won the award in a direct competition with Kingsman: The Secret Service’s Taron Egerton and Fifty Shades Of Grey’s Dakota Johnson.
The force is with @JohnBoyega on the red carpet! #EEBAFTAS https://t.co/sIvwKbZ3sb
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 14, 2016
Also Star Wars: The Force Awakens won the award for Special Visual Effects. The awards for Best Original Music and Best Sound, where TFA was also nominated, went to The Hateful Eight’s Ennio Morricone, and Mad Max: Fury Road respectivelly. Also Mad Max won Best Production Design, where TFA was also nominated.
So from the 5 nomination TFA won the 2 most important. Congrats John, you definitely deserve that one.
UPDATE!
Anthony Daniels confirms that the Episode VIII cast and crew are having a meeting early tomorrow:
Heartfelt congratulations to you John for winning BAFTA's RISING STAR AWARD tonight but we've an early call tomorrow so easy on the champoo!
— Anthony Daniels (@ADaniels3PO) February 14, 2016
UPDATE 2!
And here’s Boyega’s acceptance speech, plus an interview with the guys behind the Special Effects from TFA.
The Special Visual Effects award:
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great john boyega is an awesome actor and he was my favourite character in the force awakens so he deserves the award, I’m pleased to say I voted for him to win this award
American awards and all other non-UK-based awards >>>>>>>>> BAFTA and other UK-based awards (which really don’t mean much to begin with other that to feed the egos of Brits).
I just have a strong dislike towards anything UK-related since you know, we the US separated from those Brits due to their unfair policies and whatnot (also because they weren’t giving us the right that we should’ve had like the ones guaranteed by the US Constitution). I also don’t like the way Brits talk and how they spell certain words differently and oddly (ex: colour, favourite, programme, centre, etc); thanks for butchering the English language and not keeping up with the times in the language that you speak.
Signed,
A proud American patriot living in the greatest country in the world (USA).
We’ll keep calling them ‘taps’, but may the ‘fawcett’ be with you.
Well done John.
Glad to see this. Congratulations to John!
Would have loved to see Williams win the Best Original Music though, but, if there’s anyone that would also deserve it, it’s Morricone. 🙂
Not for hateful eight imo. That movie barely even had music.
Ofc they will give him the oscar aswell (rather for his previous works), but imo it isnt the hateful eight which he deserved any award for.
“So from the 5 nomination TFA won the 2 most important.”
It didn’t win Best Score, so your statement is incorrect.
Excuse me? Production Design is meaningless??
I smell something in the air. Could it be…salt?
“Boyega won the award in a direct competition with Kingsman: The
Secret Service’s Taron Egerton and Fifty Shades Of Grey’s Dakota
Johnson.”
who did dakota johnson sleep with to get nominated for that? …oh, right. 😉
Crap, I didn’t even know the BAFTAs were happening already, that’s the award that actually matters IMO.
Oscars are totally overrated.
Definitely. The fact that “Oscar-bait” is becoming a genre of film is pretty telling.
Carrie Fisher and Domhall Gleeson presented the best film not in the English language award. Carrie was her usual self.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYCkjksXbs
He is so cool. This seriously could not have happened to a nicer person.
Well done jb
Well deserved.
Boyega didn’t look very overwhelmed by the award. It looks like he was already expecting to get it. He strikes me as very self-confident person.
That’s just his charisma, I think. He doesn’t strike me as being snotty or anything. Maybe I’m just bad at reading people.
His voice was quivering when speaking so he is clearly overwhelmed.