Last year, Kidulthood star Adam Deacon won the award, beating Chris Hemsworth, Chris O'Dowd, Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston.

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The new generation was led by a sharp-looking Eddie Redmayne in Alexander McQueen.

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The Anglo-Irish star is up against Toby Jones for the psychological drama Berberian Sound Studio and Les Miserables' Eddie Redmayne.

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Directed by Tom Hooper, the film version of the long-running stage success stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne.

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Hodges co-created the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval and wrote the screenplay for the 2011 film My Week With Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne.

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They travel from one vacation spot to another with their hothouse-plant son, Tony (Eddie Redmayne), who grows up intelligent, gay, and very much obsessed with his miserably unhappy mother.

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Eddie Redmayne has a virginal look, and a knocked-silly amazement when the most famous woman in the world shucks her clothes in front of him and jumps into a freezing river.

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The cast also includes Eddie Redmayne as student Marius, Samantha Barks as Eponine (a role she also played on stage) and Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter as comedy villains the Thenardiers.

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Eddie Redmayne will play the title role.

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Cooper might consider taking style points from Eddie Redmayne whose off duty look for the event (a layering of black leather biker jacket, unbuttoned chambray shirt and white tee over gray pants) was an exercise in looking cool.

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