Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne

Our February cover star, 33-year-old actor Eddie Redmayne, is nominated for his role as Stephen Hawking, who he finds “effortlessly cool,” in The Theory of Everything. It is his first nomination.

“You do that thing of trying to chase down the job, sounding incredibly confident because you never think you’ll get it. And then you get offered the job, and you have a moment of euphoria, and then you basically want to be sick for the first year.” –Eddie Redmayne to Jennifer Lawrence, Interview, February 2015.

To read the full interview, click here.