The 75th British Academy Film Awards were televised on Sunday night, with Australian actress Rebel Wilson hosting for the first time. She cracked jokes about the middle finger being the universal symbol for Putin, took a dig at JK Rowling for being transphobic by claiming the author wouldn’t accept her after her physical transformation, and she made jokes about Daniel Craig and Benedict Cumberbatch that were removed from the BBC broadcast for being too crude.
When it came to the awards themselves, a lot of the winners were unable to accept them, as the BAFTAs clashed with the Critics Choice Awards which were held mainly in Los Angeles on the same night. A lot of the winners had people accept their award on their behalf, like when Benedict Cumberbatch took to the stage after Jane Campion won best director. The New Zealand director was the biggest winner of the night, with her fantastic western drama The Power of the Dog taking the two biggest prizes: best picture and best director. This also puts it in pole position for the Oscars, where it has already been a favourite for several weeks to win the biggest awards.
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune however was the biggest winner in terms of quantity, taking home five BAFTAs, although it won none of the major awards. Still, five BAFTAs is nothing to scoff at, and as one of the biggest films of the year in terms of both its scope and success it was certainly deserving of the wins for best cinematography, original score, production design, sound, and special visual effects.
Belfast, another frontrunner for best picture at the Oscars, took home the award for outstanding British film, beating the likes of House of Gucci, No Time to Die, and Cyrano. It also beat After Love to the prize, although Aleem Khan’s feature-length debut did not go home empty handed, as Joanna Scanlan managed to win best actress for playing the leading role in Khan’s film against the likes of Lady Gaga and Tessa Thompson, who were nominated for House of Gucci and Passing respectively.
Will Smith won best actor for playing Richard Williams in King Richard, making him a heavy favourite for the Academy Awards later this month.
Licorice Pizza and CODA took home the original screenplay and adapted screenplay awards, with the latter winning over Drive My Car, the Murakami adaptation that won best film not in the English language.
Encanto won best animated film and Summer of Soul, a film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that features brilliantly restored footage, won best documentary.
You can find the full list of winners and nominees below.
Best Film
The Power of the Dog (WINNER)
Belfast
Don't Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
Best Director
Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog (WINNER)
Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
Audrey Diwan - Happening
Julia Ducournau - Titane
Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
Aleem Khan - After Love
Outstanding British Film
Belfast (WINNER)
After Love
Ali & Ava
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night In Soho
No Time to Die
Passing
Leading Actress
Joanna Scanlan, After Love (WINNER)
Lady Gaga, House of Gucci
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Tessa Thompson, Passing
Leading Actor
Will Smith, King Richard (WINNER)
Adeel Akhtar, Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali, Swan Song
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio, Don't Look Up
Stephen Graham, Boiling Point
Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story (WINNER)
Caitríona Balfe, Belfast
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ann Dowd, Mass
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Ruth Negga, Passing
Supporting Actor
Troy Kotsur, CODA (WINNER)
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Woody Norman, C'mon C'mon
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Costume Design
Cruella (WINNER)
Cyrano
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
Make-Up & Hair
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (WINNER)
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
House of Gucci
Original Score
Dune (WINNER)
Being The Ricardos
Don't Look Up
The French Dispatch
The Power of the Dog
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
The Harder They Fall (WINNER)
After Love
Boiling Point
Keyboard Fantasies
Passing
Animated Film
Encanto (WINNER)
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells Vs The Machines
Adapted Screenplay
CODA (WINNER)
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
Original Screenplay
Licorice Pizza (WINNER)
Being the Ricardos
Belfast
Don't Look Up
King Richard
Cinematography
Dune (WINNER)
Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Documentary
Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not be Televised) (WINNER)
Becoming Cousteau
Cow
Flee
The Rescue
Film Not in the English Language
Drive My Car (WINNER)
The Hand of God
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World
Editing
No Time to Die (WINNER)
Belfast
Dune
Licorice Pizza
Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised)
Production Design
Dune (WINNER)
Cyrano
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Sound
Dune (WINNER)
Last Night In Soho
No Time to Die
A Quiet Place Part II
West Side Story
Special Visual Effects
Dune (WINNER)
Free Guy
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die
British Short Animation
Do Not Feed the Pigeons (WINNER)
Affairs of the Art
Night of the Living Dread
British Short Film
The Black Cop (WINNER)
Femme
The Palace
Stuffed
Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee
Casting
West Side Story (WINNER)
Boiling Point
Dune
The Hand of God
King Richard
EE Rising Star Award
Lashana Lynch (WINNER)
Ariana DeBose
Harris Dickinson
Millicent Simmonds
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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