Last night’s BAFTA results: every awards ceremony needs a Rebel

The BAFTAs were awarded at the Royal Albert Hall last night, with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge again in attendance. Once again social media was flooded with the winners’ names before the cut-down highlights even appeared on BBC1. And honestly, apart from Rebel Wilson talking about her vagina, I can’t think why they can’t be shown live at Sunday teatime.

You can see all the award nominees and winners listed, below – the big winner was 1917 with seven awards, including best film, best director and outstanding British film. The main awards didn’t deliver much in the way of shocks, and the compressed awards season (the Oscars are only a week away) is adding to the feeling of same old, same old, in the major categories.

Luckily, there are some highlights. Specifically Rebel Wilson’s speech introducing the best director nominees (keep watching til the end):

…and Hugh Grant, on stage to present just after Renee Zellweger received her best actress BAFTA, starting with “well done, Jones”.
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BAFTA’s specifically British filmmaking award, the EE BAFTA rising star award, the new best casting award and the exciting nominees in the documentary and (yes) animated feature categories, mean there’s still some interest there, though there were also some baffling Brit omissions in the high profile categories. (David Copperfield, we missed you!).

The big BAFTA news came with the nominations, amid shock and embarrassment that only white actors were nominated for the four main acting awards. Since then, BAFTA has accepted it needs to do more to make the awards more diverse and relevant, something Prince William reiterated on the night:

Joaquin Phoenix, winning best actor for his performance in Joker, spoke powerfully about racism and responsibility.

He commented in his speech that he felt “conflicted” collecting his award: “I think that we send a very clear message to people of colour that you’re not welcome here” while also admitting he was part of the problem and hadn’t done enough to create change.

The proof of the pudding will be in the eating though, so let’s see what happens, in terms of structural changes and individual powerful Hollywood players driving diversity on set and during pre-production. Here’s his speech:

I’m delighted Bait won for outstanding debut for a British writer, director or producer. I’m also thrilled that Klaus won the animated feature, and For Sama for best documentary – both are categories which across the different award ceremonies have been stuffed with movie gems this year.

I loved Renee in Judy too, even though I didn’t really love the movie (though it would have been fantastic if Jessie Buckley had pulled off a surprise win for her role in Wild Rose, a film that doesn’t seem to have had as much awards love as it deserved).

Parasite won for best original screenplay and film not in the English language. I haven’t reviewed it yet but I have seen it, and it is indeed as terrific as everyone says.
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The BAFTA Fellowship was given to Kathleen Kennedy, and the award for outstanding British contribution to cinema, to Andy Serkis.

Best film

1917 WINNER
The Irishman
Joker
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite

Best director

Parasite – Bong Joon-ho
1917 – Sam Mendes WINNER
Joker - Todd Phillips
The Irishman – Martin Scorsese
Once upon a Time…in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino

Outstanding British film

1917 WINNER
Bait
For Sama
Rocketman
Sorry We Missed You
The Two Popes

Best actress

Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose
Scarlett Johansson  -  Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Charlize Theron – Bombshell
Renée Zellweger – Judy WINNER
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Best actor

Leonardo DiCaprio, Once upon a Time…in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Taron Egerton, Rocketman
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker WINNER
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

Best supporting actress

Laura Dern – Marriage Story WINNER
Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh – Little Women
Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Margot Robbie – Once upon a Time…in Hollywood

Best supporting actor

Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes
Al Pacino - The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Brad Pitt – Once upon a Time… in Hollywood WINNER

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Bait – Mark Jenkin (writer/director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (producers) WINNER
For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab (director/producer), Edward Watts (director)
Maiden – Alex Holmes (director)
Only You – Harry Wootliff (writer/director)
Retablo – Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (writer/director)

Film not in the English language

The Farewell
For Sama
Pain and Glory
Parasite WINNER
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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Best documentary

American Factory
Apollo 11
Diego Maradona
For Sama WINNER
The Great Hack

Best animated film

Frozen II
Klaus WINNER
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Toy Story 4

Best original screenplay

Booksmart - Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
Knives Out – Rian Johnson
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
Once upon a Time…in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Parasite – Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-ho WINNER

Best adapted screenplay

The Irishman – Steven Zaillian
Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi WINNER
Joker – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
Little Women – Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes – Anthony Mccarten

Best original score

1917 – Thomas Newman
Jojo Rabbit – Michael Giacchino
Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir WINNER
Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams

Best casting (first year for this award)

Joker – Shayna Markowitz WINNER
Marriage Story – Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
Once upon a Time…in Hollywood – Victoria Thomas
The Personal History of David Copperfield – Sarah Crowe
The Two Popes – Javier Braier, Barbara Giordani, Nina Gold, Francesco Vedovati, Gabriel Villegas
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Best cinematography

1917 – Roger Deakins, WINNER
The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto
Joker – Lawrence Sher
Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferrari) – Phedon Papamichael
The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke

Best editing

The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
Jojo Rabbit – Tom Eagles
Joker – Jeff Groth
Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferarri) – Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker WINNER
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood – Fred Raskin

Best production design

1917 – Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales WINNER
The Irishman – Bob Shaw, Regina Graves
Jojo Rabbit – Ra Vincent, Nora Sopková
Joker – Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran
Once upon a Time…in Hollywood – Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh

Best costume design

The Irishman – Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell
Jojo Rabbit – Mayes C. Rubeo
Judy – Jany Temime
Little Women – Jacqueline Durran WINNER
Once upon a Time…in Hollywood – Arianne Phillips

Best make up & hair

1917 – Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis
Bombshell – Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan WINNER
Joker – Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann
Judy – Jeremy Woodhead
Rocketman – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou, Barrie Gower, Tapio Salmi
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Best sound

1917 – Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson WINNER
Joker – Tod Maitland, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic
Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferrari) – David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, Donald Sylvester
Rocketman – Matthew Collinge, John Hayes, Mike Prestwood Smith, Danny Sheehan
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood

Best special visual effects

1917 – Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy WINNER
Avengers: Endgame – Matt Aitken, Dan Deleeuw, Russell Earl, Dan Sudick
The Irishman – Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, Pablo Helman
The Lion King – Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, Adam Valdez
Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker – Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy

Best British short animation

Grandad Was a Romantic, Maryam Mohajer WINNER
In Her Boots, Kathrin Steinbacher
The Magic Boat, Naaman Azhari, Lilia Laurel

Best British short film

Azaar – Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring
Goldfish – Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill
Kamali – Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) – Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva WINNER
The Trap – Lena Headey, Anthony Fitzgerald

EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)

Awkwafina
Kaitlyn Dever
Kelvin Harrison Jr
Jack Lowden
Micheal Ward WINNER

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