Sam Mendes’ “1917” got here away as the massive winner on Sunday on the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA). The World War I drama received in seven of the 9 classes through which it was nominated, together with Best Film and Best Director.
An enormous night time for “1917” has been lengthy anticipated by awards prognosticators, because the legacy of World War I has an immense cultural footprint in Great Britain. Along with the aforementioned classes, “1917” received Best British Film — the primary award handed out of the night — together with wins for cinematography, sound, manufacturing design and visible results.
With “1917” not nominated within the performing or screenplay classes, these awards went out to closely favored contenders within the Oscar race. The performing BAFTAs mirrored their counterparts on the SAG Awards, as Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”) and Renee Zellweger (“Judy”) received for main roles, whereas Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”) and Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”) received within the supporting classes. All 4 actors are anticipated to have their names referred to as on the Oscars subsequent week.
Best Original Screenplay went to Bong Joon Ho for his Palme D’Or-winning “Parasite,” receiving the award alongside cowriter Han Ji Won. “Parasite” additionally received within the Best Film Not within the English Language class. Best Adapted Screenplay went to Taika Waititi for “Jojo Rabbit,” beating present Oscar favourite Greta Gerwig for “Little Women.”
Both of these screenplays had additionally received on Saturday on the Writers Guild Awards,
In the 72 years that BAFTA has been handing out awards, its alternative for the 12 months’s finest movie has agreed with the Academy Awards’ Best Picture winner solely 26 instances. Recently, BAFTA and the Oscars matched six years in a row between 2009 and 2014, however since then, BAFTA winners “Boyhood,” “The Revenant,” “La La Land,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “Roma” went on to lose on the Oscars to “Birdman,” “Spotlight,” “Moonlight,” “The Shape of Water” and “Green Book,” respectively.
Of the 18 BAFTA classes which have a direct equal on the Oscars, the 2 teams matched final 12 months in 9 classes and disagreed in 9 others.
The win for “1917,” coupled with its wins on the Golden Globes, Producers Guild Award and Directors Guild Awards, makes it the clear Oscar frontrunner for Best Picture, regardless of the power proven by “Parasite” in different guild awards.
Read the whole checklist of BAFTA nominees and winners beneath.
BEST FILM
*WINNER — 1917 Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren
THE IRISHMAN Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
JOKER Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE Bong Joon Ho, Kwak Sin Ae
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
*WINNER — 1917 Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
BAIT Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
ROCKETMAN Dexter Fletcher, Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn, Lee Hall
SORRY WE MISSED YOU Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
THE TWO POPES Fernando Meirelles, Jonathan Eirich, Dan Lin, Tracey Seaward, Anthony McCarten
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
*WINNER — BAIT Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
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 Lulu Wang, Daniele Melia
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
PAIN AND GLORY Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
*WINNER — PARASITE Bong Joon Ho
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur
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