BAFTA Winners: Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand, and More...
Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 5:02PM by Nathaniel R
Richard E Grant accepts Best Actress on behalf of Frances McDormand
It's the last major stop before Oscar night. The BAFTAs were held over two days this weekend and the winners list is now in. It was a spread the wealth kind of year. Nomadland led with four awards including the top prize but The Father, Sound of Metal, Promising Young Woman, Soul, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom each won two statues.
We notated whether or not we correctly predicted the wins below as well just for fun...
"See you down the road" 🛣️ Chloé Zhao dedicates the #EEBAFTAs Best Film win for @nomadlandfilm to the nomadic community. pic.twitter.com/QXtAeuRMOC
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
FILM Nomadland ✅
"It was a labour of love". @emeraldfennell thanks the whole crew as she picks up the Outstanding British Film BAFTA for Promising Young Woman (@PromisingFilm) #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/2BS8NDtgBn
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
BRITISH FILM Promising Young Woman ❌
We thought The Father would take this but this is a nice get for Twitter's favourite movie.
LEAD ACTRESS Frances McDormand - Nomadland ❌
Adding a further wrinkle to the much-discussed Best Actress race. Critics Choice went to Mulligan, SAG to Davis, Globes to Day, and now BAFTA to McDormand. It's the biggest nail-biter going into Oscar night we can ever recall experiencing in this category.
Congratulations to @AnthonyHopkins who wins the Leading Actor BAFTA for his heartbreaking performance in The Father #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/RBNeP7Xrj2
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
LEADING ACTOR Sir Anthony Hopkins - The Father ❌
Hopkins interrupts the Boseman sweep for this one stop (his third competitive BAFTA win) and since we don't like sweeps (there are ALWAYS more than one deserving performance per category) we love this. Spread the wealth awards bodies. Show gratitude as film viewers for the many lovely performances we received each year.
🙌 Congrats to Yuh-Jung Youn, who stole our hearts in @MinariMovie and takes the BAFTA for Supporting Actress at tonight's #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/NRtX1MadBH
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Youn Yuh-Jung - Minari ✅
Though this race had been all over the place with Jodie Foster winning the Globe and Bakalova the Critics Choice, Youn Yuh-Jung has solidifed her lead going into Oscar night now with SAG and BAFTA wins.
"I'm just here chilling" 😎 Daniel Kaluuya accepts the BAFTA for Supporting Actor for his powerful performance in Judas and the Black Messiah @JATBMFilm 🏆 #EEBAFTAs @EE pic.twitter.com/eprnAe5EcU
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
SUPPORTING ACTOR Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah ✅
Among the acting categories he has become the only clean sweeper for televised awards with Boseman losing just this once tonight.
Chloé Zhao reckons she's made her teacher proud as she accepts the BAFTA for Director for @Nomadlandfilm (we think so too!) 🏆 #EEBAFTAs @EE pic.twitter.com/cGNTfpLVrq
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
DIRECTOR Chloe Zhao - Nomadland ✅
Now THAT'S a winning reaction! Bukky Bakray (@BBUKKX) accepts the #EERisingStar Award for her role in @RocksTheFilm 🏆 #EEBAFTAs @EE pic.twitter.com/YX4hOVAHMo
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
EE RISING STAR AWARD Bukky Bakray ✅
The star of Rocks (which recently began streaming on Netflix) took this prize that is voted on by the British public.
The brilliant Remi Weekes dedicates his Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer BAFTA win for his horror film His House to immigrants, migrants and asylum seekers. @NetflixUK #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/rcwVM4c5xV
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
DEBUT FROM BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR, OR PRODUCER His House - Remi Weekes (writer/director) ❌
🍻 Cheers to Thomas Vinterberg and team who pick up the Film Not in the English Language BAFTA for the intoxicating Another Round! #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/6tfnTgaiJ4
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Another Round (Denmark) ✅
It's still the frontrunner for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars.
DOCUMENTARY My Octopus Teacher ✅
Who knew that My Octopus Teacher was going to rally so incredibly at the last minute. It's looking like the frontrunner for the Oscar despite precursor season initially pointing to Collective or Time.
"Soul is a film about finding real priorities in our lives and there's nothing like a worldwide pandemic to help you realise what is truly important." @DanaLeighMurray accepts the Animated Film BAFTA for @PixarSoul 🎉 #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/fwxd3FqteF
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
ANIMATED FILM Soul ❌
We allowed for the curse of wishful thinking here hoping that BAFTA would honor the great Irish animated studio Cartoon Saloon but they still can't win major awards with everyone defaulting to Disney/Pixar just about each and every year.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Promising Young Woman - Emerald Fennell ✅
Can Fennell repeat this win at the Oscars or will Oscar voters want to give Trial of the Chicago 7 at least one Oscar?
Huge congratulations to Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton as poignant drama The Father takes the BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay 👏 #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/F0z2vxHvQy
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY The Father - Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller ✅
We're thrilled about this win. Though Nomadland is our favourite among the Best Picture nominees at the Oscars we'd always been a bit confused that it was so thoroughly dominating screenplay prizes since the screenplay isn't as structurally key to its success as the screenplay is too most films, given that Nomadland is very much a tonal immersion and its carried by its moods and cinematography.
Too cute! Atticus Ross thanks his children as he accepts the BAFTA for Original Score for @PixarSoul along with Jon Batiste and Trent Reznor 🎧 #EEBAFTAs @EE pic.twitter.com/vv2KJRVXx7
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
ORIGINAL SCORE Soul Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross ❌
"Things will get better, they always do" says Joshua James Richards as he accepts the BAFTA for Cinematography for @Nomadlandfilm 🏆 #EEBAFTAs @EE pic.twitter.com/FODT6zaKjc
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
CINEMATOGRAPHY Nomadland - Joshua James Richards ✅
COSTUME DESIGN Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth ✅
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen wins the Editing BAFTA for the incredibly powerful Sound of Metal 🎼 #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/MyG24mEaek
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021
EDITING Sound of Metal - Mikkel EG Nielsen ❌
PRODUCTION DESIGN Mank - Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale ✅
MAKEUP AND HAIR Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Matiki Anoff, Larry M Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal ❌
SOUND Sound of Metal - Jamie Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortes, Michelle Couttolenc ✅
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS Tenet - Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley ✅
CASTING Rocks - Lucy Pardee ✅
BRITISH SHORT FILM The Present ✅
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION The Owl and the Pussycat ❌
Reader Comments (58)
Lovely to see Anthony Hopkins get in here for that barnstorming performance. I don't think the optics would look particularly great if he won the Oscar, but I'd love him to surprise nonetheless.
Frances McDormand's performance is my favorite performance of the year, and probably will be my favorite performance from any actor this decade. The Academy totally ruined it by giving her the Oscar for that horrible three billboard movie. I totally admire the fact that she literally gives the performance of the year, and chose not to do any awards campaigning. Some of the Oscar nominees really didn't do a lot in their movies, but Lord, they surely campaigned the shit out of the entire awards season!
The choices were actually quite tasteful this year. Anthony deserves the Oscar, it's a performance for the ages.
I am thrilled that "My Octopus Teacher" won! What a touching film.
Very good choices. The best actress race is really interesting this year.
Hopkins should win the Oscar too.
Is Close going to lose again?
This is a great list of winners.
Really the only win that bothered me was SOUL over WOLFWALKERS. You'd think the BAFTAs of all the awards would've picked a homegrown film over another Pixar film. A real shame.
-Great for Youn. Now with the SAG and BAFTA, is anyobody who still thinks this is a 3-way race for Best Supporting Actress? LOL
-Best Actress is perhaps the most interesting category. With the exception of Kirby you can make a case for any of the nominees.
-The Father can spoil in Adapted Screenplay
Youn won the night. Great speech, great win.
I remain hopeful that this confusion surrounding the absence of a frontrunner indicates that McDormand will pick up her well deserved third Best Actress Oscar and a fourth Oscar for producing Nomadland. If so, her total will then equal the four Oscars held by her husband filmmaker Joel Coen.
With The Tragedy of Macbeth and Women Talking coming in the next couple of years, McDormand really could surprise and match Katharine Hepburn’s four
Oscars for lead performances.
Good for Hopkins. He deserves to win the Oscar, too. Maybe The Father is actually peaking at the right time.
I'm surprised PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is "Twitter's favorite movie" considering how it seems to suggest women can't survive sexual assault. Would think "woke" Twitter would be more critical.
@ Cafg, as I've said before here, Close was never winning this year and IMO, she doesn't deserve to. With Youn winning the two most important precursors, she's the clear favorite. I think if she somehow loses, it'll be to Bakalova or Colman. Hopefully the 8th consecutive loss will get Glenn the good roles she sadly didn't get after she was upset for The Wife.
As for Best Actress, I think McDormand will pull it out. She's revered to the heavens and with her BAFTA win, she can take advantage of a split race with her film as BP frontrunner. I'd love for Mulligan to win, but that seems unlikely. If it's not Mulligan, I'd bet on Davis.
Wonderful group of winners overall.
Here's hoping NOMADLAND for Picture and Director, Hopkins, McDormand, Youn, and THE FATHER in Adapted Screenplay repeat at the Oscars.
Vanessa Kirby is richly deserving of her nomination and she would be a fantastic winner.
The film itself may have lagged - and the ending of the film is one of the worst I have endured in a very long time! - but her performance never faltered.
I don't love Andra Day's performance, and I found Viola Davis to be too over-the-top.
Frances McDormand would win in a landslide had she not won so recently.
Carey Mulligan is my favourite performance of the whole year.
Fully expected Hopkins to win here, and his performance is more than worthy of an Oscar, but I still think the Academy will give it to Chadwick for his equally excellent work.
Both of the actress categories are quite interesting going into Oscar night. Obviously Youn Yuh-Jung has the lead after grabbing SAG and BAFTA but I think Maria Bakalova still has a solid shot (considering the screenplay nod) and Glenn Close is a dark horse spoiler if they want to finally give her an Oscar and not worry about nominating her again. Exciting stuff. Amanda Seyfried was thought to be the shoe-in at one point but she's now lucky to have gotten nominated, and Olivia Colman is simply enjoying her afterglow nom (but would probably be winning had she lost for The Favourite).
As for actress... it truly is anyone's guess. Vanessa Kirby is the only one who I couldn't see winning. The rest each have a solid case going for them. Politics heavily favor the history Viola or Andra would make, Carey is one of the best of her generation on her second nom and in a best picture nominee, and Frances McDormand may have just won a second (they should've waited for this) but she is in the best picture frontrunner which is a film for the ages... and may very well benefit from the shakiness of this category's race.
Fun stuff!
Dominique Fishback, Olivia Cooke, they were all better than Seyfried. If she would win it would be embarrassing.
As a Frances Hopkins voter, I'm super happy.
Each of the Actress nominees has won one separate big precursor now. It's the best race in ages but I am pulling for Mulligan.
Happy for Anthony Hopkins, who also deserves to win Oscar for BEST Lead Performance by an Actor.
I'm not saying it's your case but most pundits online are so annoyed they can't predict the Best Actress race. They just can't hide it and it's fun to watch.
Nah in the times of Covid and Trump and countless atrocities in the qorld Close is still winning. Youn gwts to be the clear robbed actress of the year in retrospect for the rast of time though. I do pray that Close loses and stays a member of Three Artful's oft mentioned The Inevitable just a little longer.
Nice bunch of winners, I had already decided Yuh-Jung Youn was who I was going to pick for the Oscar pool and this definitely clinches it. I really don't think Close's divisive work in Hillbilly is going to cut the mustard this year, sorry Close fans (why o why didn't they give it to her for Fatal Attraction or Dangerous Liaisons back when they had the chance!). Best Actress still seems really up in the air, I'm now thinking it's probably between McDormand and Davis. Either is fine with me.
dannyboy - I agree, I'm also rooting for Mulligan.
Worst hot take of the year so far, three+ months in: Jonathan's "PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN seems to suggest women can't survive sexual assault." Wow. Just wow.
@Hildy, Trump is not president anymore.
Rob C: explain how that's wrong given the fate of the characters? It's not exactly empowering to women, is it? Unfortunately this is hard to discuss without getting into spoiler territory, but the film is troubling in its implications, at best.
SNL just recently had 2 Oscar nominees as hosts back-to-back: Daniel Kaluuya and Carey Mulligan. Oscar wins foretold or just coincidence?
@Jonathan. Nah. You just picked up what you picked up from it. That's a weird slant but it's what you gathered. It told the story of a particular case of a woman who didn't live through the aftermath of her sexual assault. Something that actually does happen and happens often. We've seen a woman take revenge after her sexual assault (Elle, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), seen a woman struggle to live her life after her assault (Precious), seen a woman go through the legal system after her assault (The Accused), seen a man take revenge on the men who assaulted his daughter (A Time to Kill) and PYW shows a woman who didn't survive her assault and that there was still someone who didn't forget her and carried out her own justice. Different stories, different outcomes, different people. As is life. It doesn't suggest that she couldn't survive it, it just that this character didn't. Because, unfortunately, that happens too.
Can we pretend that the race is over here with these perfect awards? <3
I'm thrilled for Anthony Hopkins who deserved to get at least one televised win. Way better acting performance than Chadwick Boseman's, IMO. Love Best Actress this year!
@Jonathan Did you argue that DUNKIRK was anti-British because it told a story of the UK army being beaten by the Nazis? Bzzzt! Thanks for playing.
Love that Youn Yuh-Jung got one final win this season. Lovely speech too!
Leon, just by virtue of Close being on her 8th nomination, the number where the Academy relents and gives the woman the prize means even with your logic Glenn has a minimum 20% chance to snatch it. Other valid opinions have her higher. With the Bafta result I believe it's a coin toss 50/50 race. I respect your opinion though somwtimes your words and tone go against Nathaniel's comment outlines, but I assume you know each other personally so I trust you comment in good faith in light of that.
Fully expected Hopkins to win here, and his performance is more than worthy of an Oscar, but I still think the Academy will give it to Chadwick for his equally excellent work.
equally excellent work
Sure, Jan.
thefilmjunkie: equally excellent work? Nobody says that, but yes.
Yeah I know that leon, but I meant just the way the times have been recently and including this gilm year voting period. If you're lucky enough to have zero presidential hangover or negative repercussions from his presidency I envy your privilege.
while Oscar seems going Mulligan - Boseman - Youn - Kaluuya... I still can see all four losing.
Actress and Supporting Actress seem narrow races, despite Mulligan and Youn having the advantage to be the likeliest rewards of their Best Picture nominated films.
Hopkins can really take actor still, as BAFTA just proved. He's not likely to do so, though.
Kaluuya may really suffer from having Stanfield (I think LaKeith was even better, honestly) in the same category and that could give Baron Cohen or Raci or even Odom Jr, the last minute push.
Also, I don't think we've locked up the Screenplay winners at all.
So I am expecting some surprises here and there...
Mulligan so deserves it. McDormand does not need four Oscars. Spread the wealth Academy. How Mulligan delivers the line : "Nina Fisher, the girl you don't remember..." breaks my heart every time. Such an iconic performance.
Not going to lie, I'm happy with anyone winning Best Actress EXCEPT for Frances. Love her, etc etc, but give it to one of the others!
With these wins, it feels like they still played “let’s predict Oscar.”
There were a lot of deserving winners, but I’m surprised we didn’t see any actors who didn’t score an Oscar nomination win.
Rob C -
I very much agree with Jonathan.
SPOILER ALERT:
Certainly, it was not Fennel's intention, but the overall result leaned in that direction. The protagonist has no friends, no job or career, no proper love life, not even a house of her own. She has no prospects, nothing. Her mindset is so male-focused that it seemed a good plan to sacrifice herself, her own life, to get revenge. C'mon!
As a woman, it is a excrutiating watching experience. I wonder what that movie felt like for actual victims of abuse.
Was it supposed to be a feminist tale? Because all women in the movie die tragically and all men survive.
It's torture porn.
The juries were a complete wash. All the full membership did was default to Oscar frontrunners. Bukky Bakray could have made history as the first black woman to ever win lead actress, but nope! Those racist BAFTAs won't ever allow that. The only way the BAFTAs will change is if they replace their membership with BIPOC diversity. Having a woke jury panel overstack the deck was meaningless. And Carey Mulligan would have won so easily had she not been blackballed (pun fully intended). Trash awards.
Thank you Mariza. Ask anyone you know who has survived sexual abuse what they think of the movie. I suspect it won't be very positive. Cassie and Nina are characters entirely defined by their trauma, and yet Fennell seems to want the movie to be some sort of feminist anthem. It would be one thing if it was played as pure tragedy, but it's obviously not.
Biggest disappointment is PYW beating out The Father for Outstanding British Film...
@Mariza sayz: "All women in the movie die tragically." No. Two do. There are 12 named women in the film. Two die. That's not even close.
@Mariza sayz: "It's torture porn." I'm guessing you've never seen a torture porn film, either that or you have a real problem avoiding extreme hyperbole.
@Jonathan sayz: "the film suggests women can't survive sexual assault." That is also utter hyperbole. The comment can be taken two ways.
One, the film makes women look like victims. That's true of two characters, one of whom is much more complex than just a victim. Two characters are not all women, nor are they all sexual assault survivors. I could name half a dozen names of women who were sexually assaulted who committed suicide later, and that's just based on ones that made it in the news that I happened to read about. Google Jean McGianni Celestin sometime.
Two, the comment suggests that this is just another example of a feminazi film making too much out of sexual assault, one trying to flip the argument around by disingenuously asserting that he thinks "women are strong."
Look, the film is very problematic. But to brush it off as suggesting it over emphasizes the harm that sexual assault can cause is NOT one of those problems.
If Frances and Anthony win the Oscars it might be the 1st time in a long time to have two absent acting winners.
Rob C -
You are not in position to say what is or is not the film's problem.
Just accept other people opinion.
When I saw PYW, that was my sensation. The two central characters - Cassie and her friend - suffer and suffer and suffer. To me, it was an overly male-focused revenge tale and not a positive viewing experience for a woman, let alone an abuse survivor.
And that's that.
Mariza -- everyone has a right to express their opinions about what works and what doesn't in a film -- thats what we all do when we discuss films.
Rob -- on the other hand you might not want to assume other people are being "disingenuous" about their feelings or arguments. I myself received this criticism a couple of years ago and I had to do some self reflection because i realized i was doing it kind of frequently, assuming people were making straw man arguments or what have you when sometimes its just how people genuinely feel. I fall in between this disagreemtn. ILike you I admire what the film is doing and agree that it's slightly problematic but i do think there's an argument to be made that I think Jonathan and Maritz are sort of saying that the current discourse around sexual assault it super bleak and negative for survivors (even while its attempting to give survivors more of a voice)... I'm alarmed sometimes when i hear people talking about this issue (not on this blog per se but online in general) and I'm thinking is this really the message you want to send to victims? that their lives are just over and that they'll never heal? Some of the discourse does sound an awful lot like that. I know it's surely not intentional but I worry that it might actually be adding to the trauma.
Less is More -- do you really think having a more diverse nominee pool is "meaningless". I personally dont. Winning isn't everything. Especially in awards where the bulk of people honored vastly outnumber the people who are actually going to win something.
everyone -- anyway just popping in to say enjoying reading the comments again now that people are behaving better but do try to respect each others opinions. There's room for multiple opinions in subjective discussions of films.