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Apr112021

BAFTA Winners: Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand, and More...

DateSunday, 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...

 

 

FILM Nomadland ✅

 

 


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.

 

 


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.

 

 


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.

 

 


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. 

 


DIRECTOR Chloe Zhao - Nomadland  ✅

 

 

 


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.

 

 


DEBUT FROM BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR, OR PRODUCER His House - Remi Weekes (writer/director) ❌

 

 


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. 

 

 


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?

 

 


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. 

 

 


ORIGINAL SCORE Soul  Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross ❌

 


CINEMATOGRAPHY Nomadland - Joshua James Richards  ✅
COSTUME DESIGN Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth  ✅

 

 


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 ❌

 

 

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Reader Comments (58)

RLopez -- i was kind of hoping that THE FATHER would win too but at least it was a spread the wealth situation and it got screenplay and actor!

April 12, 2021 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Nath -

What I meant was that Rob C was not in position to give the final word about the matter.

Obviously I'm all for discussing movies.

April 13, 2021 | Unregistered CommenterMariza

If the "diversity" displayed in POC nominations don't translate into actual WINS by the racist general membership, then yes, the woke juries were meaningless.

April 13, 2021 | Unregistered CommenterLess Is More

@Mariza You're absolutely entitled to your opinion. But so am I. I AM in the "position" to say what is and isn't working, at least as much as you are. I'm also in a position to understand that two people out of 12 isn't "all women in the movie" and a black comedy rape revenge film isn't "torture porn." I mean you can call 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY a "mad slasher film" and say SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is film noir, but that doesn't mean you don't get called out on it.

April 13, 2021 | Unregistered CommenterRob C

Less is More -- i guess we'll have to disagree. I personally think nominations are a huge deal and to think only wins matter is playing a zero sum game with awards. Every one who is nominated for prestigious prizes "wins" in terms of their careers as nominations are so hard to snag. And there are five times the amount of nominees per year as there are winners. And careers are enormously well served by landing nominations. It actually adds $ to paychecks if your management is on top of things and if you're not already super famous it can result in a plethora of new opportunities as your reputation grows.

But more pointedly, there are 5 awards for actors at BAFTA (the normal four categories plus rising star). 2 went to black actors, 1 went to an Asian actor, and 2 went to white actors. More people of color won than white people. I'm just at a loss as to how that equals racist and meaningless.

April 13, 2021 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

@NATH You're right as usual. I honestly read Jonathan and thought he was likely trolling--some dude hostile to a powerful film by and about women and the impact of sexual assault and trying to flip the argument around. I kind of think the film goes off the rails at the end but still, over all, like it. But we DO need to stop saying anyone who is sexually assaulted is ruined for life. We should listen more to people like Samantha Geimer and less to, I don't know, someone who says they won't get any peace until every last bad man in Hollywood is cancelled--cause that's just not going to happen. I thought the film was simply saying two specific people's lives were ruined, not all women. The thing that keeps me from thinking the film is truly great, is that it doesn't show just how damaged and unbalanced Cassie has become by the end. We shouldn't be left thinking she did the right thing--Angel of the Morning on the soundtrack was not the best idea for the last scene. Two other things I liked, though: The film isn't schematic. It has a complicit woman (played by the great Connie Britton) and a man who's shown as redeemable (the great Alfred Molina). In that way I think the film is more complex than it could have been.

April 13, 2021 | Unregistered CommenterRob C

"I kind of think the film goes off the rails at the end." I certainly agree with that assessment.

April 13, 2021 | Unregistered CommenterFaye

Loved PYW because is flawed movie. It's complicated, made me feel uneasy and hate some choices Cassie. As a survivor myself, I don't expect one movie to understand my experience or that the ending needs to be uplifting. My empathy for fellow survivors that had a bad experience and I personally feel that part of me and people around me died after what I survived and this movie made me feel healed like it acknowledged how I felt.

April 13, 2021 | Unregistered CommenterTony AKA Fernando
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