'Power of the Dog' takes the top BAFTA but 'Dune' wins the most awards
Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 5:32PM by Nathaniel R
Ariana DeBose wins again
It was a spread the wealth kind of night at the BAFTAs with the score going like so The Power of the Dog (2), CODA (2), West Side Story (2), and Dune (5) all winning prizes though The Power of the Dog was able to cinch Best Film, despite only Best Director also falling in its column. Belfast had to make due with one prize, Best British Film. We'll never understand why BAFTA doesn't broadcast live. We almost never watch the full ceremony because there's just no suspense and drama when the winners are released ahead of time and we know they edit everything before hand (which rules out any quirks or accidents that make live viewing so fun).
We'll add acceptance speeches to this post as they become available but for now the winners and a few comments...
BEST FILM
BELFAST (6 nominations overall)
DON’T LOOK UP (4 nominations overall)
DUNE (11 nominations overall)
LICORICE PIZZA (5 nominations overall)
★ THE POWER OF THE DOG (8 nominations overall)
DIRECTOR
AFTER LOVE Aleem Khan
DRIVE MY CAR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
HAPPENING Audrey Diwan
LICORICE PIZZA Paul Thomas Anderson
★ THE POWER OF THE DOG Jane Campion
TITANE Julia Ducournau
Only two prizes for The Power of the Dog. Does this mean it's a weak frontrunner at the Oscars or was it a close runner up in several other places? We won't find out until Oscar night.
LEADING ACTRESS
LADY GAGA House of Gucci
ALANA HAIM Licorice Pizza
EMILIA JONES CODA
RENATE REINSVE The Worst Person in the World
★ JOANNA SCANLAN After Love
TESSA THOMPSON Passing
As we suspected since the day of the nominations, the fabulous Joanna Scanlan, far better known in the UK than here, took this prize. Now can After Love please get a US release?
LEADING ACTOR
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
★ WILL SMITH King Richard
Proving that Will Smith is the strong Oscar frontrunner we all assumed early in the year, this very American film, which wasn't up for the top BAFTA, still scored a win here, despite most of Smith's competitors being British.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
CAITRÍONA BALFE Belfast
JESSIE BUCKLEY The Lost Daughter
★ ARIANA DEBOSE West Side Story
ANN DOWD Mass
AUNJANUE ELLIS King Richard
RUTH NEGGA Passing
SUPPORTING ACTOR
MIKE FAIST West Side Story
CIARÁN HINDS Belfast
★ TROY KOTSUR CODA
WOODY NORMAN C’mon C’mon
JESSE PLEMONS The Power of the Dog
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE The Power of the Dog
We've reached that point in the season where it's (nearly) the same acting winners at all awards shows. Only Best Actress maintains any drama.
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
AFTER LOVE Aleem Khan, Matthieu de Braconier
ALI & AVA Clio Bernard, Tracy O’Riordan
★ BELFAST Kenneth Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas
BOILING POINT Philip Barantini, Bart Ruspoli, Hester Ruoff, James Cummings
CYRANO Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Guy Heely, Erica Schmidt
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE Jonathan Butterell, Peter Carlton, Mark Herbert, Tom MacRae
HOUSE OF GUCCI Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Giannina Scott, Kevin J Walsh, Roberto Bentivegna, Becky Johnston
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Edgar Wright, Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Nira Park, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
NO TIME TO DIE Cary Joji Fukunaga, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Neal Pervis, Robert Wade, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
PASSING Rebecca Hall, Margot Hand, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker
As the only British Film also nominated in Best Film, this was bound to happen for Belfast. BAFTA is the only top award of any country (that we know of) that relegates its own cinema to a "secondary" category and celebrates another country's cinema as the very best in most years. It's really quite strange. Everyone else -- the Goyas, the Golden Horses, the Oscars, the Ariels, the Césars, etcetera have only one Best Film category and they nominated mostly their own cinema for the top prize.
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
AFTER LOVE Aleem Khan (Writer/Director)
BOILING POINT James Cummings (Writer), Hester Ruoff (Producer) [also written by Philip Barantini and produced by Bart Ruspoli]
★ THE HARDER THEY FALL Jeymes Samuel (Writer/Director) [also written by Boaz Yakin]
KEYBOARD FANTASIES Posy Dixon (Writer/Director), Liv Proctor (Producer)
PASSING Rebecca Hall (Writer/Director)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
★ DRIVE MY CAR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Teruhisa Yamamoto
THE HAND OF GOD Paolo Sorrentino, Lorenzo Mieli
PARALLEL MOTHERS Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
PETITE MAMAN Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD Joachim Trier, Thomas Robsahm
Drive My Car continues its winning streak.
DOCUMENTARY
BECOMING COUSTEAU Liz Garbus, Dan Cogan
COW Andrea Arnold, Kat Mansoor
FLEE Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Monica Hellström
THE RESCUE Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, John Battsek, P. J. van Sandwijk
★ SUMMER OF SOUL (OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel
ANIMATED FILM
★ ENCANTO Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, Clarke Spencer
FLEE Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Monica Hellström
LUCA Enrico Casarosa, Andrea Warren
THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
The Mitchells just took a bunch of Annie Awarda but the Annies are voted on by the animation industry where the BAFTAs and Oscars are voted on by people from all professions within the film industry. This is a great sign that Encanto is the one to beat at the Oscars. We recently discussed the Best Animated Feature category at length.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEING THE RICARDOS Aaron Sorkin
BELFAST Kenneth Branagh
DON’T LOOK UP Adam McKay
KING RICHARD Zach Baylin
★ LICORICE PIZZA Paul Thomas Anderson
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
★ CODA Siân Heder
DRIVE MY CAR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
DUNE Denis Villeneuve
THE LOST DAUGHTER Maggie Gyllenhaal
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jane Campion
In what might be the big upset of the night CODA took Adapted Screenplay over The Power of the Dog. That it's easily the weakest of these five scripts -- the screenplay really isn't its strength! -- is a good sign that it's peaking at just the right moment. Will that be enough to win more than just Supporting Actor at the Oscars? We'll find out.
ORIGINAL SCORE
BEING THE RICARDOS Daniel Pemberton
DON’T LOOK UP Nicholas Britell
★ DUNE Hans Zimmer
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Alexandre Desplat
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jonny Greenwood
CASTING
BOILING POINT Carolyn McLeod
DUNE Francine Maisler
THE HAND OF GOD Massimo Appolloni, Annamaria Sambucco
KING RICHARD Rich Delia, Avy Kaufman
★ WEST SIDE STORY Cindy Tolan
We wish Oscar also had this category and it's easy to understand why these films were selected. Congrats to Cindy Tolan
CINEMATOGRAPHY
★ DUNE Greig Fraser
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Dan Laustsen
NO TIME TO DIE Linus Sandgren
THE POWER OF THE DOG Ari Wegner
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Bruno Delbonnel
EDITING
BELFAST Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
DUNE Joe Walker
LICORICE PIZZA Andy Jurgensen
★ NO TIME TO DIE Tom Cross, Elliot Graham
SUMMER OF SOUL (OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Joshua L. Pearson
These nominations are very different than Oscars in the same category. It's going to be a nail-biter to see which film wins the Oscar in this category.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
CYRANO Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
★ DUNE Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
WEST SIDE STORY Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
Most pundits believe the Oscar is between Dune and Nightmare Alley in this category.
COSTUME DESIGN
★ CRUELLA Jenny Beavan
CYRANO Massimo Cantini Parrini
DUNE Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Milena Canonero
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Luis Sequeira
Oscar locked up?
MAKE UP & HAIR
CRUELLA Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne
CYRANO Alessandro Bertolazzi, Siân Miller
DUNE Love Larson, Donald Mowat
★ THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh
HOUSE OF GUCCI Frederic Aspiras, Jane Carboni, Giuliano Mariana, Sarah Nicole Tanno
Despite some complaints about the overemphatic prosthetics on Chastain, Tammy Faye wins over other fairly showy contenders.
SOUND
★ DUNE Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Colin Nicolson, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Dan Morgan
NO TIME TO DIE James Harrison, Simon Hayes, Paul Massey, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor
A QUIET PLACE PART II Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, Ethan Van Der Ryn
WEST SIDE STORY Brian Chumney, Tod Maitland, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
★ DUNE Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer
FREE GUY Swen Gillberg, Brian Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Daniel Sudick
GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Aharon Bourland, Sheena Duggal, Pier Lefebvre, Alessandro Ongaro
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS Tom Debenham, Hew J Evans, Dan Glass, J. D. Schwaim
NO TIME TO DIE Mark Bokowski, Chris Corbould, Joel Green, Charlie Noble
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
AFFAIRS OF THE ART Joanna Quinn, Les Mills
★ DO NOT FEED THE PIGEONS Jordi Morera
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DREAD Ida Melum, Danielle Goff, Laura Jayne Tunbridge, Hannah Kelso
Night of the Living Dread just won an Annie but lost here. Affairs of the Art is the only one of these that's also competing at the Oscars.
BRITISH SHORT FILM
★ THE BLACK COP Cherish Oteka
FEMME Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams
THE PALACE Jo Prichard
STUFFED Theo Rhys, Joss Holden-Rea
THREE MEETINGS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMITTEE Michael Woodward, Max Barron, Daniel Wheldon
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Lashana Lynch wins rising star
ARIANA DEBOSE
HARRIS DICKINSON
★ LASHANA LYNCH
MILLICENT SIMMONDS
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE
Lashana Lynch wins, helped by the popularity of No Time To Die (her competition being from much less successful films)
What do you make of the BAFTA wins and do you think most of these winners will repeat at the Oscars?
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Reader Comments (19)
Terrified.
Production design was also Dune, they showed it at the end.
It was kinda awkward how Cumberbatch went onstage for Campion after losing best actor.
Also, why wasn't Jacqueline Durran credited for Cyrano at BAFTA?
It’s interesting to see that artists even vote with their hearts. Wins for Smith and Coda against more technical work. I thought Maggie would win adapted if Jane didn’t. Coda could win pic screenplay and supp actor at Oscar.
At least we have the real nailbiter which is the Best Actress race!! Who you think will win?
I feel is between Penelope Cruz & Kristen Stewart. Still anyone could win which makes it more exciting!!
PS: Can’t believe Ruth Negga is still not winning awards for that performance…
Man, The BAFTA is over.
The really destroyed their own most important award.
Two words: JOANNA SCANLAN. Thrilled for her.
Happy for SUMMER OF SOUL but FLEE was excellent too.
The show and most of the presenters we're low wattage bar RU and Naomi,though neither are film actors.
It'd be nice if Scanlan got to the Oscars next year but for such a small British centric film it's doubtful but this win hopefully had some distributor sit up and take notice.
Loved Kaluuya's furry water wings coat.
Mr Ripley -- i have yet to see who presents. they dont show it live here so we're forced to just watch random clips later.
Fabio -- what do you mean?
honduran -- it's exciting right. i think Chastain is going to win but i think it'll be Stewart if its not Chastain.
CODA is giving me Green Book vibes… I can see voters funneling their “we respect but don’t love your movie” votes to Campion in Director and then voting for CODA for the top prize. It’s making my head spin because I thought CODA was very mediocre, but when has that stopped the Academy before?
Ga Ga and Salma presented seperately but apart from Dame Bassey very low wattage,Emma Watson was there and she makes me cringe,Kodi Smitt McPhee,Reinaldo Marcus Green and Daniel Kaluuya brought the fashion moments.
We are gonna regret this DeBose sweep...
Stoked for Joanna Scanlan as she is just underrated as I always liked her ever since Girl with a Pearl Earring.
I will be happy when Will Smith wins the Oscar in a couple weeks, but this win is ridiculous. He's not even the best (or 2nd best) actor in his own movie and I'm sorry but if y'all loved Power of the Dog, how do you NOT award Benedict Cumberbatch? And it's still absolutely silly Andrew Garfield wasn't nominated here.
And I'll be even MORE happy for DeBose and Kotsur at the Oscars, but BAFTA I swear you don't have to predict the Oscars. You CAN champion some of your local talents! It's OKAY to do that. Negga and Hinds were right there!
Seems after last year's all over the place race we are back to the usual, just like 2016 or 2018 there is only one race in acting categories, rest are obvious. HFPA missed on supporting actor just like with Nocturnal Animals back then.
Was really hoping BAFTA and CC would inject some much needed excitement into the acting races but alas they went predictive. Negga and Smit-McPhee should have won easily at The Baftas. Oh well.
But I definitely do not feel that TPOTD has Best Picture locked up. I am predicting CODA - against all odds - to win Best Picture. Think how well it's going to do on a preferential ballot.
Elazul -- except it's only a miss if you want them to be predictive! I personally love the Globes for that very reason that they often DONT vote predictively.
Nathaniel: Sure, but I think they really expected that movie to be an Oscar player. That screenplay nomination was ghastly.
I also think the worst original screenplay won at BAFTA (though they did manage to show one of the best bits, the Bradley Cooper scene during one of the clips) and I noticed that Sorkin's fate mirrors 2015 where Steve Jobs failed to get in the Oscar top 5 (adapted) and now Being the Ricardos was basically everywhere else except Oscars.
Random thoughts in no particular order:
I still don't want to watch West Side Story. But I did see a clip of "America" and Ariana Debose did some wonderful dancing, so there's that.
Disappointed that Macbeth was not nominated for Production Design, although it left its mark by what it DIDN'T include. I was enthralled by how little they used costume and sets, and how resultingly powerful they were.
Not really happy about Will Smith. Didn't think King Richard the film or any of his costars were really that wonderful.
Love that Jessica C. won Best Actress and hope that means she'll win Oscar.
Sad that neither Ruth Negga or Tessa Thompson won anything or in Oscar's case, were even nominated. Passing strikes me as a very important film and was so carefully crafted, IMHO.
as Meryl's character says in The Devil etc; "That's all".