Nomadland – a film about a woman travelling around the US after the financial crash – has dominated the BAFTAs, at a Covid-delayed, pandemic-infused ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall.
As well as being named the Best Film, Frances McDormand won the Best Actress prize and Chloé Zhao became only the second woman, after Kathryn Bigelow, to win BAFTA’s Best Director award. The film also picked up the Best Cinematography award.
The Best Actor BAFTA went to Sir Anthony Hopkins, for his portrayal of an elderly man with dementia, in The Father, which also won the Best Adapted Screenplay prize.
Both of the supporting acting awards went to non-white actors, with Daniel Kaluuya being honoured for his portrayal of the Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah, while Yuh-Jung Youn was recognised for her role in Minari. In her acceptance speech, like all the others, made virtually, she said, “Every award is meaningful, but this one especially recognised by British people, known as very snobbish people, and they approved me as a good actor so I’m very, very privileged.”
There were two awards for Promising Young Woman, which was named the Outstanding British Film, as well as picking up the Best Original Screenplay prize.
Another film to pick up two awards on the night was Disney’s Soul, which was named the Best Animated Film, as well as winning the Best Score prize.
Other awards on the second night of prize giving saw Another Round named the Best Film not in the English Language, while Remi Weekes took the outstanding British debut prize for writing and directing His House.
Like yesterday’s smaller ceremony, when more behind-the-scenes categories and short films were honoured, the event began with a tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, who was the first president of BAFTA, when it was formed by the merging of separate film and TV organisations.
Here is the full list of winners from both nights of BAFTA’s Film Awards:
Best film
- Winner: Nomadland
Outstanding British film
- Winner: Promising Young Woman
Leading actress
- Winner: Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Leading actor
- Winner: Sir Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Supporting actress
- Winner: Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari
Supporting actor
- Winner: Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Director
- Winner: Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
- Winner: Bukky Bakray
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
- Winner: His House – Remi Weekes (writer/director)
Film not in the English language
- Winner: Another Round
Documentary
- Winner: My Octopus Teacher
Animated film
- Winner: Soul
Original screenplay
- Winner: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
Adapted screenplay
- Winner: The Father – Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
Original score
- Winner: Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Cinematography
- Winner: Nomadland – Joshua James Richard
Costume design
- Winner: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth
Editing
- Winner: Sound of Metal – Mikkel EG Nielsen
Production design
- Winner: Mank – Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
Make-up and hair
- Winner: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Matiki Anoff, Larry M Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal
Sound
- Winner: Sound of Metal – Jamie Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortes, Michelle Couttolenc
Special visual effects
- Winner: Tenet – Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley
Casting
- Winner: Rocks – Lucy Pardee
British short film
- Winner: The Present
British short animation
- Winner: The Owl and the Pussycat
Outstanding British contribution to cinema
- Noel Clarke
Bafta Fellowship
- Ang Lee