All Quiet on the Western Front and Banshees of Inisherin share BAFTA honours

The German-language First World War film, All Quiet on the Western Front, has taken the top prizes at the British Academy film awards, securing Best Picture and Best Director for Edward Berger.

The Netflix production took home a total of seven awards from the ceremony at the Southbank Centre in London, including for its cinematography and its screenplay, co-written by the Scottish triathlete, Lesley Paterson, adapted from the 1929 novel of the same name.

Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan won 2 of The Banshees of Inisherin’s 4 BAFTAs, in the supporting acting categories

The darkly comic Anglo-Irish nihilistic bromance, The Banshees of Inisherin, secured four awards, although not perhaps the ones that would have been most expected. It missed out on Best Picture and Best Director to All Quiet on the Western Front, Colin Farrell missed out on the Best Lead Actor prize to Elvis‘s Austin Butler, and Brendan Gleeson lost to his own co-star, Barry Keoghan in the contest for Best Supporting Actor. The film’s main female star, Kerry Condon, was named the Best Supporting Actress. The film, which looks and sounds about as Irish as it gets, was also named the Outstanding British Film of last year, by virtue of funding from Channel 4 and its director, Martin McDonagh, being a Londoner. He also picked up the award for the Best Original Screenplay.

The other main category reserved for British production saw Charlotte Wells win the prize for an outstanding British debut for Aftersun.

Other major winners included the Oscar-favourite Cate Blanchett for her leading performance in Tár, beating off competition from two black actresses who failed to secure Academy Award nominations in the same category. Guillermo del Toro won the Animated Feature category for his version of Pinocchio.  Elvis took the Costume and Hair Design awards. The Production Design BAFTA went to Babylon. Avatar: The Way of Water won the award for special effects and in the only award voted for by the public, the EE BAFTA Rising Star award went to the Sex Education star, Emma Mackey, soon to be seen in Barbie.

One of the most nominated films of the night, Everything Everywhere All At Once came away with only the editing award.

Here is the full list of winners from the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards.

Best film

  • WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Elvis
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Tár

Outstanding British film

  • Aftersun
  • WINNER: The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Brian And Charles
  • Empire of Light
  • Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  • Living
  • Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
  • See How They Run
  • The Swimmers
  • The Wonder

Leading actress

  • WINNER: Cate Blanchett, Tár
  • Viola Davis, The Woman King
  • Danielle Deadwyler, Till
  • Ana De Armas, Blonde
  • Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  • Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once

Leading actor

  • WINNER: Austin Butler, Elvis
  • Brendan Fraser, The Whale
  • Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Daryl McCormack, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  • Paul Mescal, Aftersun
  • Bill Nighy, Living

Supporting actress

  • Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Hong Chau, The Whale
  • WINNER: Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
  • Carey Mulligan, She Said

Supporting actor

  • Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • WINNER: Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse
  • Albrecht Schuch, All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Micheal Ward, Empire of Light

Director

  • WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger
  • The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh
  • Decision To Leave, Park Chan-wook
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniel Kwan/Daniel Scheinert
  • Tár, Todd Field
  • The Woman King, Gina Prince-Bythewood

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

  • WINNER: Aftersun
  • Blue Jean
  • Electric Malady
  • Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  • Rebellion

Film not in the English language

  • WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Argentina, 1985
  • Corsage
  • Decision To Leave
  • The Quiet Girl

Documentary

  • All That Breathes
  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  • Fire of Love
  • Moonage Daydream
  • WINNER: Navalny

Animated film

  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
  • Turning Red

Original screenplay

  • WINNER: The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • The Fabelmans
  • Tár
  • Triangle of Sadness

Adapted screenplay

  • WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Living
  • The Quiet Girl
  • She Said
  • The Whale

Original score

  • WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Babylon
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Casting

  • Aftersun
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • WINNER: Elvis
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Triangle of Sadness

Cinematography

  • WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Batman
  • Elvis
  • Empire of Light
  • Top Gun: Maverick

Costume Design

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Amsterdam
  • Babylon
  • WINNER: Elvis
  • Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris

Editing

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Elvis
  • WINNER: Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Top Gun: Maverick

Production design

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • WINNER: Babylon
  • The Batman
  • Elvis
  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

EE Bafta rising star award (voted for by the public)

  • Aimee Lou Wood
  • Daryl McCormack
  • WINNER: Emma Mackey
  • Naomi Ackie
  • Sheila Atim

Make-up and hair

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Batman
  • WINNER: Elvis
  • Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
  • The Whale

Sound

  • WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Elvis
  • Tár
  • Top Gun: Maverick

Special visual effects

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • WINNER: Avatar: The Way of Water
  • The Batman
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Top Gun: Maverick

British short film

  • The Ballad Of Olive Morris
  • Bazigaga
  • Bus Girl
  • A Drifting Up
  • WINNER: An Irish Goodbye

British short animation

  • WINNER: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse
  • Middle Watch
  • Your Mountain is Waiting
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