‘Nomadland’ Dominates BAFTA Awards

At almost every major awards show or film festival this year, Nomadland has come out on top, and it looks like the BAFTA’s are no exception. Chloe Zhao’s acclaimed film took home the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Cinematography.

The film stars Frances McDormand as a woman who embarks on a journey as a van-dwelling nomad after losing everything in the great recession. With her win, Zhao became the first woman of color to win the director award and only the second woman to win it in BAFTA history.

Other awards included Anthony Hopkins winning the leading actor award for his performance in The Father, which also won the best adapted screenplay award. Meanwhile, Emerald Fennell’s film, Promising Young Woman, took home the awards for outstanding British film and best original screenplay. Daniel Kaluuya won best supporting actor for his performance as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah, Yuh-Jung Youn won for best supporting actress for her performance in Minari and Bukky Bakray was given the BAFTA rising star award for her performance in the British coming-of-age drama Rocks.

The BAFTAs were praised for this year’s awards being the most diverse in its history, with 16 out of 24 actors nominated coming from racial or ethnic minority backgrounds. Nomadland, which has 6 nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards under its belt, is currently available to stream for Hulu subscribers. 

The full list of nominees and winners (in bold) can be seen below:

Best Film: 

The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland 
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Outstanding British Film:

Calm With Horses
The Dig
The Father
His House
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Promising Young Woman 
Rocks
Saint Maud

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer:

His House, Remi Weekes (Writer/Director)
Limbo, Ben Sharrock (Writer/Director) and Irune Gurtubai (Producer)
Moffie, Jack Sidey (Writer/Producer)
Rocks, Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson (Writers)
Saint Maud, Rose Glass (Writer/Director) and Oliver Kassman (Producer)

Film Not In English Language:

Another Round 
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?

Director:

Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg
Babyteeth, Shannon Murphy
Minari, Lee Isaac Chung
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao 
Quo Vadis, Aida?, Jasmila Žbanić
Rocks, Sarah Gavron

Documentary:

Collective
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher 
The Social Dilemma

Animated Film:

Onward
Soul

Wolfwalkers

Original Screenplay:

Another Round, Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg
Mank, Jack Fincher
Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell 
Rocks, Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin

Adapted Screenplay:

The Dig, Moira Buffini
The Father, Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
The Mauritanian, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani and M.B. Traven
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
The White Tiger, Ramin Bahrani

Leading Actress: 

Bukky Bakray, Rocks
Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Wunmi Mosaku, His House
Alfre Woodard, Clemency

Leading Actor:

Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Adarsh Gourav, The White Tiger
Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian

Supporting Actress: 

Niamh Algar, Calm With Horses
Kosar Ali, Rocks
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Dominique Fishback, Judas and the Black Messiah
Ashley Madekwe, County Lines
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

Supporting Actor:

Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Barry Keoghan, Calm With Horses
Alan Kim, Minari
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night In Miami
Clarke Peters, Da 5 Bloods
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Original Score:

Mank, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Minari, Emile Mosseri
News of the World, James Newton Howard
Promising Young Woman, Anthony Willis
Soul, Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Casting:

Calm With Horses
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Rocks

Cinematography:

Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
The Mauritanian
News of the World
Nomadland 

Editing:

The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Production Design:

The Dig
The Father
Mank
News of the World
Rebecca

Costume Design:

Ammonite
The Dig
Emma.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 
Mank

Make-Up & Hair:

The Dig
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 
Mank
Pinocchio

Sound:

Greyhound
News of the World
Nomadland
Soul
Sound of Metal 

Special Visual Effects:

Greyhound
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet

British Short Animation:

The Fire Next Time
The Owl and the Pussycat 
The Song of a Lost Boy

British Short Film:

Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
The Present

EE Rising Star Award:

Bukky Bakray
Conrad Khan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
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