75th BAFTA Awards winners: ‘The Power of the Dog’ wins Best Film; Will Smith, Troy Kotsur take acting prizes
The Power of the Dog was named Best Film at the 75th BAFTA Awards tonight in a live, in-person ceremony held at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Its director, Jane Campion, also took the directing prize, one day after winning the Directors Guild award. The film came in with eight nominations but won only the top two.
Earlier this week, the film came under some fire from actor Sam Elliott, who discussed the film on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, calling it “a piece of shit,” referred to Campion as “that woman from New Zealand” and took issue with what he called “allusions of homosexuality.” He continued his rant, saying “What the fuck does this woman from down there [New Zealand] know about the American west?” The comments caused a media storm of criticism and ridicule of the Oscar-nominated actor with Campion herself responding to it while on the DGA red carpet last night, saying “I’m sorry, he was being a little bit of a B-I-T-C-H. And I’m sorry to say it but he’s not a cowboy; he’s an actor.” She continued, “The West is a mythic space, and there’s a lot of room on the range.”
Actress Rebel Wilson hosted the ceremony for the first time, after a popular stint as a presenter two years ago. During her opening monologue, she quipped “You guys might be like why is Rebel Wilson hosting the BAFTAs? Uh yes I come from the bush but if you think about it don’t we all?” She followed up with a comment about her dramatic weight loss and even worked in a jab at Harry Potter author and noted TERF J.K. Rowling, “Since 2020 I’ve done quite a transformation. I hope J.K. Rowling still approves.”
Best Actor Oscar frontrunner Will Smith (King Richard) overcame is his biggest hurdle, beating Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) on his home turf. The box office star now has the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA. The wild Best Actress category, which has no crossover with Oscar for the first time since 1987, saw top name talent like Lady Gaga along with newer stars Emilia Jones, Alana Haim and Renate Reinsve lose out Leading Actress to BIFA winner and respected British actress Joanna Scanlan for After Love.
Troy Kotsur, who’s been defying odds all season, did so again by following up his recent Screen Actors Guild award with a BAFTA win in supporting actor for CODA. He joins supporting actress winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) with the two main industry awards in hand going into the Oscars.
The CODA love train continued with the film’s surprising win in Adapted Screenplay over the likes of its Oscar competition from The Power of the Dog, Drive My Car and The Lost Daughter. Licorice Pizza won Original Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson while Belfast almost went home empty-handed, picking up just Outstanding British Film.
Dune, which entered tonight with the most nominations (11), did well in the technical categories, winning Cinematography, Production Design, Original Score, Sound and Special Visual Effects. The non-Oscar nominated No Time to Die, however, triumphed in Editing, where the only nominated Oscar contender was Dune.
Among other craft categories saw Cruella win Costume Design and The Eyes of Tammy Faye take the Makeup and Hair award.
BAFTA expanded its membership in a major reassessment of its voting structure and membership over the last two years. Currently at around 7,000 members, and plan to increase their membership by 1,000 in 2023. This push came after a year of all-white acting nominees two years ago (including two by Margot Robbie in one category), similar the #OscarsSoWhite controversy the Academy Awards faced in 2015 and 2016. The Academy also made strides in that area, adding nearly 4,000 new members in the last five years and establishing diversity benchmarks in front of and behind the camera in order to secure a Best Picture nomination beginning at next year’s Oscars. Last year, even with the new voting system in place, which provided a much more diverse set of nominees, the BAFTA winners lined up with the Oscars in the top eight categories.
Here is the complete list of winners of the 75th BAFTA Awards.
Best Film
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
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 – WINNER
Titane – Julia Ducournau
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 – WINNER
Tessa Thompson – Passing
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 – WINNER
Supporting Actress
Caitríona Balfe – Belfast
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story – WINNER
Ann Dowd – Mass
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Ruth Negga – Passing
Supporting Actor
Mike Faist – West Side Story
Ciarán Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA – WINNER
Woody Norman – C’mon C’mon
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
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 – WINNER
Adapted Screenplay
CODA – Siân Heder – WINNER
Drive My Car – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Dune – Denis Villeneuve
The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion
Outstanding British Film
After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast – WINNER
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die
Passing
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] – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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
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 – WINNER
Animated Film
Encanto – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, Clarke Spencer – WINNER
Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Monica Hellström
Luca – Enrico Casarosa, Andrea Warren
The Mitchells Vs the Machines – Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Original Score
Being the Ricardos – Daniel Pemberton
Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell
Dune – Hans Zimmer – WINNER
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 – WINNER
Cinematography
Dune – Greig Fraser – WINNER
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 – WINNER
Summer of Soul (or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” – Joshua L. Pearson
Production Design
Cyrano – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Dune – Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos – WINNER
The French Dispatch – Adam Stockhausen, Rena Deangelo
Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
West Side Story – Adam Stockhausen, Rena Deangelo
Costume Design
Cruella – Jenny Beavan – WINNER
Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini
Dune – Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West
The French Dispatch – Milena Canonero
Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira
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 – WINNER
House of Gucci – Frederic Aspiras, Jane Carboni, Giuliano Mariana, Sarah Nicole Tanno
Sound
Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER
Night of the Living Dread – Ida Melum, Danielle Goff, Laura Jayne Tunbridge, Hannah Kelso
British Short Film
The Black Cop – Cherish Oteka – WINNER
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)
Ariana DeBose
Harris Dickinson
Lashana Lynch – WINNER
Millicent Simmonds
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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