76th EE BAFTA Film Awards: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ earns record-breaking seven wins including Best Film, Director; all white winners prevail
All Quiet on the Western Front has been named Best Film by the EE BAFTA Film Awards, leading the overall wins of the evening with seven that also included Best Director for Edward Berger.
The film led with 14 nominations, tying with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as the most-nominated non-English language film in the awards’ history, and with its seven wins makes history as the biggest non-English language film winner in BAFTA history. In his second acceptance speech of the night, director Edward Berger remarked, in regards to his film’s star Felix Kammerer, “without your performance we wouldn’t have had a single nomination.”
The WWI film, based on the celebrated novel by Erich Maria Remarque, also earned wins in film not in the English language, adapted screenplay, cinematography, original score and sound. The film is nominated for nine Oscars, including all that it won at BAFTA with the exception of Edward Berger in best director. Berger’s BAFTA Best Director win is the first time a non-Oscar nominated director has bested Oscar-nominated competition since Ben Affleck with 2012’s Argo.
Looking at the BAFTA-to-Oscar comparison in those categories spells a potentially good outcome for the film.
- 5 of the last 5 films to win Best Adapted Screenplay at BAFTA went on to win the Adapted Screenplay Oscar.
- 9 of the last 10 films to win Best Cinematography at the BAFTAs went on to win at the Oscars.
- 8 of the last 10 films to win Best Music at BAFTA have won Best Original Score at the Oscars, and they’ve matched the last 3 years in a row.
- 9 of the last 10 films to win Best Sound at BAFTA went on to win a Sound Oscar.
The Banshees of Inisherin and Elvis earned four wins apiece, including a Leading Actor win for young star Austin Butler as the titular rock ‘n roll legend.
“I want to thank the Presley family, I cannot thank you enough for your love and for showing me who Elvis truly was. “I hope I made you proud,” Austin Butler says while accepting the award. The biopic also won for its makeup and hair, costume design and casting.
The Banshees of Inisherin took home outstanding British film, original screenplay and both supporting awards; Kerry Condon for supporting actress and Barry Keoghan in supporting actor.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, which went into the ceremony with 10 nominations (tied with The Banshees of Inisherin) went home with just a single award, for editing.
Cate Blanchett won leading actress for TÁR, her third BAFTA win. Blanchett now has the Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice, with SAG coming next weekend. She is the only Oscar-nominated performer with the ability to clench all four precursors ahead of the Academy Awards as the three other acting categories have seen split winners among BAFTA, CCA and the Globes so far.
Newcomer Charlotte Wells earned the award for outstanding British/Irish debut for her first feature film, Aftersun.
Something that was inescapable as winners were announced and hit the stage was the near absolute lack of people of color across all categories. At every turn, whether it was acting, crafts, writing or the Rising Star Award (which featured three Black actors) the winners continued to favor white Americans or white Europeans. With the exception of director Guillermo del Toro (he is of Spanish ancestry and his nationality is Mexican, not to muddy the distinction and definition too much), who won for animated feature, recent years of expanded membership and specially juried nomination committees came to a bit of a crashing halt tonight.
With recent BAFTA winners like Will Smith, Ariana DeBose, Questlove, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Chloé Zhao, Daniel Kaluuya and Youn Yuh-jung, tonight’s outcome might not necessarily be indicative of BAFTA’s future but it does, on the surface, look more like its past.
Multi-BAFTA winning costume designer Sandy Powell received the BAFTA Fellowship. While accepting her fellowship award, Sandy Powell quoted David Bowie, “Always go a little further into the water than you feel you are capable of going.”
This year’s ceremony is being held live at the Royal Festival Hall within London’s Southbank Centre, the first time since the 69th British Academy Film Awards (2016) that the ceremony will not been held at the Royal Albert Hall. The move is part of a new deal between BAFTA and the Southbank Centre, and brings the Film Awards in-line with the British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Games Awards, which are already held there. BAFTA and Academy Award-nominated actor Richard E. Grant while British television personality Alison Hammond will host from backstage, giving viewers what’s billed as an “access-all-areas experience.” Presenters Vick Hope and BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb hosted the red carpet pre-show and Last year’s BAFTA supporting actress winner Ariana DeBose performed a musical opening number dedicated to the female nominees this year.
Here are the winners of the 76th EE BAFTA Film Awards.
BEST FILM
- All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- TÁR
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
- Aftersun
- The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
- 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
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
- Aftersun – WINNER
- Blue Jean
- Electric Malady
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Rebellion
FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER
- Argentina, 1985
- Corsage
- Decision To Leave
- The Quiet Girl
DOCUMENTARY
- All That Breathes
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Fire of Love
- Moonage Daydream
- Navalny – WINNER
ANIMATED FILM
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – WINNER
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Turning Red
DIRECTOR
- Edward Berger, All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER
- Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
- Park Chan-wook, Decision To Leave
- Austin Butler, Elvis
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Todd Field, TÁR
- Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Woman King
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- The Fabelmans
- TÁR
- Triangle of Sadness
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER
- Living
- The Quiet Girl
- She Said
- The Whale
LEADING ACTRESS
- Ana de Armas in Blonde
- Cate Blanchett in TÁR – WINNER
- Viola Davis in The Woman King
- Danielle Deadwyler in Till
- Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once
LEADING ACTOR
- Austin Butler in Elvis – WINNER
- Brendan Fraser in The Whale
- Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
- Daryl McCormack in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Paul Mescal in Aftersun
- Bill Nighy in Living
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Hong Chau in The Whale
- Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
- Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Dolly De Leon in Triangle of Sadness
- Carey Mulligan in She Said
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
- Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
- Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Eddie Redmayne in The Good Nurse
- Albrecht Schuch in All Quiet on the Western Front
- Micheal Ward in Empire of Light
CASTING
- Aftersun
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Elvis – WINNER
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Triangle of Sadness
CINEMATOGRAPHY
- All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER
- The Batman
- Elvis
- Empire of Light
- Top Gun: Maverick
COSTUME DESIGN
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Amsterdam
- Babylon
- Elvis – WINNER
- Mrs Harris Goes To Paris
EDITING
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All At Once – WINNER
- Top Gun: Maverick
MAKE UP & HAIR
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- The Batman
- Elvis – WINNER
- Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
- The Whale
ORIGINAL SCORE
- All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER
- Babylon
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
PRODUCTION DESIGN
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Babylon – WINNER
- The Batman
- Elvis
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water – WINNER
- The Batman
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Top Gun: Maverick
SOUND
- All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Elvis
- TÁR
- Top Gun: Maverick
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – WINNER
- Middle Watch
- Your Mountain is Waiting
BRITISH SHORT FILM
- The Ballad Of Olive Morris
- Bazigaga
- Bus Girl
- A Drifting Up
- An Irish Goodbye – WINNER
EE RISING STAR
- Aimee Lou Wood
- Daryl McCormack
- Emma Mackey – WINNER
- Naomi Ackie
- Sheila Atim
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