BAFTA Awards: ‘Three Billboards’ is Best Film; Oldman, McDormand, Rockwell, Janney win acting prizes
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this won before…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has won the BAFTA for Best Film of 2017. The film was the big winner of the night with five awards (of its nine nominations) that also included Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. It becomes the first film in BAFTA history to take all four of those awards. It’s only the second film to win both Best Film and Best British Film (The King’s Speech did as well). Curiously, BAFTA and Oscar’s Best Picture have not aligned for the last three years in a row. Despite many categories looking very predictable going into the Oscars, Best Picture is still a bit of a nail-biter. Three Billboards has the Globe, SAG and BAFTA while The Shape of Water has DGA and PGA.
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) adds a BAFTA to his Critics Choice, Golden Globe and Directors Guild wins, making his Oscar chances all but locked now. Only twice has a director won DGA and BAFTA and then lost the Oscar: Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Ben Affleck (Argo).
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) continued his march towards Oscar with another Best Actor win. With the film’s Makeup and Hair win it’s very likely that this will mirror The Iron Lady at the Oscars, with both Oldman and Best Actress winner Meryl Streep playing British Prime Ministers. Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), and stop me if you’ve heard this one before, won Best Actress.
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Allison Janney (I, Tonya) took home the supporting prizes tonight, continuing an astonishing streak that, like Oldman and McDormand, has included the Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards. No acting winner, male or female, has ever taken all of these precursors and then lost the Oscar.
Call Me By Your Name won Adapted Screenplay in what has been a season of consistent wins for the film in this category. It won the WGA and USC Scripter last month.
The Handmaiden won Film Not in the English Language. This is the 1st win (and the 1st nomination) in this category for South Korea. I Am Not Your Negro won Documentary; it was Oscar-nominated last year (but lost to O.J.: Made in America). Four of the last seven years, the winner here was either not nominated or not eligible for the Oscars in the same calendar year. Coco‘s Animated Feature win continues its streak and path to the Oscars. Only twice has the winner here not won the Oscar (The LEGO Movie, Kubo and the Two Strings).
Baby Driver‘s triumph over Dunkirk in Editing is a bit of a boost for its Oscar chances; 8 of 10 BAFTA winners went on to receive the Oscar in that category. Dunkirk bounced back by besting Baby Driver in the Sound category. BAFTA combines sound editing and sound mixing (unlike the Oscars) and bodes well for its Oscar chances. Blade Runner 2049, already a near-lock for the Oscar won the BAFTA for Visual Effects. Only twice has BAFTA and Oscar not aligned (Hugo in 2011 and Ex-Machina in 2015). The film also scored the Cinematography win for Roger Deakins. Deakins just won the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) award last night. Only one time has a person won both ASC and BAFTA and then lost the Oscar and that was 2006’s Children of Men to Pan’s Labyrinth. This could be Deakins’s best shot at the Oscar after an incredible 14 nominations.
Daniel Kaluuya bested his Best Actor Oscar (and BAFTA) competition Timothée Chalamet for the Rising Star Award, an award that’s voted on by the public.
The ceremony was once again held at the Royal Albert Hall but will Joanna Lumley taking over the hosting duties from Stephen Fry.
Here is the full list of EE British Academy Film Awards winners.
BEST FILM
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, Peter Spears
DARKEST HOUR Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski
DUNKIRK Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh – WINNER
DIRECTOR
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Denis Villeneuve
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Luca Guadagnino
DUNKIRK Christopher Nolan
THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro – WINNER
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Martin McDonagh
LEADING ACTRESS
ANNETTE BENING Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
FRANCES McDORMAND Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
MARGOT ROBBIE I, Tonya
SALLY HAWKINS The Shape of Water
SAOIRSE RONAN Lady Bird
LEADING ACTOR
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Phantom Thread
DANIEL KALUUYA Get Out
GARY OLDMAN Darkest Hour – WINNER
JAMIE BELL Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Call Me by Your Name
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ALLISON JANNEY I, Tonya – WINNER
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Darkest Hour
LAURIE METCALF Lady Bird
LESLEY MANVILLE Phantom Thread
OCTAVIA SPENCER The Shape of Water
SUPPORTING ACTOR
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER All the Money in the World
HUGH GRANT Paddington 2
SAM ROCKWELL Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
WILLEM DAFOE The Florida Project
WOODY HARRELSON Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
DARKEST HOUR Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski
THE DEATH OF STALIN Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou, Ian Martin, David Schneider
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY Francis Lee, Manon Ardisson, Jack Tarling
LADY MACBETH William Oldroyd, Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, Alice Birch
PADDINGTON 2 Paul King, David Heyman, Simon Farnaby
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin – WINNER
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
THE GHOUL Gareth Tunley (Writer/Director/Producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (Producers)
I AM NOT A WITCH Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director), Emily Morgan (Producer) – WINNER
JAWBONE Johnny Harris (Writer/Producer), Thomas Napper (Director)
KINGDOM OF US Lucy Cohen (Director)
LADY MACBETH Alice Birch (Writer), William Oldroyd (Director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (Producer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ELLE Paul Verhoeven, Saïd Ben Saïd
FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER Angelina Jolie, Rithy Panh
THE HANDMAIDEN Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim – WINNER
LOVELESS Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky
THE SALESMAN Asghar Farhadi, Alexandre Mallet-Guy
DOCUMENTARY
CITY OF GHOSTS Matthew Heineman
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Raoul Peck – WINNER
ICARUS Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
JANE Brett Morgen
ANIMATED FILM
COCO Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson – WINNER
LOVING VINCENT Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Ivan Mactaggart
MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE Claude Barras, Max Karli
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
GET OUT Jordan Peele
I, TONYA Steven Rogers
LADY BIRD Greta Gerwig
THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Martin McDonagh – WINNER
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME James Ivory – WINNER
THE DEATH OF STALIN Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, David Schneider
FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL Matt Greenhalgh
MOLLY’S GAME Aaron Sorkin
PADDINGTON 2 Simon Farnaby, Paul King
ORIGINAL MUSIC
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer
DARKEST HOUR Dario Marianelli
DUNKIRK Hans Zimmer
PHANTOM THREAD Jonny Greenwood
THE SHAPE OF WATER Alexandre Desplat – WINNER
CINEMATOGRAPHY
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Roger Deakins – WINNER
DARKEST HOUR Bruno Delbonnel
DUNKIRK Hoyte van Hoytema
THE SHAPE OF WATER Dan Laustsen
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Ben Davis
EDITING
BABY DRIVER Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss – WINNER
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Joe Walker
DUNKIRK Lee Smith
THE SHAPE OF WATER Sidney Wolinsky
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Jon Gregory
PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
DARKEST HOUR Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
DUNKIRK Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
THE SHAPE OF WATER Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, Shane Vieau – WINNER
COSTUME DESIGN
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Jacqueline Durran
DARKEST HOUR Jacqueline Durran
I, TONYA Jennifer Johnson
PHANTOM THREAD Mark Bridges – WINNER
THE SHAPE OF WATER Luis Sequeira
MAKE UP & HAIR
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Donald Mowat, Kerry Warn
DARKEST HOUR David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji – WINNER
I, TONYA Deborah La Mia Denaver, Adruitha Lee
VICTORIA & ABDUL Daniel Phillips
WONDER Naomi Bakstad, Robert A. Pandini, Arjen Tuiten
SOUND
BABY DRIVER Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini, Mac Ruth
DUNKIRK Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten – WINNER
THE SHAPE OF WATER Christian Cooke, Glen Gauthier, Nathan Robitaille, Brad Zoern
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Gerd Nefzer, John Nelson – WINNER
DUNKIRK Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson
THE SHAPE OF WATER Dennis Berardi, Trey Harrell, Kevin Scott
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Nominees tbc
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Nominees tbc
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
HAVE HEART Will Anderson
MAMOON Ben Steer
POLES APART Paloma Baeza, Ser En Low – WINNER
BRITISH SHORT FILM
AAMIR Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone, Oliver Shuster
COWBOY DAVE Colin O’Toole, Jonas Mortensen – WINNER
A DROWNING MAN Mahdi Fleifel, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Patrick Campbell
WORK Aneil Karia, Scott O’Donnell
WREN BOYS Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon, John Fitzpatrick
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
DANIEL KALUUYA – WINNER
FLORENCE PUGH
JOSH O’CONNOR
TESSA THOMPSON
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
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