La La Land, Casey Affleck, Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Dev Patel lead 2017 BAFTA Winners
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The British Film Academy Awards (BAFTA) awarded the modern-day musical La La Land five trophies today including Best Film, Director (Damien Chazelle) and Actress (Emma Stone). It came into the night with a field-best 11 nominations. This caps off an awards season run with wins from the Producers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and the Golden Globes on its way to the Oscars in exactly two weeks. Upon winning, Stone said, “In a time that’s so divisive it’s special we were able to come together tonight to celebrate the gift of positivity.”
Manchester by the Sea earned two BAFTAs, one for Kenneth Lonergan’s original screenplay and also Casey Affleck for Best Actor. “This is an honor I’ll never forget,” said Affleck. “The reason I act is when I was a young kid my mom took me to Al-Anon meetings for children of alcoholics. It was therapy but it was acting and acting has sort of been that for me ever since.” In the supporting categories, Viola Davis won for Fences (she now has the Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA) and a bit of a surprise in supporting actor with Dev Patel (Lion) besting SAG-winner Mahershala Ali and Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Interestingly, this mirrors last year a bit where three different actors won the top supporting awards throughout the season. Last year, Mark Rylance won BAFTA and went on to win the Oscar. Lion also surprised with a win for adapted screenplay.
Two of the five Best Film nominees, Moonlight and Nocturnal Animals, went home empty-handed. Moonlight came in with four nominations, Nocturnal Animals with a second-best nine. Arrival also had nine nominations and won for Sound. Eight of the last nine winners for Sound here have won the Oscar (which splits Sound into two categories, Editing and Mixing). Jackie won Costumes where the last eight winners have gone on to Oscar glory.
Hacksaw Ridge was best in Editing, Kubo and the Two Strings won over favorite Zootopia and Ava DuVernay’s film 13TH won Documentary. The EE Rising Star Award, which is voted on by the public, went to Tom Holland, the young star of the upcoming Spiderman: Homecoming and previously in Captain America: Civil War and The Impossible.
Here is the full list of winners:
BEST FILM
LA LA LAND Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
I, DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Under the Shadow: BABAK ANVARI (Writer/Director), EMILY LEO, OLIVER ROSKILL, LUCAN TOH (Producers)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SON OF SAUL László Nemes, Gábor Sipos
DOCUMENTARY
13TH Ava DuVernay
ANIMATED FILM
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Travis Knight
DIRECTOR
LA LA LAND Damien Chazelle
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
LION Luke Davies
LEADING ACTOR
CASEY AFFLECK Manchester by the Sea
LEADING ACTRESS
EMMA STONE La La Land
SUPPORTING ACTOR
DEV PATEL Lion
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
VIOLA DAVIS Fences
ORIGINAL MUSIC
LA LA LAND Justin Hurwitz
CINEMATOGRAPHY
LA LA LAND Linus Sandgren
EDITING
HACKSAW RIDGE John Gilbert
PRODUCTION DESIGN
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
COSTUME DESIGN
JACKIE Madeline Fontaine
MAKE UP & HAIR
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS J. Roy Helland, Daniel Phillips
SOUND
ARRIVAL Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE JUNGLE BOOK Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
A LOVE STORY Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King
BRITISH SHORT FILM
HOME Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Daniel Mulloy, Scott O’Donnell
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
TOM HOLLAND
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