“All Quiet,” a visceral depiction of life and dying within the World Warfare I trenches primarily based on Erich Maria Remarque’s traditional novel, received Edward Berger the most effective director award. Its different trophies included tailored screenplay, cinematography, finest rating, finest sound and finest movie not in English.
Austin Butler was a shock finest actor winner for “Elvis.” Baz Lurhmann’s flamboyant musical additionally received trophies for casting, costume design and hair and make-up. Cate Blanchett received the most effective actress prize for orchestral drama “Tár.”
Martin McDonagh’s “Banshees,” the bleakly funny story of a friendship gone bitter, was named finest British movie.
“Finest what award?” joked McDonagh of the movie, which was shot in Eire with a largely Irish solid and crew. It has British funding, and McDonagh was born in Britain to Irish dad and mom.
“Banshees” additionally received for McDonagh’s authentic screenplay, and awards for Kerry Condon as finest supporting actress and Barry Keoghan for finest supporting actor.
The prizes — formally the EE BAFTA Movie Awards — are Britain’s equal of Hollywood’s Academy Awards and might be watched carefully for hints of who might win on the Oscars on March 12.
Madcap metaverse romp “The whole lot All over the place All at As soon as,” the Academy Awards front-runner, was the night time’s massive loser, successful only one prize from its 10 BAFTA nominations, for modifying.
Actor Richard E. Grant was a suave and self-deprecating host — with help from TV presenter Alison Hammond — for the ceremony at London’s Royal Competition Corridor, the place the U.Okay’s film academy heralded its strides to turn out to be extra various however mentioned there was extra to be finished.
Grant joked in his opening monologue concerning the notorious altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock finally 12 months’s Oscars.
“No person on my watch will get slapped tonight,” he mentioned. “Besides on the again.”
Visitors and presenters strolling the purple carpet on the south financial institution of the River Thames included Colin Farrell, Ana de Armas, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Cox, Florence Pugh, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cynthia Erivo, Julianne Moore and Lily James.
Inheritor to the throne Prince William, who’s president of Britain’s movie and tv academy, was within the viewers alongside his spouse, Kate. William wore a tuxedo with black velvet jacket, whereas Kate wearing a floor-length Alexander McQueen costume that she additionally wore to the 2019 BAFTAs.
Helen Mirren paid tribute to William’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September. Mirren, who portrayed the late monarch onscreen in “The Queen” and onstage in “The Viewers,” known as Elizabeth “the nation’s main woman.”
Britain’s movie academy launched modifications to extend the awards’ variety in 2020, when no girls have been nominated as finest director for the seventh 12 months operating and all 20 nominees within the lead and supporting performer classes have been white.
This 12 months there have been 11 feminine administrators up for awards throughout all classes, together with documentary and animated movies. However simply one of many essential best-director nominees was feminine: Gina Prince-Bythewood for “The Girl King.”
BAFTA chair Krishnendu Majumdar mentioned the academy’s soul-searching had been “a obligatory and humbling course of.” He mentioned the “very important work of levelling the enjoying subject” would proceed.
“West Facet Story” star Ariana DeBose opened the present by performing “Sisters are Doin’ it for Themselves,” with an added rap shoutout to a few of the nominated girls, together with Blanchett, Michelle Yeoh and Viola Davis.
Blanchett mentioned it had been “a rare 12 months for feminine performers. To be counted amongst them is actually particular.”
It was a powerful 12 months for Irish actors on the BAFTAs, with Deryl McCormack up for the BAFTA Rising Star award — although he misplaced out to Emma Mackey – and Condon, Keoghan, Farrell and Brendan Gleeson all getting appearing nominations for “Banshees.”
McCormack hailed the occasion as “the Irish BAFTAs.”
“It’s a small nation, however to see the expertise that comes out of it’s fairly superb,” he mentioned.
Author-director Charlotte Wells received the prize for finest British debut for the affecting father-daughter drama “Aftersun.” Three-time Oscar winner Sandy Powell turned the primary costume designer to be awarded the academy’s high honor, the BAFTA fellowship.
The tough world outdoors showbiz intruded on the awards when Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, who works for investigative web site Bellingcat, mentioned he was now allowed to attend the awards due to a danger to public safety. He options in “Navalny,” a movie about jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny that received the most effective documentary BAFTA.
“Navalny” producer Odessa Rae devoted the award to Grozev, “our Bulgarian nerd with a laptop computer, who couldn’t be with us tonight as a result of his life is underneath risk by the Russian authorities and Vladimir Putin.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, a supporting actress nominee for “The whole lot All over the place,” mentioned the prospect awards season supplies to have a good time cinema was extra essential than who wins.
“It’s a second of celebration within the midst of every thing,” Curtis instructed The Related Press on the purple carpet. “It’s arduous on the market. All over the place. All of sudden. On a regular basis.”
Related Press author Hilary Fox contributed to this report.
