BAFTAs 2020: the winners in full

A big night for Sam Mendes’ epic war drama 1917, while Bait wins outstanding British debut.

2 February 2020

1917 (2019)

Sam Mendes’ First World War drama 1917 has dominated the 2020 BAFTAs, winning both best film and best British film. With seven awards, it was the most garlanded film of the night, also winning best director for Mendes and best cinematography.

Of its pack-leading 11 nominations going into the event, Joker made good on three prizes, including Joaquin Phoenix as best actor. Renée Zellweger was named best actress for her turn as Judy Garland in Judy, while the supporting acting categories went to Laura Dern for Marriage Story and Brad Pitt for Once upon a Time… in Hollywood.

Mark Jenkin’s low-budget Cornish drama Bait, which was distributed by the BFI, won the award for outstanding British debut.

Prize-winning films that first screened at the BFI London Film Festival include Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit, the latter of which won the award for best adapted screenplay.

Best original screenplay went to Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which also wins the award for best film not in the English language.

Best film

Winner: 1917
The Irishman
Joker
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite

Best director

Winner: 1917 – Sam Mendes
The Irishman – Martin Scorsese
Joker – Todd Phillips
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Parasite – Bong Joon-ho

Best British film

Winner: 1917
Bait
For Sama
Rocketman
Sorry We Missed You
The Two Popes

Best actress

Winner: Renée Zellweger – Judy
Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Charlize Theron – Bombshell

Best actor

Leonardo DiCaprio – Once upon a Time… in Hollywood
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Taron Egerton – Rocketman
Winner: Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes

Best supporting actress

Winner: Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh – Little Women
Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Margot Robbie – Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best supporting actor

Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Winner: Brad Pitt – Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Winner: Bait – Mark Jenkin (writer/director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (producers)
For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab (director/producer), Edward Watts (director)
Maiden – Alex Holmes (director)
Only You – Harry Wootliff (writer/director)
Retablo – Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (writer/director)

Film not in the English language

The Farewell
For Sama
Pain and Glory
Winner: Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Best documentary

American Factory
Apollo 11
Diego Maradona
Winner: For Sama
The Great Hack

Best animated film

Frozen II
Winner: Klaus
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Toy Story 4

Best original screenplay

Booksmart – Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
Knives Out – Rian Johnson
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Winner: Parasite – Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-ho,

Best adapted screenplay

The Irishman – Steven Zaillian
Winner: Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
Joker – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
Little Women – Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes – Anthony Mccarten

Best score

1917
Jojo Rabbit
Winner: Joker
Little Women
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best casting

Winner: Joker
Marriage Story
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Two Popes

Best cinematography

Winner: 1917
The Irishman
Joker
Le Mans ’66
The Lighthouse

Best editing

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Winner: Le Mans ’66
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best production design

Winner: 1917
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best costume design

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Judy
Winner: Little Women
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best make up and hair

1917
Winner: Bombshell
Joker
Judy
Rocketman

Best sound

Winner: 1917
Joker
Le Mans ’66
Rocketman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best special visual effects

Winner: 1917
Avengers: Endgame
The Irishman
The Lion King
Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker

Best British short animation

Winner: Grandad Was a Romantic
In Her Boots
The Magic Boat

Best British short film

Azaar
Goldfish
Kamali
Winner: Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
The Trap

EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)

Awkwafina
Jack Lowden
Kaitlyn Dever
Kelvin Harrison Jr
Winner: Micheal Ward

BAFTA fellowship

Kathleen Kennedy

Outstanding British contribution to cinema

Andy Serkis

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