Nomadland (2020)Nomadland, Chloe Zhao’s story of modern-day nomadic life in the American west, has been named best film at this year’s BAFTAs. Zhao’s film took four awards, including best director, best cinematography and best actress for Frances McDormand.
The award for outstanding British film went to Promising Young Woman, which also won best original screenplay for writer-director Emerald Fennell.
Anthony Hopkins won the fourth BAFTA of his career, being named best actor for The Father.
Rocks, which was backed by the BFI Film Fund, won the BAFTA for best casting. Its star Bukky Bakray also won the EE Rising Star Award, voted for by public.
Winning films that first screened to UK audiences at the BFI London Film Festival include Nomadland, Another Round (best film not in the English language) and Soul (best animated film and best score).
The BFI also supported the releases of winning films Minari and Sound of Metal with National Lottery money.
Best film
Winner: Nomadland – Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Chloé Zhao
The Father – Philippe Carcassonne, Jean-Louis Livi, David Parfitt
The Mauritanian – tbc
Promising Young Woman – Ben Browning, Emerald Fennell, Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Stuart Besser, Marc Platt
Outstanding British film
Winner: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara
Calm with Horses – Nick Rowland, Daniel Emmerson, Joe Murtagh
The Dig – Simon Stone, Gabrielle Tana, Moira Buffini
The Father – Florian Zeller, Philippe Carcassone, Jean-Louis Livi, David Parfitt, Christopher Hampton
His House – Remi Weekes, Martin Gentles, Edward Kings, Roy Lee
Limbo – Ben Sharrock, Irune Gurtubai, Angus Lamont
The Mauritanian – Kevin Macdonald, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, M.B. Traven
Mogul Mowgli – Bassam Tariq, Riz Ahmed, Thomas Benski, Bennett McGhee
Rocks – Sarah Gavron, Ameenah Ayub Allen, Faye Ward, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
Saint Maud – Rose Glass, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Winner: His House – Remi Weekes (writer/director)
Limbo – Ben Sharrock (writer/director), Irune Gurtubai (producer) [also produced by Angus Lamont]
Moffie – Jack Sidey (writer/producer) [also written by Oliver Hermanus and produced by Eric Abraham]
Rocks – Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (writers)
Saint Maud – Rose Glass (writer/director), Oliver Kassman (producer) [also produced by Andrea Cornwell]
Film not in the English language
Winner: Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Dear Comrades! – Andrei Konchalovsky, Alisher Usmanov
Les Misérables – Ladj Ly
Minari – Lee Isaac Chung, Christina Oh
Quo Vadis, Aida? – Jasmila Žbanić, Damir Ibrahimovich
Documentary
Winner: My Octopus Teacher – Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster
Collective – Alexander Nanau
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet – Alastair Fothergill, Jonnie Hughes, Keith Scholey
The Dissident – Bryan Fogel, Thor Halvorssen
The Social Dilemma – Jeff Orlowski, Larissa Rhodes
Animated film
Winner: Soul – Pete Docter, Dana Murray
Onward – Dan Scanlon, Kori Rae
Wolfwalkers – Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young
Director
Winner: Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg
Babyteeth – Shannon Murphy
Minari – Lee Isaac Chung
Quo Vadis, Aida? – Jasmila Žbanić
Rocks – Sarah Gavron
Original screenplay
Winner: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
Another Round – Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
Mank – Jack Fincher
Rocks – Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin
Adapted screenplay
Winner: The Father – Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
The Dig – Moira Buffini
The Mauritanian – Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, M.b. Traven
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
The White Tiger – Ramin Bahrani
Leading actress
Winner: Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Bukky Bakray – Rocks
Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Wunmi Mosaku – His House
Alfre Woodard – Clemency
Leading actor
Winner: Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Adarsh Gourav – The White Tiger
Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round
Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian
Supporting actress
Winner: Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari
Niamh Algar – Calm with Horses
Kosar Ali – Rocks
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah
Ashley Madekwe – County Lines
Supporting actor
Winner: Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Barry Keoghan – Calm with Horses
Alan Kim – Minari
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami…
Clarke Peters – Da 5 Bloods
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
Original score
Winner: Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Mank – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Minari – Emile Mosseri
News of the World – James Newton Howard
Promising Young Woman – Anthony Willis
Casting
Winner: Rocks – Lucy Pardee
Calm with Horses – Shaheen Baig
Judas and the Black Messiah – Alexa L. Fogel
Minari – Julia Kim
Promising Young Woman – Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu
Cinematography
Winner: Nomadland – Joshua James Richards
Judas and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt
Mank – Erik Messerschmidt
The Mauritanian – Alwin H. Küchler
News of the World – Dariusz Wolski
Editing
Winner: Sound of Metal – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
The Father – Yorgos Lamprinos
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
Promising Young Woman – Frédéric Thoraval
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten
Production design
Winner: Mank – Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
The Dig – Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
The Father – Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
News of the World – David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
Rebecca – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Costume design
Winner: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth
Ammonite – Michael O’Connor
The Dig – Alice Babidge
Emma – Alexandra Byrne
Mank – Trish Summerville
Make up and hair
Winner: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal
The Dig – Jenny Shircore
Hillbilly Elegy – Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle
Mank – Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
Pinocchio – Mark Coulier
Sound
Winner: Sound of Metal – Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc
Greyhound – tbc
News of the World – Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett, Oliver Tarney
Nomadland – Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers, M. Wolf Snyder
Soul – Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker
Special visual effects
Winner: Tenet – Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley
Greyhound – Pete Bebb, Nathan McGuinness, Sebastian Von Overheidt
The Midnight Sky – Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, David Watkins
Mulan – Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury
The One and Only – Ivan Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher
British short animation
Winner: The Owl and the Pussycat – Mole Hill, Laura Duncalf
The Fire Next Time – Renaldho Pelle, Yanling Wang, Kerry Jade Kolbe
The Song of a Lost Boy – Daniel Quirke, Jamie Macdonald, Brid Arnstein
British short film
Winner: The Present – Farah Nabulsi
Eyelash – Jesse Lewis Reece, Ike Newman
Lizard – Akinola Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Wale Davies
Lucky Break – John Addis, Rami Sarras Pantoja
Miss Curvy – Ghada Eldemellawy
EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)
Winner: Bukky Bakray
Conrad Khan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù
BAFTA fellowship
Ang Lee
Outstanding British contribution to cinema
Noel Clarke