Gothic fantasia “Poor Things” won five awards, and Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” won three.
British-born director Christopher Nolan won his first BAFTA Best Director award for Oppenheimer, and Irish actor Cillian Murphy played the role of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. He won the Best Actor Award.
Murphy said he was grateful to play such a “very complex and complex character.”
Director Nolan said nuclear weapons “are a nihilistic subject and the film necessarily reflects that” and told the film’s backers, “Thank you for taking on something so dark.”
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Emma Stone plays the wild and feisty Vera Baxter in the steampunk-inspired visual extravaganza Poor Things, which won awards for visual effects, production design, make-up, hair and costume design, and was named best. She was nominated for the Outstanding Actress Award.
“Oppenheimer” was nominated in 13 categories, the most, but missed out on the record of 9 nominated by “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in 1971.
The film won the best movie race against “Poor People,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” and “The Holdovers.” I did. “Oppenheimer” won trophies for editing, cinematography and music, as well as Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., who played Atomic Energy Commission Director Louis Strauss.
DaVine Joy Randolph, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role as a boarding school cook in The Holdovers, said she was excited about telling the stories of underrepresented people like her character Mary. He said he feels a responsibility that cannot be taken lightly.
“Oppenheimer” faces stiff competition in what is widely considered a bumper year for film and in an awards season revitalized by the end of the actors and writers’ strike that shut down Hollywood for months. did.
The British film The Zone of Interest, shot in Poland and starring a predominantly German cast, was named both Best British Film and Best Non-English Film for the first time, and also won awards for its sound. It is explained that it was awarded. As the true star of the movie.
Jonathan Glaser’s disturbing drama takes place in a family home just outside the walls of the Auschwitz death camp, and its horrors are heard and hinted at rather than seen.
“Walls are nothing new, neither before nor after the Holocaust. It seems clear now that we should care about the innocent people being killed in Gaza and Yemen, Mariupol and Israel,” said producer James. Wilson said. “Thank you for recognizing a film that challenges us to think in these spaces.”
The Ukrainian war documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” produced by Associated Press and PBS “Frontline,” won the award for best documentary.
“This is not about us,” said filmmaker Mstislav Chernov, who along with the Associated Press team captured the grim reality of life in the besieged city. “This is about Ukraine, this is about the people of Mariupol.”
Chernov said the city and its story of Russian occupation are “a symbol of struggle and a symbol of faith.” Thank you for empowering our voices and let’s keep fighting. ”
The ceremony was hosted by ‘Doctor Who’ star David Tennant, who entered the ceremony wearing a kilt and sequined top, accompanied by a dog named Burke Ruffalo – for the Academy Awards in Hollywood. It was a gorgeous appetizer with a British accent, and people were watching to see if there were any hints as to who would win the award. Winner at the Oscars on March 10th.
The award for original screenplay went to the French courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall.” The film, about a woman on trial for the death of her husband, was written by director Justine Triet and her partner Artur Harari.
Torie joked, “This is fiction. We’re doing pretty well.”
Cord Jefferson won Best Adapted Screenplay for his satirical “American Fiction,” which depicts the struggles of an African-American novelist.
Mr. Jefferson said he hopes the film’s success “may change the minds of the people in charge of greenlighting movies and TV shows and make them less risk-averse.”
Barbie, the highest-grossing film of the year and half of 2023’s top-grossing film Babenheimer, was also left vacant after five nominations. Barbie director Greta Gerwig was not nominated for Best Director at either the BAFTAs or the Oscars, in what was seen by many as a huge snub.
The British Film Academy introduced changes in 2020 to increase diversity at its awards, marking the seventh year in a row that no woman was nominated for Best Director, and all 20 nominees in leading and supporting categories were white. Ta. However, Torrie was the only woman among this year’s six nominees for the director’s award.
The Rising Star Award, the only category determined by public voting, went to How to Have Sex star Mia McKenna-Bruce.
Prior to the ceremony, all nominees, including Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Rosamund Pike, Ryan Gosling, and Ayo Edebiri, were joined by presenters Andrew Scott, Cate Blanchett, Edith Elba, She walked the red carpet at London’s Royal Festival Hall with David Beckham.
Prince William, chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, was the guest of honor. He arrived without his wife Kate, who is recovering from abdominal surgery last month.
At the ceremony, Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham sang “Time After Time,” Sophie Ellis-Bextor sang her 2001 hit “Murder on the Dance Floor,” and featured on “Saltburn.” There was a musical performance that later rose up the charts again. ”
June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive founder and film curator June Givanni has been honored for her outstanding contribution to British cinema, while actress Samantha Morton has been awarded the Academy’s highest honour, a BAFTA Fellowship was awarded.
“It’s important to express yourself,” said Morton, who grew up in foster homes and children’s homes.
“The stories we tell have the power to change people’s lives,” she says. “Movies changed my life, changed me, and brought me here today.”
Hilary Fox contributed to this article.
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