Christopher Nolan, one of the industry’s most successful and respected directors, has achieved major awards-season success, with his biopic Oppenheimer winning seven awards at the BAFTA Awards. Oppenheimer won seven BAFTAs: Best Film; Director for Christopher Nolan; Leading Actor for Cillian Murphy; Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.; Cinematography; Editing, and Original Score.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest proved popular, gaining five and three awards, respectively. Poor Things won five BAFTAs: Leading Actress for Emma Stone; Costume, Make Up & Hair, Production Design and Special Visual Effects. The Zone of Interest won three BAFTAs: Outstanding British Film, Film Not in the English Language, and Sound.
The award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer went to Earth Mama, Savanah Leaf’s Film4-backed, Northern California-set realist drama. Special guests at the Royal Festival Hall ceremony included Prince William, BAFTA’s president, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
The Holdovers won two categories: Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Casting. Anatomy of a Fall won Original Screenplay. American Fiction won Adapted Screenplay.
The full list of award winners is as follows:
Best Film
Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan (USA/UK)
Outstanding British Film
The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer (UK/Poland/USA)
Best Director
Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Earth Mama - Savanah Leaf (UK/USA)
Best Film Not in the English Language
The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer
Best Leading Actress
Emma Stone - Poor Things (Ireland/UK/USA)
Best Leading Actor
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Best Supporting Actress
Da’vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers (USA)
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer
Best Animated Film
The Boy and the Heron - Hayao Miyazaki (Japan)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Cord Jefferson - American Fiction (USA)
Best Original Screenplay
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari - Anatomy of a Fall (France)
Best Production Design
Shona Heath, James Price, Zsuzsa Mihalek - Poor Things
Best Original Score
Ludwig Göransson - Oppenheimer
Best Cinematography
Hoyte van Hoytema - Oppenheimer
Best Editing
Jennifer Lame - Oppenheimer
Best Casting
Susan Shopmaker - The Holdovers
Best Sound
Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers - The Zone of Interest
Best Special Visual Effects
Simon Hughes - Poor Things
Best Make-up & Hair
Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston - Poor Things
Best Documentary
20 Days in Mariupol - Mstyslav Chernov (Ukraine)
Best Costume Design
Holly Waddington - Poor Things
Best British Short Film
Jellyfish and Lobster - Yasmin Afifi (UK)
Best British Short Animation
Crab Day - Ross Stringer (UK)
EE Rising Star
Mia McKenna-Bruce
With the support of the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe
