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Sunday, 10 February 2019

Awards Season 2019: BAFTA Film Awards Winners


Tonight (Sunday 10th February), at the Royal Albert Hall, the 72nd  British Academy Film Awards were given out in a star-studded ceremony, hosted by the luminously sublime Joanna Lumley for the second time. 

Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Amy Adams, Olivia Colman, Bradley Cooper, Octavia Spencer, Rami Malek, Rachel Weisz, Mahershala Ali, Alfonso Cuarón, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Barry Jenkins, Claire Foy, Melissa McCarthy, Michelle Yeoh, Spike Lee, Richard E. Grant, and Steve Coogan were among some of the stars in attendance to celebrate the best in film.

Here's a full list of BAFTA winners:

Best Film: Roma

Outstanding British Film: The Favourite

Leading Actor: Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)

Leading Actress: Olivia Colman (The Favourite)

Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali (Green Book)

Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)

Director: Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)

Original Screenplay: The Favourite

Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer: Michael Pearce (writer/director), Lauren Dark (producer) (Beast)

Animated Film: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

Documentary: Free Solo

Film Not In The English Language: Roma

Cinematography: Roma

Costume Design: The Favourite

Editing: Vice

Make Up And Hair: The Favourite

Original Music: A Star Is Born

Production Design: The Favourite

Sound: Bohemian Rhapsody

Special Visual Effects: Black Panther

Short Animation: Roughhouse

Short Film: 73 Cows

Rising Star: Letitia Wright

Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema: Number 9 Films (Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen)

BAFTA Fellowship: Thelma Schoonmaker


And if you're wondering how the results are out here so soon when the TV broadcast is still going on... well, the ceremony actually starts around 6:00pm and the BBC broadcast is a truncated 2 hours, so by the time the broadcast starts to air, the show is almost finished. I was following a live-blog from one of the newspaper sites. Unfortunately I'm not writing this from the Royal Albert Hall. One year...

On a personal level, I'm massively chuffed for both Letitia Wright and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse for winning their respective awards (I voted for Wright to win the Rising Star Award). 

The Favourite was by and far the runaway winner of the night, with seven awards. Roma walked away with four, whilst Bohemian Rhapsody had two. 

Congratulations to all winners!

The next Awards season post will be next weekend, to quickly update you on the winners of this year's Writers' Guild (WGA) Awards which are handed out next weekend (17th February)

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