After a quiet couple of weeks, we are back on the awards trail with both the Directors Guild Awards and the BAFTA Film Awards being handed out this weekend. So who were the big winners? Let's find out together, shall we?
DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Films: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director: Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: Sara Dosa (Fire Of Love)
The Daniels' win is a bit of a surprise, as I felt the high-concept what-the-everloving-fuck-is-going-on-now vibe of Everything Everywhere All At Once might have been too rich for the blood of the DGA voters, with Spielberg's thoughtful elegy to cinema The Fabelmans a much more likely candidate. Worth saying that- whilst the DGA is a fairly reliable precursor to the Best Director Oscar- it's not got a 100% conversion record, so Spielberg might still nab the Oscar, although this has put the Daniels very much in contention.
BAFTA
Jamie Lee Curtis, Julianne Moore, Florence Pugh, Eddie Redmayne, Ke Huy Quan. Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Cate Blanchett. Bill Nighy, Sir Patrick Stewart, Emma Thompson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan and Viola Davis were among some of the stars in attendance to celebrate the best in film for 2022.
Usually, the event is broadcast on the BBC with a time delay but for this year, there's a weird kind of hybrid thing going on where the final four awards of the evening (EE Rising Star, Leading Actor, Leading Actress, and Best Film) were broadcast live, whilst the rest of the ceremony was shown on a delay.
Here's a full list of BAFTA winners.
Best Film: All Quiet On The Western Front
Outstanding British Film: The Banshees Of Inisherin
Leading Actor: Austin Butler (Elvis)
Leading Actress: Cate Blanchett (Tár)
Supporting Actor: Barry Keoghan (The Banshees Of Inisherin)
Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon (The Banshees Of Inisherin)
Director: Edward Berger (All Quiet On The Western Front)
Original Screenplay: The Banshees Of Inisherin
Adapted Screenplay: All Quiet On The Western Front
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer: Charlotte Wells (writer/director) (Aftersun)
Animated Film: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Documentary: Navalny
Film Not In The English Language: All Quiet On The Western Front
Cinematography: All Quiet On The Western Front
Costume Design: Elvis
Editing: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Make Up And Hair: Elvis
Original Music: All Quiet On The Western Front
Production Design: Babylon
Sound: All Quiet On The Western Front
Special Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way Of Water
Casting: Elvis
Short Animation: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
Short Film: An Irish Goodbye
Rising Star: Emma Mackey
BAFTA Fellowship: Sandy Powell
The big winner of the night was All Quiet On The Western Front with seven awards (including, somewhat surprisingly, Best Picture), with The Banshees Of Inisherin and Elvis taking home four apiece.
I'm happy to see The Banshees Of Inisherin doing well (especially with the two Supporting acting wins), although it's been reported that there was a bit of a La La Land moment with Best Supporting Actress. Last year's Best Supporting Actor winner Troy Kotsur (CODA) presented the award using sign language... and his interpreter mistakenly said Carey Mulligan (who had been nominated in the same category for She Said) instead of Kerry Condon. This didn't make the TV broadcast, but a lot of news outlets picked it up nonetheless.
Congratulations to all winners!
There's more awards news coming up next weekend (25th/26th February 2023) with Producers Guild Awards (PGA) and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) being handed out.
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