The 74th British Academy Film Awards were held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and international films of 2020 and early 2021. The ceremony was broadcast on BBC in the UK and around the world.
From India, Adarsh Gourav was nominated in the Best Leading Actor for his role in “The White Tiger”. “The BAFTA nomination is really overwhelming. It feels like I’m reading a chapter from a book,” Gourav shared.
Among others nominated in the same category, veteran actor Anthony Hopkins took the trophy home for his performance in “The Father”.
Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” won the most number of awards overall, including Best Film and Best Director. Zhao made history by becoming the first woman of colour to win Best Director and second woman overall.
Here is the complete list of winners:
- Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins for The Father
- Best Film: Nomadland
- Best Animated Film: Soul
- Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
- Outstanding British Film: Promising Young Woman
- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: His House, Remi Weekes (Writer/Director)
- Best Film Not In English Language: Another Round
- Best Documentary: My Octopus Teacher
- Best Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell
- Best Adapted Screenplay: The Father, Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
- Best Leading Actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
- Best Leading Actor: Anthony Hopkins, The Father
- Best Supporting Actress: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
- Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
- Best Original Score: Soul, Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- Best Casting: Rocks
- Best Cinematography: Nomadland
- Bafta Academy Fellowship: Ang Lee
- EE Rising Star award: Bukky Bakray
- Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer: His House, Remi Weekes (Writer/Director)
- Editing: Sound of Metal, Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
- Production Design: Mank, Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
- Costume Design: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ann Roth
- Special Visual Effects: Tenet, Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley
- Make up & Hair: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal
- Sound: Sound of Metal, Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc
- British Short Animation: The Owl and The Pussycat, Mole Hill, Laura Duncalf
- British Short Film: The Present, Farah Nabulsi
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