The BAFTA Film Awards have named Sam Mendes’ “1917” Best Film at its annual ceremony Sunday in London, exactly one week before this compressed film awards season concludes with the 92nd Oscars.
Mendes’ World War I epic from Universal and Amblin/DreamWorks picked up a leading seven awards, including Mendes for Best Director. The film repeated its Best Picture wins at the DGA and PGA as well as the Golden Globes. Mendes, a UK native, previously won Director honors at the Globes and Critics’ Choice.
Tonight, “1917” also won for Best British Film, Roger Deakins’ Cinematography, Production Design, VFX and Sound. It has been ramping up its momentum after being one of the last of the season’s awards contenders to hit theaters. It had nine BAFTA noms coming in, behind Warner Bros’ “Joker” which had 11. Also like the Oscars, Netflix’s “The Irishman” and Sony’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” had 10 noms apiece.
As for “Joker,” it won three awards — including for consensus Oscar Best Actor favorite Joaquin Phoenix, who had the speech of the night in light of this season’s diversity and inclusion spotlight that also impacted BAFTA’s noms. Hildur Guðnadóttir also won for Original Score and Shayna Markowitz for Casting, the latter a new award this year.
In fact, with Phoenix all Lead and Supporting actor frontrunners — Phoenix, Renee Zellweger for Roadside/LD’s “Judy,” Laura Dern for Netflix’s “Marriage Story” and Brad Pitt for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, respectively — won again tonight. Also repeating previous feats were Neon’s “Parasite” (Han Jin Won, Bong Joon Ho) and Searchlight’s “Jojo Rabbit” (Taika Wiatiti), who won for Original and Adapted screenplay — both did the same thing at the WGA Awards less than 24 hours earlier.
Graham Norton hosted for the first time in the show at the Royal Albert Hall, which is delayed two hours even in the UK and will air later tonight on BBC One and in the U.S. on BBC America.
Here are the winners:
BEST FILM
“1917”
Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren
LEADING ACTRESS
RENÉE ZELLWEGER
“Judy”
LEADING ACTOR
JOAQUIN PHOENIX
“Joker”
DIRECTOR
“1917”
Sam Mendes
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
“1917”
Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
“BAIT”
Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
“PARASITE”
Bong Joon Ho
DOCUMENTARY
“FOR SAMA”
Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
ANIMATED FILM
“KLAUS”
Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“PARASITE”
Han Jin Won, Bong Joon Ho
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“JOJO RABBIT”
Taika Waititi
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
LAURA DERN
“Marriage Story”
SUPPORTING ACTOR
BRAD PITT
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
ORIGINAL SCORE
“JOKER”
Hildur Guðnadóttir
CASTING
“JOKER”
Shayna Markowitz
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“1917”
Roger Deakins
EDITING
“FORD V FERRARI (LE MANS ’66)”
Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
PRODUCTION DESIGN
“1917”
Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales
COSTUME DESIGN
“LITTLE WOMEN”
Jacqueline Durran
MAKE UP & HAIR
“BOMBSHELL”
Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan
SOUND
“1917”
Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
“1917”
Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
“GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC”
Maryam Mohajer
BRITISH SHORT FILM
“LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL)”
Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
EE RISING STAR AWARD
Micheal Ward
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Andy Serkis
