Bafta Film Awards 2021: Winners of the first night
The EE British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the 2021 Film Award winners for the technical categories last night. The winners of the main categories including Best Film, Best Leading Actress and Best Leading Actor will be announced tonight (12 April).
Critically-acclaimed Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom won two awards including the Best Costume Design for Ann Roth and Best Make-up and Hair for Matiki Anoff, Larry M Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera and Mia Neal.
Sarah Gavron’s coming-of-age drama “Rocks” won the Best Casting for Lucy Pardee – her second win this year after the British Independent Film Award for the same film in January.
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet won the Best Visual Effects, David Fincher’s Mank got the nod for Best Production Design and Riz Ahmed-starrer Sound of Metal bagged the Best Sound awards.
Palestinian short film The Present, co-written and directed by Farah Nabulsi, and The Owl and the Pussycat by Mole Hill won the Best British Short Film and Best British Short Animation categories respectively.
Actor Noel Clarke (Bulletproof, Doctor Who) was presented with the outstanding British contribution to cinema award.
The event was hosted by British radio and television presenter Clara Amfo from an empty Royal Albert Hall in London. She started the event by paying tribute to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away aged 99 on Friday.
See the full list of nominations and winners of EE British Academy Film Awards 2021 below:
BEST FILM
The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7
BEST OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Calm With Horses
The Dig
The Father
His House
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Promising Young Woman
Rocks
Saint Maud
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Bukky Bakray – Rocks
Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Wunmi Mosaku – His House
Alfre Woodard – Clemency
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Adarsh Gourav – The White Tiger
Sir Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round
Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Niamh Algar – Calm With Horses
Kosar Ali – Rocks
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah
Ashley Madekwe – County Lines
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Barry Keoghan – Calm With Horses
Alan Kim – Minari
Leslie Odom Jr – One Night In Miami…
Clarke Peters – Da 5 Bloods
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
BEST DIRECTOR
Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg
Babyteeth – Shannon Murphy
Minari – Lee Isaac Chung
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
Quo Vadis, Aida? – Jasmila Žbanić
Rocks – Sarah Gavron
BEST RISING STAR AWARD (sponsored by EE, voted for by the public)
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Bukky Bakray
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
Conrad Khan
BEST OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
His House – Remi Weekes (writer/director)
Limbo – Ben Sharrock (writer/director), Irune Gurtubai (producer)
Moffie – Jack Sidey (writer/producer)
Rocks – Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (writers)
Saint Maud – Rose Glass (writer/director), Oliver Kassman (producer)
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Another Round
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Collective
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher
The Social Dilemma
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Onward
Soul
Wolfwalkers
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Round – Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
Mank – Jack Fincher
Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
Rocks – Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Dig – Moira Buffini
The Father – Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
The Mauritanian – Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, MB Traven
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
The White Tiger – Ramin Bahrani
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Mank – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Minari – Emile Mosseri
News of the World – James Newton Howard
Promising Young Woman – Anthony Willis
Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Judas and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt
Mank – Erik Messerschmidt
The Mauritanian – Alwin H Küchler
News of the World – Dariusz Wolski
Nomadland – Joshua James Richards
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ammonite – Michael O’Connor
The Dig – Alice Babidge
Emma – Alexandra Byrne
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth – WINNER
Mank – Trish Summerville
BEST EDITING
The Father – Yorgos Lamprinos
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
Promising Young Woman – Frédéric Thoraval
Sound of Metal – Mikkel EG Nielsen
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Dig – Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
The Father – Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
Mank – Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – WINNER
News of the World – David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
Rebecca – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIR
The Dig – Jenny Shircore
Hillbilly Elegy – Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Matiki Anoff, Larry M Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal – WINNER
Mank – Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
Pinocchio – Mark Coulier
BEST SOUND
Greyhound
News of the World – Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett, Oliver Tarney
Nomadland – Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers, M Wolf Snyder
Soul – Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker
Sound of Metal – Jamie Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortes, Michelle Couttolenc – WINNER
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Greyhound – Pete Bebb, Nathan McGuinness, Sebastian von Overheidt
The Midnight Sky – Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, David Watkins
Mulan – Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury
The One and Only Ivan – Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher
Tenet – Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley – WINNER
BEST CASTING
Calm With Horses – Shaheen Baig
Judas and the Black Messiah – Alexa L Fogel
Minari – Julia Kim
Promising Young Woman – Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu
Rocks – Lucy Pardee – WINNER
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
The Present – WINNER
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
The Fire Next Time
The Owl and the Pussycat – WINNER
The Song of A Lost Boy