Bafta Film Awards 2021: Full list of Nominees and Winners

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The second night of BAFTA Film Awards was hosted by Edith Bowman and Dermot O’Leary at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The event kicked off with a tribute to the organisation’s first president, the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away aged 99 on Friday.

The presenters announcing the winners included Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal), Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager), Priyanka Chopra Jonas (The White Tiger) and Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) whilst the winners delivered their acceptance speeches remotely.

Frances McDormand from Nomadland

Nomadland dominated the awards by winning the Best Film, Best Leading Actress for Frances McDormand, Best Director for Chloé Zhao and Best Cinematography for Joshua James Richards.

Sir Anthony Hopkins was awarded the Best Leading Actor for The Father.

Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) and Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari) won the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively.

Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman fetched her the Best Original Screenplay and Best Outstanding British Film.

Carey Mulligan in “Promising Young Woman” (2020) © Focus Features

The EE Rising Star award went to Bukky Bakray (Rocks).

The winners for some technical categories were announced on Saturday night.

See the full list of nominations and winners of EE British Academy Film Awards 2021 below:

BEST FILM

The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
Conrad Khan

BEST OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

His House – Remi Weekes (writer/director) – WINNER
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 – WINNER
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Collective
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher – WINNER
The Social Dilemma

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Onward
Soul – WINNER
Wolfwalkers

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Another Round – Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
Mank – Jack Fincher
Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell – WINNER
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 – WINNER
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 – WINNER

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 – WINNER

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 – WINNER
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