1917 dominates the 2020 BAFTA Awards — see the full list of winners
For Oscar watchers, all eyes were on the BAFTA Awards.
This is because the awards — which are voted on by the 6,500 members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts — are essentially the British version of the Oscars. It’s an awards show with virtually identical categories, voted on by a large group of film industry professionals (a small percentage of which are also Oscar voters). And, as one of the final major awards to go before Oscars Sunday, they can give hints as to any final momentum changes heading into the Academy Awards.
When it comes to what both groups deem the year’s best film, however, the BAFTAs have only picked the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner five out of the last 10 years, and those five misses came in the five most recent years, so they’re on a bit of a losing streak. This could be due to the fact that the Oscars use a ranked preferential balloting system for Best Picture, and the BAFTAs use a simple majority vote. Still, the BAFTAs can tell us a lot about the way the race is leaning, particularly in the close races, and they can especially be useful in some of the tech categories.
Heading into the festivities, Joker led with 11 nominations, followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (10 total nods), Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (10 nominations), and Sam Mendes’ 1917 (nine overall nominations). In the end, 1917 would dominate the awards, winning all but two of its nine categories, including the top prizes of Best Film and Director. Fellow awards season darling Parasite, meanwhile, won for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Original Screenplay. And despite its massive nomination haul, The Irishman went home completely empty-handed.
The acting races went to the same four people who have won all of the major Oscar precursors — Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Renee Zellweger, and Joaquin Phoenix — paving the way for a repeat with the Academy.
See the full list of winners below.
BEST FILM
WINNER: 1917
The Irishman
Joker
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Parasite
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
WINNER: 1917
Bait
For Sama
Rocketman
Sorry We Missed You
The Two Popes
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
WINNER: Bait – Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
For Sama – Waad al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
Maiden – Alex Holmes (Director)
Only You – Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
Retablo álvaro – Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Farewell
For Sama
Pain and Glory
WINNER: Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
DOCUMENTARY
American Factory
Apollo 11
Diego Maradona
WINNER: For Sama
The Great Hack
ANIMATED FILM
Frozen 2
WINNER: Klaus
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Toy Story 4
DIRECTOR
WINNER: Sam Mendes – 1917
Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
Todd Phillips – Joker
Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Bong Joon Ho – Parasite
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Booksmart – Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
Knives Out – Rian Johnson
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
WINNER: Parasite – Han Jin Won, Bong Joon Ho
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Irishman – Steven Zaillian
WINNER: Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
Joker – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
Little Women – Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes – Anthony McCarten
LEADING ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Charlize Theron – Bombshell
WINNER: Renée Zellweger – Judy
LEADING ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Taron Egerton – Rocketman
WINNER: Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson –Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh – Little Women
Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Margot Robbie – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
WINNER: Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
ORIGINAL SCORE
1917 – Thomas Newman
Jojo Rabbit – Michael Giacchino
WINNER: Joker – Hildur Gu?nadóttir
Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams
CASTING
WINNER: Joker – Shayna Markowitz
Marriage Story – Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Victoria Thomas
The Personal History of David Copperfield – Sarah Crowe
The Two Popes – Nina Gold
CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: 1917 – Roger Deakins
The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto
Joker – Lawrence Sher
Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferrari) – Phedon Papamichael
The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke
EDITING
The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
Jojo Rabbit – Tom Eagles
Joker – Jeff Groth
WINNER: Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferrari) – Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Fred Raskin
PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: 1917 – Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales
The Irishman – Bob Shaw, Regina Graves
Jojo Rabbit – Ra Vincent, Nora Sopková
Joker – Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh
COSTUME DESIGN
The Irishman – Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell
Jojo Rabbit – Mayes C. Rubeo
Judy – Jany Temime
WINNER: Little Women – Jacqueline Durran
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Arianne Phillips
MAKE UP & HAIR
1917 – Naomi Donne
WINNER: Bombshell – Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan
Joker – Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann
Judy – Jeremy Woodhead
Rocketman – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
SOUND
WINNER: 1917 – Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
Joker – Tod Maitland, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic
Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferrari) – David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, Donald Sylvester
Rocketman – Matthew Collinge, John Hayes, Mike Prestwood Smith, Danny Sheehan
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: 1917 – Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy
Avengers: Endgame Dan Deleeuw, Dan Sudick
The Irishman – Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, Pablo Helman
The Lion King – Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, Adam Valdez
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
WINNER: Grandad Was a Romantic
In Her Boots
The Magic Boat
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Azaar
Goldfish
Kamali
WINNER: Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
The Trap
EE RISING STAR AWARD
Awkwafina
Kaitlyn Dever
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Jack Lowdon
WINNER: Micheal Ward
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