Elsewhere, Anthony Hopkins starred in ‘The Father’ (which also won a adapted screenplay), Daniel Kaluuya won Best Supporting Actor and the promising young woman won an excellent British film and original screenplay.
Nomadland on Sunday, the second and final night of the 2021 BAFTA Film Awards emerged as the overall winner.
Chloe Zhao’s exploration of the nomadic community in the American West won the Best Picture award, plus the lead role for Frances McDormand, director for Zhao and Best Picture for Joshua James Richards. Celebrating her victory, Zhao later said she would be ‘a lot of hangover’ on Monday morning. She added: “It’s never too early to get drunk in California.”
Elsewhere, there was a wide spread of love, with four films coming home with duels.
Anthony Hopkins won the Leading Actor Award for his performance in Florian Zeller The father, who also provided the statuette for the best processed screenplay. Emerald Fennell’s Promising young woman claims excellent British film and original screenplay, and Pixar’s Soul won for animation and original score. Meanwhile, the ceremony held on Saturday night – which mostly focused on the categories of crafts – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom picks up two awards, for makeup and hair, and costume design. Bukky Bakray, the lead star of Sarah Gavron’s Brit drama Rocks, won the award for rising stars, while the film also won for cast.
In other categories, Daniel Kaluuya won Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah, while Yuh-Jung Youn won Best Supporting Actor for Minari. In the evening’s most comical moment, Youn joked that the award was especially meaningful to her because Brits was ‘snobbish’.
Both Saturday and Sunday ceremonies were held from the Royal Albert Hall, with nominees virtually joining. Sunday’s event, which was the longer of the two, also featured several musical performances, and Ang Lee also received the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the highest honor from the British Academy.
On the way to the awards, Nomadland and Rocks was tied, with seven nominations each, with The father, Mank, Minari and Promising young woman just behind with six.
The nominees, announced in February, are also considered the most diverse in BAFTA’s history, with 16 of the 24 actors nominated in the categories of performance, coming from racial or ethnic minority backgrounds, and a record of four women were the best director.
See the full list of winners below.
Best movie
Nomadland – WINNER
The father
The Mauritanian
Promising young woman
The Chicago 7 Trial
Starring
Frances Mcdormand, Nomadland – WINNER
Bukky Bakray, Rocks
Radha Leeg, The forty-year-old version
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a woman
Wunmi Mosaku, His house
Alfre Woodard, Mercy
Starring
Anthony Hopkins, The father – WINNER
Riz Ahmed, Sound Of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Adarsh Gourav, The white tiger
Mads Mikkelsen, Another round
Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian
Director
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao – WENNER
Another round, Thomas Vinterberg
Baba-tande, Shannon Murphy
Minari, Lee Isaac Chung
Quo Vadis, Aida?, Jasmila Žbanić
Rocks, Sarah Gavron
Rising star
Bukky Bakray – WENNER
Conrad Khan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Sope Dirisu
Outstanding British film
Promising young woman – WINNER
Calm With Horses
The digging
The father
His house
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Rocks
Saint maud
Original score
Soul, Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – WENNER
Mank, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Minari, Emile Mosseri
News from the world, James Newton Howard
Promising young woman, Anthony Willis
Documentary
My Octopus Teacher – WINNER
Collective
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The dissident
The social dilemma
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
His house, Remi Weekes (writer / director) – WINNER
Limbo, Ben Sharrock (writer / director), Irune Gurtubai (producer) [Also Produced By Angus Lamont]
Moffie, Jack Sidey (author / producer) [Also Written By Oliver Hermanus And Produced By Eric Abraham]
Rocks, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Authors)
Saint maud, Rose Glass (writer / director), Oliver Kassman (producer) [Also Produced By Andrea Cornwell]
Supporting actor
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas And The Black Messiah – WINNER
Barry Keoghan, Calm With Horses
Alan Kim, Minari
Leslie Odom Jr., A night in Miami …
Clarke Peters, Da 5 bloods
Paul Raci, Sound Of Metal
Original screenplay
Promising young woman, Emerald Fennell – WENNER
Another round, Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
Mank, Jack Fincher
Rocks, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
The Chicago 7 Trial, Aaron Sorkin
Supporting actress
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari – WINNER
Niamh Algar, Calm With Horses
Kosar Ali, Rocks
Maria Bakalova, Borat subsequent Moviefilm
Dominique Fishback, Judas And The Black Messiah
Ashley Madekwe, County Lines
Cinematography
Nomadland, Joshua James Richards – WENNER
Judas And The Black Messiah, Sean Bobbitt
Mank, Erik Messerschmidt
The Mauritanian, Alwin H. Küchler
News from the world, Dariusz Wolski
Film not in English language
Another round – WINNER
Dear comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Editing
Sound of Metal, Mikkel EG Nielsen – WINNER
The father, Yorgos Lamprinos
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
Promising young woman, Frédéric Thoraval
The Chicago 7 Trial, Alan Baumgarten
Custom script
The father, Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller – WENNER
The digging, Moira Buffini
The Mauritanian, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, MB Traven
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
The white tiger, Ramin Bahrani
Animated film
Soul – WINNER
Forward
Wolfwalkers
The awards below were announced on Saturday
Sound
Sound Of Metal, Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc – WENNER
Greyhound, Beau Borders, Christian P. Minkler, Michael Minkler, Warren Shaw, David Wyman
News from 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
Special visual effects
Tenet, Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley – WENNER
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
British short animation
The Owl And The Pussycat, Mole Hill, Laura Duncalf – WENNER
The fire next time, Renaldho Pelle, Yanling Wang, Kerry Jade Kolbe
The Song Of A Lost Son, Daniel Quirke, Jamie Macdonald, Brid Arnstein
British short film
The current, Farah Nabulsi – WENNER
Eyelashes, Jesse Lewis Reece, Ike Ike Newman
Lizard, Akinola Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Wale Davies
Happy break, John Addis, Rami Sarras Pantoja
Miss Curvy, Ghada Eldemellawy
Production Design
Mank, Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – WENNER
The digging, Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
The father, Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
News from the world, David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
Rebecca, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Makeup and hair
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal – WENNER
The digging, Jenny Shircore
Hillbilly Elegy, Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle
Mank, Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
Pinocchio, Mark Coulier
Costume Design
Ma Rainey’s black bottom, Ann Roth – WENNER
Ammonite, Michael O’connor
The digging, Alice Babidge
Emma, Alexandra Byrne
Mank, Trish Summerville
Cast
Rocks, Lucy Pardee – WENNER
Calm with horses, Shaheen Baig
Judas and the Black Messiah, Alexa L. Fogel
Minari, Julia Kim
Promising young woman, Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu