Chloé Zhao, Daniel Kaluuya and Ang Lee all walked away with awards!
The 74th British Academy Film Awards concluded last night after a two-day ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in which nominations and winners virtually appeared.
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The ceremony was split over two evenings for the first time ever and was hosted on Saturday night by Clara Amfo and Rhianna Dhillon and Sunday night by Dermot O’Leary and Edith Bowman. Celebrities who have personally appeared to present awards include Tom Hiddleston, Cynthia Erivo, Phoebe Dynevor, James McAvoy, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Hugh Grant.
The ceremony was delayed by two months due to the pandemic, and it comes just two weeks before the Oscars rounded off the awards season on April 26.
A striking thing about the 2021 awards was their inclusivity, with numerous colored candidates and four unprecedented women receiving the best director award!
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After a scream that BAFTA’s nominees were predominantly white last year, this year’s shortlist process is subject to a number of changes, including a new longlist round, and an increase in the number of nominations in various categories, including the Outstanding British Film , Dear Director, and all four major acting fields.
As a result, this year’s ceremony was the most diverse in BAFTA history, with 16 of the 24 acting candidates as colored, and four of the nominees for best director being women – Shannon Murphy (Baba-tande), Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), Jasmila Žbanić (Quo Vadis, Aida?), and Sarah Gavron (Rocks).
This year’s BAFTAs achieved a record number of black winners and minority ethnic winners, and this is the second female winner of the best director ever! Here are some highlights from the night:
Chloé Zhao has the best director for Nomadland, who also won Best Picture and Frances McDormand a Leading Actress.
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The Chinese-born filmmaker becomes the second woman to ever win a BAFTA Award for Best Director (after Kathryn Bigelow in 2009) for her performance Nomadland. With this, Chloé is excited for a potential win at the Oscars later this month!
Daniel Kaluuya won Best Supporting Actor for his work on Judas and the Black Messiah, and Yuh-Jung Youn won Best Supporting Actress for Minari.
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The Go out actor won for his performance as Fred Hampton in biographical drama, Judas and the Black Messiah. Among other things, he thanked his mother and childhood friends for their guidance.
South Korean actor Youn Yuh-jung was on the lookout for a BAFTA for her iconic performance as a no-nonsense grandmother in Minari. Yuh-jung said she was happy to get the approval of the British in her speech, which she described hilariously as “snobbish”.
The success of her starring role in the indie movie, Rocks, Bukky Bakray was voted the winner of the EE Rising Star Award by the public.
Writer-director Remi Weekes won the Outstanding Debut Award by a British writer, director or producer for his film His house.
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For his beautiful and very award-winning horror film in 2020, His house, Won Remi BAFTA’s award for outstanding debut.
Emerald Fennell’s Promising young woman won both the excellent British film and the best original screenplay.
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The crown alumna won two huge accolades for her unique and uncompromising directorial debut Promising young woman.
Pixar’s latest feature film Soul won two awards for best animated film and best original score.
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The famous studio won the best animated film, as well as the best original score for musicians Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for the first time that Pixar first centered with black stories and characters.
The award for the outstanding British contribution to the cinema was awarded Maturity and Bulletproof creator, Noel Clarke, while the Bafta Fellowship went to the prolific director Ang Lee, known for films such as Brokeback Mountain; Squatting tiger, hidden dragon; and Sense and sensitivity.
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Noel dedicated his award to ‘my young black boys and girls out there who never believed it could happen to them’.
A full list of the winners of the evening can be found here. We hope it can become the new standard in the award ceremony of the film industry!
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