The unconventional 74th BAFTAs held its first of two ceremonies tonight, with eight awards handed out in the craft categories, plus the award for outstanding contribution to the cinema. Scroll down for the list of winners. The most important awards will take place tomorrow (April 11).
Host Clara Amfo started the process by paying tribute to the late Prince Philip, who passed away yesterday at the age of 99. The Duke of Edinburgh was BAFTA’s first president 60 years ago, embarking on a series of royal protections continuing with his son Prince William, who was scheduled to appear at the awards tonight and tomorrow, but moved.
Rocks was the first winner tonight, with Lucy Pardee bagging the award for Casting. The British indie movie was nominated for a top seven BAFTAs this year, most with Nomadland, which is a popular favorite for Best Picture tomorrow.
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It is not surprising that Netflix had a great eve after its huge 34 nominations, by far the biggest number for a distributor this year. The streamer took home prizes including costume design and hair and makeup, both of which were offered Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom‘s, and production design, developed by Mank.
Elsewhere, Tenet picked up the BAFTA for special visual effects while the Sound award was given The sound of metal.
Noel Clarke finally received the award for outstanding contribution to the cinema, 13 years after receiving the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Actor, producer and director Clarke, whose credits the ‘Cap trilogy and the series Bulletproof, was personally in the Albert Hall to receive the award. Clarke wins his prize and delivers a typical heartfelt and powerful speech:
When I won the Rising Star Award 13 years ago, I jumped off my chair and slammed my collar down when I got up. For years I never really understood why I did it, I could not put it into words, and people told me how arrogant it was and that I should not do it. I always said to myself, if I ever got on this stage again, I apologize for that. I’m not going to do that. Recently I realized why I did it – I felt fair, I won something that someone like me would never want at the time, something I was told I could not.
“My journey in this business has sometimes been a struggle. Since I’m standing here right now, I know a lot of the work I did is not worth BAFTA, but I think it’s about the journey. It’s about the times, maybe it was worthy and not recognized. I stand on the shoulders of giants, I am not here without the people in front of me, hopefully people see that I have tried to bring about illegal changes in the industry. This is for sub-representatives, all who sit at home and believe they can achieve more. This is especially true for my young black boys and girls out there who never believe it can happen to them.
“I am so, so grateful for this. Years ago I ended up with the words ‘yes, we can’, and we still can, it’s just hard, so I wanted to end this one a little differently. Sometimes you will feel that it is not feasible – sometimes you will feel that you are not good enough – you are, and sometimes you feel that you do not deserve it – you do it. ‘
During the ceremony, Leslie Odom Jr., BAFTA nominee in the supporting cast, was sent in from the US to perform his song. Talk now of A night in Miami, while Hussain Manawer, who appears in the nominated BAFTA Mogul Mowgli, delivered a poetry lecture on the power of the arts that includes this year’s nominated films.
We are back tomorrow night from 19:00 BST (11:00 PST) for live coverage of the major BAFTA Film Awards ceremony.
CASTING:
CALM WITH HORSES Shaheen Baig
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH Alexa L. Fogel
MINARI Julia Kim
PROMISE YOUNG WOMAN Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu
ROTSE Lucy Pardee
COSTUME DESIGN:
AMMONITE Michael O’Connor
THE POEM Alice Babidge
EMMA. Alexandra Byrne
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM Ann Roth
MANK Trish Summerville
MAKE UP & HAIR:
THE POEM 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
MANK Colleen LaBaff, Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
PINOCCHIO Dalia Colli, Mark Coulier, Francesco Pegoretti
PRODUCTION DESIGN:
DIE DIG Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
THE FATHER Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
MANK Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
WORLD NEWS David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
REBECCA Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
BRITISH SHORT FILM:
EYELASH Jesse Lewis Reece, Ike Newman
LIZARD Akinola Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Wale Davies
HAPPY BREAK John Addis, Rami Sarras Pantoja
MISS CURVY Ghada Eldemellawy
THE CURRENT Farah Nabulsi
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION:
NEXT TIME Renaldho Pelle, Yanling Wang, Kerry Jade Kolbe
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT Mole Hill, Laura Duncalf
THE SONG OF A LOST SON Daniel Quirke, Jamie MacDonald, Brid Arnstein
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS:
GREYHOUND Pete Bebb, Nathan McGuinness, Sebastian von Overheidt, Whitney Richman
THE MIDDLE SKY Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, Max Solomon, David Watkins
MULAN Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury
THE ONLY IVAN Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones
TENET Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley
SOUND:
GREYHOUND Beau Borders, Christian P. Minkler, Michael Minkler, Warren Shaw, David Wyman
WORLD NEWS Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett, Oliver Tarney
NOMADLAND Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers, M. Wolf Snyder
SIEL Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker
SOUND OF METAL Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc
Outstanding contribution to cinema:
NOEL CLARKE