BAFTA Film Awards 2021: Completed List of Winners, ‘Nomadland’ is Big Winners, Predictions for Oscars
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Promising Young Woman and Nomadland were among the big winners at the BAFTAs 2021, which took place virtually tonight (April 11).
This year, the awards ceremony was split into two parts, with the “opening night” last night (April 10) seeing awards for Costume Design, Casting, British Short Film, and more handed out.
That event also saw actor, writer, and director Noel Clarke given the Outstanding Contribution To Cinema award. In his speech, the star dedicated the honor to “the underrepresented”.
During tonight’s ceremony, Promising Young Woman took home the awards for Outstanding British Film and Original Screenplay. Nomadland, meanwhile, walked away with the trophies for Best Film, Cinematography, Leading Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Director for Chloe Zhao.
‘Nomadland’ Wins Big at Diverse BAFTAs
Four awards went to Chloé Zhao’s tale of itinerant Americans, living in vans and rolling through gorgeous landscapes, seeking temporary jobs to eke out an existence, according to The NY Times.
“Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao’s film about a woman forced to join the rising numbers of Americans living out of vans as they search for work, was the big winner at the EE British Academy Film Awards in London on Sunday.
It was named best film at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, better known as the BAFTAs, beating the likes of Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and the much-hyped “Promising Young Woman,” starring Carey Mulligan.
Zhao was also named best director, only the second woman to get the accolade, after Kathryn Bigelow won in 2010 for “The Hurt Locker,” while Frances McDormand, the star of “Nomadland,” won best actress. The film, which has been heavily praised by British critics for its “delicate, incisive portrait of a life lived on the road,” also took the award for best cinematography.
Zhao referred to her time studying in an English seaside town when accepting the best director award. “Wow, I think I just made my teacher at Brighton College really proud,” she said, to laughter from the virtual audience.
But she dedicated her awards haul to the nomadic Americans, middle-aged and older, who participated in the film. “Thank you for showing us that aging is a beautiful part of life,” Zhao said. “How we treat our elders says a lot about who we are as a society,” she added, “and we need to do better.”
The success of “Nomadland” is likely to increase hype around the film ahead of this year’s Oscars, scheduled for April 25, where it is nominated for six awards.
The BAFTAs are normally seen as a bellwether for the Academy Awards because there is some overlap between the 7,000-strong membership of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which organizes the BAFTAs, and the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Although four of the movies contending for the best picture Oscar — “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Mank,” “Minari” and “Sound of Metal” — were not nominated in the BAFTAs best film category.
Predictions for Oscars
The BAFTAs are a crucial marker in the Oscar race, because there’s an actual overlap between the British Academy and Oscar voters. But the outcome of this weekend’sBAFTA races, split into two virtual awards presentations, was less predictive than usual. That’s because while the British contingent of Oscar voters dominates the increasingly international Academy (25 percent of the 9,362 total), in order to combat #BAFTAsSoWhite this year, juries weighed in on the directing and acting categories, nominating a record 24 first-timers. This meant that not only were several Oscar-nominated players not competing, but that any American nominees that survived the always British-leaning BAFTAs were stronger than ever.
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Full List of BAFTA's Winner List
Best film
The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland – WINNER
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best 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 actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Adarsh Gourav, The White Tiger
Anthony Hopkins, The Father – WINNER
Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian
Best director
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
Shannon Murphy, Babyteeth
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland – WINNER
Jasmila Žbanić, Quo Vadis, Aida?
Sarah Gavron, Rocks
Bafta fellowship
Ang Lee
EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)
Bukky Bakray – WINNER
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù
Conrad Khan
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 original score
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Promising Young Woman
Soul – WINNER
Best documentary
Collective
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher – WINNER
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 (writer/producer) [also written by Oliver Hermanus and produced by Eric Abraham]
Rocks – Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (writers)
Saint Maud – Rose Glass (writer/director), Oliver Kassman (producer) [also produced by Andrea Cornwell]
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 original screenplay
Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
Jack Fincher, Mank
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman – WINNER
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson, Rocks
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
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
Youn Yuh-jung, Minari – WINNER
Best cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
The Mauritanian
News of the World
Nomadland – WINNER
Best film not in the English language
Another Round – WINNER
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Best editing
The Father
Sound of Metal – WINNER
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best adapted screenplay
Moira Buffini, The Dig
Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller, The Father – WINNER
Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, MB Traven, The Mauritanian
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Ramin Bahrani, The White Tiger
Best animated film
Onward
Soul – WINNER
Wolfwalkers
Best casting
Calm With Horses
Judas and the Black Messiah
Promising Young Woman
Rocks – WINNER
Best production design
The Dig
The Father
Mank – WINNER
News of the World
Rebecca
Best costume design
Ammonite
The Dig
Emma
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
Mank
Best makeup and hair
The Dig
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
Mank
Pinocchio
Best sound
Greyhound
News of the World
Nomadland
Soul
Sound of Metal – WINNER
Best special visual effects
Greyhound
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet – WINNER
Best British short animation
The Fire Next Time
The Owl and the Pussycat – WINNER
The Song of a Lost Boy
Best British short film
Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
The Present – WINNER
The outstanding British contribution to cinema
Noel Clarke
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