Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ swept the award ceremony once again, following its superb performance at both the ‘Golden Globe Awards’ and the ‘Critics’ Choice Movie Awards’ – this time at the 2024 Bafta Film Awards grabbing seven awards including Best film, Director and Leading actor categories. Nolan’s epic biographical thriller entered the Bafta race with a total of thirteen nominations and ended up winning trophies in technical categories such as Editing and Cinematography, too.
After winning his first-ever Bafta, Nolan thanked studio Universal, “for letting us take on something dark, and seeing the potential for that” in his acceptance speech.
‘Poor Things’ was another film on the ceremony night with a distinguished success that won five trophies including Emma Stone’s award for lead actress.
Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama ‘The Zone of Interest’ received the prestigious award for three categories – Outstanding British film, best film not in the English language and Sound. On the other hand, ‘Barbie’, ‘Saltburn’, ‘Maestro’ and the Martin Scorsese movie ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ left empty-handed.
“British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)” chairperson Sarah Putt opened the ceremony on Sunday night at the Royal Festival Hall in London. She welcomed the celebrity audience including the BAFTA President Prince William. William, however, appeared without his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, who continues recuperating at home following an operation. Besides this, his father King Charles III was diagnosed as cancer-affected last month. These all might explain why he didn’t give a speech. In her speech, Putt said she was sending Catherine and the King “Our very best wishes” before handing over to the night’s host David Tennant who starred in ‘Doctor Who’.
The ceremony night was star-studded by the appearance of some movie-legends like Tom Cruise (via video link) and Michael J. Fox, who presented the best film category.
We are left with only the ‘Screen Actors Guild Awards’ (to air on Netflix on February 24) as a major award event ahead of the Oscar Awards ceremony on March 10.
The Bafta ceremony didn’t air live. It was broadcast on BBC One in the UK and was available to stream on BBC iPlayer and BritBox in North America.
The 77th Bafta Film Awards, the most coveted honors in the British movie industry, have been handed over to the following winners :
Best film
- Winner: Oppenheimer
- Anatomy of a Fall
- The Holdovers
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Poor Things
Leading actress
- Winner: Emma Stone – Poor Thingsv
- Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple
- Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
- Carey Mulligan – Maestro
- Vivian Oparah – Rye Lane
- Margot Robbie – Barbie
Leading actor
- Winner: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
- Bradley Cooper – Maestro
- Colman Domingo – Rustin
- Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
- Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
- Teo Yoo – Past Lives
Supporting actress
- Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
- Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
- Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
- Claire Foy – All of Us Strangers
- Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest
- Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
Supporting actor
- Winner: Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer
- Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
- Jacob Elordi – Saltburn
- Ryan Gosling – Barbie
- Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers
- Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Director
- Winner: Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan
- All of Us Strangers – Andrew Haigh
- Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet
- The Holdovers – Alexander Payne
- Maestro – Bradley Cooper
- The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer
EE Bafta rising star award (voted for by the public)
- Winner: Mia McKenna-Bruce
- Phoebe Dynevor
- Ayo Edebiri
- Jacob Elordi
- Sophie Wilde
Outstanding British film
- Winner: The Zone of Interest
- All of Us Strangers
- How To Have Sex
- Napoleon
- The Old Oak
- Poor Things
- Rye Lane
- Saltburn
- Scrapper
- Wonka
Film not in the English language
- Winner: The Zone of Interest
- 20 Days In Mariupol
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Past Lives
- Society of the Snow
Animated film
- Winner: The Boy and the Heron
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
- Elemental
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Documentary
- Winner: 20 Days In Mariupol
- American Symphony
- Beyond Utopia
- Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
- Wham!
Original screenplay
- Winner: Anatomy of a Fall
- Barbie
- The Holdovers
- Maestro
- Past Lives
Adapted screenplay
- Winner: American Fiction
- All of Us Strangers
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- The Zone of Interest
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
- Winner: Earth Mama
- Blue Bag Life
- Bobi Wine: The People’s President
- How To Have Sex
- Is There Anybody Out There?
Original score
- Winner: Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Poor Things
- Saltburn
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Make-up and hair
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
Costume design
- Winner: Poor Things
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
Production design
- Winner: Poor Things
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- The Zone of Interest
Sound
- Winner: The Zone of Interest
- Ferrari
- Maestro
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- Oppenheimer
Cinematography
- Winner: Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- Poor Things
- The Zone of Interest
Editing
- Winner: Oppenheimer
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Poor Things
- The Zone of Interest
Casting
- Winner: The Holdovers
- All of Us Strangers
- Anatomy of a Fall
- How To Have Sex
- Killers of the Flower Moon
Special visual effects
- Winner: Poor Things
- The Creator
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- Napoleon
British short animation
- Winner: Crab Day
- Visible Mending
- Wild Summon
British short film
- Winner: Jellyfish and Lobster
- Festival of Slaps
- Gorka
- Such a Lovely Day
- Yellow
Bafta Fellowship
- Winner: Samantha Morton
Outstanding British contribution to cinema
- Winner: June Givanni