The winners of the BAFTA Film Awards 2021 have been announced. Nomadland took top honors this year, with Director Chloé Zhao lifted the Best Director trophy.
The 74th British Academy Film and Television Awards ceremony was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on April 10 and 11th. Chloé Zhao’s drama appeared as a big winner at the ceremony by taking a total of four awards. Nomadland wins top four honors, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Leading Actress for Frances McDormand for playing a lead role in the film.
Chloé Zhao is the second female director to win Best Director at BAFTAs after Kathryn Bigelow’s win for Hurt Locker in 2010.
Promising Young Woman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sound of Metal, Soul, and The Father, each picked up two awards. Anthony Hopkins becomes the oldest person to receive the Leading Actor award at BAFTAs 2021.
List of Nominations and Winners at BAFTA Film Awards 2021:
Best Film
The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland – WINNER
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7
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
Leading Actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Adarsh Gourav, The White Tiger
Sir Anthony Hopkins, The Father – WINNER
Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian
Leading 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
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
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
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari – WINNER
Best Original Screenplay
Another Round
Mank
Promising Young Woman – WINNER
Rocks
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Dig
The Father – WINNER
The Mauritanian
Nomadland
The White Tiger
Best Original Score
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Promising Young Woman
Soul – WINNER
Best Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
The Mauritanian
News of the World
Nomadland – WINNER
Best Costume Design
Ammonite
The Dig
Emma
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
Mank
Best Editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal – WINNER
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Production Design
The Dig
The Father
Mank – WINNER
News of the World
Rebecca
Best Hair and Makeup
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 Casting
Calm With Horses
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Rocks – WINNER
Outstanding British Film
Calm With Horses
The Dig
The Father
His House
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Promising Young Woman – WINNER
Rocks
Saint Maud
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer
His House, Remi Weekes (Writer/Director) – WINNER
Limbo, Ben Sharrock (Writer/Director), Irune Gurtubai (Producer)
Moffie, Jack Sidey (Writer/Producer)
Rocks, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Writers)
Saint Maud, Rose Glass (Writer/Director), Oliver Kassman (Producer)
Film not in the English Language
Another Round – WINNER
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Best Documentary
Collective
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher – WINNER
The Social Dilemma
Best Animated Film
Onward
Soul – WINNER
Wolfwalkers
Best British Short Film
Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
The Present – WINNER
Best British Short Animation
The Fire Next Time
The Owl and the Pussycat – WINNER
The Song of A Lost Boy
EE Rising Star (voted for by the public)
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Bukky Bakray – WINNER
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