
At tonight’s 2020 (EE British Academy Film) BAFTA Awards, 1917 won seven awards including Best Film, Outstanding British Film, with Sam Mendes receiving the BAFTA for Director.
Parasite won two awards: Original Screenplay for Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won and Film Not in the English Language.
For Sama, the epic and intimate journey filmed through five years of uprising in Aleppo, Syria, won Documentary.
Writer/director Mark Jenkin and producers Kate Byers and Linn Waite received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for Bait.
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) won the British Short Film award, while the BAFTA for British Short Animation was won by Grandad Was a Romantic.
The Special Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema was presented to Andy Serkis. Through his pioneering work in the evolving art of performance capture he has widened the parameters of what it means to be an actor in the 21st century.
The Fellowship, the highest honor the Academy can bestow, was presented to producer Kathleen Kennedy by HRH The Duke of Cambridge, President of BAFTA, and Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.
2020 EE British Academy Film Awards
BEST FILM
1917
Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
1917
Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
BAIT
Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PARASITE
Bong Joon Ho
DOCUMENTARY
FOR SAMA
Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
ANIMATED FILM
KLAUS
Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh
DIRECTOR
1917
Sam Mendes
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
PARASITE
Han Jin Won, Bong Joon Ho
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
JOJO RABBIT
Taika Waititi
LEADING ACTRESS
RENÉE ZELLWEGER
Judy
LEADING ACTOR
JOAQUIN PHOENIX
Joker
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
LAURA DERN
Marriage Story
SUPPORTING ACTOR
BRAD PITT
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
ORIGINAL SCORE
JOKER
Hildur Guðnadóttir
CASTING
JOKER
Shayna Markowitz
CINEMATOGRAPHY
1917
Roger Deakins
EDITING
LE MANS ’66
Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
PRODUCTION DESIGN
1917
Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales
COSTUME DESIGN
LITTLE WOMEN
Jacqueline Durran
MAKE UP & HAIR
BOMBSHELL
Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan
SOUND
1917
Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
1917
Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC
Maryam Mohajer
BRITISH SHORT FILM
LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL)
Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
EE RISING STAR AWARD
MICHEAL WARD