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BAFTA 2020

1917 wins seven BAFTAs

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- Sam Mendes’ movie has scooped Best Film and Best Director, while For Sama has won Best Documentary and US thesps swept the acting gongs

1917 wins seven BAFTAs
Director Sam Mendes with one of his BAFTA Awards for 1917 (© BAFTA)

The awards season is turning into one long, continuous shot. Victorious at so many events since the Golden Globes first anointed it, Sam Mendes1917 [+see also:
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has also ended the BAFTA awards night with a great deal more happiness than the struggling soldiers who appear in the World War I drama. The UK-US film therefore keeps on winning accolades on its seemingly inevitable march to Oscar glory. The British Academy voters threw seven prizes (from among the nine nominations it had received) in the direction of Mendes’ film. These were Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound and Best Special Visual Effects.

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It was also a good night for other British films set on the battlefields. For Sama [+see also:
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interview: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
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took home Best Documentary, with co-director Waad al-Kateab taking her four-year-old daughter Sama up onto the stage to help her collect the trophy. Spain also had reason to celebrate, with Sergio PablosKlaus [+see also:
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winning Best Animated Film.

Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir won big for her work on Joker, a film that went into the night with a leading 11 nominations and ended the evening with three gongs, including Best Casting, marking the first time that BAFTA has celebrated the work of casting directors. In the end, it was Shayna Markowitz who picked up the inaugural prize.

Here is the full list of winners:

Best Film
1917 [+see also:
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– Sam Mendes (UK/USA)

Outstanding British Film
1917 – Sam Mendes

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bait [+see also:
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interview: Mark Jenkin
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]
– Mark Jenkin (UK)

Best Film Not in the English Language
Parasite - Bong Joon Ho (South Korea)

Best Documentary
For Sama [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
film profile
]
– Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts (UK/USA)

Best Animated Film
Klaus [+see also:
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- Sergio Pablos (Spain)

Best Director
Sam Mendes - 1917

Best Original Screenplay
Han Jin Won, Bong Joon Ho - Parasite

Best Adapted Screenplay
Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit [+see also:
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(USA/New Zealand/Czech Republic)

Best Leading Actress
Renée Zellweger - Judy [+see also:
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]
(UK/USA)

Best Leading Actor
Joaquin Phoenix - Joker (USA)

Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern - Marriage Story (USA)

Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (USA)

Best Original Score
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker

Best Casting
Shayna Markowitz - Joker

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins - 1917

Best Editing
Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker - Le Mans ’66

Best Costume Design
Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell (USA)

Best Production Design
Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales - 1917

Best Sound
Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson - 1917

Best Hair and Make-up
Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell

Best Special Visual Effects
Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy - 1917

Best British Short Animation
Grandad Was a Romantic - Maryam Mohajer (UK)

Best British Short Film
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) - Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva

EE Rising Star Award
Micheal Ward

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