Three Billboards And The Shape Of Water Were Among This Year’s BAFTA Winners

Three Billboards BAFTA win

by James White |
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The BAFTA Awards – hosted this year by Joanna Lumley and full of talk of both #MeToo and #TimesUp – happened on Sunday evening at the Royal Albert Hall. Most of the awards went to the expected winners, with The Shape Of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Coco amongst those going home with trophies.

With Cirque Du Soleil providing interpretive dance for each of the main film nominees, it was a lively, if unsurprising evening. Guillermo del Toro took home Best Director Though some had thought Sally Hawkins might nab a BAFTA for Water, Three Billboards' Frances McDormand added another award to her collection. Billboards also went home with Best British Film (despite its American setting and cast, its creative team and UK-based production companies meant it qualified), Best Original Screenplay for writer/director Martin McDonagh, Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell and the overall Best Film prize.

Darkest Hour leading man Gary Oldman's march through the awards continued with a Best Actor win, while Allison Janney landed another trophy home for her supporting turn in I,Tonya.

Elsewhere, there was a pleasing mix of gongs, with Blade Runner 2049 cinematographer Roger Deakins rewarded for his work (Oscars, are you listening?) and Baby Driver taking Best Editing. And finally, Daniel Kaluuya, who is seeing a big boost in his career of late, scored the EE Rising Star Award, the one category voted for by the public.

See the full list of winners below.

Best film

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Call Me by Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape Of Water

Outstanding British film

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Darkest Hour

The Death Of Stalin

God’s Own Country

Lady Macbeth

Paddington 2

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

I Am Not A WitchRungano Nyoni (writer/director), Emily Morgan (Producer)

The Ghoul – Gareth Tunley (writer/director/producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (producers)

Jawbone – Johnny Harris (writer/producer), Thomas Napper (director)

Kingdom Of Us – Lucy Cohen (director)

Lady Macbeth – Alice Birch (writer), William Oldroyd (director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (producer)

Best film not in the English language

The Handmaiden

Elle

First They Killed My Father

Loveless

The Salesman

Best documentary

I Am Not Your Negro

City Of Ghosts

Icarus

An Inconvenient Sequel

Jane

Best animated film

Coco

Loving Vincent

My Life As A Courgette

Best director

Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape Of Water

Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049

Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best original screenplay

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Get Out

I, Tonya

Lady Bird

The Shape Of Water

Best adapted screenplay

Call Me By Your Name

The Death Of Stalin

Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool

Molly’s Game

Paddington 2

Best actress

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Annette Bening, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

Sally Hawkins, The Shape Of Water

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Best actor

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Jamie Bell, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name

Best supporting actress

Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Kristin Scott Thomas, Darkest Hour

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Octavia Spencer, The Shape Of Water

Best supporting actor

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Christopher Plummer, All the Money In The World

Hugh Grant, Paddington 2

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best original music

The Shape Of Water

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

Best cinematography

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape Of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best editing

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape Of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best production design

The Shape Of Water

Beauty And The Beast

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Best costume design

Phantom Thread

Beauty And The Beast

Darkest Hour

I, Tonya

The Shape Of Water

Best make up & hair

Darkest Hour

Blade Runner 2049

I, Tonya

Victoria & Abdul

Wonder

Best sound

Dunkirk

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

The Shape Of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best special visual effects

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape Of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

War For The Planet Of The Apes

Best British short animation

Poles Apart

Have Heart

Mamoon

Best British short film

Cowboy Dave

Aamir

A Drowning Man

Work

Wren Boys

Daniel Kaluuya - BAFTA

EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)

Daniel Kaluuya

Florence Pugh

Josh O’Connor

Tessa Thompson

Timothée Chalamet

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