Bafta 2021: the triumph of “Nomadland”. All winners

Nomadland take it all. At the 74th edition of the Bafta Awards, the most important prizes of English cinema, it is the film by Chloé Zhao, already winner of the Golden Lion in Venice, to take home the heaviest prizes, namely the one for the best film of the year, for the best director and the best leading actress to Frances McDormand, further opening the doors of the Oscars to the film that will be held in two weeks. The ceremony, which awarded the prizes selected by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in two trances, with the first eight awards delivered on Saturday 10 April and the other seventeen on Sunday 11 April, also saw other surprises.

“See you down the road” 🛣️ Chloé Zhao dedicates the #EEBAFTAs Best Film win for @nomadlandfilm to the nomadic community. pic.twitter.com/QXtAeuRMOC

– BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021

Finally, the wonderful does not go unnoticed anymore The Father – Nothing is as it seems by Florian Zeller, who manages to win both the Bafta for best adaptation, and the Bafta for Best Actor to Anthony Hopkins, who thanks to the role of Anthony, an elderly man who struggles with the demons of Alzheimer’s, gives one of the most intense performances of his career. But that’s not all. It is also timidly wide A promising woman, the film directed by Emerald Fennell, who the world knows as the Camilla Parker Bowles of the third and fourth seasons of The Crown, which wins the award for Best British Film and Best Original Screenplay. The release date in Italy is yet to be confirmed, but we advise you not to miss it because it is a film that will cause a lot of discussion.

Darkly comedic revenge thriller Promising Young Woman is this year’s Outstanding British Film winner at the #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/To0GOpw68O

– BAFTA (@BAFTA) April 11, 2021

Among the other Bafta awarded live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, a ceremony that should have included the intervention of Prince William only to give up in observance of the mourning of grandfather Filippo, we also remember the extraordinary one Yuh Jung-Youn per threats the first Korean actress to be awarded the award, and the technical statuettes to costumes and make-up for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the film that, in all probability, will give the posthumous Oscar to Chadwick Boseman as Best Actor. Disappointment, but that is now established, however Mank, the blockbuster by David Fincher with Gary Oldman who only wins a Bafta for best scenography, making us understand that on the evening of April 25 it will probably come out with a dry mouth as it happened to The Irishman by Martin Scorsese in 2020.

Here are all the winners of the 2021 Bafta Awards:

Best film
Nomadland

Best British Film
Promising Young Woman

Best Non-English Language Film
Another Round

Best British Debut
Remi Weekes – His House

Best Documentary
My Octopus Teacher

Best Animated Film
Soul

Best Direction
Chloe Zhao – Nomadland

Best Original Screenplay
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

Best fit
Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller – The Father

Best Actor
Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Best Actress
Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Supporting Actress
Yuh Jung-Youn – Threatening

Best casting
Lucy Pardee – Rocks

Best soundtrack
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – Soul

Best Photography
Joshua James Richards – Nomadland

Best editing
Mikkel EG Nielsen – Sound of Metal

Best scenography
Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – Mank

Best Costumes
Ann Roth – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best makeup and hairstyles
Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best sound
Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc – Sound of Metal

Best special effects
Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley – Tenet

Best British Animated Short Film
The Owl and the Pussycat

Best British Short Film
The Present

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Rocks