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“Oppenheimer” Christopher NolanThe epic film about the creation of the atomic bomb swept Sunday’s BAFTA film awards in London, offering a serious statement ahead of next month’s Oscars. The film won seven awards in total, including Est Movie, Best Director for Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
The film has grossed more than a billion dollars, already won big awards at the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards, and is now the clear favorite for Oscar glory.
It was Murphy’s first BAFTA, and he thanked Nolan for “seeing something in me that I probably didn’t see myself” as he collected the award at the ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
He later told reporters that the success was “mind-blowing” and added that he was “excited and a little shocked.”
Despite having numerous commercial successes such as “Inception” and “The Dark Knight”, Nolan had never before won the BAFTA for Best Director.
It was Downey Jr’s second BAFTA, having won Best Actor 31 years ago for playing Charlie Chaplin.
Accepting the award, the American star joked that Nolan advised him to try to quietly approach the role of Lewis Strauss, a member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, to restore “my waning credibility.”
– ‘Poor things’ wins five –
It was also a good night for the surreal black comedy “Poor Things,” which won five awards, including Best Actress for Emma Stone, who also won the gong in 2017 for “La La Land.” In the film, Stone plays a reanimated Victorian corpse who is brought back to life by a mad scientist with the spirit of a child in a female “Frankenstein” story.
The American actress has already won the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress for her limitless performance. She beat off competition from “Barbie” star Margot Robbie, who had earlier hit the red carpet alongside fellow Hollywood heavyweights Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper.
-‘Barbenheimer’-
In the best picture category, “Oppenheimer” won ahead of French court drama “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers” and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Both Scorsese and his historical epic’s star, Leonardo DiCaprio, missed out on individual BAFTA nominations, but the film racked up nine nominations in total, including Best Picture.
Cooper’s biopic about American conductor Leonard Bernstein was also nominated for Original Screenplay (shared with screenwriter Josh Singer) and Best Actor. However, “The Hangover” star left the ceremony empty-handed.
The BAFTA shortlist was another disappointment for “Barbie,” the other half of last summer’s box office phenomenon “Barbenheimer,” which managed only five nominations. Greta Gerwig’s film, which turned nostalgia for the beloved doll into a sharp satire on misogyny and female empowerment, has so far failed to capture the number of top prizes expected this awards season.
See the full list of winners:
THE BEST MOVIE
Oppenheimer; Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas
PRINCIPAL ACTRESS
Emma Stone; poor things
MAIN ACTOR
Cillian Murphy; oppenheimer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Da’Vine Joy Randolph; The remains
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr.; oppenheimer
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted by the public)
Mia McKenna-Bruce
DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan oppenheimer
MAKEUP AND HAIR
Poor things; Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston
COSTUME DESIGN
Poor things; Holly Waddington
FEATURED BRITISH FILM
The Area of Interest; Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson
BRITISH ANIMATION SHORT
Crab Day; Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Jellyfish and Lobsters; Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Poor things; Shona Heath, James Price, Zsuzsa Mihalek
SOUND
The Area of Interest; Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers
ORIGINAL SCORE
Oppenheimer, Ludwig Goransson
DOCUMENTARY FILM20 Days in Mariupol; Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath, Michelle Mizner
ADAPTED SCRIPT
American fiction; Jefferson Cord
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Oppenheimer; Hoyte van Hoytema
EDITION
Oppenheimer; Jennifer Lame
FOUNDRYThe remnants; Susan Shopmaker
FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Area of Interest; Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson
FEATURED DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Mother Earth; Savanah Leaf (Writer, Director, Producer), Shirley O’Connor (Producer), Medb Riordan (Producer)
ANIMATED FILMThe boy and the heron; Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Poor things; Simon Hughes
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Anatomy of a fall; Justine Triet, Arthur Harari.
The film has grossed more than a billion dollars, already won big awards at the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards, and is now the clear favorite for Oscar glory.
It was Murphy’s first BAFTA, and he thanked Nolan for “seeing something in me that I probably didn’t see myself” as he collected the award at the ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
He later told reporters that the success was “mind-blowing” and added that he was “excited and a little shocked.”
Despite having numerous commercial successes such as “Inception” and “The Dark Knight”, Nolan had never before won the BAFTA for Best Director.
It was Downey Jr’s second BAFTA, having won Best Actor 31 years ago for playing Charlie Chaplin.
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– ‘Poor things’ wins five –
It was also a good night for the surreal black comedy “Poor Things,” which won five awards, including Best Actress for Emma Stone, who also won the gong in 2017 for “La La Land.” In the film, Stone plays a reanimated Victorian corpse who is brought back to life by a mad scientist with the spirit of a child in a female “Frankenstein” story.
The American actress has already won the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress for her limitless performance. She beat off competition from “Barbie” star Margot Robbie, who had earlier hit the red carpet alongside fellow Hollywood heavyweights Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper.
-‘Barbenheimer’-
In the best picture category, “Oppenheimer” won ahead of French court drama “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers” and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Both Scorsese and his historical epic’s star, Leonardo DiCaprio, missed out on individual BAFTA nominations, but the film racked up nine nominations in total, including Best Picture.
Cooper’s biopic about American conductor Leonard Bernstein was also nominated for Original Screenplay (shared with screenwriter Josh Singer) and Best Actor. However, “The Hangover” star left the ceremony empty-handed.
The BAFTA shortlist was another disappointment for “Barbie,” the other half of last summer’s box office phenomenon “Barbenheimer,” which managed only five nominations. Greta Gerwig’s film, which turned nostalgia for the beloved doll into a sharp satire on misogyny and female empowerment, has so far failed to capture the number of top prizes expected this awards season.
See the full list of winners:
THE BEST MOVIE
Oppenheimer; Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas
PRINCIPAL ACTRESS
Emma Stone; poor things
MAIN ACTOR
Cillian Murphy; oppenheimer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Da’Vine Joy Randolph; The remains
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr.; oppenheimer
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted by the public)
Mia McKenna-Bruce
DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan oppenheimer
MAKEUP AND HAIR
Poor things; Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston
COSTUME DESIGN
Poor things; Holly Waddington
FEATURED BRITISH FILM
The Area of Interest; Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson
BRITISH ANIMATION SHORT
Crab Day; Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Jellyfish and Lobsters; Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Poor things; Shona Heath, James Price, Zsuzsa Mihalek
SOUND
The Area of Interest; Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers
ORIGINAL SCORE
Oppenheimer, Ludwig Goransson
DOCUMENTARY FILM20 Days in Mariupol; Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath, Michelle Mizner
ADAPTED SCRIPT
American fiction; Jefferson Cord
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Oppenheimer; Hoyte van Hoytema
EDITION
Oppenheimer; Jennifer Lame
FOUNDRYThe remnants; Susan Shopmaker
FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Area of Interest; Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson
FEATURED DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Mother Earth; Savanah Leaf (Writer, Director, Producer), Shirley O’Connor (Producer), Medb Riordan (Producer)
ANIMATED FILMThe boy and the heron; Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Poor things; Simon Hughes
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Anatomy of a fall; Justine Triet, Arthur Harari.