The 2020 BAFTA awards which is one of the biggest award shows took place on Sunday, as Sam Mendes’s film 1917 took home the biggest awards of the night with seven wins.
The film during the 2020 BAFTA awards nominations had one of the most nominations with nine which was behind Warner Bros’ Joker which had 11, with Netflix’s The Irishman and Sony’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood had 10 nominations each.
Mendes’ World War I epic from Universal and Amblin/DreamWorks picked up a leading seven awards, including Mendes for Best Director. The film repeated its Best Picture wins at the DGA and PGA as well as the Golden Globes. Mendes, a UK native, previously won Director honours at the Globes and Critics’ Choice.
1917 also won for Best British Film, Roger Deakins’ Cinematography, Production Design, VFX and Sound. It has been ramping up its momentum after being one of the last of the season’s awards contenders to hit theatres.
Here are the 2020 BAFTA awards winners:
BEST FILM
1917
Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren
LEADING ACTRESS
RENÉE ZELLWEGER
Judy
LEADING ACTOR
JOAQUIN PHOENIX
Joker
DIRECTOR
1917
Sam Mendes
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
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
PARASITE
Han Jin Won, Bong Joon Ho
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
JOJO RABBIT
Taika Waititi
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
FORD V FERRARI (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
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Andy Serkis