2021 BAFTA Film Awards Winners List
For the first time ever, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented their annual BAFTA Film Awards across two nights (Saturday 10th, Sunday 11th April), in a ceremony presented in person from London’s Royal Albert Hall and a studio in Los Angeles, and with the award nominees invited to take part digitally via the medium of video calls.
Shown across a combined 2 hours and 45 minutes of primetime weekend television, the EE BAFTAs celebrated the very best of cinema from 2020 and the early months of 2021, with Oscars front-runner Nomadland earning wins in a number of major categories including Best Film, and Bukky Bakray (Rocks) earning the EE Rising Star Award in a heart-warming moment that included the young actress receiving hugs from loved ones during her acceptance speech.
The broadcasted ceremony featured live performances from within the Royal Albert Hall by Celeste, who was performing her song “Hear My Voice” from The Trial of the Chicago 7, as well as Corinne Bailey Rae who performed a duet of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” with One Night In Miami star and Supporting Actor nominee Leslie Odom, Jr., who was performing from a studio in the United States. Liam Payne performed via augmented reality to begin the show.
With UK cinemas closed for most of the past year, the 2021 BAFTAs featured a preview for the films to come throughout 2021 and had a prolonged In Memoriam segment to celebrate the lives of the filmmakers and industry professionals who we’ve lost since last February’s ceremony.
Whilst the ceremony itself was stripped back and toned down, there were still a number of moments worth remembering, including a moving acceptance speech by Thomas Vinterberg when his film Another Round won the award for Film Not In the English Language.
The winners of the BAFTA Film Awards 2021 are:
BEST FILM – NOMADLAND
The Father
The Mauritanian
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Calm with Horses
The Dig
The Father
His House
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Rocks
Saint Maud
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE – ANOTHER ROUND
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?
DOCUMENTARY – MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
Collective
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
The Dissident
The Social Dilemma
ANIMATED FILM – SOUL
Onward
Wolfwalkers
DIRECTOR – CHLOE ZHAO (NOMADLAND)
Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
Shannon Murphy (Babyteeth)
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Jasmila Žbanić (Quo Vadis, Aida?)
Sarah Gavron (Rocks)
LEADING ACTRESS – FRANCES MCDORMAND (NOMADLAND)
Bukky Bakray (Rocks)
Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
Wunmi Mosaku (His House)
Alfre Woodard (Clemency)
CASTING – ROCKS
Calm with Horses
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
LEADING ACTOR – ANTHONY HOPKINS (THE FATHER)
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger)
Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round)
Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS – YUH-JUNG YOUN (MINARI)
Niamh Algar (Calm with Horses)
Kosar Ali (Rocks)
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Dominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Ashley Madekwe (County Lines)
Yuh-jung Youn (Minari)
SUPPORTING ACTOR – DANIEL KALUUYA (JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH)
Barry Keoghan (Calm with Horses)
Alan Kim (Minari)
Leslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami)
Clarke Peters (Da 5 Bloods)
Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – EMERALD FENNELL (PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN)
Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm (Another Round)
Jack Fincher (Mank)
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Rocks)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – FLORIAN ZELLER, CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON (THE FATHER)
Moira Buffini (The Dig)
M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani (The Mauritanian)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Ramin Bahrami (The White Tiger)
CINEMATOGRAPHY – JOSHUA JAMES RICHARDSON (NOMADLAND)
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
The Mauritanian
News of the World
PRODUCTION DESIGN – MANK
The Dig
The Father
News of the World
Rebecca
COSTUME DESIGN – MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Ammonite
The Dig
Emma.
Mank
MAKE UP & HAIR – MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
The Dig
Hillbilly Elegy
Mank
Pinocchio
EDITING – SOUND OF METAL
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7
ORIGINAL SCORE – JON BATISTE, TRENT REZNOR, ATTICUS ROSS (SOUL)
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Promising Young Woman
SOUND – SOUND OF METAL
Greyhound
News of the World
Nomadland
Soul
SPECIAL EFFECTS – TENET
Greyhound
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION – THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
The Fire Next Time
The Song of a Lost Boy
BRITISH SHORT FILM – THE PRESENT
Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER – REMI WEEKES (HIS HOUSE)
Ben Sharrock, Irune Gurtubai (Limbo)
Jack Sidey (Moffie)
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Rocks)
Rose Glass, Oliver Kassman (Saint Maud)
EE RISING STAR AWARD – BUKKY BAKRAY
Conrad Khan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH CINEMA – NOEL CLARKE
BAFTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD – ANG LEE
