“Nomadland” Wins Big at BAFTA Film Awards

Frances McDormand in
Frances McDormand in "Nomadland"

After leading the nominations, it comes as no surprise that Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland dominated the BAFTA Film Awards picking up four awards, including the top one of the night—Best Film.

The Frances McDormand-led movie also won for Lead Actress, Cinematography, and Director. Zhao is the second woman ever to win the award for Best Director, which comes a day after she had the same achievement at the DGAs.

Promising Young Woman, Rocks, Sound of Metal, The Father, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom all went home with two awards. Other standout wins included Minari‘s for Best Supporting Actress for Yuh-Jung Youn, His House director Remi Weekes’ win for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer, and Anthony Hopkins’ win for Best Actor for The Father.

The show featured a mix of in-person presenters from London and LA with the winners accepting virtually. It was also the first edition of the show since the organization’s groundbreaking diversity review.

Check out the full list below.

BEST FILM
Nomadland; Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Chloé Zhao

LEADING ACTRESS
Frances McDormand; Nomadland

LEADING ACTOR
Anthony Hopkins, The Father

DIRECTOR
Chloé Zhao; Nomadland

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Bukky Bakray

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Promising Young Woman; Emerald Fennell, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara

ORIGINAL SCORE
Soul; Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

DOCUMENTARY
My Octopus Teacher; Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
His House; Remi Weekes (Writer/Director)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya; Judas And The Black Messiah

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Promising Young Woman; Emerald Fennell

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Yuh-Jung Youn; Minari

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Nomadland; Joshua James Richards

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Another Round; Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen

EDITING
Sound Of Metal; Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Father; Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller

ANIMATED FILM
Soul; Pete Docter, Dana Murray