Acclaimed Hollywood director Christopher Nolan’s biopic film ‘Oppenheimer’ swept the BAFTA Awards on Sunday night, winning seven awards, including Best Director, Best Film, and Best Leading Actor awards.
Sarah Putt, the Chair of BAFTA, opened the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London by welcoming the star-studded audience, which also included the President of BAFTA, Prince William.
‘Poor Things’ had a rich showing with five BAFTAs, including Leading Actress for Emma Stone, as well as Costume, Make-Up and Hair, Production Design, and Special Visual Effects.
Entirely shut out were ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ which had nine nominations, Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro,’ which had seven, and the biggest box office movie of 2023, Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie.’
The Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling starrer had five nominations.
Here is a complete list of winners from each category:
BEST FILM: Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas)
DIRECTOR: Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)
LEADING ACTRESS: Emma Stone (Poor Things)
LEADING ACTOR: Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
RISING STAR AWARD: Mia McKenna-Bruce
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, Arthur Harari)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
ANIMATED FILM: The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki)
DOCUMENTARY: 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath)
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM: The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska)
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR, OR PRODUCER: Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf, Shirley O’Connor, Medb Riordan)
CASTING: The Holdovers (Susan Shopmaker)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema)
EDITING: Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame)
COSTUME DESIGN: Poor Things (Holly Waddington)
MAKE-UP & HAIR: Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Oppenheimer (Ludwig Göransson)
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Poor Things (Shona Heath, James Price, Zsuzsa Mihalek)
SOUND: The Zone of Interest (Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers)
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS: Poor Things (Simon Hughes)
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION: Crab Day (Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak)
BRITISH SHORT FILM: Jellyfish and Lobster (Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai)