‘The Favourite’ dominates the BAFTA Awards 2019 and takes home seven out of 12 nominations
The new Yorgos Lanthimos' new film stars Olivia Colmon, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone
By Steve Brown
The Favourite is this year’s big BAFTA winner.
At last night’s EE British Academy Film Awards, Yorgos Lanthimos’ new movie dominated the prestigious film awards and took home seven out of the 12 nominations and was named Outstanding British Film.
Olivia Colman took home the BAFTA for Leading Actress while co-star Rachel Weisz received Supporting Actress.
A thoroughly overwhelmed & emotional Olivia Colman accepts the Leading Actress #BAFTA for her role in @the_favourite 🎆 #EEBAFTA pic.twitter.com/a13Z5tVMMe
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 10, 2019
The film – which follows the love affair between Queen Anne and two female consorts – also won Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design and Make Up & Hair.
Here’s @the_favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos accepting the first award of the evening for Outstanding British Film 👑👑👑 #EEBAFTAs #BAFTA pic.twitter.com/GQQlJFR8aj
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 10, 2019
Attitude’s former cover star Rami Malek also won Leading Actor for his performance as Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody – which also took home the award for Sound.
Watch @ItsRamiMalek get the most enthusiastic hug ever from Spike Lee on his way to the stage Congratulations to tonight’s leading actor winner! @BoRhapMovie #EEBAFTAs #BAFTA pic.twitter.com/xF0GwrCl7m
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 10, 2019
The Mexican movie Roma won four awards including Best Film, Director, Cinematography and Film Not in the English Language.
Supporting Actor was awarded to Mahershala Ali for his role in Green Book and A Star Is Born won Original Music.
Very difficult not to tear up during Mahershala Ali’s acceptance speech for supporting actor 😖 Congratulations, Mahershala! @greenbookmovie #EEBAFTAs #BAFTA pic.twitter.com/FaU9AFSw3s
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 10, 2019
Vice – which is based around Dick Cheney – took the BAFTA for Editing and Marvel’s Black Panther was award Special Visual Effects
BlacKkKlansman won Adapted Screenplay, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse took the award for Animated Film and Free Solo received the Documentary award.
Here is the list of all the winners:
FELLOWSHIP
THELMA SCHOONMAKER
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
ELIZABETH KARLSEN & STEPHEN WOOLLEY
BEST FILM
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
BEAST Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez
DOCUMENTARY
FREE SOLO Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Shannon Dill, Evan Hayes
ANIMATED FILM
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord
DIRECTOR
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE FAVOURITE Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott
LEADING ACTRESS
OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite
LEADING ACTOR
RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite
SUPPORTING ACTOR
MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book
ORIGINAL MUSIC
A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson
CINEMATOGRAPHY
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
EDITING
VICE Hank Corwin
PRODUCTION DESIGN
THE FAVOURITE Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
COSTUME DESIGN
THE FAVOURITE Sandy Powell
MAKE UP & HAIR
THE FAVOURITE Nadia Stacey
SOUND
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
BLACK PANTHER Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
ROUGHHOUSE Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom
BRITISH SHORT FILM
73 COWS Alex Lockwood
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
LETITIA WRIGHT