Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins 5 awards at BAFTA
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Martin McDonagh’s acclaimed drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has swept the 2018 BAFTAs, winning the award for best film in addition to the prize for outstanding British film. Frances McDormand claimed best actress for her turn as the mother out to seek justice for the unsolved murder of her daughter, while her co-star Sam Rockwell won best supporting actor.
Three Billboards, which was the closing night gala of the 61st BFI London Film Festival, took a total of five prizes, with Martin McDonagh also winning for his original screenplay.
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McDonagh missed out in the best director category, however, with the prize going to Guillermo del Toro for his fantasy drama The Shape of Water. The favourite going into the evening, with 12 nominations, del Toro’s film also bagged the awards for production design and music.
Gary Oldman won best actor for his turn as Winston Churchill in the Second World War drama Darkest Hour, with the film’s hair and makeup also picking up an award.
I Am Not a Witch, directed by Rungano Nyoni and produced by Emily Morgan, was named outstanding British debut. The film was backed with National Lottery funding via the BFI Film Fund.
Ben Roberts, Director of the BFI Film Fund, commented: “A brilliant night for UK talent and crew, congratulations to all winners and the nominees. We are especially proud of writer-director Rungano Nyoni and producer Emily Morgan’s BAFTA for I Am Not a Witch. In his own acceptance speech for BAFTA Rising Star, Daniel Kaluuya articulated the importance of arts funding on early careers. Rungano and Emily have been supported on this project with National Lottery funding through a successful collaboration with BFI NETWORK partner Film Cymru Wales, through our Vision Awards for producers, and the BFI Film Fund. It was brilliant to see them on the stage last night.”
In addition to Three Billboards, The Shape of Water and I Am Not a Witch, other BFI London Film Festival alumni films picking up awards include The Handmaiden (named best film not in the English language) and Call Me by Your Name (which won James Ivory the award for best adapted screenplay).
Best film
Winner: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME – Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, Peter Spears
DARKEST HOUR – Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski
DUNKIRK – Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale
Director
Winner: THE SHAPE OF WATER – Guillermo del Toro
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Denis Villeneuve
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME – Luca Guadagnino
DUNKIRK – Christopher Nolan
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Martin McDonagh
Leading actress
Winner: FRANCES McDORMAND – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
ANNETTE BENING – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
MARGOT ROBBIE – I, Tonya
SALLY HAWKINS – The Shape of Water
SAOIRSE RONAN – Lady Bird
Leading actor
Winner: GARY OLDMAN – Darkest Hour
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS – Phantom Thread
DANIEL KALUUYA – Get Out
JAMIE BELL – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET – Call Me by Your Name
Supporting actress
Winner: ALLISON JANNEY – I, Tonya
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – Darkest Hour
LAURIE METCALF – Lady Bird
LESLEY MANVILLE – Phantom Thread
OCTAVIA SPENCER – The Shape of Water
Supporting actor
Winner: SAM ROCKWELL – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER – All the Money in the World
HUGH GRANT – Paddington 2
WILLEM DAFOE – The Florida Project
WOODY HARRELSON – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Outstanding British film
Winner: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
DARKEST HOUR – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski
THE DEATH OF STALIN – Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou, Ian Martin, David Schneider
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY – Francis Lee, Manon Ardisson, Jack Tarling
LADY MACBETH – William Oldroyd, Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, Alice Birch
PADDINGTON 2 – Paul King, David Heyman, Simon Farnaby
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Winner: I AM NOT A WITCH – Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director), Emily Morgan (Producer)
THE GHOUL – Gareth Tunley (Writer/Director/Producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (Producers)
JAWBONE – Johnny Harris (Writer/Producer), Thomas Napper (Director)
KINGDOM OF US – Lucy Cohen (Director)
LADY MACBETH – Alice Birch (Writer), William Oldroyd (Director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (Producer)
Film not in the English language
Winner: THE HANDMAIDEN – Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim
ELLE – Paul Verhoeven, Saïd Ben Saïd
FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER – Angelina Jolie, Rithy Panh
LOVELESS – Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky
THE SALESMAN – Asghar Farhadi, Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Documentary
Winner: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO – Raoul Peck
CITY OF GHOSTS – Matthew Heineman
ICARUS – Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL – Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
JANE – Brett Morgen
Animated film
Winner: COCO – Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
LOVING VINCENT – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Ivan Mactaggart
MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE – Claude Barras, Max Karli
Original screenplay
Winner: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Martin McDonagh
GET OUT – Jordan Peele
I, TONYA – Steven Rogers
LADY BIRD – Greta Gerwig
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
Adapted screenplay
Winner: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME – James Ivory
THE DEATH OF STALIN – Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, David Schneider
FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL – Matt Greenhalgh
MOLLY’S GAME – Aaron Sorkin
PADDINGTON 2 – Simon Farnaby, Paul King
Original music
Winner: THE SHAPE OF WATER – Alexandre Desplat
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer
DARKEST HOUR – Dario Marianelli
DUNKIRK – Hans Zimmer
PHANTOM THREAD – Jonny Greenwood
Cinematography
Winner: BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Roger Deakins
DARKEST HOUR – Bruno Delbonnel
DUNKIRK – Hoyte van Hoytema
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Dan Laustsen
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Ben Davis
Editing
Winner: BABY DRIVER – Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Joe Walker
DUNKIRK – Lee Smith
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Sidney Wolinsky
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Jon Gregory
Production design
Winner: THE SHAPE OF WATER – Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, Shane Vieau
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
DARKEST HOUR – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
DUNKIRK – Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
Costume design
Winner: PHANTOM THREAD – Mark Bridges
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST – Jacqueline Durran
DARKEST HOUR – Jacqueline Durran
I, TONYA – Jennifer Johnson
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Luis Sequeira
Makeup & hair
Winner: DARKEST HOUR – David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Donald Mowat, Kerry Warn
I, TONYA – Deborah La Mia Denaver, Adruitha Lee
VICTORIA & ABDUL – Daniel Phillips
WONDER – Naomi Bakstad, Robert A. Pandini, Arjen Tuiten
Sound
Winner: DUNKIRK – Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten
BABY DRIVER – Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini, Mac Ruth, Theo Green
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Christian Cooke, Glen Gauthier, Nathan Robitaille, Brad Zoern
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI – Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood
Special visual effects
Winner: BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Gerd Nefzer, John Nelson
DUNKIRK – Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Dennis Berardi, Trey Harrell, Kevin Scott
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
British short animation
Winner: POLES APART – Paloma Baeza, Ser En Low
HAVE HEART – Will Anderson
MAMOON – Ben Steer
British short film
Winner: COWBOY DAVE – Colin O’Toole, Jonas Mortensen
AAMIR – Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone, Oliver Shuster
A DROWNING MAN – Mahdi Fleifel, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Patrick Campbell
WORK – Aneil Karia, Scott O’Donnell
WREN BOYS – Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon, John Fitzpatrick
EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Winner: DANIEL KALUUYA
FLORENCE PUGH
JOSH O’CONNOR
TESSA THOMPSON
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
Outstanding contribution to British cinema
JON WARDLE, NFTS
BAFTA Fellowship
Sir Ridley Scott
