Damien Chazelle’s La La Land was the big winner at the Baftas last night, scooping five awards including Best Film, Director and Leading Actress for Emma Stone.
The front runner going into the awards, with 11 nods, La La Land also saw Linus Sandgren win for Cinematography and Justin Hurwitz for Original Music.
Casey Affleck won Leading Actor for his role in Manchester by the Sea, which also earned its writer/director Kenneth Lonergan the award for Original Screenplay.
Supporting Actor went to Dev Patel for Lion, for which Luke Davies won Adapted Screenplay.
Supporting Actress went to Viola Davis for her role in Fences. All four actors are first-time BAFTA winners.
Outstanding British Film was won by I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach.
Ava DuVernay’s film, exploring race in the US criminal justice system, 13th, won the award for Documentary.
Kubo and the Two Strings took the award for Animated Film, and Film Not in the English Language was won by Hungarian holocaust drama, Son of Saul.
Arrival received the award for Sound, Hacksaw Ridge won for Editing, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them collected the BAFTA for Production Design, Florence Foster Jenkins took the award for Make Up and Hair, Jackie won Costume Design and The Jungle Book received the BAFTA for Special Visual Effects.
Writer/director Babak Anvari and producers Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill and Lucan Toh received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for Under the Shadow.
Home won the British Short Film award, while the BAFTA for British Short Animation was won by A Love Story.
The EE Rising Star Award, voted for by the public, went to Tom Holland.
The Special Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema was presented to film distributor and exhibitor Curzon for its work in bringing art house and foreign language cinema to British audiences.
Nathan Lane, Simon Pegg and HRH The Duke of Cambridge, President of BAFTA, presented the Academy’s highest honour, the Fellowship, to writer, director, actor and producer Mel Brooks.
The ceremony was hosted for a 12th year by Stephen Fry and held at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
BAFTA WINNERS
BEST FILM
LA LA LAND Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
I, DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Under the Shadow: BABAK ANVARI (Writer/Director), EMILY LEO, OLIVER ROSKILL, LUCAN TOH (Producers)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SON OF SAUL László Nemes, Gábor Sipos
DOCUMENTARY
13th Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Howard Barish
ANIMATED FILM
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Travis Knight
DIRECTOR
LA LA LAND Damien Chazelle
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
LION Luke Davies
LEADING ACTOR
CASEY AFFLECK Manchester by the Sea
LEADING ACTRESS
EMMA STONE La La Land
SUPPORTING ACTOR
DEV PATEL Lion
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
VIOLA DAVIS Fences
ORIGINAL MUSIC
LA LA LAND Justin Hurwitz
CINEMATOGRAPHY
LA LA LAND Linus Sandgren
EDITING
HACKSAW RIDGE John Gilbert
PRODUCTION DESIGN
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
COSTUME DESIGN
JACKIE Madeline Fontaine
MAKE UP & HAIR
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS J. Roy Helland, Daniel Phillips
SOUND
ARRIVAL Sylvain Bellemare, Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE JUNGLE BOOK Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
A LOVE STORY Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King
BRITISH SHORT FILM
HOME Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Daniel Mulloy, Scott O’Donnell
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
TOM HOLLAND
FELLOWSHIP
MEL BROOKS
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
CURZON
Staff Reporter
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