British Academy Film Awards
THE POWER OF THE DOG Wins Best Picture At The 2022 EE BAFTAs
The 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards celebrated the very best in film of the past year. Nominees and guests attended an in-person ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall hosted by Rebel Wilson.
The Power of the Dog won two BAFTAs: Best Film, and Director for Jane Campion. Jane Campion is the third woman to win Director. CODA won two awards: Adapted Screenplay for Siân Heder, and Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur. Kotsur is BAFTA’s first deaf Film Awards winner.
West Side Story won two awards: Supporting Actress for Ariana DeBose and Casting.
Dune won five awards: Original Score, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects. BAFTA Best Cinematography Winner Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS was unable to accept in person. He issued the following statement:
“I am honoured to receive this award from such a distinguished body, which celebrates the crafts of our industry. DUNE is greater than the sum of its parts, and I certainly wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my camera team, the sound department, the outstanding music composers, the hair and makeup artists, editors, costumers, art and production design departments. The list of people I am indebted to is too long to share, but you know who you are.
I’d have no business accepting this award without thanking my wife Jodie. You have been the greatest supporter and the reason I am able to forge my path in this challenging industry.
And of course Denis Villeneuve. I am grateful you took me on this journey with you, and I can’t wait to see where it takes us next.
I’m sorry to not be able to thank you in person tonight, but I tested positive for Covid-19 at the last minute.”
Belfast won Outstanding British Film. The Harder They Fall won Outstanding Debut for Jeymes Samuel.
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) won Documentary. Drive My Car won Film Not in the English Language. Encanto won Animated Film.
Original Screenplay was won by Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza. Leading Actor was won by Will Smith for King Richard. Leading Actress was won by Joanna Scanlan for After Love. First time BAFTA winners include all four performers Will Smith, Troy Kotsur, Joanna Scanlan and Ariana DeBose.
No Time to Die won Editing, The Eyes of Tammy Faye won Make Up & Hair, Cruella won Costume Design.
The Black Cop won the British Short Film award, while the BAFTA for British Short Animation was won by Do Not Feed the Pigeons.
The EE Rising Star Award, voted for by the public, went to Lashana Lynch.
The show featured two musical performances: Dame Shirley Bassey performed ‘Diamonds are Forever’ to celebrate 60 years of Bond, and Emilia Jones performed Joni Mitchell’s ‘Both Sides Now’ from the film CODA.
82 of this year’s nominees across 14 categories, including Lady Gaga, Alana Haim, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeymes Samuel, Rebecca Hall, Aleem Khan, Jane Campion and Caitríona Balfe, took part in ‘BAFTA Film: The Sessions’ from 2-7 March, which saw the nominees discuss their craft in interviews that are now available in a BAFTA YouTube channel playlist, https://bit.ly/BAFTAFilmSessions2022.
Over 30 participants from Breakthrough, BAFTA’s year-long mentoring and guidance initiative, attended this year’s Awards. They included Aleem Khan and Jessie Buckley, who were nominated for awards; Paapa Essiedu and Ray Panthaki, both closely involved with BAFTA-nominated films; and Bukky Bakray and Florence Pugh, who presented Awards on stage.
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