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71st British Academy Film Awards


71st British Academy Film Awards
18 February 2018
Royal Albert Hall, London
Joanna Lumley
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Gary OldmanDarkest Hour
Frances McDormandThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (5)
The Shape of Water (12)

The 71st British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 18 February 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2017. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2017. Following revelations of sexual harassment in the film industry, many attendees wore black or a badge to show their support for the Time's Up movement.

The nominees were announced on 9 January 2018 by actresses Natalie Dormer and Letitia Wright. The Shape of Water received the most nominations in twelve categories; Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri followed with nine each. As with the 75th Golden Globe Awards, there was criticism for the lack of female nominees for Best Director, with Greta Gerwig notably not nominated for Lady Bird.

English actress Joanna Lumley hosted the ceremony for the first time, replacing Stephen Fry following his twelve years of service as host.

Guillermo del Toro, Best Director winner

Gary Oldman, Best Actor winner

Frances McDormand, Best Actress winner

Sam Rockwell, Best Supporting Actor winner

Allison Janney, Best Supporting Actress winner

Martin McDonagh, Best Original Screenplay winner

James Ivory, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

Alexandre Desplat, Best Original Music winner

Daniel Kaluuya, EE Rising Star Award winner

The nominees were announced on 9 January 2018. The winners were announced on 18 February 2018.

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Best Film
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin and Martin McDonagh
Call Me by Your Name – Émilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito and Peter Spears
Darkest Hour – Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski
Dunkirk – Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles DaleBest Direction
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049
Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington
Jamie Bell – Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool as Peter Turner
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio PerlmanBest Actress in a Leading Role
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes
Annette Bening – Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool as Gloria Grahame
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine McPherson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Jason Dixon
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World as J. Paul Getty
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 as Phoenix Buchanan
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Bill WilloughbyBest Actress in a Supporting Role
Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden
Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour as Clementine Churchill
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water as Zelda Delilah Fuller
Best Original Screenplay
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 and Vanessa TaylorBest Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory
The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and David Schneider
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool – Matt Greenhalgh
Molly's Game – Aaron Sorkin
Paddington 2 – Simon Farnaby and Paul King
Best Cinematography
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 DavisBest Costume Design
Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges
Beauty and the Beast – Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour – Jacqueline Durran
I, Tonya – Jennifer Johnson
The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira
Best Editing
Baby Driver – Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss
Blade Runner 2049 – Joe Walker
Dunkirk – Lee Smith
The Shape of Water – Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Jon GregoryBest Makeup and Hair
Darkest Hour – David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick and Kazu Hiro
Blade Runner 2049 – Donald Mowat and Kerry Warn
I, Tonya – Deborah La Mia Denaver and Adruitha Lee
Victoria & Abdul – Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
Wonder – Naomi Bakstad, Robert Pandini and Arjen Tuiten
Best Original Music
The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat
Blade Runner 2049 – Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer
Darkest Hour – Dario Marianelli
Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread – Jonny GreenwoodBest Production Design
The Shape of Water – Paul Denham Austerberry, Jeff Melvin and Shane Vieau
Beauty and the Beast – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola
Darkest Hour – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
Dunkirk – Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis
Best Sound
Dunkirk – Alex Gibson, Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo and Mark Weingarten
Baby Driver – Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, Dan Morgan, Jeremy Price and Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049 – Ron Bartlett, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini and Mac Ruth
The Shape of Water – Christian Cooke, Nelson Ferreira, Glen Gauthier, Nathan Robitaille and Brad Zoern
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Stuart Wilson and Matthew WoodBest Special Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049 – Richard R. Hoover, Paul Lambert, Gerd Nefzer and John Nelson
Dunkirk – Paul Corbould, Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Lockley
The Shape of Water – Dennis Berardi, Trey Harrell, Mike Hill and Kevin Scott
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Stephen Aplin, Chris Corbould, Ben Morris and Neal Scanlan
War for the Planet of the Apes – Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri and Joel Whist
Outstanding British Film
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin
Darkest Hour – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski
The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou, Ian Martin and David Schneider
God's Own Country – Francis Lee, Manon Ardisson and Jack Tarling
Lady Macbeth – William Oldroyd, Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly and Alice Birch
Paddington 2 – Paul King, David Heyman and Simon FarnabyOutstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
I Am Not a Witch – Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director) and Emily Morgan (Producer)
The Ghoul – Gareth Tunley (Writer/Director/Producer), Jack Healy Guttmann and Tom Meeten (Producer)
Jawbone – Johnny Harris (Writer/Producer) and Thomas Napper (Director)
Kingdom of Us – Lucy Cohen (Director)
Lady Macbeth – Alice Birch (Writer), William Oldroyd (Director) and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly (Producer)
Best Short Animation
Poles Apart – Paloma Baeza and Ser En Low
Have Heart – Will Anderson
Mamoon – Ben SteerBest Short Film
Cowboy Dave – Colin O'Toole and Jonas Mortensen
Aamir – Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone and Oliver Shuster
A Drowning Man – Mahdi Fleifel, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Patrick Campbell
Work – Aneil Karia and Scott O'Donnell
Wren Boys – Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon and John Fitzpatrick
Best Animated Film
Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
Loving Vincent – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart
My Life as a Courgette – Claude Barras and Max KarliBest Documentary
I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck
City of Ghosts – Matthew Heineman
Icarus – Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power – Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk
Jane – Brett Morgen and Bryan Burk
Best Film Not in the English Language
The Handmaiden – Park Chan-wook and Syd Lim
Elle – Paul Verhoeven and Saïd Ben Saïd
First They Killed My Father – Angelina Jolie and Rithy Panh
Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexander Rodnyansky
The Salesman – Asghar Farhadi and Alexandre Mallet-GuyRising Star Award
Daniel Kaluuya
Florence Pugh
Josh O'Connor
Tessa Thompson
Timothée Chalamet

The following individuals presented awards at the ceremony:

  • Jennifer Lawrence presented Outstanding British Film

  • Margot Robbie and Octavia Spencer presented EE Rising Star Award

  • Sergei Polunin and Gemma Chan presented Best Original Music and Best Hair and Makeup

  • Edward Holcroft and Tom Taylor presented Best Costume Design and Best Animated Film

  • Hayley Squires and Natalie Dormer presented Best Editing

  • Celia Imrie presented the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

  • Anya Taylor-Joy and Letitia Wright presented Best Short Animation and Best Short Film

  • Andrea Riseborough presented Best Film Not in the English Language

  • Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Orlando Bloom presented Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Lupita Nyong'o presented Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Rebecca Ferguson and Toby Jones presented Best Production Design

  • Karen Gillan and Taron Egerton presented Best Special Visual Effects

  • Lily James and Gemma Arterton presented Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

  • Bryan Cranston presented Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Sam Claflin and Will Poulter presented Best Sound

  • Rachel Weisz and Nicholas Hoult presented Best Original Screenplay

  • Dennis Quaid presented Best Cinematography

  • Salma Hayek presented Best Actor in a Leading Role

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor presented Best Actress in a Leading Role

  • Naomie Harris and Patrick Stewart presented Best Director

  • Daniel Craig presented Best Film

  • Prince William and Kenneth Branagh presented the BAFTA Fellowship

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