Written by Shona Smith on Feb 3, 2020. Posted in Awards and Festivals

1917 eclipses the competition at 2020 BAFTA Film Awards

1917 dominated the 2020 BAFTA Film Awards, sweeping seven of the categories. Joker entered the night with the most nominations which translated into three wins on the night. Awards season favourites including Parasite, Little Women, Jojo Rabbit and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood all found success but, despite being nominated in ten categories, The Irishman went home empty handed.

1917 (pictured) dominated the night, taking home seven of the nine awards it was nominated for. Kicking off the ceremony by winning outstanding British film, the war epic went on to nab best film and best director for Sam Mendes, as well as four craft categories; cinematography, production design, sound and special visual effects.

Joker went into the night with the most nominations, eleven in total. Joaqin Phoenix take home best actor and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir was recognised in the best score category. This is the first year that BAFTA have introduced an award for best casting, with Shayna Markowitz winning the inaugural award for her work on Joker.

In the acting categories, Renee Zellweger's performance as Judy Garland in Judy (pictured) earned her the best actress accolade. Brad Pitt who plays Leonardo di Caprio's an aging stunt double in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Laura Dern for her role as a powerful divorce lawyer in Marriage Story won in the supporting actor categories. The publicly voted EE rising star award, whose previous recipients include John Boyega (Star Wars) and Tom Hardy (Inception) went to Michael Ward whose recent roles include Top Boy and Blue Story.

The remaining craft categories went to Ford v Ferrari for editing, Little Women in Costume Design and Bombshell for makeup & hair.

Parasite from South Korea’s Boon Jong Ho took home the award for original screenplay as well as film not in the English Language.

Sergio Pablos of Madrid based SPA Studios Klaus (pictured) for Netflix’s first animated feature film up against box office hits Frozen II and Toy Story 4.

For Sama, which was nominated in four categories including Best British Film and outstanding debut took home the award for documentary. The feature documentary sees Syrian filmmaker Waad al-Kateab film her life in rebel-held Aleppo.

Independent film Bait based on the story of a small Cornish village coping with an influx of tourists from writer/director Mark Jenkin, and producers Kate Byers, Linn Waite won the outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer.

Best film

1917
The Irishman
Joker
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite

Best director

1917 – Sam Mendes
The Irishman – Martin Scorsese
Joker — Todd Phillips
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Parasite – Bong Joon-ho

Best British film

1917
Bait
For Sama
Rocketman
Sorry We Missed You
The Two Popes

Best actress

Renée Zellweger – Judy
Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose
Scarlett Johansson — Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Charlize Theron – Bombshell

Best actor

Leonardo DiCaprio – Once upon a Time… in Hollywood
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Taron Egerton – Rocketman
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes

Best supporting actress

Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh – Little Women
Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Margot Robbie – Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best supporting actor

Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins The Two Popes
Al Pacino — The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Brad Pitt – Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Bait – Mark Jenkin (writer/director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (producers)
For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab (director/producer), Edward Watts (director)
Maiden – Alex Holmes (director)
Only You – Harry Wootliff (writer/director)
Retablo – Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (writer/director)

Film not in the English language

The Farewell
For Sama
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Best documentary

American Factory
Apollo 11
Diego Maradona
For Sama
The Great Hack

Best animated film

Frozen II
Klaus
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Toy Story 4

Best original screenplay

Booksmart — Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
Knives Out – Rian Johnson
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Parasite – Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-ho,

Best adapted screenplay

The Irishman -Steven Zaillian

Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi

Joker – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver

Little Women – Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes – Anthony Mccarten

Best score

1917
Jojo Rabbit

Joker
Little Women
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best casting

Joker
Marriage Story
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Two Popes

Best cinematography

1917
The Irishman
Joker
Le Mans ’66
The Lighthouse

Best editing

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Le Mans ’66
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best production design

1917
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best costume design

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Judy
Little Women
Once upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best make up & hair

1917
Bombshell
Joker
Judy
Rocketman

Best sound

1917
Joker
Le Mans ’66
Rocketman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best special visual effects

1917
Avengers: Endgame
The Irishman
The Lion King
Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker

Best British short animation

Grandad Was a Romantic
In Her Boots
The Magic Boat

Best British short film

Azaar
Goldfish
Kamali
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
The Trap

EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)

Awkwafina
Jack Lowden
Kaitlyn Dever
Kelvin Harrison Jr
Micheal Ward

BAFTA fellowship

Kathleen Kennedy

Outstanding British contribution to cinema

Andy Serkis