The 2021 EE British Academy Film Awards, presented over two ceremonies in one weekend, celebrated the very best in film of the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nomadland<\/strong> won four BAFTAs: Best Film, Director <\/em>for Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/strong>, Leading Actress<\/em> for Frances McDormand<\/strong>, and Cinematography<\/em> for Joshua James Richards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Promising Young Woman<\/strong> won two awards: Outstanding British Film<\/em>, and Original Screenplay<\/em> for Emerald Fennell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Father<\/strong> won two awards: Leading Actor<\/em> for Anthony Hopkins<\/strong>, and Adapted Screenplay<\/em> for Christopher Hampton<\/strong> and Florian Zeller<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supporting Actor<\/em> was won by Daniel Kaluuya<\/strong> for Judas and the Black Messiah<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supporting Actress <\/em>was awarded to Yuh-Jung Youn<\/strong> for Minari<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soul<\/strong> won Animated Film<\/em> and Original Score<\/em>. Another Round<\/strong> won Film Not in the English Language<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sound of Metal <\/strong>won Editing and Sound<\/em>. Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom<\/strong> won Costume Design<\/em> and Make Up & Hair.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Writer\/director Remi Weekes<\/strong> received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer<\/em> for His House<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My Octopus Teacher<\/strong> won Documentary<\/em>, Rocks<\/strong> won Casting<\/em>, Tenet <\/strong>won Special Visual Effects<\/em> and Mank<\/strong> won Production Design<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Present <\/strong>won the British Short Film award<\/em>, while the BAFTA for British Short Animation<\/em> was won by The Owl and the Pussycat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Special Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema <\/em>was presented to filmmaker Noel Clarke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Fellowship, the highest honour the Academy can bestow, was introduced by Hugh Grant and presented to director Ang Lee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The EE Rising Star Award<\/em>, voted for by the public, went to Bukky Bakray<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sunday\u2019s ceremony, hosted by Edith Bowman and Dermot O\u2019Leary, was held at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall with nominees attending virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The show included three featured musical performances: by Liam Payne, Celeste, and Leslie Odom Jr. (from Los Angeles) and Corinne Bailey Rae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Saturday 10 April, the \u2018Opening Night\u2019 ceremony was hosted by Clara Amfo, who was joined by guests Rhianna Dhillon and Joanna Scanlan at the Royal Albert Hall. The programme gave audiences an in-depth insight into the filmmaking process, and the winners in eight categories were revealed.\u00a0 The show was broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As part of BAFTA\u2019s year-round programme of learning events and initiatives, 50 of this year\u2019s nominees across 10 categories took part in \u2018BAFTA Film: The Sessions\u2019 from 22 March \u2013 1 April. The Sessions saw the nominees discuss their craft in interviews that are available online on the BAFTA Guru YouTube channel at\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/BaftaFilmSessions2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other year-round film activity includes initiatives such as BAFTA’s new talent activity including the scholarships programme, BAFTA Crew, BAFTA Elevate, as well as masterclasses, the David Lean Lecture delivered by a leading film director, and the ‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures’ series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To access the best creative minds in film, games and TV production, visit\u00a0www.bafta.org\/guru<\/a>. For more, visit\u00a0www.bafta.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a world-leading independent arts charity that brings the very best work in film, games and television to public attention and supports the growth of creative talent in the UK and internationally. Through its Awards ceremonies and year-round programme of learning events and initiatives \u2013 which includes workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures and mentoring schemes in the UK, USA and Asia \u2013 BAFTA identifies and celebrates excellence, discovers, inspires and nurtures new talent, and enables learning and creative collaboration. For advice and inspiration from the best creative minds in working in film, games and television, visit\u00a0www.bafta.org\/guru<\/a>. For more, visit\u00a0www.bafta.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EE runs the UK’s biggest and fastest mobile network, offering superfast connections in more places than any other operator. EE brought the first 4G network to the UK in October 2012, and launched the UK\u2019s first 5G network in May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EE has received extensive independent recognition, including being named the UK\u2019s no.1 5G network by RootMetrics\u00ae in 2020 and 2021, and the UK’s best network every year since 2014 for the following awards: The Mobile Choice Awards, The Mobile Industry Awards and by RootMetrics\u00ae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As well as delivering mobile services to consumers, small and medium businesses, corporate customers and Government programmes, EE also provides home and business broadband using both 4G and fixed line connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EE is committed to being number one for service in the industry, and has nearly 600 shops across the UK. EE remains the only mobile provider to answer 100% of customer calls in the UK and Ireland and was recognised as the UK\u2019s Best Large Contact Centre by the UK Customer Experience Awards 2018 and Welsh Contact Centre Awards 2019. EE was awarded The Sunday Times\u2019 Best 100 Companies to Work for in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2021 EE British Academy Film Awards, presented over two ceremonies in one weekend, celebrated the very best in film of the past year. Nomadland won four BAFTAs: Best Film, Director for Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, Leading Actress for Frances McDormand, and Cinematography for Joshua James Richards. Promising Young Woman won two awards: Outstanding British Film, and Original Screenplay for Emerald Fennell. The Father won two awards: Leading Actor for Anthony Hopkins, and Adapted Screenplay for Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller.… Continue reading EE British Academy Film Awards: All Winners Announced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-bafta","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About BAFTA<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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