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Nomadland continues its march to the Oscars with British Academy Film Awards success

April 11, 2021 by Gary Collinson

It was another fruitful night for Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland at the British Academy Film Awards, with BAFTA honouring the awards favourite with Best Film, Best Director (Zhao), Leading Actress (Frances McDormand) and Best Cinematography.

Other winners from this year’s awards include Promising Young Woman (Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay), The Father (Leading Actor – Anthony Hopkins, Adapted Screenplay (Cinematography), Soul (Animated Film) and Another Round (Film Not in the English Language), while the EE Rising Star Award – voted for by the public – went to Rocks actress Bukky Bakray.

Check out the full list of winners here…

BEST FILM
The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Calm with Horses
The Dig
The Father
His House
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Promising Young Woman
Rocks
Saint Maud

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Another Round

Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?

DOCUMENTARY
Collective
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher
The Social Dilemma

ANIMATED FILM
Onward
Soul
Wolfwalkers

DIRECTOR
Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
Shannon Murphy (Babyteeth)
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Jasmila Žbanić (Quo Vadis, Aida?)
Sarah Gavron (Rocks)

LEADING ACTRESS
Bukky Bakray (Rocks)
Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Wunmi Mosaku (His House)
Alfre Woodard (Clemency)

CASTING
Calm with Horses
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Rocks

LEADING ACTOR
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger)
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round)
Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Niamh Algar (Calm with Horses)
Kosar Ali (Rocks)
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Dominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Ashley Madekwe (County Lines)
Yuh-jung Youn (Minari)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Barry Keoghan (Calm with Horses)
Alan Kim (Minari)
Leslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami)
Clarke Peters (Da 5 Bloods)
Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm (Another Round)
Jack Fincher (Mank)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Rocks)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Moira Buffini (The Dig)
Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton (The Father)
M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani (The Mauritanian)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Ramin Bahrami (The White Tiger)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
The Mauritanian
News of the World
Nomadland

PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Dig
The Father
Mank
News of the World
Rebecca

COSTUME DESIGN
Ammonite
The Dig
Emma.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank

MAKE UP & HAIR
The Dig
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio

EDITING
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

ORIGINAL SCORE
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Promising Young Woman
Soul

SOUND
Greyhound
News of the World
Nomadland
Soul
Sound of Metal

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Greyhound
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
The Fire Next Time
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Song of a Lost Boy

BRITISH SHORT FILM
Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
The Present

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Remi Weekes (His House)
Ben Sharrock, Irune Gurtubai (Limbo)
Jack Sidey (Moffie)
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Rocks)
Rose Glass, Oliver Kassman (Saint Maud)

EE RISING STAR AWARD (Public Vote)
Bukky Bakray

Conrad Khan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: BAFTAs, British Academy Film Awards

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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