Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the highest winner on the 77th BAFTA Awards held in London on Sunday evening. Nolan’s acclaimed chronicle of American physicist Robert J Oppenheimer’s position in growing the world’s first atomic bomb and his subsequent guilt gained seven awards, together with for finest movie and path.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Issues was the following huge winner with 5 awards, together with for Emma Stone within the main actress class.
Nolan was named one of the best director over Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers), Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall), Alexander Payne (The Holdovers), Bradley Cooper (Maestro) and Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Curiosity). American actor Michael J Fox gave the London-born Nolan his award.
The annual awards handed out by the British Academy of Movie and Tv honour one of the best British and worldwide achievements in cinema produced in 2023. Oppenheimer, which was nominated in 13 classes, additionally gained for modifying (Jennifer Lame), cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema) and authentic rating (Ludwig Goransson).
Cillian Murphy gained the main actor award, beating Bradley Cooper (Maestro), Colman Domingo (Rustin), Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Teo Yoo (Previous Lives). Emma Stone (Poor Issues) triumphed over Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall), Margot Robbie (Barbie), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane) and Fantasia Barrino (The Colour Purple).
Oppenheimer bagged Robert Downey Jr one of the best supporting actor award for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss, a member of the US Atomic Power Fee who wages a marketing campaign towards Oppenheimer. The field workplace blockbuster is a number one contender on the Oscars on March 10, with 13 nominations.
The ceremony, hosted by Physician Who star David Tennant, included Deepika Padukone as a presenter. She handed out the award for finest movie not within the English language to Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Curiosity, which relies on Rudolf Hoss, the Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz focus camp throughout World Conflict II.
The German-language movie was additionally named finest British manufacturing. One among its most hanging parts is its sound design, for which sound designer Johnnie Burn has been nominated at a number of awards. On Sunday, Burn gained a BAFTA over Oppenheimer, Maestro, Ferrari and Mission: Unimaginable – Useless Reckoning Half One.
Aside from Emma Stone’s win, Poor Issues swept the technical classes: manufacturing design (Shona Heath and James Value), make-up and hair (Nadia Stacey) and particular visible results (the corporate Union VFX). Holly Waddington gained the award for finest costume design, beating Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon and Oppenheimer.
Tailored from Alasdair Grey’s 1992 novel of the identical title, the fantasy movie explores the sexual liberation of a girl resurrected by a scientist after her demise by suicide.
The most effective supporting actress award was bagged by Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph for Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Randolph performs the pinnacle prepare dinner at a boarding faculty who spends her Christmas vacation with Paul Giamatti’s cynical historical past trainer and Dominic Sessa’s angst-ridden pupil.
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, written by her and Arthur Harari, gained for authentic screenplay. The French-English drama, starring Sandra Huller, explores the makes an attempt of a author to clear her title in he husband’s demise.
American Fiction gained the award for tailored screenplay. Wire Jefferson’s film, which he has additionally written, relies on Percival Everett’s 2001 Erasure and is a satire about racism in elite American universities.
Legendary Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki gained within the animated class for The Boy and the Heron, a fantasy-themed movie set throughout World Conflict II. Mstyslav Chernov’s Ukraine war-themed 20 Days in Mariupol gained finest documentary.