Bafta Awards 2024: which film triumphed in the main categories, which in the technical categories and what were the surprises

The 77th British Film Academy Awards (BAFTA) began this Sunday at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Since last year, the highly anticipated British film awards ceremony has been held at the Royal Festival Hall in the center of the Southbank, replacing the legendary Royal Albert Hall.

Before the start of the gala, as per tradition, some of the nominated stars walked the red carpet, such as the Australian Margot Robbie (Barbie), Andrew Scott (Those who remain), Paolo Mescal (Those who remain), Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer), Pike Rosemund (Salt burner), Carey Mulligan (Teacher) and the Spaniard Juan Antonio Bayona (The snow society).

Also present were the likes of Cate Blanchett, Michael J. Fox, David Beckham and singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who later appeared on stage singing her hit Murder on the dance floor.

First winners

As usual, some awards were announced outside the limited hours of the BBC television gala. So, at the beginning of the day, the film The area of ​​interestby British director Jonathan Glazer, won the BAFTA for best non-English language filmcategory in which he competed The snow society by Juan Antonio Bayona.

Glazer took as inspiration a book by Martin Amis, which describes the family life of a commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, to recount its horror with an evocative work, composed entirely of still shots.

The film has already won the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the FIPRESCI Press Prize.

Going on stage to receive the statuette, Glazer, visibly moved and surprised, declared that receiving the BAFTA was for him “an out-of-body experience”, while the producer, James Wilson, thanked the director for “his virtuosity and his friendship.” .”

“Walls are nothing new before or after the Holocaust, and it now seems clear that we should be concerned about innocents being murdered in Gaza, Yemen, Mariupol or Israel,” Wilson said.

The underlying struggle

Since the announcement of the nominations, the underlying fight at the BAFTAs would have been between Oppenheimer AND poor creatureswho were 15 and 11 years old respectively.

Thus, throughout the ceremony, each film would earn a bean, almost alternately. For each Robert Downey JuniorFor example, unknown talents in technical or even fields Emma Stone as best actress.

And to make matters more complicated, he won every now and then too The area of ​​interestwhich won not only the BAFTA for Best Non-English Language Film, but also for Sound and Outstanding British Film.

As a further surprise, Those who remain triumphed in the supporting actress categories (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) and casting.

At the end of the two-hour gala, the scoreboard started Oppenheimerwith 7 BAFTA awards: film, director, leading actor, supporting actor, editing, photography and original music.

For his part, poor creatures She returned home with 5 statuettes: leading actress, costumes, makeup and hairstyling, set design and special visual effects.

The winners

Movie: OppenheimerChristopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas

Director: OppenheimerChristopher Nolan.

Lead actress: Emma Stone, poor creatures.

Main actor: Cilian Murphy Oppenheimer.

Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Those who remain

Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

Original screenplay: Anatomy of a fallJustine Triet, Arthur Harari

Film spoken in a language other than English: The area of ​​interestJonathan Glazer

Animation film: The boy and the heronHayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki

Adapted screenplay: American fictionJefferson Cable

British Film Spotlight: The area of ​​interestJonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska

Cast: Those who remainSusan Shopkeeper

Direction of photography: OppenheimerHoyte van Hoytema

Edition: OppenheimerJennifer Lame

Original music: OppenheimerLudwig Göransson

Costumes: poor creaturesHolly Waddington

Makeup and hair: poor creaturesNadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston

Production Design: poor creaturesShona Heath, James Price, Zsuzsa Mihalek

Sound: The area of ​​interestJohnnie Burn, Tarn Willers

Special visual effects: poor creaturesSimon Hughes

Documentary: 20 days in MariupolMstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath

Notable debut by a British writer, director or producer:“Mother EarthSavanah Leaf (writer, director, producer), Shirley O’Connor (producer), Medb Riordan (producer)

British animated short: Crab dayRoss Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak

British short film with actors: Jellyfish and lobstersYasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai

Rising Figure Award (voted by the public): Mia McKenna-Bruce