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2024 BAFTA Awards

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The winners of the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards were unveiled by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on February 18. Oppenheimer led the field winning seven awards. Poor Things won five.

Host David Tennant appeared in an opening sketch:

Afterwards he came onstage and quipped, “Tonight’s going to go smoother than Ken’s chest,” referencing the plastic doll in Barbie (which by the end of the evening had lost all four awards it was up for.)

Michael J. Fox “brought people to tears” in a surprise appearance to present the Best Film award.

Back To The Future star Michael J Fox, who is living with Parkinson’s disease, made a surprise appearance at the Baftas to present the best film award.

The 62-year-old actor came onstage in a wheelchair but insisted on standing up at the podium to hand out the prize to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Fox received a standing ovation, with many social media users posting that they were in tears seeing him on stage.

He was diagnosed in the 1990s and rarely makes public appearances.

BEST FILM

  • OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

  • THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

  • EARTH MAMA Savanah Leaf (Writer, Director, Producer), Shirley O’Connor (Producer), Medb Riordan (Producer)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

  • THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jonathan Glazer

DOCUMENTARY

  • 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath

ANIMATED FILM

  • THE BOY AND THE HERON Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki

DIRECTOR                                                          

  • OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  • ANATOMY OF A FALL Justine Triet, Arthur Harari

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  • AMERICAN FICTION Cord Jefferson

LEADING ACTRESS

  • EMMA STONE Poor Things

LEADING ACTOR

  • CILLIAN MURPHY Oppenheimer

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH The Holdovers

SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • ROBERT DOWNEY JR. Oppenheimer

CASTING

  • THE HOLDOVERS Susan Shopmaker

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • OPPENHEIMER Hoyte van Hoytema

EDITING

  • OPPENHEIMER Jennifer Lame

COSTUME DESIGN

  • POOR THINGS Holly Waddington

MAKE UP & HAIR

  • POOR THINGS Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston

ORIGINAL SCORE

  • OPPENHEIMER Ludwig Göransson

PRODUCTION DESIGN

  • POOR THINGS Shona Heath, James Price, Zsuzsa Mihalek

SOUND

  • THE ZONE OF INTEREST Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

  • POOR THINGS Simon Hughes

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

  • CRAB DAY Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak

BRITISH SHORT FILM

  • JELLYFISH AND LOBSTER Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

  • MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE