Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Wins Big At BAFTA Awards 2018

Last night, Hollywood came together at the Royal Albert Hall during the BAFTA Awards 2018 to celebrate the best the film industry had to offer over the past year and it turned out that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri would rule the evening.

The newest Martin McDonagh’s film took home the award for Outstanding British Film and Best Film while McDonagh himself won the prize for Original Screenplay.  Actor Sam Rockwell became the Best Supporting Actor and Frances McDormand received the BAFTA for Best Leading Actress.

With three awards, the incredible The Shape of Water was the second biggest winner of the evening. Director Guillermo del Toro won for Director and composer Alexandre Desplat swept away the one for Original Music. The film itself won the award for Production Design.

The award for Leading Actor went to Gary Oldman for his great performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour while Allison Janney won the award as Best Supporting Actress for her role in I, Tonya. The EE Rising Star Award went to Daniel Kaluuya and was the only award category in which people could vote for the winner.

As announced before the ceremony the BAFTA Fellowship would go to director and producer Sir Ridley Scott. It was awarded to him by Sir Kenneth Branagh and HRH The Duke of Cambridge, President of BAFTA. The Special Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema went to the National Film and Television School (NFTS).

This is full list of the winners of the BAFTA Awards 2018:

LEADING ACTOR

Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

LEADING ACTRESS

Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Allison Janney (I, Tonya)

DIRECTOR

Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water)

BEST FILM

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

ANIMATED FILM

Coco

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION 

Poles Apart (Paloma Baeza, Ser En Low)

BRITISH SHORT FILM 

Cowboy Dave (Colin O’Toole, Jonas Mortense)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The Handmaiden

DOCUMENTARY

I Am Not Your Negro

EE RISING STAR AWARD (VOTED FOR BY THE PUBLIC) 

Daniel Kaluuya

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER 

I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, Writer/Director; Emily Morga, Producer)

Ben Roberts, Director of the BFI Film Fund, commented: “A brilliant night for UK talent and crew, congratulations to all winners and the nominees. We are especially proud of writer/director Rungano Nyoni and producer Emily Morgan’s BAFTA for I Am Not A Witch. In his own acceptance speech for BAFTA Rising Star, Daniel Kaluuya articulated the importance of arts funding on early careers. Rungano and Emily have been supported on this project with National Lottery funding through a successful collaboration with BFI NETWORK partner Film Cymru Wales, through our Vision Awards for producers, and the BFI Film Fund. It was brilliant to see them on the stage last night.”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Call Me by Your Name (James Ivory)

ORIGINAL MUSIC 

The Shape of Water (Alexandre Desplat)

SOUND

Dunkirk (Alex Gibson, Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten)

EDITING

Baby Driver (Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Blade Runner 2049 (Roger Deakins)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Shape of Water (Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, Shane Vieau)

COSTUME DESIGN

Phantom Thread (Mark Bridges)

MAKE UP & HAIR

Darkest Hour (David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji)

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049 (Richard R. Hoover, Paul Lambert, Gerd Nefzer, John Nelson)

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA 

National Film and Television School (NFTS)

BAFTA FELLOWSHIP 

Ridley Scott