‘Oppenheimer’ wins best picture at British Academy Film Awards | CityNews Calgary
Atom bomb epic “Oppenheimer” received seven prizes, together with finest image, director and actor, on the 77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. Gothic fantasia “Poor Things” took 5 prizes.
Christopher Nolan was named finest director for “Oppenheimer,” and Cillian Murphy received the perfect actor prize for enjoying J. Robert Oppenheimer, the daddy of the atomic bomb.
Emma Stone was named finest actress for “Poor Things,” which additionally received a number of craft and design prizes at Britain’s equal of the Oscars.
“Oppenheimer” had 13 nominations however missed out on the file of 9 trophies, set half a century in the past by “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
It received the perfect movie race towards “Poor Things,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Holdovers.”
“Oppenheimer” additionally received trophies for modifying, cinematography and musical rating, in addition to the perfect supporting actor prize for Robert Downey Jr.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph was named finest supporting actress for enjoying a boarding faculty prepare dinner in “The Holdovers” and mentioned she felt a “responsibility I don’t take lightly” to inform the tales of underrepresented individuals like her character Mary.
“Oppenheimer” confronted stiff competitors in what was broadly thought of a classic 12 months for cinema and an awards season energized by the top of actors’ and writers’ strikes that shut down Hollywood for months.
Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” — a British-produced movie shot in Poland with a largely German forged — was named each finest British movie and finest movie not in English, a primary.
Jonathan Glazer’s unsettling drama takes place in a household residence simply outdoors the partitions of Auschwitz.
“Walls aren’t new from before or since the Holocaust and it seems stark right now that we should care about innocent people being killed in Gaza or Yemen or Mariupol or Israel,” producer James Wilson mentioned. “Thank you for recognizing a film that asks us to think in those spaces.”
Historical epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” had 9 nominations for the awards, formally known as the EE BAFTA Film Awards, however went residence empty-handed.
The ceremony, hosted by “Doctor Who” star David Tennant — who entered carrying a kilt and sequined prime whereas carrying a canine named Bark Ruffalo — is a glitzy, British-accented appetizer for Hollywood’s Academy Awards, carefully watched for hints about who would possibly win on the Oscars on March 10.
The prize for unique screenplay, went to French courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall.“ The movie a few girl on trial over the demise of her husband was written by director Justine Triet and her accomplice, Arthur Harari.
“It’s a fiction, and we are reasonably fine,” Triet joked.
Cord Jefferson received the tailored screenplay prize for the satirical “American Fiction,” in regards to the struggles of an African-American novelist
Jefferson mentioned he hoped the success of the film “maybe changes the minds of the people who are in charge of greenlighting films and TV shows, allows them to be less risk-averse.”
Ukraine struggle documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” produced by The Associated Press and PBS “Frontline,” received the prize for finest documentary.
“This is not about us,” mentioned filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, who captured the harrowing actuality of life within the besieged metropolis with an AP workforce. “This is about Ukraine, about the people of Mariupol.”
Chernov mentioned the story of the town and its fall into Russian occupation “is a symbol of struggle and a symbol of faith. Thank you for empowering our voice and let’s just keep fighting.”
Other main award contenders included “The Holdovers” and Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” — every with seven nominations — and grief-flecked love story “All of Us Strangers” with six. Barbed class-war dramedy “Saltburn” had 5 nominations however received nothing.
“Barbie,” one half of 2023’s “Barbenheimer” field workplace juggernaut and the 12 months’s top-grossing movie, additionally went residence empty-handed from 5 nominations.
“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig didn’t get a directing nomination for both the BAFTAs or the Oscars, in what was seen by many as a serious snub.
Britain’s movie academy launched modifications to extend the awards’ range in 2020, when no girls have been nominated as finest director for the seventh 12 months working and all 20 nominees within the lead and supporting performer classes have been white. However, Triet was the one girl amongst this 12 months’s six best-director nominees.
Before the ceremony, nominees together with Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Rosamund Pike, Ryan Gosling and Ayo Edebiri all walked the pink carpet at London’s Royal Festival Hall, together with presenters Andrew Scott, Cate Blanchett and David Beckham.
Guest of honor was Prince William, in his function as president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He arrived with out his spouse, Kate, who’s recovering from stomach surgical procedure final month.
The ceremony included musical performances by “Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham, singing “Time After Time,” and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singing her 2001 hit “Murder on the Dancefloor,” which shot again up the charts after that includes in “Saltburn.”
Actress Samantha Morton acquired the academy’s highest honor, the BAFTA Fellowship, and movie curator June Givanni, founding father of the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, was honored for excellent British contribution to cinema.
Sunday’s ceremony was being broadcast on BBC One within the U.Ok. from 1900GMT, and on streaming service BritBox within the U.S., Canada, Australia and South Africa.
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Hilary Fox contributed to this story.
Jill Lawless, The Associated Press
