BAFTA 2022: the winners – Film Review

In less than two weeks, on Sunday March 27, the 2021/22 film awards season will come to a close at the 94th Academy Awards. And in two days, on Thursday, March 17, the nearly ten thousand members of the American Film Academy will begin voting for the winners. Suffice to say that last weekend was crucial to ensure in extremis the promotion of films still in the race for the supreme trophy of world cinema. Unsurprisingly, the ceremonies of other prizes have therefore jostled there, with those of the Critics’ Choice Awards and the directors’ union in Los Angeles, as well as, more than five thousand kilometers further east, that of the British Film Academy at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The 75th ceremony of the EE British Film Awards, the BAFTAs for insiders, therefore took place the night before last, almost in the old fashioned way and in any case face-to-face, without any notable health protocol. It was hosted by Australian actress Rebel Wilson (jojo rabbit), who made a strong impression as a presenter at the last ceremony of the world before, in February 2020. For the second year in a row, the president of the British Academy, Prince William, skipped ceremony. However, he participated in the form of a pre-recorded video message. No honorary award, the BAFTA Fellowship, was awarded this year.

Long gone are the days when British cinema professionals voted freely, without worrying about the dynamics of the moment, which will carry this or that actor, director or technician to the final coronation at the Oscars. In the mid-1990s, during an enchanted parenthesis of barely seven years, between 1994 and the year 2000, the BAFTAs took place indeed a few weeks after their American counterpart. Since then, they have occupied the inglorious role of tipster more than ever, as the vast majority of this year’s awards prove. With one notable exception in the Best Actress category! It’s the first time since 1987, when Anne Bancroft was victorious in 84 Charing Cross Road by David Jones, that all the actresses named across the Channel then drew a blank with the American Academy.

Best film : The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion, produced by Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian and Emile Sherman, no cinema release date in France

Best British Film: Belfast by Kenneth Branagh (Kenneth Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas)

Best Director: Jane Campion for The Power of the Dogwithout cinema release date in France

Best Actress: Joanna Scanlan in After Love

Best actor : Will Smith in The Williams Method

Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose in West Side Story

Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur in CODAwithout cinema release date in France

Best Original Screenplay: Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Adapted Screenplay: CODA by Siân Heder, no cinema release date in France

Best Foreign Film: Drive My Car (Japan) by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Teruhisa Yamamoto)

Best Documentary: summer of soul by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, no cinema release date in France

Best Animated Film: Encanto The Fantastic Madrigal Family by Jared Bush and Byron Howard (Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer)

Best Picture: Dunes –Greig Fraser

Best editing: Dying can wait –Tom Cross and Elliot Graham

Best Music: Dunes – Hans Zimmer

Best sets: Dunes – Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos

Best costumes: cruella –Jenny Beavan

Best makeup and hairstyle : In the eyes of Tammy Fayewithout cinema release date in France – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh

Best Sound: Dunes – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green and Ron Bartlett

Best special effects: Dunes – Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles and Gerd Nefzer

Best cast: West Side Story – Cindy Tolan

Best Debut Film by a British Writer, Director or Producer: The Harder They Fallno cinema release date in France – Jeymes Samuel (screenwriter/director)

Best British Animated Short: Do Not Feed The Piggeons – Vladimir Krasilnikov, Jordi Morera and Antonin Niclass

Best British Short Film: The Black Cop – Cherish Oteka

EE Rising Star Award: Lashana Lynch (Dying can wait)