On night #2 of the 2020/21 BAFTA awards, Nomadland triumphed as virtually all had expected. Chloe Zhao's drama took four awards including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Leading Actress for Frances McDormand. She's the fifth performer to win a major leading actress prize this season, making this the most unpredictable Best Actress race in recent memory. Neither McDormand nor Best Leading Actor winner Anthony Hopkins - winning over Oscar favourite Chadwick Boseman - even zoomed in their acceptance speeches, in a fashion entirely typical of both thesps. One wonders why anyone bothered - after making such a big deal out of a historically diverse set of nominations, BAFTA voters reverted entirely to form in picking such a predictable bunch of award winners. Check out their night #1 winners here.
Best Film
Nomadland (Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloe Zhao)
Best Director
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Best Leading Actress
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Best Leading Actor
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh Jung (Minari)
Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Best Original Screenplay
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (The Father)
Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
Best Editing
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (Sound of Metal)
Best Original Score
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Soul)
Best Animated Film
Soul (Pete Docter and Dana Murray)
Best Documentary
My Octopus Teacher (Pippa Ehrlich, Craig Foster and James Reed)
Best Film Not in the English Language
Another Round (Sisse Graum Jorgensen and Thomas Vinterberg)
Outstanding British Film
Promising Young Woman (Ben Browning, Emerald Fennell, Ashley Fox and Josey McNamara)
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Remi Weekes (His House)
EE Rising Star Award
Bukky Bakray
BFI Fellowship Award
Ang Lee