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71st British Academy Film Awards
71st British Academy Film Awards
71st British Academy Film Awards
The 71st British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs,
71st British Academy Film
were held on 18 February 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, to honour the
Awards
best national and foreign films of 2017. Presented by the British Academy of Film
and Television Arts (BAFTA), accolades were given for the best feature-length film Date 18 February 2018
and documentaries from any nation screened at British cinemas in 2017. Following Site Royal Albert Hall,
revelations of sexual harassment in the film industry
, many attendees wore black or a London
badge to show their support for the"Time's Up" movement. Hosted by Joanna Lumley[1]
The nominees were announced on 9 January 2018 by Letitia Wright and Natalie Highlights
Dormer. The Shape of Water had the most nominations of any film, with twelve; Best Film Three Billboards
Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri followed with nine Outside Ebbing,
nominations each. As with the 75th Golden Globe Awards, there was criticism for Missouri
the lack of female nominees in the best director category, with Greta Gerwig notably Best British Three Billboards
not nominated for Lady Bird.[2] Film Outside Ebbing,
Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, directed by Martin McDonagh, won five
awards including Best Film and Outstanding British film; Frances McDormand won Best Actor Gary Oldman
the Best Actress award for her performance in the film. Gary Oldman won Best Darkest Hour
Actor for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. The Shape of Water Best Frances McDormand
won three awards, includingBest Director for Guillermo del Toro. In the supporting- Actress Three Billboards
actor categories, Allison Janney won Best Supporting Actress for her role in I, Outside Ebbing,
Tonya, while Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Three Missouri
Billboards.[3] Roger Deakins won his fourth BAFTA for Best Cinematography for
Most Three Billboards
Blade Runner 2049 and Sir Ridley Scott was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for
awards Outside Ebbing,
contribution to cinema.[3][4]
Missouri (5)
Most The Shape of Water
nominations (12)
Contents
Ceremony
Winners and nominees
BAFTA Fellowship
BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award
Films with multiple nominations and awards
See also
References
External links
Ceremony
The ceremony was broadcast on BBC One at 9 p.m. UTC, around an hour later than the actual ceremony. Joanna Lumley presented
[5]
the awards for the first time, succeedingStephen Fry who had previously hosted the ceremony twelve times.
The ceremony began with a dance segment by Cirque du Soleil in homage to The Shape of Water. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
performed for the second consecutive year during the in Memoriam section. He, along with some of his siblings, played the Hebrew
love song "Evening of Roses" ("Erev Shel Shoshanim") during the segment.[6] Those remembered included Bill Paxton, Sam
Shepard, Roger Moore, Jill Messick and Allison Shearmur.[7]
BAFTA Fellowship
Ridley Scott
Frances McDormand,
Best Actress winner
Best Film Best Director
Blade Runner 2049 – Joe Walker Elle – Paul Verhoeven and Saïd
Dunkirk – Lee Smith Ben Saïd
The Shape of Water – Sidney First They Killed My Father–
Wolinsky Angelina Jolie and Rithy Panh
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Missouri – Jon Gregory and Alexander Rodnyansky
The Salesman – Asghar Farhadi
and Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Poles Apart – Paloma Baeza and
Anderson Ser En Low
See also
7th AACTA International Awards
24th Screen Actors Guild Awards
38th Golden Raspberry Awards
23rd Critics' Choice Awards
72nd Tony Awards
75th Golden Globe Awards
90th Academy Awards
References
1. "Joanna Lumley to be new Bafta Film Awards host" (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42618237). BBC
News. 9 January 2018. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20180109090005/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertain
ment-arts-42618237) from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
2. Desta, Yohana. "Zero Female Directors Nominated at the BAFT As This Year" (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/
2018/01/baftas-2018-nominations). Vanity Fair. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
3. Cite error: The named reference“variety” was invoked but never defined (see thehelp page).
4. "Baftas 2018: Three Billboards wins best film and dancing fish-men – as it happened"
(https://www.theguardian.com/
film/live/2018/feb/18/baftas-2018-the-frocks-the-speeches-and-joanna-lumley-live)
. The Guardian. 18 February 2018.
Retrieved 21 February 2018.
5. "BAFTA Winners:Updating Live"(https://variety.com/2018/film/news/bafta-winners-main-story-1202702020/). Variety.
Retrieved 19 February 2018.
6. "Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs at the Baftas 2018 – and becomes first musician to perform at the awards twice"(ht
tp://www.classicfm.com/events/baftas/sheku-kanneh-mason-evening-of-roses/). Classic FM. Retrieved 20 February
2018.
7. "Baftas 2018: Winners list – In Full"(http://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-news/baftas-winners-full-list-2018-film-nominations-red-car
pet-photos-gossip-11364251145115). BT.com. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
8. "71st British Academy Film Awards" (http://awards.bafta.org/sites/default/files/images/ee_british_academy_film_awa
rds_1718-_key_dates.pdf). BAFTA.org.
9. "Bafta Film Awards 2018: All the nominees"(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42618239). BBC.
Retrieved 9 January 2018.
10. "Bafta Film Awards 2018: All the winners"(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42618239). BBC News. 18
February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
11. "EE British Academy Film Awards Nominations in 2018" (http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/ee-british-academy-film-a
wards-in-2018#sound). bafta.org. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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