All Quiet on the Western Front was the big winner across the pond at BAFTA today
Well there’s a twist. The BAFTAS went hard for All Quiet, giving it a whopping 7 trophies including Best Picture and Director. Banshees of Inisherin took home four, including screenplay and two supporting acting winners, but Colin Farrell lost to Austin Butler in Best Actor (congrats on the Oscar Austin) while Cate Blanchett continued to steamroll in Best Actress. We’ll see what happens at SAG next weekend, but dismiss the BAFTA acting winners at your peril. They’ve consistently provided clues as to the eventual Oscar winners, so I’d say that Angela Bassett could definitely be upset by Kerry Condon at least. Banshees love will manifest somewhere, thanks to significant overlap between the acting branches in these organizations, and the same goes for All Quiet (likely in techs). BAFTA wasn’t big on Everything Everywhere, giving it a single award in editing, but I think it’s still fine at the Oscars. BAFTA isn’t as good with matching Best Picture or Director.
2023 BAFTA WINNERS
BEST FILM: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
DIRECTOR: Edward Berger, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
LEADING ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, TAR
LEADING ACTOR: Austin Butler, ELVIS
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kerry Condon, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Barry Keoghan, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER or DIRECTOR: Charlotte Wells, AFTERSUN
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
ANIMATED FILM: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
DOCUMENTARY: NAVALNY
CINEMATOGRAPHY: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
EDITING: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
PRODUCTION DESIGN: BABYLON
ORIGINAL SCORE: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
COSTUME DESIGN: ELVIS
SOUND: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS: AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
MAKE UP & HAIR: ELVIS
CASTING: ELVIS
