Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr, swept the Bafta Awards. Murphy won Best Actor playing the father of the atomic bomb, J Robert Oppenheimer, while Downey Jr won Best Supporting Actor. The film also won Best Film, with Michael J Fox revealing the win. Oppenheimer won seven Baftas in total.
Although the Oscars are coming up, the Bafta winners and Oppenheimer could well win again. However, Bafta and Oscar voters are famous for rarely totally agreeing. Poor Things won five Baftas, including Best Actress, Emma Stone. Best Supporting Actress went to Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers.
In his first Bafta win, Christopher Nolan thanked his cast, particularly Cillian Murphy, for delivering time and time again. He also acknowledged his backers for taking on something dark. Downey Jr’s win for Best Supporting Actor came 31 years after his previous Bafta victory, which was for the 1993 film, Chaplin. He thanked Nolan for always suggesting an understated approach to resurrect his dwindling credibility.
Four acting prizes were won by non-British actors. This was the second year in a row that none of the four acting prizes were won by Britons at the highest point in the English film calendar. The Zone of Interest, made mainly in German about the concentration camp commander and his family living next to Auschwitz during World War Two, won Best British Film.
The Boy and the Heron, made by animator Hayao Miyazaki, won Best Animated Film, becoming the first Japanese production to do so. French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall and American Fiction, a satire about a US novelist, won best screenplay awards
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