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‘The Favourite’ dominates the BAFTA Awards 2019 and takes home seven out of 12 nominations

The new Yorgos Lanthimos' new film stars Olivia Colmon, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone

By Steve Brown

The Favourite is this year’s big BAFTA winner.

At last night’s EE British Academy Film Awards, Yorgos Lanthimos’ new movie dominated the prestigious film awards and took home seven out of the 12 nominations and was named Outstanding British Film.

Olivia Colman took home the BAFTA for Leading Actress while co-star Rachel Weisz received Supporting Actress.

The film – which follows the love affair between Queen Anne and two female consorts – also won Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design and Make Up & Hair.

Attitude’s former cover star Rami Malek also won Leading Actor for his performance as Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody – which also took home the award for Sound.

The Mexican movie Roma won four awards including Best Film, Director, Cinematography and Film Not in the English Language.

Supporting Actor was awarded to Mahershala Ali for his role in Green Book and A Star Is Born won Original Music.

Vice – which is based around Dick Cheney – took the BAFTA for Editing and Marvel’s Black Panther was award Special Visual Effects

BlacKkKlansman won Adapted Screenplay, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse took the award for Animated Film and Free Solo received the Documentary award.

Here is the list of all the winners:

FELLOWSHIP

THELMA SCHOONMAKER

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA

ELIZABETH KARLSEN & STEPHEN WOOLLEY

BEST FILM

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER 
BEAST Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

DOCUMENTARY

FREE SOLO Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Shannon Dill, Evan Hayes

ANIMATED FILM

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord 

DIRECTOR

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

THE FAVOURITE Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott

LEADING ACTRESS

OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite

LEADING ACTOR

RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite

SUPPORTING ACTOR

MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book

ORIGINAL MUSIC 

A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson

CINEMATOGRAPHY

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón

EDITING

VICE Hank Corwin

PRODUCTION DESIGN

THE FAVOURITE Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton

COSTUME DESIGN

THE FAVOURITE Sandy Powell

MAKE UP & HAIR

THE FAVOURITE Nadia Stacey

SOUND

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

BLACK PANTHER Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION 

ROUGHHOUSE Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom

BRITISH SHORT FILM

73 COWS Alex Lockwood

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public) 

LETITIA WRIGHT