71st British Academy Film Awards

British award ceremony

The 71st British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 18 February 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2017. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2017. Following revelations of sexual harassment in the film industry, many attendees wore black or a badge to show their support for the Time's Up movement.^[1]

The nominees were announced on 9 January 2018 by actresses Natalie Dormer and Letitia Wright.^[2] The Shape of Water received the most nominations in twelve categories; Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri followed with nine each.^[3] As with the 75th Golden Globe Awards, there was criticism for the lack of female nominees for Best Director, with Greta Gerwig notably not nominated for Lady Bird.^[4]

English actress Joanna Lumley hosted the ceremony for the first time, replacing Stephen Fry following his twelve years of service as host.^[5]

Winners and nominees

The nominees were announced on 9 January 2018.^[3] The winners were announced on 18 February 2018.^[6]

BAFTA Fellowship

Ridley Scott^[7]

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

National Film and Television School^[8]

Best Film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin and Martin McDonagh Call Me by Your Name – Émilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito and Peter Spears Darkest Hour – Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski Dunkirk – Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale	Best Direction Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049 Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actor in a Leading Role *Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour* as Winston Churchill** Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington Jamie Bell – Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool as Peter Turner Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman	Best Actress in a Leading Role *Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* as Mildred Hayes** Annette Bening – Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool as Gloria Grahame Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine McPherson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role *Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* as Jason Dixon** Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World as J. Paul Getty Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 as Phoenix Buchanan Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Bill Willoughby	Best Actress in a Supporting Role *Allison Janney – I, Tonya* as LaVona Golden** Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour as Clementine Churchill Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water as Zelda Delilah Fuller
Best Original Screenplay Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh Get Out – Jordan Peele I, Tonya – Steven Rogers Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor	Best Adapted Screenplay Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and David Schneider Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool – Matt Greenhalgh Molly's Game – Aaron Sorkin Paddington 2 – Simon Farnaby and Paul King
Best Cinematography Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Ben Davis	Best Costume Design Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges Beauty and the Beast – Jacqueline Durran Darkest Hour – Jacqueline Durran I, Tonya – Jennifer Johnson The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira
Best Editing Baby Driver – Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss Blade Runner 2049 – Joe Walker Dunkirk – Lee Smith The Shape of Water – Sidney Wolinsky Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Jon Gregory	Best Makeup and Hair Darkest Hour – David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick and Kazu Hiro Blade Runner 2049 – Donald Mowat and Kerry Warn I, Tonya – Deborah La Mia Denaver and Adruitha Lee Victoria & Abdul – Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard Wonder – Naomi Bakstad, Robert Pandini and Arjen Tuiten
Best Original Music The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat Blade Runner 2049 – Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer Darkest Hour – Dario Marianelli Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood	Best Production Design The Shape of Water – Paul Denham Austerberry, Jeff Melvin and Shane Vieau Beauty and the Beast – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola Darkest Hour – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Dunkirk – Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis
Best Sound Dunkirk – Alex Gibson, Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo and Mark Weingarten Baby Driver – Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, Dan Morgan, Jeremy Price and Julian Slater Blade Runner 2049 – Ron Bartlett, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini and Mac Ruth The Shape of Water – Christian Cooke, Nelson Ferreira, Glen Gauthier, Nathan Robitaille and Brad Zoern Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Stuart Wilson and Matthew Wood	Best Special Visual Effects Blade Runner 2049 – Richard R. Hoover, Paul Lambert, Gerd Nefzer and John Nelson Dunkirk – Paul Corbould, Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Lockley The Shape of Water – Dennis Berardi, Trey Harrell, Mike Hill and Kevin Scott Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Stephen Aplin, Chris Corbould, Ben Morris and Neal Scanlan War for the Planet of the Apes – Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri and Joel Whist
Outstanding British Film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin Darkest Hour – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou, Ian Martin and David Schneider God's Own Country – Francis Lee, Manon Ardisson and Jack Tarling Lady Macbeth – William Oldroyd, Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly and Alice Birch Paddington 2 – Paul King, David Heyman and Simon Farnaby	Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer I Am Not a Witch – Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director) and Emily Morgan (Producer) The Ghoul – Gareth Tunley (Writer/Director/Producer), Jack Healy Guttmann and Tom Meeten (Producer) Jawbone – Johnny Harris (Writer/Producer) and Thomas Napper (Director) Kingdom of Us – Lucy Cohen (Director) Lady Macbeth – Alice Birch (Writer), William Oldroyd (Director) and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly (Producer)
Best Short Animation Poles Apart – Paloma Baeza and Ser En Low Have Heart – Will Anderson Mamoon – Ben Steer	Best Short Film Cowboy Dave – Colin O'Toole and Jonas Mortensen Aamir – Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone and Oliver Shuster A Drowning Man – Mahdi Fleifel, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Patrick Campbell Walk – Aneil Karia and Scott O'Donnell Wren Boys – Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon and John Fitzpatrick
Best Animated Film Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson Loving Vincent – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart My Life as a Courgette – Claude Barras and Max Karli	Best Documentary I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck City of Ghosts – Matthew Heineman Icarus – Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power – Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk Jane – Brett Morgen and Bryan Burk
Best Film Not in the English Language The Handmaiden – Park Chan-wook and Syd Lim Elle – Paul Verhoeven and Saïd Ben Saïd First They Killed My Father – Angelina Jolie and Rithy Panh Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexander Rodnyansky The Salesman – Asghar Farhadi and Alexandre Mallet-Guy	Rising Star Award Daniel Kaluuya Florence Pugh Josh O'Connor Tessa Thompson Timothée Chalamet

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
12	The Shape of Water
9	Darkest Hour
9	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8	Blade Runner 2049
8	Dunkirk
5	I, Tonya
4	Call Me by Your Name
4	Phantom Thread
3	Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
	Lady Bird
	Paddington 2
2	Baby Driver
	Beauty and the Beast
	The Death of Stalin
	Get Out
	Lady Macbeth
	Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
5	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
3	The Shape of Water
2	Blade Runner 2049
2	Darkest Hour

Presenters

The following individuals presented awards at the ceremony:^[9]

Jennifer Lawrence presented Outstanding British Film
Margot Robbie and Octavia Spencer presented EE Rising Star Award
Sergei Polunin and Gemma Chan presented Best Original Music and Best Hair and Makeup
Edward Holcroft and Tom Taylor presented Best Costume Design and Best Animated Film
Hayley Squires and Natalie Dormer presented Best Editing
Celia Imrie presented the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
Anya Taylor-Joy and Letitia Wright presented Best Short Animation and Best Short Film
Andrea Riseborough presented Best Film Not in the English Language
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Orlando Bloom presented Best Adapted Screenplay
Lupita Nyong'o presented Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Rebecca Ferguson and Toby Jones presented Best Production Design
Karen Gillan and Taron Egerton presented Best Special Visual Effects
Lily James and Gemma Arterton presented Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bryan Cranston presented Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sam Claflin and Will Poulter presented Best Sound
Rachel Weisz and Nicholas Hoult presented Best Original Screenplay
Dennis Quaid presented Best Cinematography
Salma Hayek presented Best Actor in a Leading Role
Chiwetel Ejiofor presented Best Actress in a Leading Role
Naomie Harris and Patrick Stewart presented Best Director
Daniel Craig presented Best Film
Prince William and Kenneth Branagh presented the BAFTA Fellowship

In Memoriam

References

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^ ^a ^b Ritman, Alex (9 January 2018). "BAFTA Awards: 'Shape of Water,' 'Three Billboards,' 'Darkest Hour' Lead Pack of Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
^ Desta, Yohana (9 January 2018). "Zero Female Directors Nominated at the BAFTAs This Year". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
^ "Joanna Lumley to be new Bafta Film Awards host". BBC News. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
^ "EE British Academy Film Awards Winners in 2018". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 18 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
^ "Ridley Scott to be honoured with BAFTA Fellowship". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
^ "National Film and Television School to Receive Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
^ Sheehan, Paul (16 February 2018). "2018 BAFTA Awards: Who is hosting and presenting, which nominees will be there?". Gold Derby. Retrieved 3 June 2020.