Hayao Miyazki’s first film in 10 years, and Yorgos Langthimos’ dark comedy were two of the big winners at last night’s 2024 EE British Academy Film Awards; Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' led all films with 7 wins.
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron and Yorgos Langthimos’ Poor Things were two of the big winners at last night’s 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards in a ceremony hosted by David Tennant at The Royal Festival Hall in London and broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer.
Miyazaki’s first film in 10 years beat out Aardman’s Chicken Run: Dawn of The Nugget, Disney/Pixar’s Elemental, and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse for best animated film.
Yorgos Langthimos’ Poor Things won five BAFTAs: Leading Actress for Emma Stone; Costume, Make Up & Hair, Production Design and Special Visual Effects. In the visual effects category, it competed against 20th Century Studios’ The Creator, Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and Columbia Pictures’ Napoleon.
Oppenheimer won seven BAFTAs: Best Film; Director for Christopher Nolan; Leading Actor for Cillian Murphy; Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.; Cinematography; Editing, and Original Score.
Here’s a rundown of the best films, animated films, and visual effects-driven nominees (a complete list of nominees is available here):
Best Film
- Anatomy Of a Fall - Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion
- The Holdovers - Mark Johnson
- Killers of the Flower Moon - Dan Friedkin, Daniel Lupi, Martin Scorsese, Bradley Thomas
- Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas
- Poor Things - Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone
Outstanding British Film
- All of Us Strangers - Andrew Haigh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey
- How To Have Sex - Molly Manning Walker, Emily Leo, Ivana MacKinnon, Konstantinos Kontovrakis
- Napoleon - Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Kevin J. Walsh, David Scarpa
- The Old Oak - Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien, Paul Laverty
- Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone, Tony McNamara
- Rye Lane - Raine Allen-Miller, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, Damian Jones, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia
- Saltburn - Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara, Margot Robbie
- Scrapper - Charlotte Regan, Theo Barrowclough
- Wonka - Paul King, Alexandra Derbyshire, David Heyman, Simon Farnaby
- The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska
Animated Film
- The Boy and The Heron - Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki
- Chicken Run: Dawn of The Nugget - Sam Fell, Leyla Hobart, Steve Pegram
- Elemental - Peter Sohn, Denise Ream
- Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Avi Arad, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, Christina Steinberg
Production Design
- Barbie Sarah - Greenwood, Katie Spencer
- Killers of the Flower Moon - Jack Fisk, Adam Willis
- Oppenheimer - Ruth De Jong, Claire Kaufman
- Poor Things Shona - Heath, James Price, Zsuzsa Mihalek
- The Zone of Interest - Chris Oddy, Joanna Maria Kuś, Katarzyna Sikora
Special Visual Effects
- The Creator - Jonathan Bullock, Charmaine Chan, Ian Comley, Jay Cooper
- Guardians Of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - Theo Bialek, Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One - Neil Corbould, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland, Alex Wuttke
- Napoleon - Henry Badgett, Neil Corbould, Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet
- Poor Things - Simon Hughes
British Short Animation
- Crab Day - Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak
- Visible Mending - Samantha Moore, Tilley Bancroft
- Wild Summon - Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Jay Woolley
Source: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
