Atom bomb epic B次元官网网址淥ppenheimerB次元官网网址� won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. Gothic fantasia B次元官网网址淧oor ThingsB次元官网网址� took five prizes.
Christopher Nolan was named best director for B次元官网网址淥ppenheimer,B次元官网网址� and Cillian Murphy won the best actor prize for playing J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
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Holocaust drama B次元官网网址� The Zone of InterestB次元官网网址� B次元官网网址� a British-produced film shot in Poland with a largely German cast B次元官网网址� was named both best British film and best film not in English, a first.
Jonathan GlazerB次元官网网址檚 unsettling drama takes place in a family home just outside the walls of Auschwitz.
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Historical epic B次元官网网址淜illers of the Flower MoonB次元官网网址� had nine nominations for the awards, officially called the EE BAFTA Film Awards, but went home empty-handed.
The ceremony, hosted by B次元官网网址淒octor WhoB次元官网网址� star David Tennant B次元官网网址� who entered wearing a kilt and sequined top while carrying a dog named Bark Ruffalo B次元官网网址� is a glitzy, British-accented appetizer for HollywoodB次元官网网址檚 Academy Awards, closely watched for hints about who might win at the Oscars on March 10.
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Cord Jefferson won the adapted screenplay prize for the satirical B次元官网网址淎merican Fiction,B次元官网网址� about the struggles of an African-American novelist
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B次元官网网址� Barbie,B次元官网网址� one half of 2023B次元官网网址檚 B次元官网网址淏arbenheimerB次元官网网址� box office juggernaut and the yearB次元官网网址檚 top-grossing film, also went home empty-handed from five nominations.
B次元官网网址淏arbieB次元官网网址� director Greta Gerwig failed to get a directing nomination for either the BAFTAs or the Oscars, in what was seen by many as a major snub.
BritainB次元官网网址檚 film academy introduced changes to increase the awardsB次元官网网址� diversity in 2020, when no women were nominated as best director for the seventh year running and all 20 nominees in the lead and supporting performer categories were white. However, Triet was the only woman among this yearB次元官网网址檚 six best-director nominees.
Before the ceremony, nominees including Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Rosamund Pike, Ryan Gosling and Ayo Edebiri all walked the red carpet at LondonB次元官网网址檚 Royal Festival Hall, along with presenters Andrew Scott, Cate Blanchett and David Beckham.
Guest of honor was Prince William, in his role as president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He arrived without his wife, Kate, who is recovering from abdominal surgery last month.
The ceremony included musical performances by B次元官网网址淭ed LassoB次元官网网址� star Hannah Waddingham, singing B次元官网网址淭ime After Time,B次元官网网址� and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singing her 2001 hit B次元官网网址淢urder on the Dancefloor,B次元官网网址� which shot back up the charts after featuring in B次元官网网址淪altburn.B次元官网网址�
Actress Samantha Morton received the academyB次元官网网址檚 highest honor, the BAFTA Fellowship, and film curator June Givanni, founder of the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, was honored for outstanding British contribution to cinema.
SundayB次元官网网址檚 ceremony was being broadcast on BBC One in the U.K. from 1900GMT, and on streaming service BritBox in the U.S., Canada, Australia and South Africa.
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Hilary Fox contributed to this story.
Jill Lawless, The Associated Press
