69th British Academy Film Awards
British Academy Film Awards of 2016
The 69th British Academy Film Awards , more commonly known as the BAFTAs , were held on 14 February 2016 at the Royal Opera House in London , honouring the best national and foreign films of 2015 .[1] 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 2015.[2]
The nominations were announced on 8 January 2016 by Stephen Fry and actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw . Bridge of Spies and Carol received the most nominations at nine each.[3] [4] Despite leading the field in nominations, Carol failed to win any awards and Bridge of Spies won just one; Mark Rylance for Best Supporting Actor .
The Revenant won the most awards at the ceremony with five, including Best Film , Best Director for Alejandro G. Iñárritu , Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio , and Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki . Brie Larson won Best Actress for Room and Kate Winslet won Best Supporting Actress for Steve Jobs . Mad Max: Fury Road won four awards; Best Costume Design , Best Editing , Best Makeup and Hair , and Best Production Design . Brooklyn , directed by John Crowley , was voted Outstanding British Film of 2015. Sidney Poitier was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for his contribution to cinema.[5]
The ceremony was broadcast on BBC One and was watched by 4.5 million viewers, down from 4.9 million in 2015 and the lowest television audience since 2010.[6]
Winners and nominees
Alejandro G. Iñárritu , Best Director winner
Leonardo DiCaprio , Best Actor winner
Brie Larson , Best Actress winner
Mark Rylance , Best Supporting Actor winner
Kate Winslet , Best Supporting Actress winner
Tom McCarthy , Best Original Screenplay co-winner
Adam McKay , Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
John Boyega , EE Rising Star Award winner
The nominees were announced on 8 January 2016.[3] [4] The winners were announced on 14 February 2016.[4] [7]
BAFTA Fellowship
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
The Revenant – Lon Bender , Chris Duesterdiek , Martin Hernández , Frank A. Montaño , Jon Taylor and Randy Thom
Bridge of Spies – Richard Hymns , Drew Kunin , Andy Nelson and Gary Rydstrom
Mad Max: Fury Road – Scott Hecker , Chris Jenkins , Mark Mangini , Ben Osmo , Gregg Rudloff and David White
The Martian – Paul Massey , Mac Ruth , Oliver Tarney and Mark Taylor
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – David Acord , Andy Nelson , Christopher Scarabosio , Stuart Wilson and Matthew Wood
Operator – Caroline Bartleet and Rebecca Morgan
Elephant – Nick Helm , Alex Moody and Esther Smith
Mining Poems or Odes – Jack Cocker and Callum Rice
Over – Jorn Threifall and Jeremy Bannister
Samuel-613 – Cheyenne Conway and Billy Lumby
Ceremony information
The ceremony was broadcast on BBC One at 9 p.m. GMT , around two hours later than the actual ceremony. For the eleventh time, Stephen Fry acted as the host. The ceremony commenced with a segment commemorating the year in film, which was accompanied by the song "Heroes" by David Bowie , who had died the previous month. Highlighting that the ceremony was being held on Valentine's Day , the ceremony showed a kiss cam where random celebrities such as Dame Maggie Smith and Leonardo DiCaprio were persuaded by Fry to kiss each other.[10] Fry also received a number of negative comments after he said of Best Costume Design winner Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road ) as "Only one of the great cinematic costume designers would come to an awards ceremony dressed as a bag lady ". He subsequently deleted his Twitter account following criticism of his joke.[11]
A number of presenters referred to the lack of diversity at the Academy Awards . Rebel Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen both made jokes referring to the controversy.[12] Sidney Poitier was not present to collect his fellowship due to ill health.[5] Jamie Foxx and Poitier's daughter, Sydney Tamiia Poitier , presented the award to him in person at his home in Los Angeles . Noel Clarke , Lulu , and Oprah Winfrey paid tribute to him in a filmed segment.
The In Memoriam section featured Alan Rickman , Melissa Mathison , Andrew Lesnie , Maureen O'Hara , Gayle Griffiths, Haskell Wexler , Colin Welland , James Horner , David Bowie , Ron Moody , June Randall , Julie Harris , Frank Finlay , Philip French , Vilmos Zsigmond , Albert Maysles , Richard Johnson , Wes Craven , Jacques Rivette , Penelope Houston , Tommie Manderson , Christopher Wood , Saeed Jaffrey , Sheila Sim and Sir Christopher Lee .
Statistics
In Memoriam
See also
References
^ "EE British Academy Film Awards: Key Dates and Rules Published" . British Academy of Film and Television Arts . 5 August 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2015 .
^ "EE British Academy Film Awards information" . British Academy of Film and Television Arts . Retrieved 12 October 2015 .
^ a b Barraclough, Leo (5 August 2015). "BAFTA Reveals Key Dates for Film Awards to Be Held in 2016" . Variety . Retrieved 12 October 2015 .
^ a b c "Bafta Film Awards 2016: Winners" . BBC News . 14 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016 .
^ a b Lodderhose, Diana (14 February 2016). " 'The Revenant,' Leonardo DiCaprio Dominate BAFTA Awards" . Variety . Retrieved 15 February 2016 .
^ Revoir, Paul (15 February 2016). "Bafta ceremony pulls in lowest TV audience in six years" . The Guardian . Retrieved 15 February 2016 .
^ Brown, Mark; Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (14 February 2016). "Baftas 2016: The Revenant and Mad Max maul competition as Carol snubbed" . The Guardian . Retrieved 15 February 2016 .
^ "Sidney Poitier to be Honoured with BAFTA Fellowship" . British Academy of Film and Television Arts . 12 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016 .
^ "Angels Costumes to Receive the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema" . British Academy of Film and Television Arts . 18 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2016 .
^ Lee, Benjamin; Bradshaw, Peter; Beech, Peter; Shoard, Catherine (15 February 2016). "Baftas 2016: 10 things we learned" . The Guardian . Retrieved 15 February 2016 .
^ Lee, Benjamin (14 February 2016). "Stephen Fry hits back at criticism of Baftas 'bag lady' joke: 'She got it. Derrr' " . The Guardian . Retrieved 15 February 2016 .
^ Loughrey, Clarisse (15 February 2016). "BAFTAs 2016: Rebel Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen's speeches tackle diversity debate" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016 .
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