British Academy Film Awards 2017
The 70th British Academy Film Awards ceremony took place on February 12, 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall in London to honor the best films of the 2016 film year . As usual, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards are presented in 22 categories . The event was hosted by British actor and presenter Stephen Fry , who took on this role for the twelfth time.
The nominations were announced on January 10, 2017. The most frequently nominated for the BAFTA Award was Damien Chazelle's musical La La Land (11 nominations), followed by Denis Villeneuve's science fiction film Arrival and Tom Ford's thriller drama Nocturnal Animals (9 nominations each). The most successful film of the award ceremony was La La Land , which was able to convert five of its nominations into victories (film, direction, leading actress, camera, film music).
| Movie | N | A. |
|---|---|---|
| La La Land | 11 | 5 |
| Arrival | 9 | 1 |
| Nocturnal Animals | 9 | 0 |
| Manchester by the Sea | 6th | 2 |
| Hacksaw Ridge - The Decision | 5 | 1 |
| Me, Daniel Blake | 5 | 1 |
| Lion - The long way home | 5 | 2 |
| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | 5 | 1 |
| Florence Foster Jenkins | 4th | 1 |
| Moonlight | 4th | 0 |
| Doctor Strange | 3 | 0 |
| Hell or high water | 3 | 0 |
| Jackie: The first lady | 3 | 1 |
| Seeing in the Dark - Notes from a Blind Man | 3 | 0 |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2 | 0 |
| Under the shadow | 2 | 1 |
Award winners and nominations
Best movie
La La Land - Fred Berger , Jordan Horowitz , Marc Platt
- Arrival - Shawn Levy , Dan Levine , Aaron Ryder , David Linde
- Me, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake) - Rebecca O'Brien
- Manchester by the Sea - Matt Damon , Kimberly Steward , Chris Moore , Lauren Beck , Kevin J. Walsh
- Moonlight - Adele Romanski , Dede Gardner , Jeremy Kleiner
Best British Film
Ich, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake) - Director: Ken Loach
- American Honey - Director: Andrea Arnold
- Seeing in the Dark - Notes on Blindness - Directed by Pete Middleton , James Spinney
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to find (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) - Director: David Yates
- Under the Shadow (Zir-e Sayeh) - Director: Babak Anvari
- Denial (denial) - Director: Mick Jackson
Best director
- Ken Loach - Me, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake)
- Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
- Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
- Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
Best Actor
Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea
- Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge - The Decision (Hacksaw Ridge)
- Ryan Gosling - La La Land
- Jake Gyllenhaal - Nocturnal Animals
- Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic - Once Wilderness and Back (Captain Fantastic)
Best main actress
- Amy Adams - Arrival
- Emily Blunt - Girl on the Train (The Girl on the Train)
- Natalie Portman - Jackie: The First Lady (Jackie)
- Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
Best supporting actor
Dev Patel - Lion - The Long Way Home (Lion)
- Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
- Jeff Bridges - Hell or High Water
- Hugh Grant - Florence Foster Jenkins
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Nocturnal Animals
The best supporting actress
- Naomie Harris - Moonlight
- Nicole Kidman - Lion - The Long Way Home (Lion)
- Hayley Squires - Ich, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake)
- Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea
Best adapted script
Luke Davies - Lion - The Long Road Home (Lion)
- Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
- Eric Heisserer - Arrival
- Andrew Knight , Robert Schenkkan - Hacksaw Ridge - The Decision (Hacksaw Ridge)
- Theodore Melfi , Allison Schroeder - Hidden Figures - Unrecognized Heldinnen (Hidden Figures)
Best original script
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
- Damien Chazelle - La La Land
- Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
- Paul Laverty - Me, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake)
- Taylor Sheridan - Hell or High Water
Best camera
- Greig Fraser - Lion - The Long Way Home (Lion)
- Seamus McGarvey - Nocturnal Animals
- Giles Nuttgens - Hell or High Water
- Bradford Young - Arrival
Best production design
Stuart Craig , Anna Pinnock - Fantastic Beasts and where to find them (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
- John Bush , Charles Wood - Doctor Strange
- Meg Everist , Shane Valentino - Nocturnal Animals
- Jess Gonchor , Nancy Haigh - Hail, Caesar!
- Sandy Reynolds-Wasco , David Wasco - La La Land
Best costume design
Madeline Fontaine - Jackie: The First Lady (Jackie)
- Colleen Atwood - Fantastic Beasts and where to find them (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
- Consolata Boyle - Florence Foster Jenkins
- Joanna Johnston - Allied - Familiar Strangers (Allied)
- Mary Zophres - La La Land
Best makeup and best hairstyles
J. Roy Helland , Daniel Phillips - Florence Foster Jenkins
- Amanda Knight , Neal Scanlan , Lisa Tomblin - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Donald Mowat , Yolanda Toussieng - Nocturnal Animals
- Shane Thomas - Hacksaw Ridge - The Decision (Hacksaw Ridge)
- Jeremy Woodhead - Doctor Strange
Best film score
- Volker Bertelmann , Dustin O'Halloran - Lion - The Long Way Home (Lion)
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Arrival
- Abel Korzeniowski - Nocturnal Animals
- Mica Levi - Jackie: The First Lady (Jackie)
Best cut
John Gilbert - Hacksaw Ridge - The Decision (Hacksaw Ridge)
- Tom Cross - La La Land
- Jennifer Lame - Manchester by the Sea
- Joan Sobel - Nocturnal Animals
- Joe Walker - Arrival
Best tone
Sylvain Bellemare , Claude La Haye , Bernard Gariépy Strobl - Arrival
- Niv Adiri , Glenn Freemantle , Simon Hayes , Andy Nelson , Ian Tapp - Fantastic Beasts and where to find them (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
- Peter Grace , Robert Mackenzie , Kevin O'Connell , Andy Wright - Hacksaw Ridge - The Decision (Hacksaw Ridge)
- Mildred Iatrou Morgan , Ai-Ling Lee , Steve A. Morrow , Andy Nelson - La La Land
- Dror Mohar , Mike Prestwood Smith , Wylie Stateman , Renée Tondelli , David Wyman - Deepwater Horizon
Best visual effects
Andrew R. Jones , Robert Legato , Dan Lemmon , Adam Valdez - The Jungle Book
- Richard Bluff , Stéphane Ceretti , Paul Corbould , Jonathan Fawkner - Doctor Strange
- Tim Burke , Pablo Grillo , Christian Manz , David Watkins - Fantastic Beasts and where to find them (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
- Neil Corbould , Hal T. Hickel , John Knoll , Mohen Leo , Nigel Sumner - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Louis Morin - Arrival
Best animated film
Kubo - The Brave Samurai ( Kubo and the two Strings ) - Travis Knight
- Finding Dory ( Finding Dory ) - Andrew Stanton
- Vaiana - Paradise has a catch ( Moana ) - Ron Clements , John Musker
- Zoomania ( Zootopia ) - Byron Howard , Rich Moore
Best British Animated Short Film
A Love Story - Khaled Gad , Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara , Elena Ruscombe-King
- The Alan Dimension - Jac Clinch, Jonathan Harbottle, Millie Marsh
- Tough - Jennifer Zheng
Best British Short Film
Home - Shpat Deda , Afolabi Kuti , Daniel Mulloy , Scott O'Donnell
- Consumed - Richard John Seymour
- Mouth of Hell - Bart Gavigan, Samir Mehanović, Ailie Smith, Michael Wilson
- The Party - Farah Abushwesha, Emmet Fleming, Andrea Harkin, Conor MacNeill
- Standby - Jack Hannon, Charlotte Regan
Best documentary
The 13th (13th) - Ava DuVernay , Spencer Averick, Howard Barish
- The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years - Ron Howard , Brian Grazer, Scott Pascucci, Nigel Sinclair
- The Eagle Huntress - Otto Bell , Stacey Reiss
- Seeing in the Dark - Notes on Blindness - Peter Middleton , James Spinney
- Weiner - Josh Kriegman , Elyse Steinberg
Best foreign language film
Son of Saul - László Nemes and Gábor Sipos
- Demons and Miracles ( Dheepan ) - Jacques Audiard , Pascal Caucheteux
- Julieta - Pedro Almodóvar , Agustín Almodóvar
- Mustang - Deniz Gamze Ergüven , Charles Gillibert
- Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade , Janine Jackowski
Best young talent
Babak Anvari (writer, director); Emily Leo , Oliver Roskill , Lucan Toh (producers) - Under the Shadow
- Mike Carey (Author); Camille Gatin (producer) - The Girl with All the Gifts
- George Amponsah (writer, director, producer); Dione Walker (writer, producer) - The Hard Stop
- Pete Middleton (writer, director, producer); Jo-Jo Ellison (producer) - Seeing in the Dark - Notes on Blindness
- John Donnelly (Author); Ben Williams (Director) - The Pass
Best Young Actor (EE Rising Star Award)
The EE Rising Star Award is an audience award . The nominations were announced on January 5, 2017. The winner was determined through a telephone vote.
Prizes of honor
Academy Fellowship
Mel Brooks , American director, actor, screenwriter and producer
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
Curzon , British cinema chain and distributor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ EE British Academy Film Awards: Royal Albert Hall confirmed as venue for 2017 awards (English) on royalalberthall.com, accessed on January 1, 2017.
- ↑ Jack Shepherd: Baftas 2017: Tom Holland, Ruth Negga, and Anya Taylor-Joy amongst nominees for Rising Star award In: independent.co.uk, January 5, 2017.