‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ wins huge at 2023 BAFTA Awards
8 min readBy Associated Press
LONDON: Antiwar German film “All Quiet on the Western Front” gained seven prizes, together with greatest image, on the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, constructing the somber drama’s momentum as awards season rolls towards its climax at subsequent month’s Oscars.
Irish tragicomedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” and rock biopic “Elvis” took 4 prizes every.
“All Quiet,” a visceral depiction of life and demise within the World War I trenches based mostly on Erich Maria Remarque’s basic novel, gained Edward Berger the most effective director award. Its different trophies included tailored screenplay, cinematography, greatest rating, greatest sound and greatest movie not in English.
Austin Butler was a shock greatest actor winner for “Elvis.” Baz Lurhmann’s flamboyant musical additionally gained trophies for casting, costume design and hair and make-up. Cate Blanchett gained the most effective actress prize for orchestral drama “Tár.”
Martin McDonagh’s “Banshees,” the bleakly funny story of a friendship gone bitter, was named greatest British movie.
“Best what award?” joked McDonagh of the movie, which was shot in Ireland with a largely Irish solid and crew. It has British funding, and McDonagh was born in Britain to Irish dad and mom.
“Banshees” additionally gained for McDonagh’s unique screenplay, and awards for Kerry Condon as greatest supporting actress and Barry Keoghan for greatest supporting actor.
The prizes — formally the EE BAFTA Film Awards — are Britain’s equal of Hollywood’s Academy Awards and will probably be watched carefully for hints of who might win on the Oscars on March 12.
Madcap metaverse romp “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the Academy Awards front-runner, was the night time’s huge loser, profitable only one prize from its 10 BAFTA nominations, for modifying.
Actor Richard E. Grant was a suave and self-deprecating host — with assist from TV presenter Alison Hammond — for the ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall, the place the U.Ok’s film academy heralded its strides to turn into extra various however mentioned there was extra to be executed.
Grant joked in his opening monologue concerning the notorious altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock finally 12 months’s Oscars.
“Nobody on my watch gets slapped tonight,” he mentioned. “Except on the back.”
Guests and presenters strolling the crimson carpet on the south financial institution of the River Thames included Colin Farrell, Ana de Armas, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Cox, Florence Pugh, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cynthia Erivo, Julianne Moore and Lily James.
Heir to the throne Prince William, who’s president of Britain’s movie and tv academy, was within the viewers alongside his spouse, Kate. William wore a tuxedo with black velvet jacket, whereas Kate wearing a floor-length Alexander McQueen costume that she additionally wore to the 2019 BAFTAs.
Helen Mirren paid tribute to William’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September. Mirren, who portrayed the late monarch onscreen in “The Queen” and onstage in “The Audience,” known as Elizabeth “the nation’s leading lady.”
Britain’s movie academy launched adjustments to extend the awards’ variety in 2020, when no girls have been nominated as greatest director for the seventh 12 months operating and all 20 nominees within the lead and supporting performer classes have been white.
This 12 months there have been 11 feminine administrators up for awards throughout all classes, together with documentary and animated movies. But simply one of many essential best-director nominees was feminine: Gina Prince-Bythewood for “The Woman King.”
BAFTA chair Krishnendu Majumdar mentioned the academy’s soul-searching had been “a necessary and humbling process.” He mentioned the “vital work of levelling the playing field” would proceed.
“West Side Story” star Ariana DeBose opened the present by performing “Sisters are Doin’ it for Themselves,” with an added rap shoutout to a number of the nominated girls, together with Blanchett, Michelle Yeoh and Viola Davis.
Blanchett mentioned it had been “an extraordinary year for female performers. To be counted among them is really special.”
It was a robust 12 months for Irish actors on the BAFTAs, with Deryl McCormack up for the BAFTA Rising Star award — although he misplaced out to Emma Mackey – and Condon, Keoghan, Farrell and Brendan Gleeson all getting performing nominations for “Banshees.”
McCormack hailed the occasion as “the Irish BAFTAs.”
“It is a small country, but to see the talent that comes out of it is quite amazing,” he mentioned.
Writer-director Charlotte Wells gained the prize for greatest British debut for the affecting father-daughter drama “Aftersun.” Three-time Oscar winner Sandy Powell grew to become the primary costume designer to be awarded the academy’s prime honor, the BAFTA fellowship.
The harsh world outdoors showbiz intruded on the awards when Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, who works for investigative web site Bellingcat, mentioned he was now allowed to attend the awards due to a danger to public safety. He options in “Navalny,” a movie about jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny that gained the most effective documentary BAFTA.
“Navalny” producer Odessa Rae devoted the award to Grozev, “our Bulgarian nerd with a laptop, who could not be with us tonight because his life is under threat by the Russian government and Vladimir Putin.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, a supporting actress nominee for “Everything Everywhere,” mentioned the prospect awards season supplies to rejoice cinema was extra essential than who wins.
“It’s a moment of celebration in the midst of everything,” Curtis informed The Associated Press on the crimson carpet. “It’s hard out there. Everywhere. All at once. All the time.”
LONDON: Antiwar German film “All Quiet on the Western Front” gained seven prizes, together with greatest image, on the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, constructing the somber drama’s momentum as awards season rolls towards its climax at subsequent month’s Oscars.
Irish tragicomedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” and rock biopic “Elvis” took 4 prizes every.
“All Quiet,” a visceral depiction of life and demise within the World War I trenches based mostly on Erich Maria Remarque’s basic novel, gained Edward Berger the most effective director award. Its different trophies included tailored screenplay, cinematography, greatest rating, greatest sound and greatest movie not in English.
Austin Butler was a shock greatest actor winner for “Elvis.” Baz Lurhmann’s flamboyant musical additionally gained trophies for casting, costume design and hair and make-up. Cate Blanchett gained the most effective actress prize for orchestral drama “Tár.”
Martin McDonagh’s “Banshees,” the bleakly funny story of a friendship gone bitter, was named greatest British movie.
“Best what award?” joked McDonagh of the movie, which was shot in Ireland with a largely Irish solid and crew. It has British funding, and McDonagh was born in Britain to Irish dad and mom.
“Banshees” additionally gained for McDonagh’s unique screenplay, and awards for Kerry Condon as greatest supporting actress and Barry Keoghan for greatest supporting actor.
The prizes — formally the EE BAFTA Film Awards — are Britain’s equal of Hollywood’s Academy Awards and will probably be watched carefully for hints of who might win on the Oscars on March 12.
Madcap metaverse romp “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the Academy Awards front-runner, was the night time’s huge loser, profitable only one prize from its 10 BAFTA nominations, for modifying.
Actor Richard E. Grant was a suave and self-deprecating host — with assist from TV presenter Alison Hammond — for the ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall, the place the U.Ok’s film academy heralded its strides to turn into extra various however mentioned there was extra to be executed.
Grant joked in his opening monologue concerning the notorious altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock finally 12 months’s Oscars.
“Nobody on my watch gets slapped tonight,” he mentioned. “Except on the back.”
Guests and presenters strolling the crimson carpet on the south financial institution of the River Thames included Colin Farrell, Ana de Armas, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Cox, Florence Pugh, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cynthia Erivo, Julianne Moore and Lily James.
Heir to the throne Prince William, who’s president of Britain’s movie and tv academy, was within the viewers alongside his spouse, Kate. William wore a tuxedo with black velvet jacket, whereas Kate wearing a floor-length Alexander McQueen costume that she additionally wore to the 2019 BAFTAs.
Helen Mirren paid tribute to William’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September. Mirren, who portrayed the late monarch onscreen in “The Queen” and onstage in “The Audience,” known as Elizabeth “the nation’s leading lady.”
Britain’s movie academy launched adjustments to extend the awards’ variety in 2020, when no girls have been nominated as greatest director for the seventh 12 months operating and all 20 nominees within the lead and supporting performer classes have been white.
This 12 months there have been 11 feminine administrators up for awards throughout all classes, together with documentary and animated movies. But simply one of many essential best-director nominees was feminine: Gina Prince-Bythewood for “The Woman King.”
BAFTA chair Krishnendu Majumdar mentioned the academy’s soul-searching had been “a necessary and humbling process.” He mentioned the “vital work of levelling the playing field” would proceed.
“West Side Story” star Ariana DeBose opened the present by performing “Sisters are Doin’ it for Themselves,” with an added rap shoutout to a number of the nominated girls, together with Blanchett, Michelle Yeoh and Viola Davis.
Blanchett mentioned it had been “an extraordinary year for female performers. To be counted among them is really special.”
It was a robust 12 months for Irish actors on the BAFTAs, with Deryl McCormack up for the BAFTA Rising Star award — although he misplaced out to Emma Mackey – and Condon, Keoghan, Farrell and Brendan Gleeson all getting performing nominations for “Banshees.”
McCormack hailed the occasion as “the Irish BAFTAs.”
“It is a small country, but to see the talent that comes out of it is quite amazing,” he mentioned.
Writer-director Charlotte Wells gained the prize for greatest British debut for the affecting father-daughter drama “Aftersun.” Three-time Oscar winner Sandy Powell grew to become the primary costume designer to be awarded the academy’s prime honor, the BAFTA fellowship.
The harsh world outdoors showbiz intruded on the awards when Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, who works for investigative web site Bellingcat, mentioned he was now allowed to attend the awards due to a danger to public safety. He options in “Navalny,” a movie about jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny that gained the most effective documentary BAFTA.
“Navalny” producer Odessa Rae devoted the award to Grozev, “our Bulgarian nerd with a laptop, who could not be with us tonight because his life is under threat by the Russian government and Vladimir Putin.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, a supporting actress nominee for “Everything Everywhere,” mentioned the prospect awards season supplies to rejoice cinema was extra essential than who wins.
“It’s a moment of celebration in the midst of everything,” Curtis informed The Associated Press on the crimson carpet. “It’s hard out there. Everywhere. All at once. All the time.”
