The 2022 BAFTA Film Awards spread the wealth, with Oscar front-runner The Power of the Dog hanging on to win the big two prizes of the night—best picture and director (Jane Campion)—and exactly nothing else, as Dune cleaned up below the line and rival best-picture contenders CODA and Licorice Pizza surged with major screenplay wins.
BAFTA offers a key glimpse of late-breaking momentum in awards season, as the ceremony follows the SAG Awards and has a membership that overlaps considerably with the Oscar voting body. (Last year it forecast lead-acting wins for Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand, both of whom had lost at SAG and Critics Choice.) This time around, the acting races went mostly as expected, with Will Smith, Troy Kotsur, and Ariana DeBose continuing their clear march toward Academy Award glory. Fittingly, though, the chaotic best-actress field, which featured zero crossover with the Oscars’ lineup (an exceedingly rare occurrence), went even more out-there than expected: Voters didn’t yield to a star who likely just missed with the Oscars, like Alana Haim or Lady Gaga, instead bestowing British acting treasure Joanna Scanlan with a rousing upset victory for After Love, the intimate grief drama released in the U.K. back in the summer.
Paul Thomas Anderson scored his first major industry win for Licorice Pizza’s screenplay as he inches closer to his first-ever Oscar. Meanwhile, the adapted-screenplay race had been considered competitive, with Power a kind of default category leader, but also vulnerable given its dominance in other areas like directing. CODA, propelled by palpable on-the-ground momentum in the past few weeks on the awards trail, was in retrospect an obvious spoiler here, but its win still feels major. The campaign behind the little-indie-that-could has set its sights on a best-picture stunner, and these are the pickups it needs for fuel. And if you’re really counting tea leaves, an editing win for No Time to Die keeps King Richard’s top-category hopes alive too: The biopic is looking good for the editing Oscar after winning with the ACE guild last week, and Smith even held off Benedict Cumberbatch here at BAFTA to maintain his uncontested run in lead actor.
Despite misses for Cumberbatch, Campion’s screenplay, and Ari Wegner’s cinematography, this was a good-enough day on a very good weekend for The Power of the Dog. Campion appears unstoppable in the directing race, if that wasn’t already clear, and while CODA is likely the closest thing we’ve got to a challenger, no film has proven it can beat the Netflix Western where it counts. (Relatedly: This is likely the end of the road for Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which had to settle for best British film on home turf.) After all, CODA wasn’t even nominated for BAFTA’s best-film award—and in the last 25 years, only one film has managed to win the best-picture Oscar without making that BAFTA top five (Unforgiven).
In other words, the British Academy didn’t quite shake things up like last year. But these voters have offered enough intrigue to keep some juicy possibilities alive. See the full winners list below. —David Canfield
Best Film
- Belfast
- Don’t Look Up
- Dune
- Licorice Pizza
- WINNER: The Power of the Dog
Director
- After Love, Aleem Khan
- Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Happening, Audrey Diwan
- Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson
- WINNER: The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion
- Titane, Julia Ducournau
Original Screenplay
- Being the Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin
- Belfast, Kenneth Branagh
- Don’t Look Up, Adam Mckay
- King Richard, Zach Baylin
- WINNER: Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson
Adapted Screenplay
- WINNER: CODA, Siân Heder
- Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Dune, Denis Villeneuve
- The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal
- The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion
Leading Actress
- Lady Gaga, House of Gucci
- Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
- Emilia Jones, CODA
- Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
- WINNER: Joanna Scanlan, After Love
- Tessa Thompson, Passing
Leading Actor
- Adeel Akhtar, Ali & Ava
- Mahershala Ali, Swan Song
- Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Don’t Look Up
- Stephen Graham, Boiling Point
- WINNER: Will Smith, King Richard
Supporting Actress
- Caitríona Balfe, Belfast
- Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
- WINNER: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
- Ann Dowd, Mass
- Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
- Ruth Negga, Passing
Supporting Actor
- Mike Faist, West Side Story
- Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
- WINNER: Troy Kotsur, CODA
- Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon
- Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
- Kodi Smit-Mcphee, The Power of the Dog
Original Score
- Being the Ricardos, Daniel Pemberton
- Don’t Look Up, Nicholas Britell
- WINNER: Dune, Hans Zimmer
- The French Dispatch, Alexandre Desplat
- The Power of the Dog, Jonny Greenwood
Casting
- Boiling Point, Carolyn Mcleod
- Dune, Francine, Maisler
- The Hand of God, Massimo Appolloni, Annamaria Sambucco
- King Richard, Rich Delia, Avy Kaufman
- WINNER: West Side Story, Cindy Tolan
Cinematography
- WINNER: Dune, Greig Fraser
- Nightmare Alley, Dan Laustsen
- No Time to Die, Linus Sandgren
- The Power of the Dog, Ari Wegner
- The Tragedy of Macbeth, Bruno Delbonnel
Editing
- Belfast, Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
- Dune, Joe Walker
- Licorice Pizza, Andy Jurgensen
- WINNER: No Time to Die, Tom Cross, Elliot Graham
- Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Joshua L. Pearson
Production Design
- Cyrano, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
- WINNER: Dune, Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos
- The French Dispatch, Adam Stockhausen, Rena Deangelo
- Nightmare Alley, Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
- West Side Story, Adam Stockhausen, Rena Deangelo
Costume Design
- WINNER: Cruella, Jenny Beavan
- Cyrano, Massimo Cantini Parrini
- Dune, Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West
- The French Dispatch, Milena Canonero
- Nightmare Alley, Luis Sequeira
Makeup & Hair
- Cruella, Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne
- Cyrano, Alessandro Bertolazzi, Siân Miller
- Dune, Love Larson, Donald Mowat
- WINNER: The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh
- House of Gucci, Frederic Aspiras, Jane Carboni, Giuliano Mariana, Sarah Nicole Tanno
Sound
- WINNER: Dune, Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett
- Last Night in Soho, Colin Nicolson, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Dan Morgan
- No Time to Die, James Harrison, Simon Hayes, Paul Massey, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor
- A Quiet Place Part II, Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, Ethan Van Der Ryn
- West Side Story, Brian Chumney, Tod Maitland, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom
Special Visual Effects
- WINNER: Dune, Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer
- Free Guy, Swen Gillberg, Brian Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Daniel Sudick
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Aharon Bourland, Sheena Duggal, Pier Lefebvre, Alessandro Ongaro
- The Matrix Resurrections, Tom Debenham, Hew J Evans, Dan Glass, J. D. Schwalm
- No Time to Die, Mark Bokowski, Chris Corbould, Joel Green, Charlie Noble
Outstanding British Film
- After Love
- Ali & Ava
- WINNER: Belfast
- Boiling Point
- Cyrano
- Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
- House of Gucci
- Last Night in Soho
- No Time to Die
- Passing
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
- After Love, Aleem Khan (writer/director)
- Boiling Point, James Cummings (writer), Hester Ruoff (producer) [also written by Philip Barantini and produced by Bart Ruspoli]
- WINNER: The Harder They Fall, Jeymes Samuel (writer/director) [Also written by Boaz Yakin]
- Keyboard Fantasies, Posy Dixon (writer/director), Liv Proctor (producer)
- Passing, Rebecca Hall (writer/director)
Film Not in the English Language
- WINNER: Drive My Car
- The Hand of God
- Parallel Mothers
- Petite Maman
- The Worst Person in the World
Documentary
- Becoming Cousteau
- Cow
- Flee
- The Rescue
- WINNER: Summer Of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Animated Film
- WINNER: Encanto
- Flee
- Luca
- The Mitchells vs the Machines
British Short Animation
- Affairs of the Art, Joanna Quinn, Les Mills
- WINNER: Do Not Feed the Pigeons, Jordi Morera
- Night of the Living Dread, Ida Melum, Danielle Goff, Laura Jayne Tunbridge, Hannah Kelso
British Short Film
- WINNER: The Black Cop, Cherish Oteka
- Femme, Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams
- The Palace, Jo Prichard
- Stuffed, Theo Rhys, Joss Holden-Rea
- Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee, Michael Woodward, Max Barron, Daniel Wheldon
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