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‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ and ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Nab Wins at 2023 BAFTA Awards

The two hit films continue their award-winning ways; ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse’ wins for Best British Short Animation at the Sunday night ceremony.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Avatar: The Way of Water were two of the big winners at last night’s 2023 EE British Academy Film Awards, held each year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Nominees and guests attended an in-person ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall hosted by Richard E. Grant.

Guillermo del Toro’s hit stop-motion adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ continued its successful awards season run with a BAFTA for best Animated Film. James Cameron’s latest box office juggernaut, his follow-up to the 2009 smash, Avatar, also continued to rack up awards season honors, winning the BAFTA for best Special Visual Effects. Not to be outdone, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse took home the BAFTA for best British Short Animation. 

All Quiet on the Western Front was the evening’s big overall winner, taking home seven BAFTAs: Best Film; Director for Edward Berger; Film Not in the English Language; Adapted Screenplay; Cinematography; Original Score and Sound.

The complete list of BAFTA Award nominations and winners (in bold) is as follows:

BEST FILM
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Malte Grunert
  • THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
  • ELVIS Gail Berman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss
  • EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang
  • TÁR Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
  • AFTERSUN Charlotte Wells, Producer(s) TBC
  • THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
  • BRIAN AND CHARLES Jim Archer, Rupert Majendie, David Earl, Chris Hayward
  • EMPIRE OF LIGHT Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris
  • GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Sophie Hyde, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski, Katy Brand
  • LIVING Oliver Hermanus, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Matthew Warchus, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn, Luke Kelly, Dennis Kelly
  • SEE HOW THEY RUN Tom George, Gina Carter, Damian Jones, Mark Chappell
  • THE SWIMMERS Sally El Hosaini, Producer(s) TBC, Jack Thorne
  • THE WONDER Sebastián Lelio, Ed Guiney, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
  • AFTERSUN Charlotte Wells (Writer/Director)
  • BLUE JEAN Georgia Oakley (Writer/Director), Hélène Sifre (Producer)
  • ELECTRIC MALADY Marie Lidén (Director)
  • GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Katy Brand (Writer)
  • REBELLION Elena Sánchez Bellot (Director) Maia Kenworthy (Director) 
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Malte Grunert
  • ARGENTINA, 1985 Santiago Mitre, Producer(s) TBC
  • CORSAGE Marie Kreutzer
  • DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok
  • THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí
DOCUMENTARY
  • ALL THAT BREATHES Shaunak Sen, Teddy Leifer, Aman Mann
  • ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John Lyons
  • FIRE OF LOVE Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Ina Fichman
  • MOONAGE DAYDREAM Brett Morgen
  • NAVALNY Daniel Roher, Diane Becker, Shane Boris, Melanie Miller, Odessa Rae
ANIMATED FILM
  • GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley
  • MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON Dean Fleisher Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey
  • PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH Joel Crawford, Mark Swift
  • TURNING RED Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins
DIRECTOR
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger
  • THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh
  • DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook
  • EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
  • TÁR Todd Field
  • THE WOMAN KING Gina Prince-Bythewood
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
  • THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh
  • EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
  • THE FABELMANS Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg
  • TÁR Todd Field
  • TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
  • LIVING Kazuo Ishiguro
  • THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad
  • SHE SAID Rebecca Lenkiewicz
  • THE WHALE Samuel D. Hunter
LEADING ACTRESS
  • CATE BLANCHETT Tár
  • VIOLA DAVIS The Woman King
  • DANIELLE DEADWYLER Till
  • ANA DE ARMAS Blonde
  • EMMA THOMPSON Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  • MICHELLE YEOH Everything Everywhere All At Once
LEADING ACTOR
  • AUSTIN BUTLER Elvis
  • COLIN FARRELL The Banshees of Inisherin
  • BRENDAN FRASER The Whale
  • DARYL McCORMACK Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  • PAUL MESCAL Aftersun
  • BILL NIGHY Living
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
  • ANGELA BASSETT Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • HONG CHAU The Whale
  • KERRY CONDON The Banshees of Inisherin
  • DOLLY DE LEON Triangle of Sadness
  • JAMIE LEE CURTIS Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • CAREY MULLIGAN She Said
SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • BRENDAN GLEESON The Banshees of Inisherin
  • BARRY KEOGHAN The Banshees of Inisherin
  • KE HUY QUAN Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • EDDIE REDMAYNE The Good Nurse
  • ALBRECHT SCHUCH All Quiet on the Western Front
  • MICHEAL WARD Empire of Light
ORIGINAL SCORE
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Volker Bertelmann
  • BABYLON Justin Hurwitz
  • THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Carter Burwell
  • EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Son Lux
  • GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Alexandre Desplat
CASTING
  • AFTERSUN Lucy Pardee
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Simone Bär
  • ELVIS Nikki Barrett, Denise Chamian
  • EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Sarah Halley Finn
  • TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Pauline Hansson
CINEMATOGRAPHY
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT James Friend
  • THE BATMAN Greig Fraser
  • ELVIS Mandy Walker
  • EMPIRE OF LIGHT Roger Deakins
  • TOP GUN: MAVERICK Claudio Miranda
EDITING
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Sven Budelmann
  • THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
  • ELVIS Jonathan Redmond, Matt Villa
  • EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Paul Rogers
  • TOP GUN: MAVERICK Eddie Hamilton
PRODUCTION DESIGN
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Christian M. Goldbeck, Ernestine Hipper
  • BABYLON Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino
  • THE BATMAN James Chinlund, Lee Sandales
  • ELVIS Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn
  • GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Curt Enderle, Guy Davis
COSTUME DESIGN
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lisy Christl
  • AMSTERDAM J.R. Hawbaker, Albert Wolsky
  • BABYLON Mary Zophres
  • ELVIS Catherine Martin
  • MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS Jenny Beavan
MAKE UP & HAIR
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Heike Merker
  • THE BATMAN Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, Zoe Tahir
  • ELVIS Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulston, Shane Thomas
  • ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Naomi Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin
  • THE WHALE Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot
SOUND
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lars Ginzsel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil, Markus Stemler
  • AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Julian Howarth, Gary Summers, Gwendoyln Yates Whittle
  • ELVIS Michael Keller, David Lee, Andy Nelson, Wayne Pashley
  • TÁR Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single, Roland Winke 
  • TOP GUN: MAVERICK Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Taylor, Mark Weingarten
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Müller, Frank Petzold
  • AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon
  • THE BATMAN Russell Earl, Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands, Dominic Tuohy
  • EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Benjamin Brewer, Ethan Feldbau, Jonathan Kombrinck, Zak Stoltz
  • TOP GUN: MAVERICK Seth Hill, Scott R. Fisher, Bryan Litson, Ryan Tudhope
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
  • THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, Cara Speller, Hannah Minghella
  • MIDDLE WATCH John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden, Giles Healy
  • YOUR MOUNTAIN IS WAITING Hannah Jacobs, Zoe Muslim, Harriet Gillian
BRITISH SHORT FILM
  • THE BALLAD OF OLIVE MORRIS Alex Kayode-Kay
  • BAZIGAGA Jo Ingabire Moys, Stephanie Charmail
  • BUS GIRL Jessica Henwick, Louise Palmkvist Hansen
  • A DRIFTING UP Jacob Lee
  • AN IRISH GOODBYE Tom Berkeley, Ross White
EE RISING STAR AWARD
  • AIMEE LOU WOOD
  • DARYL McCORMACK
  • EMMA MACKEY
  • NAOMI ACKIE
  • SHEILA ATIM

Source: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts

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