London-El Thriller Papal “Conconclave” won four awards, including better Picture Sunday in the 78th film awards of the British Academy, where “Emilia Pérez”, which doubled the genre, showed that it is still a prize contender despite a Multiple reaction that seemed to have abolished its possibilities.
In a ceremony in which no movie dominated, “The Brutalist” matched the “Concónimo” awards count, taking four trophies, including the best director of Brady Corbet and the best actor of Adrien Brody. Mikey Madison won the best actress award for Brooklyn “Anora” tragicomedy.
“Conclave”, starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal who corners the intriguing clergy while choosing a new Pope, beat “Anora”, “The Brutalist”, “Emilia Pérez” and Bob Dylan biographically “a complete stranger” for the First prize. “Conclave” was also named an outstanding British film and took trophies to edit and adapt the script.
The support interpreter awards were for Kieran Culkin for “A Real Pain” and Zoe Saldaña for “Emilia Pérez”, who also won the award for the best film, not in the English language.
Karla Sofía Gascón, who stars as the former head of Charel in “Emilia Pérez”, was a nominated for the best actress but did not attend the ceremony. Gascón has retired from the promotion of the film, which has 13 Oscar nominations, amid the controversy over their publications on social networks that belittle Muslims, George Floyd and diversity in the Oscars.
The director of the film, Jacques Audiard, has condemned those comments, but in an acceptance speech he thanked Gascón along with his co -star Saldaña and Selena Gomez.
“I am deeply proud of what we have all achieved together,” he said.
From the Oscar Baftas
Stars like Cynthia Erico, Hugh Grant, Ariana Grande, Lupita Nyong’o, Timothée Chalamet and Saosear Ronan walked the red carpet at the Royal Festival Hall in London for the awards, known as Bafta. The British awards often provide clues on who will triumph at the Hollywood Academy Awards on March 2, in a season of unusually difficult awards.
They also have a clearly British accent. The ceremony began with his host that leads to Kilt, the Scottish actor David Tennant, leading the audience in an exciting Singgalong of the anthem of the proclamors “I will be (500 miles).”
Madison won the female action trophy for his powerful performance as an exotic dancer entangled with the son of a Russian oligarch in “Anora.” She beat Gascón, Demi Moore for the Horody-Horror movie “The Substance,” Ronan for “The Offun”, Erivo for “Wicked” and Marianne Jean-Baptiste for “Hard Verdes”.
In his acceptance speech, Madison sent a message to the community of sex workers.
“You deserve respect and human decency. I will always be a friend and an ally and implore others who do the same, ”he said.
Brody beat Fiennes’ competition, Chalamet, who plays the young Dylan in “Complete unknown”, Grant for the horror film “Heretic”, Colman Domingo for the drama of the prison “Sing Sing” and Sebastian Stan for his representation of a young Donald Trump in “the apprentice”.
Brody, who plays a Hungarian Jewish architect in the postwar United States, said “the brutalist” brought a powerful message for our divided times.
“He talks about the need for us to share the responsibility of how we want others to be treated and how we want to be treated by others,” he said. “There is no place for anti -Semitism. There is no place for racism. “
“The Brutalist” also won prizes for his cinematography and musical score.
Saldaña won by his role as a lawyer who helps the main character in the transition of “Emilia Pérez” to a woman and a crime life. She called the movie “The creative challenge of a lifetime.”
“A real pain”, about non -coincidental cousins on a trip to explore its roots, won the BAFTA for the best original script, as well as the Culkin Action Prize.
“I would like to share this with my wife, who did not come because he did not believe he won,” joked the writer and director Jesse Eisenberg, who also co -starred in the film.
Claymation Caper “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” won awards for the best animated film and the best family and children’s film.
The science fiction epic “Dune: Part Two” won prizes for sound and visual effects, while the “Wicked” musical block took the costume and production design trophies.
Ascent stars and life honors
The majority of BAFTA winners are elected by 8,000 members of the Academy of Professionals of the United Kingdom Industry, with one, the Rising Star award, selected by a public vote from a list of nominees. This year’s winner was David Jonsson, star of the dramatic television series of high finance “industry” and London Rom-Com “Rye Lane”.
“Star, I don’t know,” he said. “But getting up, I suppose.”
The best British debut award was for Rich Peppiatt, writer and director of Hip-Hop drama in Irish language “Kneecap”.
The “Willow” and “Return of the Jedi” Warwick Davis actor received the main honor of the Academy, the Bafta Fellowswip, for his career on the screen and his work to create a more inclusive film industry.
The actor of 3 feet and 6 inches founded a talent agency for actors less than 5 feet high, because, he said, “the short actors were not known for their talent, only their height.”
“This is the best thing that happened to me, and I have been in ‘Star Wars’,” Davis said as he accepted his prize.
This awards season has clouded by the devastating forest fires of Los Angeles, and the president of Bafta, Sara Putt, sent a message of strength to all those affected,
The event was without a hint of real glamor this year. Neither Prince William, who is the honorary president of the British Film Academy, nor his wife Kate attended the ceremony, which coincided with school holidays for their three children.
William, 42, sent a video message, recorded during a visit to meet with students at the London Screen Academy on Wednesday.
During the visit, the throne heir discussed his own visualization habits, saying that he had seen the drama of World War II “Darkest Hour” and had begun the post -epocalyptic television drama “The Last of Us”. He said he found him “quite full” and did not reach the end.
