BAFTA Film Awards: ‘Conclave’ (Best Film), ‘The Brutalist’ (Best Director and Actor) Win Four Each – Hollywood Reporter
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The British Academy’s ceremony in London, hosted by Scottish actor David Tennant, honored Mikey Madison and Zoe Saldaña in the actress categories and Kieran Culkin as best supporting actor.
The BAFTA Film Awards shared the love on Sunday evening, with Vatican drama Conclave picking up four wins, including for best film and outstanding British film, the same number of honors as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which earned the best director and best actor awards for Corbet and Adrien Brody, respectively.
Meanwhile, Mikey Madison received the best leading actress BAFTA for her role in Anora, which was also honored with the casting award for Sean Baker and Samantha Quan, while Zoe Saldaña earned the best supporting actress statuette for her work in Emilia Pérez. For the latter, director Jacques Audiard and Pascal Caucheteux also won the award for best film not in the English language.
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During the ceremony, hosted by Scottish star David Tennant (Doctor Who, Inside Man) at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, the Edward Berger-directed Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci and based on the novel by Robert Harris, also won the best adapted screenplay and editing BAFTA trophies.
The Brutalist also received the BAFTAs for best cinematography and score. In picking up the best director award, Corbet said that there wasn’t really such a thing as a best director. “It’s a joke,” he argued, tipping his hat to all the other director nominees in appreciation while still thanking BAFTA for the great honor.
Kieran Culkin won the best supporting actor BAFTA for his role in A Real Pain, for which writer-director Jesse Eisenberg, who also stars in the film, earned the best original screenplay honor.
In receiving her BAFTA, Madison shared that her mother is her favorite scene partner and thanked her for driving her to so many auditions and helping her put audition tapes together. She also said she wanted to “take a moment to recognize the sex worker community,” highlighting: “I just want to say that I see you. You deserve respect and human decency. I will always be a friend and ally.”
In his acceptance speech, Brody thanked his fellow nominees and BAFTA, along with Brits. “I want to thank the British public for embracing me and my creative endeavors,” he said. “England has felt quite a bit like home lately.” Plus, he thanked Brady and partner Mona Fastvold “for your artistic integrity and perseverance and for taking me along this amazing journey and destination.”
Saldaña called Emilia Pérez “a creative challenge of a lifetime.” And she said: “Films are supposed to change hearts and challenge minds, and I hope I did something like this. Voices need to be heard.” She also shared: “I was told not to cry by my children, so I’ll try.”
The team behind Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story won the best documentary honor, with Reeve’s children on stage drawing a big round of applause.
Earlier in the BAFTA night, Nick Park and his Aardman Animation colleagues won two honors for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, namely for the best animated film and the inaugural children’s and family award.
Conclave had led the nominations with 12, ahead of the Jacques Audiard-directed Emilia Pérez‘s 11, and the Brady Corbet-directed The Brutalist‘s nine. With his Irish hip-hop biopic on Belfast-based rap trio Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt also made BAFTA history by tying the record for nominations for a debut filmmaker with six. He left Sunday night with one BAFTA, namely for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, with Peppiatt serving as both writer and director of the film.
Notably missing from Sunday’s BAFTA Awards attendees list was Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón, who earned a leading actress nomination. However, her awards campaign imploded following the discovery of controversial posts made on her X (previously Twitter) account. The star — the first trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar — apologized, but tensions are said to be high between Gascón and streamer Netflix for hindering the film’s Oscar hopes. As a result, she was phased out of its awards campaign entirely.
But in his acceptance speech for the honor for best film not in the English language, Audiard thanked his team and ended with: “And my dear Karla Sofía, je t’embrace.” That means “I embrace you” or “I hug you” in French. Saldaña also thanked her cast mates, including Gascón.
David Jonsson (Rye Lane, Alien: Romulus, Industry), the winner of the EE Rising Star Award, which is voted on
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