The EE Brtish Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) for 2019 were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in a ceremony hosted by Joanna Lumley.

Today’s BAFTA ceremony is one of the last ceremonies to be held of the major predictors going into the Oscars on February 24th.  The ceremony takes places days before the final round of Oscar voting begins–with voting to start on February 12th and end on February 19th at 5 PM PT.

The BAFTA awards tend to typically honor British films more so than American releases.  While Roma saw some big wins, The Favourite came off as a major winner.  Not just in the awards it won but Olivia Colman’s win has certainly shook up an uncertain Oscar race for Best Actress.  While Glenn Close (The Wife) has won several awards, she tied with Lady Gaga (A Star is Born) during the Critics’ Choice Awards.  Here we are two weeks out and the race is far from over!

Best Actor in a Leading Role was once thought to be a lock for Christian Bale for his role as Dick Cheney in Vice.  With Rami Malek taking home a SAG Award and now a BAFTA, the race seems to be turning in a different direction.  Anything can happen and we’ll see what the Oscar voters decide.

Best Supporting Actor is likely a lock for Mahershala Ali at this point.  Say what any of us will about Green Book as a whole, nobody should be taking things out on actors who had no clue that family members would be speaking out on the film.

BEST FILM

• ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

• THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

• BEAST Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

DOCUMENTARY

• FREE SOLO Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

ANIMATED FILM

• SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord

DIRECTOR

• ROMA Alfonso Cuarón

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• THE FAVOURITE Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott

LEADING ACTRESS

• OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite

LEADING ACTOR

• RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite

SUPPORTING ACTOR

• MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book

ORIGINAL MUSIC

• A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• ROMA Alfonso Cuarón

EDITING

• VICE Hank Corwin

PRODUCTION DESIGN

• THE FAVOURITE Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton

COSTUME DESIGN

• THE FAVOURITE Sandy Powell

MAKE UP & HAIR

• THE FAVOURITE Nadia Stacey

SOUND

• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

• BLACK PANTHER Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

• ROUGHHOUSE Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom

BRITISH SHORT FILM

• 73 COWS Alex Lockwood

EE RISING STAR AWARD

• LETITIA WRIGHT

THE SPECIAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA

• Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley

THE FELLOWSHIP

• Thelma Schoonmaker

The BAFTA Awards were held at Royal Albert Hall, London on February 10, 2019.