69th British Academy Film Awards

69th British Academy Film Awards
69th British Academy Film Awards
Date	14 February 2016
Site	Royal Opera House, London
Hosted by	Stephen Fry
Highlights
Best Film	The Revenant
Best British Film	Brooklyn
Best Actor	Leonardo DiCaprio; The Revenant
Best Actress	Brie Larson; Room
Most awards	The Revenant (5)
Most nominations	Bridge of Spies and Carol (9)
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The 69th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 14 February 2016 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2015.^[1] Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2015.^[2]

The nominations were announced on 8 January 2016 by Stephen Fry and actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Bridge of Spies and Carol received the most nominations at nine each.^[3]^[4] Despite leading the field in nominations, Carol failed to win any awards and Bridge of Spies won just one; Mark Rylance for Best Supporting Actor.

The Revenant won the most awards at the ceremony with five, including Best Film, Best Director for Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, and Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki. Brie Larson won Best Actress for Room and Kate Winslet won Best Supporting Actress for Steve Jobs. Mad Max: Fury Road won four awards; Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Makeup and Hair, and Best Production Design. Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2015. Sidney Poitier was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for his contribution to cinema.^[5]

The ceremony was broadcast on BBC One and was watched by 4.5 million viewers, down from 4.9 million in 2015 and the lowest television audience since 2010.^[6]

Winners and nominees

Kate Winslet, Best Supporting Actress winner

The nominees were announced on 8 January 2016.^[3]^[4] The winners were announced on 14 February 2016.^[4]^[7]

BAFTA Fellowship

Sidney Poitier^[8]

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

Angels Costumes^[9]

Best Film The Revenant – Steve Golin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon The Big Short – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Brad Pitt Bridge of Spies – Kristie Macosko Krieger, Marc Platt and Steven Spielberg Carol – Elizabeth Karlsen, Christine Vachon and Stephen Woolley Spotlight – Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar	Best Direction Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant Adam McKay – The Big Short Ridley Scott – The Martian Steven Spielberg – Bridge of Spies Todd Haynes – Carol
Best Actor in a Leading Role *Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant* as Hugh Glass** Bryan Cranston – Trumbo as Dalton Trumbo Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl as Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe Matt Damon – The Martian as Mark Watney Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs	Best Actress in a Leading Role *Brie Larson – Room* as Joy Newsome** Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird Maggie Smith – The Lady in the Van as Miss Mary Shepherd/Margaret Fairchild Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
Best Actor in a Supporting Role *Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies* as Rudolf Abel** Benicio del Toro – Sicario as Alejandro Gillick Christian Bale – The Big Short as Michael Burry Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation as Commandant Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight as Michael Rezendes	Best Actress in a Supporting Role *Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs* as Joanna Hoffman** Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina as Ava Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue Julie Walters – Brooklyn as Mrs. Kehoe Rooney Mara – Carol as Therese Belivet
Best Original Screenplay Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen Ex Machina – Alex Garland The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino Inside Out – Josh Cooley, Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve	Best Adapted Screenplay The Big Short – Adam McKay and Charles Randolph Brooklyn – Nick Hornby Carol – Phyllis Nagy Room – Emma Donoghue Steve Jobs – Aaron Sorkin
Best Cinematography The Revenant – Emmanuel Lubezki Bridge of Spies – Janusz Kamiński Carol – Edward Lachman Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale Sicario – Roger Deakins	Best Costume Design Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan Brooklyn – Odile Dicks-Mireaux Carol – Sandy Powell Cinderella – Sandy Powell The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado
Best Editing Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel The Big Short – Hank Corwin Bridge of Spies – Michael Kahn The Martian – Pietro Scalia The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione	Best Makeup and Hair Mad Max: Fury Road – Damian Martin and Lesley Vanderwalt Brooklyn – Morna Ferguson and Lorraine Glynn Carol – Jerry DeCarlo, Patricia Regan and Morag Ross The Danish Girl – Jan Sewell The Revenant – Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini
Best Original Music The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone Bridge of Spies – Thomas Newman The Revenant – Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai Sicario – Jóhann Jóhannsson Star Wars: The Force Awakens – John Williams	Best Production Design Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson Bridge of Spies – Rena DeAngelo, Adam Stockhausen and Bernhard Henrich Carol – Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler The Martian – Arthur Max and Celia Bobak Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Rick Carter, Darren Gilford and Lee Sandales
Best Sound The Revenant – Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek, Martin Hernández, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor and Randy Thom Bridge of Spies – Richard Hymns, Drew Kunin, Andy Nelson and Gary Rydstrom Mad Max: Fury Road – Scott Hecker, Chris Jenkins, Mark Mangini, Ben Osmo, Gregg Rudloff and David White The Martian – Paul Massey, Mac Ruth, Oliver Tarney and Mark Taylor Star Wars: The Force Awakens – David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson and Matthew Wood	Best Special Visual Effects Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh and Neal Scanlan Ant-Man – Jake Morrison, Greg Steele, Dan Sudick and Alex Wuttke Ex Machina – Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris and Andrew Whitehurst Mad Max: Fury Road – Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams and Tom Wood The Martian – Chris Lawrence, Tim Ledbury, Richard Stammers and Steven Warner
Outstanding British Film Brooklyn – John Crowley, Finola Dwyer, Nick Hornby and Amanda Posey 45 Years – Tristan Goligher and Andrew Haigh Amy – James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia The Danish Girl – Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anne Harrison, Gail Mutrux and Lucinda Coxon Ex Machina – Alex Garland, Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Efthymis Filippou	Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Theeb – Naji Abu Nowar (Writer/Director) and Rupert Lloyd (Producer) Ex Machina – Alex Garland (Director) Second Coming – debbie tucker green (Writer/Director) The Survivalist – Stephen Fingleton (Writer/Director) A Syrian Love Story – Sean McAllister (Director/Producer) and Elhum Shakerifar (Producer)
Best Short Animation Edmond – Nina Gantz and Emilie Jouffroy Manoman – Simon Cartwright and Kamilla Kristiane Hodal Prologue – Imogen Sutton and Richard Williams	Best Short Film Operator – Caroline Bartleet and Rebecca Morgan Elephant – Nick Helm, Alex Moody and Esther Smith Mining Poems or Odes – Jack Cocker and Callum Rice Over – Jorn Threifall and Jeremy Bannister Samuel-613 – Cheyenne Conway and Billy Lumby
Best Animated Film Inside Out – Pete Docter Minions – Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda Shaun the Sheep Movie – Mark Burton and Richard Starzak	Best Documentary Amy – James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia Cartel Land – Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin He Named Me Malala – Davis Guggenheim, Laurie MacDonald and Walter F. Parkes Listen to Me Marlon – John Battsek, George Chignell, R. J. Cutler and Stevan Riley Sherpa – Bridget Ikin, Jennifer Peedom and John Smithson
Best Film Not in the English Language Wild Tales – Damián Szifron The Assassin – Hou Hsiao-hsien Force Majeure – Ruben Östlund Theeb – Naji Abu Nowar Timbuktu – Abderrahmane Sissako	Rising Star Award John Boyega Bel Powley Brie Larson Dakota Johnson Taron Egerton

Ceremony information

The ceremony was broadcast on BBC One at 9 p.m. GMT, around two hours later than the actual ceremony. For the eleventh time, Stephen Fry acted as the host. The ceremony commenced with a segment commemorating the year in film, which was accompanied by the song "Heroes" by David Bowie, who had died the previous month. Highlighting that the ceremony was being held on Valentine's Day, the ceremony showed a kiss cam where random celebrities such as Dame Maggie Smith and Leonardo DiCaprio were persuaded by Fry to kiss each other.^[10] Fry also received a number of negative comments after he said of Best Costume Design winner Jenny Beavan (Mad Max: Fury Road) as "Only one of the great cinematic costume designers would come to an awards ceremony dressed as a bag lady". He subsequently deleted his Twitter account following criticism of his joke.^[11]

A number of presenters referred to the lack of diversity at the Academy Awards. Rebel Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen both made jokes referring to the controversy.^[12] Sidney Poitier was not present to collect his fellowship due to ill health.^[5] Jamie Foxx and Poitier's daughter, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, presented the award to him in person at his home in Los Angeles. Noel Clarke, Lulu, and Oprah Winfrey paid tribute to him in a filmed segment.

The In Memoriam section featured Alan Rickman, Melissa Mathison, Andrew Lesnie, Maureen O'Hara, Gayle Griffiths, Haskell Wexler, Colin Welland, James Horner, David Bowie, Ron Moody, June Randall, Julie Harris, Frank Finlay, Philip French, Vilmos Zsigmond, Albert Maysles, Richard Johnson, Wes Craven, Jacques Rivette, Penelope Houston, Tommie Manderson, Christopher Wood, Saeed Jaffrey, Sheila Sim and Sir Christopher Lee.

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
9	Bridge of Spies
9	Carol
8	The Revenant
7	Mad Max: Fury Road
6	Brooklyn
6	The Martian
5	The Big Short
	The Danish Girl
	Ex Machina
4	Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3	The Hateful Eight
	Sicario
	Spotlight
	Steve Jobs
2	Amy
	Inside Out
	Room
	Theeb

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
5	The Revenant
4	Mad Max: Fury Road

In Memoriam

References

^ "EE British Academy Film Awards: Key Dates and Rules Published". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
^ "EE British Academy Film Awards information". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b Barraclough, Leo (5 August 2015). "BAFTA Reveals Key Dates for Film Awards to Be Held in 2016". Variety. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bafta Film Awards 2016: Winners". BBC News. 14 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b Lodderhose, Diana (14 February 2016). "'The Revenant,' Leonardo DiCaprio Dominate BAFTA Awards". Variety. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
^ Revoir, Paul (15 February 2016). "Bafta ceremony pulls in lowest TV audience in six years". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
^ Brown, Mark; Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (14 February 2016). "Baftas 2016: The Revenant and Mad Max maul competition as Carol snubbed". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
^ "Sidney Poitier to be Honoured with BAFTA Fellowship". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
^ "Angels Costumes to Receive the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
^ Lee, Benjamin; Bradshaw, Peter; Beech, Peter; Shoard, Catherine (15 February 2016). "Baftas 2016: 10 things we learned". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
^ Lee, Benjamin (14 February 2016). "Stephen Fry hits back at criticism of Baftas 'bag lady' joke: 'She got it. Derrr'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
^ Loughrey, Clarisse (15 February 2016). "BAFTAs 2016: Rebel Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen's speeches tackle diversity debate". The Independent. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

External links

Official website

[1] "EE British Academy Film Awards: Key Dates and Rules Published". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2015.

[2] "EE British Academy Film Awards information". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 12 October 2015.

[Barraclough-3] Barraclough, Leo (5 August 2015). "BAFTA Reveals Key Dates for Film Awards to Be Held in 2016". Variety. Retrieved 12 October 2015.

[BBC_News-4] "Bafta Film Awards 2016: Winners". BBC News. 14 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

[Lodderhose-5] Lodderhose, Diana (14 February 2016). "'The Revenant,' Leonardo DiCaprio Dominate BAFTA Awards". Variety. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

[6] Revoir, Paul (15 February 2016). "Bafta ceremony pulls in lowest TV audience in six years". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

[7] Brown, Mark; Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (14 February 2016). "Baftas 2016: The Revenant and Mad Max maul competition as Carol snubbed". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

[8] "Sidney Poitier to be Honoured with BAFTA Fellowship". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

[9] "Angels Costumes to Receive the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2016.

[10] Lee, Benjamin; Bradshaw, Peter; Beech, Peter; Shoard, Catherine (15 February 2016). "Baftas 2016: 10 things we learned". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

[11] Lee, Benjamin (14 February 2016). "Stephen Fry hits back at criticism of Baftas 'bag lady' joke: 'She got it. Derrr'". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

[12] Loughrey, Clarisse (15 February 2016). "BAFTAs 2016: Rebel Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen's speeches tackle diversity debate". The Independent. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

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