‘Dune,’ ‘Power Of The Dog’ Win Top BAFTA Prizes

The British Academy Film Awards, which aired Sunday, are one of the most prestigious film trophies given out in the lead up to the Oscars, and titles like Dune and The Power Of The Dog and actors including Will Smith, Troy Kostur and Ariana DeBose won some of the ceremony’s biggest awards.

Best Film: Belfast, Don’t Look Up, Dune, Licorice Pizza, WINNER: The Power Of The Dog

Leading Actress: Lady Gaga, House Of Gucci, Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza, Emilia Jones, CODA, Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person In The World, WINNER: Joanna Scanlan, After Love, Tessa Thompson, Passing

Leading Actor: Adeel Akhtar, Ali & Ava, Mahershala Ali, Swan Song, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power Of The Dog, Leonardo DiCaprio, Don’t Look Up, Stephen Graham, Boiling Point, WINNER: Will Smith, King Richard

Director: Aleem Khan, After Love, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car, Audrey Diwan, Happening, Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza, WINNER: Jane Campion, The Power Of The Dog, Julia Ducournau, Titane

Supporting Actress: Caitríona Balfe, Belfast, Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter, WINNER: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story, Ann Dowd, Mass, Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard, Ruth Negga, Passing

Supporting Actor: Mike Faist, West Side Story, Ciarán Hinds, Belfast, WINNER: Troy Kostur, CODA, Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon, Jesse Plemons, The Power Of The Dog, Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power Of The Dog

EE Rising Star Award: Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, WINNER: Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer: After Love, Boiling Point, WINNER: The Harder They Fall, Keyboard Fantasies, Passing

Outstanding British Film: After Love, Ali & Ava, WINNER: Belfast, Boiling Point, Cyrano, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, House Of Gucci, Last Night In Soho, No Time To Die, Passing

Documentary: Becoming Cousteau, Cow, Flee, The Rescue, WINNER: Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Film Not In The English Language: WINNER: Drive My Car, The Hand Of God, Parallel Mothers, Petite Maman, The Worst Person In The World

Animated Film: WINNER: Encanto, Flee, Luca, The Mitchells Vs The Machines

Original Screenplay: Being The Ricardos, Belfast, Don’t Look Up, King Richard, WINNER: Licorice Pizza

Adapted Screenplay: Winner: CODA, Drive My Car, Dune, The Lost Daughter, The Power Of The Dog

Original Score: Being The Ricardos, Don’t Look Up, WINNER: Dune, The French Dispatch, The Power Of The Dog

Casting: Building Point, Dune, The Hand Of God, King Richard, WINNER: West Side Story

Cinematography: WINNER: Dune, Nightmare Alley, No Time To Die, The Power Of The Dog, The Tragedy Of Macbeth

Editing: Belfast, Dune, Licorice Pizza, WINNER: No Time To Die, Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Production Design: Cyrano, WINNER: Dune, The French Dispatch, Nightmare Alley, West Side Story

Costume Design: WINNER: Cruella, Cyrano, Dune, The French Dispatch, Nightmare Alley

Makeup and Hair: Cruella, Cyrano, Dune, WINNER: The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, House Of Gucci

Sound: WINNER: Dune, Last Night in Soho, No Time To Die, A Quiet Place Part II, West Side Story

Special Visual Effects: WINNER: Dune, Free Guy, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Matrix Resurrections, No Time To Die

British Short Animation: Affairs Of The Art, WINNER: Do Not Feed The Pigeons, Night Of The Living Dead

British Short Film: WINNER: The Black Cop, Femme, The Palace, Stuffed, Three Meetings Of The Extraordinary Comittee

Will Smith, in King Richard, and Ariana DeBose, as Anita in West Side Story, also won for their roles at the Golden Globes and at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Troy Kostur previously won for his work in CODA at the SAG Awards.

Dune was the most-nominated film at the awards ceremony, with 11 nods, followed by The Power Of The Dog with eight. All five of the films nominated for the BAFTA for Best Film also received nominations for the Oscars for Best Picture, though the Academy also nominated five additional productions.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/03/13/british-academy-film-awards-2022-dune-power-of-the-dog-win-top-bafta-prizes/