69th British Academy Film Awards

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69th British Academy Film Awards
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Date14 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)

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]

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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

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Best Director winner
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Actor winner
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Brie Larson, Best Actress winner
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Mark Rylance, Best Supporting Actor winner
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Kate Winslet, Best Supporting Actress winner
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Tom McCarthy, Best Original Screenplay co-winner
Adam McKay, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner Adam McKay (cropped).jpg
Adam McKay, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
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John Boyega, EE Rising Star Award winner

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

BAFTA Fellowship

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

  • Operator – Caroline Bartleet and Rebecca Morgan
    • ElephantNick 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

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
NominationsFilm
9 Bridge of Spies
Carol
8 The Revenant
7 Mad Max: Fury Road
6 Brooklyn
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
AwardsFilm
5 The Revenant
4 Mad Max: Fury Road

In Memoriam

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