Nomadland named best by BAFTA

Frances McDormand as Fern in Nomadland

Chloé Zhao's Nomadland was the big winner at the BAFTAs tonight, scooping four prizes, including Best Film and Best Director.

Frances McDormand, who embarks on a van journey through the American West after the financial crisis, was named Best Actress, while the film also picked up the cinematography award for Joshua James Richards.

Zhao, who is only the second director to win the direction award in 53 years, dedicated the best film to the "nomadic community who so generously welcomed us into their lives".

The ceremony was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London and stars who attended the live red carpet, such as Tom Hiddleston, took off their masks for the photographers but replaced them to enter the building. It was hosted by Edith Bowman and Dermot O'Leary.

None of the nominees at the Royal Albert Hall in person, with most giving their acceptance speeches via video link.

The Best Actor gong went to Anthony Hopkins for Florian Zeller's Alzheimer's drama The Father, with Zeller accepting the award on behalf of the 83-year-old veteran - the fourth BAFTA of his career.

The Supporting Actor honours went to Daniel Kaluuya for Black Panther drama Judas And The Black Messiah and Yuh-Jung Youn, for her role as a impish gran in Minari. Bukky Bakray was also among the acting prizes, winning the Rising Star award for her role in coming-of-age drama Rocks.

Bakray said: "The highlight of this awards journey has been recognition in a category with my fellow nominees, I can’t describe how humbling and what a blessing it is to be put on the same boat as those talented human beings. I’ve got a special appreciation for the rocks family as well. Thank you for seeing something in me that I never saw in myself."

The prize for Best British Film went to Emerald Fennell's revenge thriller Promising Young Woman. She said the film was "a labour of love" that "everyone did pretty much for a packet of crisps".

Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee received a BAFTA Fellowship.

Best Film

• The Father
• The Mauritanian
• WINNER: Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Outstanding British Film

• Ammonite
• Calm With Horses
• The Dig
• His House
• Limbo
• The Mauritanian
• Mogul Mowgli
• WINNER: Promising Young Woman
• Rocks

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

• WINNER: His House
• Moffie
• Limbo
• Rocks
• Saint Maud

Film Not In The English Language

• WINNER: Another Round
• Dear Comrades!
• Les Misérables
• Minari
• Quo Vadis, Aida?

Animated Film

• Onward
• WINNER: Soul
• Wolfwalkers

Director

• Another Round - Thomas Vinterberg
• Babyteeth - Shannon Murphy
• Minari - Lee Isaac Chung
• WINNER: Nomadland - Chloé Zhao
• Quo Vadis, Aida? - Jasmila Zbanic
• Rocks - Sarah Gavron

Original Screenplay

• Another Round - Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
• Mank - Jack Fincher
• WINNER: Promising Young Woman - Emerald Fennell
• Rocks - Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Aaron Sorkin

Adapted Screenplay

• The Mauritanian - Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, MB Traven
• Nomadland - Chloé Zhao
• The Dig - Moira Buffini
• WINNER: The Father - Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
• The White Tiger - Ramin Bahrani

Leading Actress

• Bukky Bakray, Rocks
• Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
• Alfre Woodard, Clemency
• Vanessa Kirby, Pieces Of A Woman
• WINNER: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
• Wunmi Mosaku, His House

Leading Actor

• Riz Ahmed, Sound Of Metal
• Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Adarsh Gourav, The White Tiger
• WINNER: Anthony Hopkins, The Father
• Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
• Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian

Supporting Actress

• Niamh Algar, Calm With Horses
• Kosar Ali, Rocks
• Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Dominique Fishback, Judas And The Black Messiah
• Ashley Madekwe, County Lines
• WINNER: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

Supporting Actor

• Clarke Peters, Da 5 Bloods
• WINNER: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas And The Black Messiah
• Barry Keoghan, Calm With Horses
• Alan Kim, Minari
• Leslie Odom Jr, One Night In Miami...
• Paul Raci, Sound Of Metal

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

• Kingsley Ben-Adir
• Morfydd Clark
• WINNER: Bukky Bakray
• Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
• Conrad Khan

Documentary

• Collective
• David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
• The Dissident
• WINNER: My Octopus Teacher
• The Social Dilemma

Casting

• Calm With Horses
• Judas And The Black Messiah
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Minari
• Promising Young Woman
• WINNER: Rocks

Cinematography

• Judas And The Black Messiah 
• Mank 
• The Mauritanian 
• News Of The World 
• WINNER: Nomadland 

Costume Design

• Ammonite
• The Dig
• Emma
• WINNER: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Mank

Editing

• The Father
• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• WINNER: Sound Of Metal
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• The White Tiger

Make-up and Hair

• The Dig
• Hillbilly Elegy
• WINNER: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Mank
• Pinocchio

Original Score

• Mank - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• Minari - Emile Mosseri
• News of The World - James Newton Howard
• Promising Young Woman - Anthony Willis 
• WINNER: Soul - Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Production Design

• The Dig
• The Father
• WINNER: Mank
• News of The World
• Rebecca

Special Visual Effects

• Greyhound
• The Midnight Sky
• Mulan
• The One and Only Ivan
• WINNER: Tenet

Sound

• Greyhound
• News Of The World
• Nomadland
• Soul
• WINNER: Sound Of Metal

British Short Animation

• The Fire Next Time
• WINNER: The Owl and the Pussycat
• The Song of A Lost Boy

British Short Film

• Eyelash
• Lizard
• Lucky Break
• Miss Curvy
• WINNER: The Present