BAFTA 2021 Film Awards: Host Clara Amfo looks stylish in a blue suit on the red carpet during opening night as the academy pays tribute to former president Prince Philip
She’s known for spinning the decks on her mid-morning show at BBC Radio 1.
And Clara Amfo looked chic in a stylish blue suit as she took to the red carpet at the opening night of the BAFTAs at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday.
The host, 36, also paid tribute to Prince Philip, who was BAFTA’s first president back in 1959, saying he had a ‘very special place’ in the academy’s history and his support had helped them ‘continue in difficult times’.
Strike a pose: Clara Amfo looked effortlessly chic as she took to the red carpet at the opening night of the BAFTA film awards in a stylish blue suit on Saturday evening
Clara looked radiant as she smiled in the chic ensemble with her hands over her stomach.
She paired the vibrant outfit with a pair of monochrome open-toed heels and an intricate T-bar gold necklace.
The radio host wore her long tresses swept away from her face and cascading to one side.
With her ears on display, Clara decorated her lobes with a pair of gorgeous pearl drop earrings.
Looking good: The presenter, 36, accessorised her bright suit with a gold necklace and stunning drop earrings
Before kicking off the evening’s award announcements, Clara took a moment to pay tribute to the late Prince Philip who passed away on Friday at the age of 99.
Speaking directly to the camera, Clara explained that the royal had a ‘very special place in BAFTA history’ after he served as the first president from 1959 to 1965.
She said: ‘Before we start tonight we want to say that on behalf of BAFTA, we are extremely saddened by the passing of his royal highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on Friday.
‘The Duke was BAFTA’s very first president over 60 years ago and was the first of a line of royal patronage all the way through to BAFTA’s current president, his grandson the Duke of Cambridge.
Strike a pose: Clara Amfo looked effortlessly chic as she took to the red carpet at the opening night of the BAFTA film awards in a stylish blue suit on Saturday evening
The wait is over! Nine awards were announced during Saturday night’s event, including the winners of the makeup, casting and production design categories
Honouring him: Clara also paid tribute to Prince Philip who died on Friday at the age of 99 during the opening night, saying he had a ‘very special place’ in the academy’s history
‘It was Prince Philip and her Majesty the Queen’s support throughout these years that in many ways allowed BAFTA, a leading charity in the arts, to continue in difficult times and to be here today in 2021 celebrating another outstanding year of achievement in film.
‘The Duke of Edinburgh occupies a very special place in BAFTA history and he will be missed. Our thoughts are with the royal family.’
Prince Philip died on Friday at Windsor Castle at the age of 99.
Current BAFTA President Prince William was due to be making an appearance on both Saturday and Sunday, however will no longer be featuring in the event.
He was to deliver a speech via video, celebrating the resilience of the film industry over the past year.
BAFTA said in a statement: ‘In light of the Duke of Edinburgh’s passing, the Duke of Cambridge will no longer be part of BAFTA programming this weekend.
Glowing: Clara looked radiant as she smiled in the chic suit with her hands over her stomach
‘Our thoughts are with the royal family, to whom we offer our deepest sympathy at this time’.
Clara is hosting this year’s BAFTA’s with the film critic Rhianna Dhillon, who joined her on the red carpet.
The Guru Podcast host looked stunning in a black floaty-sleeved dress with a cute embroidered flower pattern across the chest. Rhianna posed cheerfully at the cameras and had decorated her smile with a vibrant pink lipstick.
She wore her hair in glamorous bouncy curls and kept her jewellery minimal with some subtle earrings and a collection of thin rings on her hands.
The Thick of It Star Joanna Scanlon, 59, also attended to host the opening night event and posed for the cameras as she arrived.
Opting for understated chic, she donned an all black ensemble with peep toe stilettos.
Nine awards were announced on Saturday night, including Special Visual Effects which went to Tenet and Production Design which saw Mank awarded for its efforts.
Congratulations: Noel Clarke was given the Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema award
Well deserved: The star, 45, who directed as well as starred in the Kidulthood series of films, looked dapper in a black suit and white shirt
Impressive: Clara was seen chatting to Noel as they ensured to maintain a social distance during the ceremony
In her element: Clara exuded confidence as she opened the envelopes and revealed winners
Having fun: The beauty put on an animated display as she chatted during the evening
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom received two gongs in the Make Up and Hair and Costume Design categories. While Sound of Metal came out on top in the Sound category and Lucy Pardee won the Casting award for Rocks.
The Present took home the gong for Best Short Film while The Owl And The Pusstcat won in the British Short Animation category.
Actor Noel Clarke, 45, was also awarded the Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema gong and could not stop smiling as he showed off his trophy.
The star, who played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who and directed as well as starred in the Kidulthood series of films, looked dapper in a black suit and white shirt.
Details of the Covid-safe two-day virtual ceremony were released by BAFTA on Thursday.
A-list presenters for the main event on Sunday will include Phoebe Dynevor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cynthia Erivo, Richard E. Grant, Tom Hiddleston, and Felicity Jones.
BAFTA Duo: Clara is hosting this year’s BAFTA’s with the film critic Rhianna Dhillon, who joined her on the red carpet
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, James McAvoy, David Oyelowo, Pedro Pascal and Jonathan Pryce will also be making an appearance.
That’s not all, though, as A-list stars like Rose Byrne, Andra Day, Anna Kendrick and Renée will tune in from Los Angeles to present the show.
There will also be a number of musical guests at the ceremony, including Liam Payne who will sing in an AR music performance that will be played live and in real time across mobile handsets across the UK on Sunday.
It was announced that the performance will give fans their first experience of the former One Direction star’s AR Avatar, which will be broadcast via EE’s 5G network as a hologram on Sunday night.
Strike a pose: The Thick of It Star Joanna Scanlon, 59, also attended the opening night event and posed for the cameras as she arrived
Chic: Opting for understated chic, she donned an all black ensemble with peep toe stilettos
Liam will not be alone, as Celeste will sing her nominated track Hear My Voice, while Leslie Odom Jr. will duet with Corinne Bailey Rae for the song A Change is Gonna Come from his film One Night In Miami.
The BAFTA and EE British Academy Film Awards 2021 is the first of the Academy’s film ceremonies to be held virtually.
The TV version of the awards show took place online during summer 2020, but last year’s film ceremony managed to go ahead a month before the Covid pandemic forced the UK into lockdown.
With the pandemic still raging, the BAFTAs is happening in two parts for the first time this year.
The first show celebrates the craft of film while the second main show will feature the mainstream awards.
Eight gongs will be awarded by Clara Amfo at the Saturday event, while the remaining nine will be dished out at the main event on Sunday.
Star-studded: There will also be a number of musical guests, including Liam Payne who will sing in an AR music performance that will be played live and in real time on Sunday
Safety measures: With the pandemic still raging, the BAFTAs is happening in two parts for the first time this year
Show two is to be fronted by Dermot O’Leary and Edith Bowman from London’s Royal Albert Hall where the acting prizes will be given out. No audience will be present.
Both programmes are being broadcast in all major territories around the world and a total of 50 feature films received nominations this year.
Presenters will appear during the ceremony from both London and Los Angeles, but all nominees will accept their prizes virtually in front of a virtual audience watching from home.
Among the prizes announced on the second night will be the public-voted EE Rising Star Award and the Fellowship, BAFTA’s highest honour.
Presenting gig: Show two is to be fronted by Dermot O’Leary and Edith Bowman from London’s Royal Albert Hall where the acting prizes will be given out. No audience will be present
BAFTA has announced their most diverse list of nominees in the awards’ 74-year history.
In a first for BAFTA, four women have been nominated in the Director category. Three of the nominated directors are also nominated for Film Not in the English Language.
As part of BAFTA’s pledge to support fresh talent, four of the five nominated films in Outstanding Debut are also nominated across other categories, with first-time nominees accounting for four of the six nominated Directors and 21 of the 24 nominees in the performance categories.
British talent is rife in 2021, with the Outstanding British Film category increasing from six to 10 nominations, three of which are also nominated for Best Film.
Of the difficult times the awards and creative industries have had during the past 12 months – which saw a total shut-down of TV and film production across the world – BAFTA’s Chief Executive Amanda Berry said: ‘The last year has seen the Covid-19 pandemic impact everyone, and the film industry is no exception.
‘I would like to thank all those who have supported us and enabled BAFTA to continue to celebrate the very best work in film, from our members who embraced the changes we made to the voting process to the distributors for ensuring that many more films were available for online viewing.
BAFTA 2021 WINNERS
LEADING ACTRESS
BUKKY BAKRAY Rocks
RADHA BLANK The Forty-Year-Old Version
VANESSA KIRBY Pieces of a Woman
FRANCES McDORMAND Nomadland – WINNER
WUNMI MOSAKU His House
ALFRE WOODARD Clemency
LEADING ACTOR
RIZ AHMED Sound of Metal
CHADWICK BOSEMAN Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
ADARSH GOURAV The White Tiger
ANTHONY HOPKINS The Father – WINNER
MADS MIKKELSEN Another Round
TAHAR RAHIM The Mauritanian
BEST FILM
THE FATHER Philippe Carcassonne, Jean-Louis Livi, David Parfitt
THE MAURITANIAN TBC
NOMADLAND Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Chloé Zhao – WINNER
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Ben Browning, Emerald Fennell, Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Stuart Besser, Marc Platt
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
HIS HOUSE Remi Weekes (Writer/Director) – WINNER
LIMBO Ben Sharrock (Writer/Director), Irune Gurtubai (Producer) [also produced by Angus Lamont]
MOFFIE Jack Sidey (Writer/Producer) [also written by Oliver Hermanus and produced by Eric Abraham]
ROCKS Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Writers)
SAINT MAUD Rose Glass (Writer/Director), Oliver Kassman (Producer) [also produced by Andrea Cornwell]
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ANOTHER ROUND Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen – WINNER
DEAR COMRADES! Andrei Konchalovsky, Alisher Usmanov
LES MISÉRABLES Ladj Ly
MINARI Lee Isaac Chung, Christina Oh
QUO VADIS, AIDA? Jasmila Žbanić, Damir Ibrahimovich
DIRECTOR
ANOTHER ROUND Thomas Vinterberg
BABYTEETH Shannon Murphy
MINARI Lee Isaac Chung
NOMADLAND Chloé Zhao – WINNER
QUO VADIS, AIDA? Jasmila Žbanić
ROCKS Sarah Gavron
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE DIG Moira Buffini
THE FATHER Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller – WINNER
THE MAURITANIAN Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, M.B. Traven
NOMADLAND Chloé Zhao
THE WHITE TIGER Ramin Bahrani
CASTING
CALM WITH HORSES Shaheen Baig
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH Alexa L. Fogel
MINARI Julia Kim
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu
ROCKS Lucy Pardee – WINNER
EDITING
THE FATHER Yorgos Lamprinos
NOMADLAND Chloé Zhao
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Frédéric Thoraval
SOUND OF METAL Mikkel E.G. Nielsen – WINNER
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Alan Baumgarten
COSTUME DESIGN
AMMONITE Michael O’Connor
THE DIG Alice Babidge
EMMA. Alexandra Byrne
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM Ann Roth – WINNER
MANK Trish Summerville
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
THE FIRE NEXT TIME Renaldho Pelle, Yanling Wang, Kerry Jade Kolbe
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT Mole Hill, Laura Duncalf – WINNER
THE SONG OF A LOST BOY Daniel Quirke, Jamie MacDonald, Brid Arnstein
BRITISH SHORT FILM
EYELASH Jesse Lewis Reece, Ike Newman
LIZARD Akinola Davies, Rachel Dargavel, Wale Davies
LUCKY BREAK John Addis, Rami Sarras Pantoja
MISS CURVY Ghada Eldemellawy
THE PRESENT Farah Nabulsi – WINNER
SOUND
GREYHOUND Beau Borders, Christian P. Minkler, Warren Shaw and David Wyman
NEWS OF THE WORLD Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett, Oliver Tarney
NOMADLAND Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers, M. Wolf Snyder
SOUL Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker
SOUND OF METAL – Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc – WINNER
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
YUH-JUNG YOUN Minari – WINNER
SUPPORTING ACTOR
DANIEL KALUUYA Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
BARRY KEOGHAN Calm With Horses
ALAN KIM Minari
LESLIE ODOM JR. One Night in Miami…
CLARKE PETERS Da 5 Bloods
PAUL RACI Sound of Metal
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
CALM WITH HORSES Nick Rowland, Daniel Emmerson, Joe Murtagh
THE DIG Simon Stone, Gabrielle Tana, Moira Buffini
THE FATHER Florian Zeller, Philippe Carcassone, Jean-Louis Livi, David Parfitt, Christopher Hampton
HIS HOUSE Remi Weekes, Martin Gentles, Edward Kings, Roy Lee
LIMBO Ben Sharrock, Irune Gurtubai, Angus Lamont
THE MAURITANIAN Kevin Macdonald, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, M.B. Traven
MOGUL MOWGLI Bassam Tariq, Riz Ahmed, Thomas Benski, Bennett McGhee
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Emerald Fennell, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara – WINNER
ROCKS Sarah Gavron, Ameenah Ayub Allen, Faye Ward, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
SAINT MAUD Rose Glass, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman
DOCUMENTARY
COLLECTIVE Alexander Nanau
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET Alastair Fothergill, Jonnie Hughes, Keith Scholey
THE DISSIDENT Bryan Fogel, Thor Halvorssen
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster – WINNER
THE SOCIAL DILEMMA Jeff Orlowski, Larissa Rhodes
ANIMATED FILM
ONWARD Dan Scanlon, Kori Rae
SOUL Pete Docter, Dana Murray – WINNER
WOLFWALKERS Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
ANOTHER ROUND Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
MANK Jack Fincher
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Emerald Fennell
ROCKS Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Aaron Sorkin
ORIGINAL SCORE
MANK Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
MINARI Emile Mosseri
NEWS OF THE WORLD James Newton Howard
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Anthony Willis
SOUL Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – WINNER
CINEMATOGRAPHY
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH Sean Bobbitt
MANK Erik Messerschmidt
THE MAURITANIAN Alwin H. Küchler
NEWS OF THE WORLD Dariusz Wolski
NOMADLAND Joshua James Richards – WINNER
PRODUCTION DESIGN
THE DIG Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
THE FATHER Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
MANK Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – WINNER
NEWS OF THE WORLD David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
REBECCA Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
MAKE UP & HAIR
THE DIG Jenny Shircore
HILLBILLY ELEGY Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal – WINNER
MANK Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
PINOCCHIO Mark Coulier
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
GREYHOUND Pete Bebb, Nathan McGuinness, Sebastian von Overheidt
THE MIDNIGHT SKY Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, David Watkins
MULAN Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury
THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher
TENET – Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley – WINNER
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH CINEMA
Noel Clarke
BAFTA FELLOWSHIP
Ang Lee
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