2018 BAFTA Awards: 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' is the biggest winner

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February 18, 2018

by Carla Hay

Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Photo by Merrick Morton)

With five prizes, the gritty crime drama “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” emerged as the biggest winner of the 71st Annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Film Awards. The ceremony took place on February 18, 2018, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Joanna Lumley hosted the show. “Three Billboards” won the awards for Best Film, Outstanding British Film (The film’s producers are British), Best Original Screenplay (for Martin McDonagh, who also directed the film), Best Actress (for Frances McDormand) and Best Supporting Actor (for Sam Rockwell).

“The Shape of Water” went into the ceremony with 12 BAFTA nominations and ended up winning two: Best Director (for Guillermo del Toro) and Best Production Design.

Just like at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, attendees at the 2018 BAFTAs were asked to wear black in Support of the Times Up and #MeToo movements, which were mentioned on stage several times throughout the ceremony.

Sir Ridley Scott was awarded the ceremony’ highest honor: the BAFTA Fellowship Award.

Here is the complete list of winners and nominations for the 2018 BAFTA Film Awards:

*=winner

Best Film

Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*

Outstanding British Film

Darkest Hour
The Death of Stalin
God’s Own Country
Lady Macbeth
Paddington 2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

The Ghoul – Gareth Tunley (writer/director/producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (producers)

I Am Not a Witch – Rungano Nyoni (writer/director), Emily Morgan (Producer)*

Jawbone – Johnny Harris (writer/producer), Thomas Napper (director)

Kingdom of Us – Lucy Cohen (director)

Lady Macbeth – Alice Birch (writer), William Oldroyd (director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (producer)

Best Film Not in the English Language

Elle
First They Killed My Father
The Handmaiden*
Loveless
The Salesman

Best Documentary

City of Ghosts
I Am Not Your Negro*
Icarus
An Inconvenient Sequel
Jane

Best Animated Film

Coco*
Loving Vincent
My Life as a Courgette

Best Director

Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water*
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Screenplay

Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*

Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me by Your Name*
The Death of Stalin
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Molly’s Game
Paddington 2

Best Actress

Annette Bening, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour*
Jamie Bell, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name

Best Supporting Actress

Allison Janney, I, Tonya*
Kristin Scott Thomas, Darkest Hour
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actor

Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Music