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71st British Academy Film Awards

Name: 71st British Academy Film Awards
Start: 2018-02-18T13:00:00-08:00
End: 2018-02-18T16:00:00-08:00
Location: The Royal Albert Hall

February 18, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The 71st British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, will be held on 18 February 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, to honour the best national and foreign films of 2017. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), accolades are handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality screened at British cinemas in 2017.

The nominees were announced on 9 January 2018. The Shape of Water had the most nominations of any film with 12.

Joanna Lumley will present the awards for the first time, taking over from Stephen Fry who has hosted the ceremony twelve times. Lumley will be the first female host since Mariella Frostrup co-presented with Fry in 2001.

Royal Albert Hall – London, UK

Nominees

71st British Academy Film Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Call Me by Your Name – Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, and Peter Spears Darkest Hour – Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, and Douglas Urbanski Dunkirk – Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh	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 Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jamie Bell – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool as Peter Turner Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill	Annette Bening – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool as Gloria Grahame Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 as Phoenix Buchanan Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Sheriff Bill Willoughby Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World as J. Paul Getty Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Officer Jason Dixon	Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour as Clementine Churchill Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water as Zelda Fuller
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor – The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Jordan Peele – Get Out Steven Rogers – I, Tonya	Simon Farnaby and Paul King – Paddington 2 Matt Greenhalgh – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and David Schneider – The Death of Stalin James Ivory – Call Me by Your Name Aaron Sorkin – Molly’s Game
Best Cinematography	Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Ben Davis	Gareth Tunley (Writer/Director/Producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (Producers) – The Ghoul Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director), Emily Morgan (Producer) – I Am Not a Witch Johnny Harris (Writer/Producer), Thomas Napper (Director) – Jawbone Lucy Cohen (Director) – Kingdom of Us Alice Birch (Writer), William Oldroyd (Director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (Producer) – Lady Macbeth
Outstanding British Film	Best Documentary
Darkest Hour – Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, and Douglas Urbanski The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou, Ian Martin, and David Schneider God’s Own Country – Francis Lee, Manon Ardisson, and Jack Tarling Lady Macbeth – William Oldroyd, Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, and Alice Birch Paddington 2 – Paul King, David Heyman, and Simon Farnaby Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh	City of Ghosts – Matthew Heineman I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck Icarus – Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power – Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk Jane – Brett Morgen
Best Original Music	Best Sound
Blade Runner 2049 – Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer Darkest Hour – Dario Marianelli Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat	Baby Driver – Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, and Julian Slater Blade Runner 2049 – Ron Bartlett, Theo Green^[5], Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini, and Mac Ruth Dunkirk – Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, and Mark Weingarten The Shape of Water – Christian Cooke, Glen Gauthier, Nathan Robitaille, and Brad Zoern Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Stuart Wilson, and Matthew Wood
Best Production Design	Best Special Visual Effects
Beauty and the Beast – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola Darkest Hour – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Dunkirk – Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis The Shape of Water – Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, and Shane Vieau	Blade Runner 2049 – Gerd Nefzer and John Nelson Dunkirk – Scott Fisher and Andrew Jackson The Shape of Water – Dennis Berardi, Trey Harrell, and Kevin Scott Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Stephen Aplin, Chris Corbould, Ben Morris, and Neal Scanlan War for the Planet of the Apes – Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, and Joel Whist
Best Costume Design	Best Makeup and Hair
Beauty and the Beast – Jacqueline Durran Darkest Hour – Jacqueline Durran I, Tonya – Jennifer Johnson Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira	Blade Runner 2049 – Donald Mowat and Kerry Warn Darkest Hour – David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, and Kazuhiro Tsuji I, Tonya – Deborah La Mia Denaver and Adruitha Lee Victoria & Abdul – Daniel Phillips Wonder – Naomi Bakstad, Robert A. Pandini, and Arjen Tuiten
Best Editing	Best Film Not in the English Language
Baby Driver – Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos Blade Runner 2049 – Joe Walker Dunkirk – Lee Smith The Shape of Water – Sidney Wolinsky Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Jon Gregory	Elle – Paul Verhoeven and Saïd Ben Saïd First They Killed My Father – Angelina Jolie and Rithy Panh The Handmaiden – Park Chan-wook and Syd Lim Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexander Rodnyansky The Salesman – Asghar Farhadi and Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Best Animated Film	Best Short Animation
Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson Loving Vincent – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, and Ivan Mactaggart My Life as a Courgette – Claude Barras and Max Karli	Have Heart – Will Anderson Mamoon – Ben Steer Poles Apart – Paloma Baeza and Ser En Low
Best Short Film	EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Aamir – Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone, and Oliver Shuster Bronco – SLB Cowboy Dave – Colin O’Toole and Jonas Mortensen A Drowning Man – Mahdi Fleifel, Signe Byrge Sørensen, and Patrick Campbell Work – Aneil Karia and Scott O’Donnell Wren Boys – Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon, and John Fitzpatrick	Daniel Kaluuya Florence Pugh Josh O’Connor Tessa Thompson Timothée Chalamet

Films with multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
12	The Shape of Water
9	Darkest Hour
9	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8	Blade Runner 2049
8	Dunkirk
5	I, Tonya
4	Call Me by Your Name
4	Phantom Thread
3	Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
	Lady Bird
	Paddington 2
2	Baby Driver
	Beauty and the Beast
	The Death of Stalin
	Get Out
	Lady Macbeth
	Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Details

Date:: February 18, 2018
Time:: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Website:: http://www.bafta.org/film

Organizer

: British Academy of Film and Television Arts; View Organizer Website

Venue

The Royal Albert Hall

Kensington Gore
Kensington, London SW7 2AP United Kingdom + Google Map

German Edward Morales Agent Talent Manager