For much of this year’s awards conversation, The Banshees Of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once have dominated in the major categories – but at the 2023 BAFTAs, it was All Quiet On The Western Front that cleaned up. Edward Berger’s film bagged seven awards on the night including Best Film – building up momentum throughout the show as it won multiple technical categories (Cinematography, Score, Sound) and major gongs (Director, Adapted Screenplay, Film Not In The English Language) over the course of the ceremony.
“For a German-language film, we’ve been blessed with so many nominations, and winning this is just incredible,” said producer Malte Grunert on stage while picking up Best Film. The film’s big wins also came freighted with the relevancy of its World War I story. Upon winning Adapted Screenplay, writer-director Berger noted that in five days time it will be a year since war began in Ukraine, and stated that: “There are no heroes in any war.”
While Banshees missed out on Director and Best Film, it still picked up four trophies on the night – including Outstanding British Film (“I know that every Irish person in the cast and crew is saying, ‘Best what award?’,” joked writer-director Martin McDonagh), Original Screenplay, plus Supporting Actor for Barry Keoghan and Supporting Actress for Kerry Condon. Also bagging four awards was Elvis, predominantly in technical categories (Costume Design, Make Up & Hair, Casting), but also earning Leading Actor for Austin Butler – who beat out the likes of Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, and Paul Mescal in a crowded selection.
Notably, then, it left Everything Everywhere with just one win on the night, for Editing. Aftersun picked up Outstanding Debut for its director Charlotte Wells, Cate Blanchett won Leading Actress for TÁR (getting in ahead of the likes of Michelle Yeoh and Viola Davis), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio came away with Animated Film, and Navalny came through in the Documentary category. Plus, Avatar: The Way Of Water won Visual Effects because… well, have you seen it?
All that, and Babylon nabbed Production Design, Sex Education star Emma Mackey came out on top in the public-voted EE Rising Star award, An Irish Goodbye won British Short Film, and The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse got Animated Short. Oh, and Alison Hammond asked Ariana DeBose the immortal question: “Is there any end to your talent, babes?” All in all, a successful evening then.
2023 BAFTA Film winners in full:
BEST FILM
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Banshees Of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
TÁR
DIRECTOR
All Quiet On The Western Front – Edward Berger
The Banshees Of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
Decision To Leave – Park Chan-wook
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
TÁR – Todd Field
The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood
LEADING ACTOR
Austin Butler – Elvis
Colin Farrell – The Banshees Of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
Daryl McCormack – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
Paul Mescal – Aftersun
Billy Nighy – Living
LEADING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – TÁR
Viola Davis – The Woman King
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Ana de Armas – Blonde
Emma Thompson – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barry Keoghan – The Banshees Of Inisherin
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees Of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Eddie Redmayne – The Good Nurse
Albrecht Schuch – All Quiet On The Western Front
Micheal Ward – Empire Of Light
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kerry Condon – The Banshees Of Inisherin
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau – The Whale
Dolly De Leon – Triangle Of Sadness
Carey Mulligan – She Said
Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All At Once
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Banshees Of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans – Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg
TÁR – Todd Field
Triangle Of Sadness – Ruben Östlund
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
All Quiet On The Western Front – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
Living – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Quiet Girl – Colm Bairéad
She Said – Rebecca Lenkiewicz
The Whale – Samuel D. Hunter
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
The Banshees Of Inisherin
Aftersun
Brian & Charles
Empire Of Light
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
Living
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
See How They Run
The Swimmers
The Wonder
DOCUMENTARY
Navalny
All That Breathes
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
Fire Of Love
Moonage Daydream
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
All Quiet On The Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Corsage
Decision To Leave
The Quiet Girl
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Aftersun – Charlotte Wells
Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley, Hélène Sifre
Electric Malady – Marie Lidén
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande – Katy Brand
Rebellion – Maia Kenworthy
ANIMATED FILM
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red
CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Quiet On The Western Front – James Friend
The Batman – Greig Fraser
Elvis – Mandy Walker
Empire Of Light – Roger Deakins
Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda
EDITING
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Paul Rogers
All Quiet On The Western Front – Sven Budelmann
The Banshees Of Inisherin – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis – Jonathan Redmond, Matt Villa
Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton
ORIGINAL SCORE
All Quiet On The Western Front – Volker Bertelsmann
Babylon – Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees Of Inisherin – Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Son Lux
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Babylon – Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino
All Quiet On The Western Front – Christian M. Goldbrick, Ernestine Hipper
The Batman – James Chinlund, Lee Sandales
Elvis – Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Curt Enderle, Guy Davis
COSTUME DESIGN
Elvis – Catherine Martin
All Quiet On The Western Front – Lisy Christl
Amsterdam – JR Hawbaker, Albert Wolsey
Babylon – Mary Zophres
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris – Jenny Beavan
MAKE UP & HAIR
Elvis – Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulstron, Shane Thomas
All Quiet On The Western Front – Heike Marker
The Batman – Naomie Donne, Mike Marino, Zoe Tahir
Matilda The Musical – Naomie Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin
The Whale – Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot
SOUND
All Quiet On The Western Front
Avatar: The Way Of Water
Elvis
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way Of Water
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Top Gun: Maverick
CASTING
Elvis – Nikki Barrett, Denise Chadian
Aftersun – Lucy Pardee
All Quiet On The Western Front – Simone Bär
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Sarah Halley Finn
Triangle Of Sadness – Pauline Hansson
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
Middle Watch
Your Mountain Is Waiting
BRITISH SHORT FILM
An Irish Goodbye
The Ballad Of Olive Morris
Bazigaga
Bus Girl
A Drifting Up
EE RISING STAR
Emma Mackey
Aimee Lou Wood
Daryl McCormack
Naomi Ackie
Sheila Atim