This past weekend saw BAFTA reveal their list of winners ahead of the conclusion of a long and hectic awards season.

For the first time in their history, the British film awards group opted to split this year’s (virtual) ceremony across two nights with Nomadland continuing its descent towards Oscar glory.

The indie-drama overcame stern competition from the likes of The Father, Promising Young Woman and The Trial of the Chicago 7 to land the coveted Best Film prize. Though it remains the heavy favourite to dominate the Oscars later this month, it is worth noting that the last six winners of BAFTA’s top prize have all failed to go on and win the Best Picture accolade.

Nomadland filmmaker Chloé Zhao picked up yet another Best Director award for her work on the film while leading star Frances McDormand secured her second Best Actress win in four years for her performance as ageing nomad Fern. Additionally, the drama also scored another Best Cinematography prize for Joshua James Richards.

Elsewhere, the vengeance thriller Promising Young Woman bagged two key wins for Best British Film and Best Original Screenplay for writer Emerald Fennell.

The Best Actor category produced a minor upset as British veteran Sir Anthony Hopkins became the oldest man to win the award for his powerful role as a dementia-sufferer in the drama The Father. This was Hopkins’s third film BAFTA victory and came at the expense of deceased Oscar frontrunner Chadwick Boseman.

In addition to that Best Actor result, The Father also picked up Best Adapted Screenplay. There were also two wins apiece over the weekend for Soul (Best Animated Film and Original Score), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Costume Design and Makeup & Hairstyling) and Sound of Metal (Editing and Sound).

Meanwhile, British star Daniel Kaluuya and Korean veteran Yuh-jung Youn are both on course to win the Best Supporting Actor and Actress Oscars after the pair nabbed BAFTAs for their respective performances in Judas and the Black Messiah and Minari.

Other films to secure prizes across the weekend included Rocks (Casting), Mank (Production Design), Tenet (Visual Effects), Another Round (Foreign Language Film), My Octopus Teacher (Documentary) and His House (Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer).

The EE Rising Star Award was presented to Hackney-born starlet Bukky Bakray for her breakthrough performance in Rocks. Her win came at the expense of other British nominees including Ben Kingsley-Adir and Morfydd Clark.

British actor and filmmaker Noel Clarke was the recipient of the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema for his various works which include the Hood trilogy (2006-16).

Finally, the BAFTA Fellowship award was presented to multi-award winning director Ang Lee for his exceptional career behind the camera with acclaimed films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012).

Despite multiple nominations, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Mauritanian and The Dig were amongst the biggest films to go home empty-handed.

The full list of BAFTA winners can be found below:

BEST FILM
NOMADLAND

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

BEST DIRECTOR
Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND

BEST ACTOR
Anthony Hopkins, THE FATHER

BEST ACTRESS
Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Yuh-jung Youn, MINARI

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller, THE FATHER

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

BEST CASTING
ROCKS

BEST EDITING
SOUND OF METAL

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
NOMADLAND

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
MANK

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

BEST SOUND
SOUND OF METAL

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
TENET

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, SOUL

BEST ANIMATED FILM
SOUL

BEST FILM NOT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE
ANOTHER ROUND (Denmark)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER

BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM
THE PRESENT

BEST BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
HIS HOUSE

RISING STAR AWARD
Bukky Bakray

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH CINEMA
Noel Clarke

BAFTA FELLOWSHIP
Ang Lee