But before you bet the farm on it, keep one thing in mind: another film that tells a quintessentially American story, Boyhood, won those same awards just a year ago en route to a best picture loss at the Oscars. In addition to being named Best Film, director Alejandro Inarritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio were also honoured.
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DiCaprio beat Redmayne, who was nominated for The Danish Girl, as well as Michael Fassbender, Matt Damon and Bryan Cranston. Few are the contenders who have won both big “international” prizes – a Globe and a BAFTA, as Winslet now has – but not an Oscar, at least in the years since the BAFTAs were moved before the Oscars.
Helmer Inarritu won best director, after being nominated in the category three times (he was previously nominated for “Birdman” and “Babel”).
Emmanuel Lubezki’s win for cinematography for his work on “The Revenant” was his fourth Bafta. The pic also picked up best sound, for Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek, Martin Hernandez, Frank A. Montano, Jon Taylor, Randy Thom.
Brie Larson took away the best actress trophy for playing a mother shielding her son from a awful reality in “Room”. This year’s BAFTA awards – which are Britain’s highest film honors – fell on Leo’s mother’s birthday, and the actor acknowledged her during his acceptance speech.
Fellow British star Mark Rylance was named best supporting actor for his role as a Russian spy in Bridge Of Spies.
Supporting performer prizes went to Mark Rylance, a soft-spoken Soviet agent in “Bridge of Spies”, and Kate Winslet, an Apple executive in “Steve Jobs”.
“So what I always feel in these moments is that any young woman who has ever been put down by a teacher, by a friend, by even a parent, just don’t listen to any of it, because that’s what I did – I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities”, Winslet said.
“Christ I want to leave the planet”.
BAFTA for Best British Film returned to Brooklyn to John Crowley while the best supporting actress was won by Briton Kate Winslet, also in the running for an Oscar.
Financial misdeeds movie The Big Short won for adapted screenplay and Spotlight, a film about a newspaper investigation into Catholic Church sex abuse, won best original screenplay.
The actor was buzzing as he came off stage for his interview. He said: “Sing, write, draw”.
“The Revenant” was followed by George Miller’s action movie “Mad Max: Fury Road”.
“This is overwhelming”, Inarritu said upon picking up the best film prize.
“The Revenant” has already earned DiCaprio six Oscar nominations and BAFTA wins are considered a sign of Oscar success. The two groups rarely agreed on their winners anyway, perhaps because BAFTA invited all of its members to determine the nominees in every category, but only members of its specific branches to pick the winners from those branches’ corresponding categories (except the four acting categories) – the exact opposite of how the Oscars are determined.
One of the film’s stars John Boyega, who plays Finn, won the Rising Star award, beating competition from Dakota Johnson, Bel Powley, Brie Larson and Taron Egerton.
“Sidney Poitier is the greatest example of what it means to live your life with integrity, power and grace”.
“I have been so influenced by so many British actors”, he said as he accepted the award, citing Tom Courtenay and Gary Oldman as well as Irish actors Peter O’Toole and Daniel Day Lewis. “He became a symbol of what was possible for an African-American in the United States”.
The obituary section included tributes to Alan Rickman, Maureen O’Hara, Omar Sharif, David Bowie, Ron Moody, Frank Finlay, Saeed Jaffrey and Christopher Lee.
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Renowned costume supplier Angels Costumes was lauded with the Outstanding British Contribution to cinema, which was presented by Cate Blanchett.
