The 77th EE BAFTA Film Awards have named Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer the Best Film of 2023, also awarding the film six other prizes including Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy and Best Supporting Actor to Robert Downey Jr.
The story of the father of the atomic bomb story came in with a field-best 13 nominations and a box office haul of nearly $1B worldwide and also nabbed wins for score, editing and cinematography. “I have so many people to thank for this,” Christopher Nolan said, accepting his Best Director award. “An incredible cast, led by the peerless Cillian Murphy. To Emma Thomas, our producer; I love you.” Murphy’s win was one of some historic value as he is the first Irish actor to ever win Best Actor at the BAFTAs.
As the first major industry awards body to hand out trophies in acting categories as well as above and below the line, the BAFTAs set the stage for next weekend’s Screen Actors Guild and Producers Guild awards. Oscar winner voting kicks off in four days, on February 22.
Right behind Oppenheimer was Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things with five wins, including Best Actress for Emma Stone and sharing most of the tech awards with Oppenheimer. In her speech Stone said, “Our incredible cast and crew, I cannot imagine this film with anyone else. What you brought to life every single day, I am in awe of all of you. Yorgos, thank you for our friendship, and the gift of Bella. I am thankful for her, and for you, always.”
The ceremony was held at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London and hosted by David Tennant for the first time.
Here is the complete list of winners of the 77th EE BAFTA Film Awards.
Best Film
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer – WINNER
Poor Things
Best Director
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer – WINNER
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Leading Actor
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer – WINNER
Teo Yoo, Past Lives
Leading Actress
Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things – WINNER
Supporting Actor
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer – WINNER
Jacob Elordi, Saltburn
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers.
Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers
Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers – WINNER
Original Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet and Arthur Harari) – WINNER
Barbie (Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach)
The Holdovers (David Hemingson)
Maestro (Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer)
Past Lives (Celine Song)
Adapted Screenplay
(All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh)
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson) – WINNER
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
Poor Things (Tony McNamara)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
Outstanding British Film
All of Us Strangers
How to Have Sex
Napoleon
The Old Oak
Poor Things
Rye Lane
Saltburn
Scrapper
Wonka
The Zone of Interest – WINNER
Film Not in the English Language
20 Days in Mariupol
Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest – WINNER
Casting
All of Us Strangers (Kahleen Crawford)
Anatomy of a Fall (Cynthia Arra)
The Holdovers (Susan Shopmaker) – WINNER
How to Have Sex (Isabella Odoffin)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Ellen Lewis and Rene Haynes).
Cinematography
Killers of the Flower Moon (Rodrigo Prieto)
Maestro (Matthew Libatique)
Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema) – WINNER
Poor Things (Robbie Ryan)
The Zone of Interest (Łukasz Żal)
Editing
Anatomy of a Fall (Laurent Sénéchal)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Thelma Schoonmaker)
Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame) – WINNER
Poor Things (Yorgos Mavropsaridis)
The Zone of Interest (Paul Watts).
Production Design
Barbie (Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Jack Fisk and Adam Willis)
Oppenheimer (Ruth De Jong and Claire Kaufman)
Poor Things (Shona Heath, James Price, & Zsuzsa Mihalek) – WINNER
The Zone of Interest (Chris Oddy, Joanna Maria Kuś, & Katarzyna Sikora)
Costume Design
Barbie (Jacqueline Durran)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Jacqueline West)
Napoleon (Dave Crossman and Janty Yates)
Oppenheimer (Ellen Mirojnick)
Poor Things (Holly Waddington) – WINNER
Make Up & Hair
Killers of the Flower Moon (Kay Georgiou, Thomas Nellen)
Maestro (Sian Grigg, Kay Georgiou, Kazu Hiro, Lori McCoy-Bell)
Napoleon (Jana Carboni, Francesco Pegoretti, Satinder Chumber, Julia Vernon)
Oppenheimer (Luisa Abel, Jaime Leigh McIntosh, Jason Hamer, Ahou Mofid)
Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston) – WINNER
Original Score
Killers of the Flower Moon (Robbie Robertson)
Oppenheimer (Ludwig Göransson) – WINNER
Poor Things (Jerskin Fendrix)
Saltburn (Anthony Willis)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Daniel Pemberton).
Sound
Ferrari (Angelo Bonanni, Tony Lamberti, Andy Nelson, Lee Orloff, Bernard Weiser)
Maestro (Richard King, Steve Morrow, Tom Ozanich, Jason Ruder, Dean Zupancic)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Chris Munro, Mark Taylor)
Oppenheimer (Willie Burton, Richard King, Kevin O’Connell, Gary A. Rizzo)
The Zone of Interest (Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers) – WINNER
Special Visual Effects
The Creator (Jonathan Bullock, Charmaine Chan, Ian Comley, Jay Cooper)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Theo Bialek, Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Neil Corbould, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland, Alex Wuttke)
Napoleon (Henry Badgett, Neil Corbould, Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet)
Poor Things (Simon Hughes) – WINNER
British Short Animation
Crab Day (Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak) – WINNER
Visible Mending (Samantha Moore, Tilley Bancroft)
Wild Summon (Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Jay Woolley)
British Short Film
Festival of Slaps (Abdou Cissé, Cheri Darbon, George Telfer)
Gorka (Joe Weiland, Alex Jefferson)
Jellyfish and Lobster (Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai) – WINNER
Such a Lovely Day (Simon Woods, Polly Stokes, Emma Norton, Kate Phibbs)
Yellow (Elham Ehsas, Dina Mousawi, Azeem Bhati, Yiannis Manolopoulos)
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Blue Bag Life – Lisa Selby (Director), Rebecca Lloyd-Evans (Director, Producer), Alex Fry (Producer)
Bobi Wine: The People’s President – Christopher Sharp (Director) [also directed by Moses Bwayo]
Earth Mama – Savanah Leaf (Writer, Director, Producer), Shirley O’Connor (Producer), Medb Riordan (Producer) – WINNER
How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker (Writer, Director)
Is There Anybody Out There? – Ella Glendining (Director)
BAFTA Rising Star
Phoebe Dynevor
Ayo Edebiri
Jacob Elordi
Mia McKenna-Bruce – WINNER
Sophie Wilde
