Film4 backed THE FAVOURITE leads BAFTAs winning seven; BEAST’s Outstanding Debut win makes it eight
Category: News Release
11 February 2019
Film4 backed films won eight BAFTA Awards last night, including seven for THE FAVOURITE, the leading film on the night.
Director of Film4 Daniel Battsek commented: “On behalf of Film4 we congratulate all our BAFTA award winners including Outstanding British Film for The Favourite & Outstanding Debut for Beast.”
Olivia Colman continued her winning run collecting the award for Leading Actress, with co-star Rachel Weisz winning Supporting Actress. THE FAVOURITE also won Outstanding British Film, with screenwriters Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara picking up Best Original Screenplay. Sandy Powell won her third BAFTA for Costume Design, Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton won for Production Design and Nadia Stacey collected the award for Make Up & Hair.
BEAST, whose producer Lauren Dark joined the Film4 team as Commissioning Exec in 2018, won the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, for Dark as well as director Michael Pearce.
Olivia Colman’s win marks the third time in four years that a Film4 backed film has produced the winner of BAFTA’s Leading Actress award, following Frances McDormand’s win for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri last year and Brie Larson’s for Room in 2016.
It’s also the second consecutive year that Film4 films have won the awards for Outstanding British Film (won by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri last year) and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer (Rungano Nyoni and Emily Morgan won for I Am Not a Witch in 2018).
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Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award®-winners such as Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia’s box office record breaking documentary Amy, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, in addition to critically-acclaimed award-winners such as Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Chris Morris’s Four Lions, Shane Meadows’ This is England, Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years.
Film4’s recent releases include Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience, Steve McQueen’s Widows, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, Tinge Krishnan’s Been So Long, Bart Layton’s American Animals, Clio Barnard’s Dark River and Michael Pearce’s Beast. Forthcoming releases include Stephen Merchant’s Fighting With My Family, Tom Harper’s Wild Rose and Chris Morris’s The Day Shall Come. Films in production include Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, Michael Winterbottom’s Greed, Asif Kapadia’s Maradona, Sarah Gavron’s ‘Untitled Girls Film’, Nick Rowland’s Calm With Horses, Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang, Coky Giedroyc’s adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s How To Build a Girl, Gregor Jordan’s Dirt Music, Ben Sharrock’s Limbo, Cathy Brady’s Wildfire, Rose Glass’s Saint Maud, and Chaplin from Peter Middleton and James Spinney.
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