‘The Power of the Dog’, ‘CODA’, ‘Dune’ win large at BAFTA 2022 

By PTI

LONDON: Acclaimed Western movie “The Power of the Dog” scooped the highest prizes for greatest movie and greatest director for Jane Campion on the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) 2022. Hosted by actor-comic Rebel Wils on, the award ceremony happened on Sunday on the Royal Albert Hall and was live-streamed in India on the streamer SonyLIV.

“The Batman” star Andy Serkis introduced the winner for greatest movie however not earlier than he known as out the federal government for its discriminatory remedy of refugees from Afghanistan and Ukraine, saying “all refugees are welcome but some are more than welcome”.

While saying actor Emilia Jones singing act with the track “Both Sides Now” from “CODA”, Wilson stated the efficiency takes the assistance of two interpreters — American Sign Language and British Sign Language.

“Luckily, though, in all sign languages, this is the gesture for Putin,” the host stated as she raised her center finger to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine invasion.

“The Power of the Dog” star Benedict Cumberbatch accepted the award on the director’s behalf. The psychological drama set in Campion’s native New Zealand additionally gained her the perfect movie BAFTA which was collected by movie’s producer Tanya Seghatachian.

Another large winner for the evening was the coming-of-age comedy-drama “CODA”, which gained director Sian Heder the gong for tailored screenplay. Heder, whose movie follows the life of a kid of deaf adults (CODA), thanked the deaf neighborhood for letting her in and increasing their help to an outsider like her. The film additionally gained Troy Kotsur the BAFTA for best-supporting actor.

Kotsur, who turned the primary deaf actor within the SAG Awards historical past to win a person prize, made a BAFTA document in the identical class. Kotsur spoke by means of an indication language interpreter and thanked the British Academy for recognising his work and for offering the providers of interpreters at such occasions.

Sci-fi spectacle “Dune”, directed by Denis Villenueve, bagged 5 BAFTAs within the technical classes, specifically manufacturing design, particular visible results, cinematography, authentic rating and sound. “King Richard” star Will Smith bagged greatest main actor BAFTA for his function of Richard Williams, father and coach of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

It is the primary BAFTA for the Hollywood A-lister who was lately named the perfect actor by SAG-AFTRA and Golden Globes. Since Smith was not in attendance, the film’s director Reinaldo Marcus Green accepted the award on his behalf.

“This is such a personal film for Will. He would thank the Williams family. There is no film without them,” Marcus Green stated.

In the perfect main actress class, the BAFTA went to Joanna Scanlan for “After Love”, wherein she performed the function of a lady who discovers her husband’s secret household after his sudden demise. Scanlan thanked BAFTA for the honour, saying “some stories have surprising endings”.

She additionally thanked writer-director debutant Aleem Khan and stated the movie was made with “extreme love, blood, sweat, and tears”. Like Smith, Ariana DeBose additionally continued her award run as she gained the perfect supporting actress BAFTA for “West Side Story”.

An overtly queer Afro-Latina DeBose performs Anita, a San Juan Hill seamstress and the older sister to feminine lead Maria (Rachel Zegler) within the fashionable adaptation of the musical by Steven Spielberg. “Belfast”, a black-and-white movie by Kenneth Branagh, picked up the BAFTA for excellent British movie.

As he accepted the award together with his workforce for his semi-biographical drama, Branagh made a case for theatrical releases, saying “All hail the streaming revolution, however all hail the massive display too. It’s alive! And lengthy could they reside collectively.

” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Japanese drama “Drive My Car” was named the best film not in the English language. “Licorice Pizza”, a romance about a teen wooing an older girl, gained its writer-director, Paul Thomas Anderson, the perfect authentic screenplay BAFTA.

Disney’s musical fantasy comedy “Encanto” earned the award for the best-animated movie. The workforce accepted the gong, including that the movie wished to point out “beautiful brown children that they are seen and that they are important”.

The studio additionally registered a win for the live-action adaptation of “Cruella” in the perfect costume division for veteran designer Jenny Beaven. “Summer of Soul” was judged the perfect documentary, directed by Questlove.