BAFTA Film Awards 2021: Nominations and Winners

See the full list of nominations and winners from the 2021 BAFTA Film Awards! Winners announced on April 10 & 11, 2021.
Best Film
- The Father
- The Mauritanian
- Nomadland
- Promising Young Woman
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
Outstanding British Film
- WINNER: Promising Young Woman
- Calm with Horses
- The Dig
- The Father
- His House
- Limbo
- The Mauritanian
- Mogul Mowgli
- Rocks
- Saint Maud
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
- WINNER: His House – Remi Weekes (Writer/Director)
- Limbo – Ben Sharrock (Writer/Director), Irune Gurtubai (Producer) [also produced by Angus Lamont]
- Moffie – Jack Sidey (Writer/Producer) [also written by Oliver Hermanus and produced by Eric Abraham]
- Rocks – Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Writers)
- Saint Maud – Rose Glass (Writer/Director), Oliver Kassman (Producer) [also produced by Andrea Cornwell]
Best Film Not in the English Language
- WINNER: Another Round
- Dear Comrades!
- Les Misérables
- Minari
- Quo Vadis, Aida?
Best Documentary
- WINNER: My Octopus Teacher
- Collective
- David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
- The Dissident
- The Social Dilemma
Best Animated Film
- WINNER: Soul
- Onward
- Wolfwalker
Best Director
- Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round
- Shannon Murphy – Babyteeth
- Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
- Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
- Jasmila Žbanić – Quo Vadis, Aida?
- Sarah Gavron – Rocks
Best Original Screenplay
- WINNER: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
- Another Round – Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
- Mank – Jack Fincher
- Rocks – Theresa Ikoko & Claire Wilson
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin
Best Adapted Screenplay
- WINNER: The Father – Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
- The Dig – Moira Buffini
- The Mauritanian – Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani & M.B. Traven
- Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
- The White Tiger – Ramin Bahrani
Best Leading Actress
- Bukky Bakray – Rocks
- Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
- Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
- Frances McDormand – Nomadland
- Wunmi Mosaku – His House
- Alfre Woodard – Clemency
Best Leading Actor
- Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
- Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Adarsh Gourav – The White Tiger
- Anthony Hopkins – The Father
- Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round
- Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian
Best Supporting Actress
- WINNER: Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari
- Niamh Algar – Calm with Horses
- Kosar Ali – Rocks
- Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent MovieFilm
- Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah
- Ashley Madekew – County Lines
Best Supporting Actor
- WINNER: Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
- Barry Keoghan – Calm with Horses
- Alan Kim – Minari
- Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
- Clarke Peters – Da 5 Bloods
- Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
Best Original Score
- WINNER: Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- Mank – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
- Minari – Emile Mosseri
- News of the World – James Newton Howard
- Promising Young Woman – Anthony Willis
Best Casting
- WINNER: Rocks – Lucy Pardee
- Calm with Horses – Shaheen Baig
- Judas and the Black Messiah – Alexa L. Fogel
- Minari – Julia Kim
- Promising Young Woman – Lindsay Graham Ahanonu & Mary Vernieu
Best Cinematography
- WINNER: Nomadland – Joshua James Richards
- Judas and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt
- Mank – Erik Messerschmidt
- The Mauritanian – Alwin H. Küchler
- News of the World – Dariusz Wolski
Best Editing
- WINNER: Sound of Metal – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
- Father – Yorgos Lamprinos
- Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
- Promising Young Woman – Frédéric Thoraval
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten
Best Production Design
- WINNER: Mank – Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
- The Dig – Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
- The Father – Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
- News of the World – David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
- Rebecca – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Best Costume Design
- WINNER: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth
- Ammonite – Michael O’Connor
- The Dig – Alice Babidge
- Emma. – Alexandra Byrne
- Mank – Trish Summerville
Best Make-Up & Hair
- WINNER: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera & Mia Neal
- The Dig – Jenny Shircore
- Hillbilly Elegy – Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash & Matthew Mungle
- Mank – Colleen LaBaff, Kimberley Spiteri & Gigi Williams
- Pinocchio – Dalia Colli, Mark Coulier & Francesco Pegoretti
Best Sound
- WINNER: Sound of Metal – Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés & Michelle Couttolenc
- Greyhound – Beau Borders, Christian P. Minkler, Michael Minkler, Warren Shaw & David Wyman
- News of the World – Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett & Oliver Tarney
- Nomadland – Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers & M. Wolf Snyder
- Soul – Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce & David Parker
Best Special Visual Effects
- WINNER: Tenet – Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson & Andrew Lockley
- Greyhound – Pete Bebb, Nathan McGuinness, Sebastian von Overheidt & Whitney Richman
- The Midnight Sky – Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, Max Solomon, David Watkins
- Mulan – Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury
- The One and Only Ivan – Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones
Best British Short Animation
- WINNER: The Owl and the Pussycat
- The Fire Next Time
- The Song of a Lost Boy
Best British Short Film
- WINNER: The Present
- Eyelash
- Lizard
- Lucky Break
- Miss Curvy
EE Rising Star Award
- Bukky Bakray
- Conrad Khan
- Kingsley Ben-Adir
- Morfydd Clark
- Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù