BAFTAS 2022 winners: Jane Campion wins Best Director and Best Film for Power of the Dog
Jane Campion has won the BAFTA for Best Director for her film The Power of the Dog. Photo / Getty Images
The BAFTAS are back with a celebrity-packed live ceremony - and a Kiwi director has already taken out two of the biggest awards of the night.
Filmmaker Jane Campion has won Best Director for her film The Power of the Dog, which also took home Best Film.
The western film is one of the biggest contenders alongside Dune, Belfast, and West Side Story in terms of nominations, with 8 nods in total.
Campion's BAFTA wins come after she copped some criticism for filming The Power of the Dog, set in Montana in the US, in Aotearoa.
Popular western actor Sam Elliott slammed the director on a podcast earlier this month, saying, "What the f*** does this woman from down there, New Zealand, know about the American West? And why in the f*** does she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana and say, 'This is the way it was'."
Campion hit back at the criticism, labelling it "sexist" and said Elliot was acting like a "b****".
Australian comedian Rebel Wilson is hosting the event, which also featured Dame Shirley Bassey performing a James Bond theme to mark 60 years of the franchise.
An unforgettable way to open the show as we celebrate 60 years of Bond! Thank you Dame @ShirleyBassey ❤️ #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/bteRQYNWi8
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) March 13, 2022
Will Smith has beaten out Leonardo DiCaprio and Benedict Cumberbatch for Best Leading Actor for his turn as tennis great Richard Williams in King Richard.
The Daily Telegraph's film critic Robbie Collin called it a "shock" win for the actor, commenting, "If Benedict Cumberbatch can't win at home for his career-capping performance in Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, where can he?"
And Joanna Scanlan has taken home the coveted Best Leading Actress for her role in indie debut After Love, beating Lady Gaga.
An incredible moment for Joanna Scanlan as she wins the Award for Leading Actress #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/yW6XNPXism
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) March 13, 2022
Earlier, sci-fi epic Dune took home the first two awards of the night in the Best Special Effects and Cinematography categories.
An incredible moment for Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles and Gerd Nefzer as they accept the Award for Special Visual Effects #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/1Fh0tb7E6i
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) March 13, 2022
MORE TO COME:
Best film
Belfast
Don't Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
WINNER: The Power of the Dog
Outstanding British film
After Love
Ali & Ava
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die
Passing
WINNER: Belfast
Leading actress
Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones - Coda
Renate Reinsve- The Worst Person in the World
Tessa Thompson - Passing
WINNER: Joanna Scanlan - After Love
Leading actor
Adeel Akhtar - Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali - Swan Song
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio - Don't Look Up
Stephen Graham - Boiling Point
WINNER: Will Smith - King Richard
Supporting actress
Caitriona Balfe - Belfast
Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter
Ann Dowd - Mass
Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard
Ruth Negga - Passing
WINNER: Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
Supporting actor
Mike Faist - West Side Story
Ciaran Hinds - Belfast
Woody Norman - C'mon C'mon
Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog
WINNER: Troy Kotsur - Coda
Director
Aleem Khan - After Love
Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
Audrey Diwan - Happening
Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
Julia Ducournau - Titane
WINNER: Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
EE Rising Star Award
Ariana DeBose
Harris Dickinson
Millicent Simmonds
Kodi Smit-McPhee
WINNER: Lashana Lynch
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
After Love - Aleem Khan (writer/director)
Boiling Point - James Cummings (writer), Hester Ruoff (producer)
Keyboard Fantasies - Posy Dixon (writer/director), Liv Proctor (producer)
Passing - Rebecca Hall (writer/director)
WINNER: The Harder They Fall - Jeymes Samuel (writer/director)
Film not in the English language
The Hand of God
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World
WINNER: Drive My Car
Documentary
Becoming Cousteau
Cow
Flee
The Rescue
WINNER: Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Animated film
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs The Machines
WINNER: Encanto
Original screenplay
Being The Ricardos - Aaron Sorkin
Belfast - Sir Kenneth Branagh
Don't Look Up - Adam McKay
King Richard - Zach Baylin
Adapted screenplay
Winner: Coda - Sian Heder
Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Dune - Denis Villeneuve
The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion
WINNER: Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson
Original score
Being the Ricardos - Daniel Pemberton
Don't Look Up - Nicholas Britell
The French Dispatch - Alexandre Desplat
The Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood
WINNER: Dune - Hans Zimmer
Casting
Boiling Point - Carolyn McLeod
Dune - Francine Maisler
The Hand of God - Massimo Appolloni, Annamaria Sambucco
King Richard - Rich Delia, Avy Kaufman
WINNER: West Side Story - Cindy Tolan
Cinematography
Nightmare Alley - Dan Laustsen
No Time To Die - Linus Sandgren
The Power of the Dog - Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth - Bruno Delbonnel
WINNER: Dune - Greig Fraser
Costume design
Cyrano - Massimo Cantini Parrini
Dune - Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West
The French Dispatch - Milena Canonero
Nightmare Alley - Luis Sequeira
WINNER: Cruella - Jenny Beavan
Editing
Belfast - Una Ni Dhonghaile
Dune - Joe Walker
Licorice Pizza - Andy Jurgensen
Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Joshua L Pearson
WINNER: No Time To Die - Tom Cross, Elliot Graham
Production design
Cyrano - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
The French Dispatch - Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
Nightmare Alley - Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
West Side Story - Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
WINNER: Dune - Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos
Make-up and hair
Cruella - Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne
Cyrano - Alessandro Bertolazzi, Sian Miller
Dune - Love Larson, Donald Mowat
House of Gucci - Frederic Aspiras, Jana Carboni, Giuliano Mariano, Sarah Nicole Tanno
WINNER: The Eyes of Tammy Faye - Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh
Sound
Last Night In Soho - Colin Nicolson, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Dan Morgan
No Time To Die - James Harrison, Simon Hayes, Paul Massey, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor
A Quiet Place Part II - Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, Ethan Van Der Ryn
West Side Story - Brian Chumney, Tod Maitland, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom
WINNER: Dune - Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett
Special visual effects
Free Guy - Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Daniel Sudick
Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Aharon Bourland, Sheena Duggal, Pier Lefebvre, Alessandro Ongaro
The Matrix Resurrections - Tom Debenham, Huw J Evans, Dan Glass, JD Schwaim
No Time To Die - Mark Bakowski, Chris Corbould, Joel Green, Charlie Noble
WINNER: Dune - Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer
British short film
Femme
The Palace
Stuffed
Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee
WINNER: The Black Cop
British short animation
Affairs of the Art
Night of the Living Dread
WINNER: Do Not Feed the Pigeons