BAFTA Film Winners 2023: All Quiet On The Western Front Gets Best Film In Major Sweep

All Quiet On The Western Front

by Ben Travis |
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For much of this year’s awards conversation, The Banshees Of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once have dominated in the major categories – but at the 2023 BAFTAs, it was All Quiet On The Western Front that cleaned up. Edward Berger’s film bagged seven awards on the night including Best Film – building up momentum throughout the show as it won multiple technical categories (Cinematography, Score, Sound) and major gongs (Director, Adapted Screenplay, Film Not In The English Language) over the course of the ceremony.

“For a German-language film, we’ve been blessed with so many nominations, and winning this is just incredible,” said producer Malte Grunert on stage while picking up Best Film. The film’s big wins also came freighted with the relevancy of its World War I story. Upon winning Adapted Screenplay, writer-director Berger noted that in five days time it will be a year since war began in Ukraine, and stated that: “There are no heroes in any war.”

Martin McDonagh – BAFTAs 2023
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While Banshees missed out on Director and Best Film, it still picked up four trophies on the night – including Outstanding British Film (“I know that every Irish person in the cast and crew is saying, ‘Best what award?’,” joked writer-director Martin McDonagh), Original Screenplay, plus Supporting Actor for Barry Keoghan and Supporting Actress for Kerry Condon. Also bagging four awards was Elvis, predominantly in technical categories (Costume Design, Make Up & Hair, Casting), but also earning Leading Actor for Austin Butler – who beat out the likes of Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, and Paul Mescal in a crowded selection.

Barry Keoghan – Oscars 2023
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Notably, then, it left Everything Everywhere with just one win on the night, for Editing. Aftersun picked up Outstanding Debut for its director Charlotte Wells, Cate Blanchett won Leading Actress for TÁR (getting in ahead of the likes of Michelle Yeoh and Viola Davis), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio came away with Animated Film, and Navalny came through in the Documentary category. Plus, Avatar: The Way Of Water won Visual Effects because… well, have you seen it?

All that, and Babylon nabbed Production Design, Sex Education star Emma Mackey came out on top in the public-voted EE Rising Star award, An Irish Goodbye won British Short Film, and The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse got Animated Short. Oh, and Alison Hammond asked Ariana DeBose the immortal question: “Is there any end to your talent, babes?” All in all, a successful evening then.

2023 BAFTA Film winners in full:

BEST FILM

All Quiet On The Western Front

The Banshees Of Inisherin

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All At Once

TÁR

DIRECTOR

All Quiet On The Western Front – Edward Berger

The Banshees Of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh

Decision To Leave – Park Chan-wook

Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

TÁR – Todd Field

The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood

LEADING ACTOR

Austin Butler – Elvis

Colin Farrell – The Banshees Of Inisherin

Brendan Fraser – The Whale

Daryl McCormack – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

Paul Mescal – Aftersun

Billy Nighy – Living

LEADING ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett – TÁR

Viola Davis – The Woman King

Danielle Deadwyler – Till

Ana de Armas – Blonde

Emma Thompson – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barry Keoghan – The Banshees Of Inisherin

Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees Of Inisherin

Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Eddie Redmayne – The Good Nurse

Albrecht Schuch – All Quiet On The Western Front

Micheal Ward – Empire Of Light

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kerry Condon – The Banshees Of Inisherin

Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Hong Chau – The Whale

Dolly De Leon – Triangle Of Sadness

Carey Mulligan – She Said

Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All At Once

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Banshees Of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh

Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

The Fabelmans – Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg

TÁR – Todd Field

Triangle Of Sadness – Ruben Östlund

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

All Quiet On The Western Front – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell

Living – Kazuo Ishiguro

The Quiet Girl – Colm Bairéad

She Said – Rebecca Lenkiewicz

The Whale – Samuel D. Hunter

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

The Banshees Of Inisherin

Aftersun

Brian & Charles

Empire Of Light

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

Living

Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical

See How They Run

The Swimmers

The Wonder

DOCUMENTARY

Navalny

All That Breathes

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

Fire Of Love

Moonage Daydream

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

All Quiet On The Western Front

Argentina, 1985

Corsage

Decision To Leave

The Quiet Girl

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

Aftersun – Charlotte Wells

Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley, Hélène Sifre

Electric Malady – Marie Lidén

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande – Katy Brand

Rebellion – Maia Kenworthy

ANIMATED FILM

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

Turning Red

CINEMATOGRAPHY

All Quiet On The Western Front – James Friend

The Batman – Greig Fraser

Elvis – Mandy Walker

Empire Of Light – Roger Deakins

Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda

EDITING

Everything Everywhere All At Once – Paul Rogers

All Quiet On The Western Front – Sven Budelmann

The Banshees Of Inisherin – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

Elvis – Jonathan Redmond, Matt Villa

Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton

ORIGINAL SCORE

All Quiet On The Western Front – Volker Bertelsmann

Babylon – Justin Hurwitz

The Banshees Of Inisherin – Carter Burwell

Everything Everywhere All At Once – Son Lux

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Babylon – Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino

All Quiet On The Western Front – Christian M. Goldbrick, Ernestine Hipper

The Batman – James Chinlund, Lee Sandales

Elvis – Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Curt Enderle, Guy Davis

COSTUME DESIGN

Elvis – Catherine Martin

All Quiet On The Western Front – Lisy Christl

Amsterdam – JR Hawbaker, Albert Wolsey

Babylon – Mary Zophres

Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris – Jenny Beavan

MAKE UP & HAIR

Elvis – Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulstron, Shane Thomas

All Quiet On The Western Front – Heike Marker

The Batman – Naomie Donne, Mike Marino, Zoe Tahir

Matilda The Musical – Naomie Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin

The Whale – Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot

SOUND

All Quiet On The Western Front

Avatar: The Way Of Water

Elvis

TÁR

Top Gun: Maverick

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar: The Way Of Water

All Quiet On The Western Front

The Batman

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Top Gun: Maverick

CASTING

Elvis – Nikki Barrett, Denise Chadian

Aftersun – Lucy Pardee

All Quiet On The Western Front – Simone Bär

Everything Everywhere All At Once – Sarah Halley Finn

Triangle Of Sadness – Pauline Hansson

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse

Middle Watch

Your Mountain Is Waiting

BRITISH SHORT FILM

An Irish Goodbye

The Ballad Of Olive Morris

Bazigaga

Bus Girl

A Drifting Up

EE RISING STAR

Emma Mackey

Aimee Lou Wood

Daryl McCormack

Naomi Ackie

Sheila Atim

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