This year’s fresh crop of BAFTA shorts feature some outstanding productions in both live action and animation, with some exceeding all expectation in both direction, acting and producing stakes. Offering a mixture of live action and animated productions, BAFTA has surpassed itself once again with a shortlist which is worthy of admiration and praise. Here are just a few of the best and most notable nominees.
Related: The full list of 2019 BAFTA winners and Red Carpet Interviews
Barnaby Blackburn’s Wale (★★★★) presents an exhilarating crime thriller starring Raphel Famotibe and Jamie Sives. The film tells the story of 18-year-old Wale (Famotibe), a reformed young criminal turned mechanic trying to get his life back on track. Things take a dark turn when Wale finds himself implicated in a serious crime after a chance meeting with a smooth talking businessman (Sives).
One of the stand-out shorts this year is a slow-burning...
Related: The full list of 2019 BAFTA winners and Red Carpet Interviews
Barnaby Blackburn’s Wale (★★★★) presents an exhilarating crime thriller starring Raphel Famotibe and Jamie Sives. The film tells the story of 18-year-old Wale (Famotibe), a reformed young criminal turned mechanic trying to get his life back on track. Things take a dark turn when Wale finds himself implicated in a serious crime after a chance meeting with a smooth talking businessman (Sives).
One of the stand-out shorts this year is a slow-burning...
- 2/12/2019
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Fiona Crombie.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite won seven prizes at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ awards in London on Sunday, including original screenplay for Tony McNamara and Deborah Davis and production design for Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton.
So the momentum builds for all four, who have been nominated in their respective categories at the Academy Awards.
Crombie’s work on The Favourite had already been recognised as it was named best period film at the Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards in Los Angeles.
In the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film category went on to win the Oscar in production design three times: The Great Gatsby (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2025) and The Shape of Water (2018), which also won best picture.
Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix film Roma took home the BAFTA Awards for best film, director, cinematography and...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite won seven prizes at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ awards in London on Sunday, including original screenplay for Tony McNamara and Deborah Davis and production design for Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton.
So the momentum builds for all four, who have been nominated in their respective categories at the Academy Awards.
Crombie’s work on The Favourite had already been recognised as it was named best period film at the Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards in Los Angeles.
In the past five years, the winner of the Adg’s period film category went on to win the Oscar in production design three times: The Great Gatsby (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2025) and The Shape of Water (2018), which also won best picture.
Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix film Roma took home the BAFTA Awards for best film, director, cinematography and...
- 2/10/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The 2019 BAFTA Award winners have been announced!
The most nominated film of the event, The Favourite, was predictably the night’s big winner, netting seven wins including leading actress for Olivia Colman, supporting actress for Rachel Weisz and outstanding British film. Netflix’s Roma beat out The Favourite for best film as well as best director for Alfonso Cuaron.
Elsewhere, Rami Malek won in the leading actor category for his performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, while Green Book‘s Mahershala Ali was recognized as the best supporting actor. Both are considered front-runners at the upcoming 91st Academy Awards,...
The most nominated film of the event, The Favourite, was predictably the night’s big winner, netting seven wins including leading actress for Olivia Colman, supporting actress for Rachel Weisz and outstanding British film. Netflix’s Roma beat out The Favourite for best film as well as best director for Alfonso Cuaron.
Elsewhere, Rami Malek won in the leading actor category for his performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, while Green Book‘s Mahershala Ali was recognized as the best supporting actor. Both are considered front-runners at the upcoming 91st Academy Awards,...
- 2/10/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Moments ago, we saw one of the final dominos in the precursor season tumble. Yes, the 72nd British Academy Film Awards were held, with the winners staking their claim to potential Oscar glory. BAFTA has long held major sway with the Academy Awards, so what voters in the former do, members of the latter keep in mind. That should again be the case this year, though there weren’t a whole lot of surprises to be found. BAFTA voters embraced the things we expected them to, for better or worse. Now, it’s just a matter of figuring out if they’re on the money or not, which is what I’ll be doing next… BAFTA gave the most awards to The Favourite, with seven in total, including Olivia Colman in Best Actress, Rachel Weisz in Best Supporting Actress, and the duo of Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara in Best Original Screenplay.
- 2/10/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix film Roma won the Best Film at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday. Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite, which led all nominees going in with 12, won a leading seven trophies as the two films with the most Oscar nominations this year duked it out on at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Cuarón’s black-and-white Spanish-language memory play score four noms overall — Best Film, Director and Cinematography and Best Film Not in the English Language — but those categories came later in the evening.
The rest of the show was mostly The Favourite‘s playground, where the Brit-originated pic with its Brit subject matter won Outstanding British Film, acting trophies for lead Olivia Colman and co-star Rachel Wiesz, as well as Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design and Make Up & Hair.
Also picking up Oscar momentum Sunday was Rami Malek, who...
Cuarón’s black-and-white Spanish-language memory play score four noms overall — Best Film, Director and Cinematography and Best Film Not in the English Language — but those categories came later in the evening.
The rest of the show was mostly The Favourite‘s playground, where the Brit-originated pic with its Brit subject matter won Outstanding British Film, acting trophies for lead Olivia Colman and co-star Rachel Wiesz, as well as Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design and Make Up & Hair.
Also picking up Oscar momentum Sunday was Rami Malek, who...
- 2/10/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight (10 Feb) at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page and on Twitter as they are announced.
The ceremony starts at 18:45 UK time and finishes at approximately 21:30, with Joanna Lumley hosting for a second time.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ historical drama The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight (10 Feb) at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page and on Twitter as they are announced.
The ceremony starts at 18:45 UK time and finishes at approximately 21:30, with Joanna Lumley hosting for a second time.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ historical drama The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
- 2/10/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The touring compilation of short films nominated includes an intriguing drama, engaging documentaries and a freewheeling animation with humour and charm
Time once again for that thoroughly worthwhile tradition: the touring compilation of short films nominated for a Bafta. Some of the best this year are Anglo-French co-productions. Something else we might have to stockpile.
My favourite this year is an animation. Jonathan Hodgson’s Roughhouse is a dramatised freewheeling anecdote with humour, emotion and charm, about three Birmingham lads at college in the 70s, the lairy house-share adventures they have and the crisis they blunder into when they realise that they have feelings. In a short space of time, Hodgson really does tell us a story.
Time once again for that thoroughly worthwhile tradition: the touring compilation of short films nominated for a Bafta. Some of the best this year are Anglo-French co-productions. Something else we might have to stockpile.
My favourite this year is an animation. Jonathan Hodgson’s Roughhouse is a dramatised freewheeling anecdote with humour, emotion and charm, about three Birmingham lads at college in the 70s, the lairy house-share adventures they have and the crisis they blunder into when they realise that they have feelings. In a short space of time, Hodgson really does tell us a story.
- 2/7/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Few outside the Us military have even seen, let alone recorded, what goes on inside the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison. Now, using the words of the detainees themselves, an extraordinary animated film aims to show the brutality and claustrophobia of daily life there. This is the fascinating story behind its making…
Click here to watch Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes
For Sami al-Hajj, the scenes in the film he is watching at his home in Doha, Qatar, take him back to his darkest hours. Twice a day, for 16 months, al-Hajj was strapped down and force-fed inside Guantánamo Bay. Today, viewing a film representation of the procedure in Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes – an animated short made by two British journalists – induces a familiar sensation of torment.
"It reminds me of the painful suffering during my hunger strike. It was painful in every sense of the word. I felt at the...
Click here to watch Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes
For Sami al-Hajj, the scenes in the film he is watching at his home in Doha, Qatar, take him back to his darkest hours. Twice a day, for 16 months, al-Hajj was strapped down and force-fed inside Guantánamo Bay. Today, viewing a film representation of the procedure in Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes – an animated short made by two British journalists – induces a familiar sensation of torment.
"It reminds me of the painful suffering during my hunger strike. It was painful in every sense of the word. I felt at the...
- 10/13/2013
- by Mark Townsend
- The Guardian - Film News
My friend Peter Richardson, who has died of cancer aged 51, was a graphic artist with a special talent for typography. Peter's designs were always elegant and considered, with a sensitive use of colour. His collage-based illustrations combined simple drawings, text and photographic elements. These varied design skills lent themselves well to animation, in particular the creation of TV titles and motion graphics, where Peter made his career.
He was born in Guiseley, West Yorkshire. After secondary school he started a degree in engineering at Manchester University, but then decided to transfer to an art foundation course at Bradford College, where he was encouraged by the tutors Grant Devine and Ian Taylor.
He went on to study illustration at Liverpool Polytechnic, where he developed his interest in drawing, collage, making handmade books, lino-cut printing and typography. While at Liverpool he played guitar for the Passmore Sisters, who released a number of...
He was born in Guiseley, West Yorkshire. After secondary school he started a degree in engineering at Manchester University, but then decided to transfer to an art foundation course at Bradford College, where he was encouraged by the tutors Grant Devine and Ian Taylor.
He went on to study illustration at Liverpool Polytechnic, where he developed his interest in drawing, collage, making handmade books, lino-cut printing and typography. While at Liverpool he played guitar for the Passmore Sisters, who released a number of...
- 9/30/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
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