Anti-war film takes record-breaking seven awards, including best picture and best director, while Irish black comedy The Banshees of Inisherin and Elvis biopic both win four awards
Revisionist German war drama All Quiet on the Western Front has swept the board at the British Academy Film Awards in London, taking a remarkable seven awards, including best picture and best director for Edward Berger.
Picking up his best director prize, Berger asked the audience to remember the people of Ukraine ahead of the one-year anniversary of the start of the war with Russia. “I cannot thank you guys enough,” he said. “Your love and for showing me who Elvis truly was. I hope I’ve made you proud.” Blanchett added that the character of Lydia Tár “couldn’t be further away” from her own experience, “but perhaps where I deeply connected with her circumstance – she’s more than a character, she’s a special crisis – is that she’s coming to the end of something, the end of a teaching cycle, an artistic cycle”. She compared this to her own experience of turning 50, adding that the only opportunity out of the pandemic, was to “make changes you’ve wanted to make for a very long time”.
“Nobody on my watch gets slapped tonight,” he said, in reference to Will Smith’s attack on presenter Chris Rock at last March’s Oscars. “Well, only on the back.”
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