It was a golden evening of success for All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin at the BAFTAs which took place in London on Sunday. All Quiet took home seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Edward Berger, while Banshees won two of the four acting awards, original screenplay and Best British Film. Heading into the evening’s proceedings, All Quiet, the Netflix-backed film, led the pack with 14 nominations.
As a result, the German-language World War I drama found itself tied with Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon for the most nominations for a non-English language movie in BAFTA history. Martin McDonagh’s Irish tragi-comedy The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson had an equally impressive run in the build up to the event, performing spectacularly in the acting categories with wins for Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan.
Austin Butler took home the award for Leading Actor for his barnstorming turn as the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, in Baz Luhrmann’s bombastically entertaining biopic, Elvis, while Cate Blanchett was awarded Leading Actress for her role as an egomaniacal conductor and composer in Todd Field’s Tár.
