Ashish Ranjan
BAFTA Awards 2023: On Sunday, the 76th British Academy Film Awards, were held at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England. The star-studded presentation, hosted by actor Richard E. Grant, saw the German anti-war picture All Quiet on the Western Front win seven honours, including Best Film and Best Director. Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes was nominated in the Best Documentary category, which was won by Daniel Roher’s Navalny.
The nomination of Shaunak Sen’s critically praised documentary All that Breathes for Best Documentary at this year’s Academy Awards made India shine. The somewhat disheartening news is that Navalny wins the BAFTA Award for Best Film in 2023.
The award for Documentary goes to Navalny @navalnydoc @dogwoof #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/7L1a82XTaC
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 19, 2023
ALL THAT BREATHES LOSES BAFTA 2023
Other nominees for Best Documentary Feature at the BAFTAs in 2023 were All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and A House Made of Splinters, for those uninformed. All That Breathes by Shaunak Sen was one of the leading contenders for the documentary award. However, the film lost to Navalny by Daniel Roher. The plot of the winning film centres around the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the subsequent inquiry into the matter.
Here are the complete list of winners BAFTA Awards 2023:
Best Film – All Quiet on the Western Front
Leading Actress – Cate Blanchett, Tar
Leading Actor – Austin Butler, Elvis
Best Director – Edward Berger, All Quiet on the Western Front
Best Casting – Elvis
Best Cinematography – All Quiet on the Western Front
Adapted Screenplay – All Quiet On The Western Front, Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
Editing – Everything Everywhere All At Once, Paul Rogers
Cinematography – All Quiet On The Western Front, James Friend
Best Documentary – Navalny (Daniel Roher)
EE Bafta Rising Star Award – Emma Mackey
Film Not In The English Language – All Quiet On The Western Front
Best Costume Design – Catherine Martin, Elvis
British Short Film – An Irish Goodbye
Make up & Hair – Elvis; Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulston, Shane Thomas
Production design – Babylon; Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino
Sound – All Quiet On The Western Front; Lars Ginzsel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil, Markus Stemler
Original Score – All Quiet On The Western Front; Volker Bertelmann
Supporting Actress – Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Supporting Actor – Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
ABOUT ALL THAT BREATHES
All that Breathes was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Eye Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In addition to being the most well-received documentary of the year, it has won several other major international honours at various film festivals across the world. Given the film’s original premise and critical acclaim, it would not be surprising to see Shaunak Sen accept the Oscar for Best Documentary alongside Hollywood’s biggest personalities, despite having lost the BAFTA.The BAFTA awards were broadcast live on Lionsgate Play from the Royal Festival Hall in London.
