Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) has become the first Irish-born performer to receive the Best Actor BAFTA award. Element Pictures’ Poor Things received 5 awards including Best Actress. Irish producer Medb Riordan accepted the award for Outstanding Debut for Earth Mama.
There were a number of significant Irish wins at the BAFTA award ceremony last night, February 18th. First and foremost, Cillian Murphy became the first Irish-born actor to receive the Best Actor award at the BAFTAs. Element Pictures’ Poor Things took home 5 awards: Production Design, Costume Design, Makeup & Hair, VFX, and Best Actress for Emma Stone. Earth Mama won Outstanding Debut, which was received by Irish producer Medb Riordan, as well as Shirley O’Connor and Savannah Leaf.
In response to the BAFTA news, Element Pictures producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, said.
“We are absolutely delighted to have won five awards and we want to extend our sincere thanks to the BAFTA members for voting for Poor Things. It is truly an honour to be awarded by our industry peers and to see the continued success of Poor Things. Yorgos, Emma and the incredible cast and crew of the film, including of course Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan, gave so much to this project. It is wonderful to see it them get the recognition they deserve and huge congratulations to Emma for her Best Actress win. Thank you also to Film4 and to our brilliant distributors Searchlight and especially our wonderful colleagues at Element Pictures who have worked so hard on the film over the last ten years.”
As well as Best Actor, 5 awards went to Oppenheimer including Editing, Director, Cinematography, and Score.
Many Irish talents were seen presenting the awards. Co-stars Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal (All of Us Strangers) presented the award for Animated Film, James Martin (An Irish Goodbye) co-presented British Short Film and British Animated Short. Daryl McCormack presented the Casting and Editing awards with his Twisters co-star Daisy Edgar Jones.
For the full list of BAFTA award winners 2024, see below:
Best film not in the English language
20 Days in Mariupol
Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest
Best documentary
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
Wham!
Best animated film
The Boy and the Heron
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best director
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Best original screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Maestro
Past Lives
Best adapted screenplay
All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best leading actress
Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things
Best leading actor
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Teo Yoo, Past Lives
Best supporting actress
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers
Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Best supporting actor
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
Jacob Elordi, Saltburn
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
Best casting
All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
How to Have Sex
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best cinematography
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best editing
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best costume design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best makeup and hair
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best original score
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best production design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best sound
Ferrari
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Best special visual effects
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Poor Things
Best British short animation
Crab Day
Visible Mending
Wild Summon
Best British short film
Festival of Slaps
Gorka
Jellyfish and Lobster
Such a Lovely Day
Yellow
EE Rising Star award
Phoebe Dynevor
Ayo Edebiri
Jacob Elordi
Mia McKenna-Bruce
Sophie Wilde
