BAFTA 2021: 'Nomadland' wins big, Adarsh Gourav loses to Anthony Hopkins

The Frances McDormandstarrer Hollywood drama Nomadland was the big winner at the 74th British Academy for Film and Television Arts BAFTA awards held at Royal Albert Hall on Sunday night winning four trophies Indian actor Adarsh Gourav who was nominated in the Best Actor category for his role in The White Tiger lost to the legendary Anthony HopkinsThe 83yearold veteran Hopkins won for his role in The Father surprising many who had expected the late Chadwick Boseman to walk away with the honour in the category for his role in Ma Raineys Black BottomThe White Tiger also lost out in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay The films writerdirector Ramin Bahrani was in contention in the category The winners were Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton for The FatherAdarsh Gourav File picApart from The Father Promising Young Woman and Soul also won two awards eachNomadland won awards in the categories of Best Film Best Actress Frances McDormand Best Cinematography Best Director Chloe Zhao The animated film Soul won awards in the categories of Best Animation and Best Original Score Jon Batiste Trent Reznor Atticus RossDirector Emerland Fennells comedy thriller Promising Young Woman won two awards in the category of Outstanding British Film and Original ScreenplayKorean actress YuhJung Young won the Best Supported Actress award for her role in Minari While receiving the award virtually she offered her condolence for the demise of Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh She ended her speech on a light note saying she was humbled to have received the award from the British who are generally considered snobbishActor Daniel Kaluuya won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the film Judas And The Black MessiahWriterdirector Remi Weekes won the award for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer Director Or Producer for his horror thriller His HouseThe event saw performances by Liam Payne who surprised fans by taking to the stage along with a CGI version of himself thus making everyone see two of him He performed his latest track Midnight Singer Celeste gave a performance of her track Hear my voiceThe other winners at the night were actress Bukky Bakray who won the EE BAFTA Rising Star trophy The Danish film Another Round directed by Thomas Vinterberg won the Film Not In The English Language award Vinterberg remembered her daughter Ida who is not with him anymoreThe Best Documentary award went to My Octopus Teacher while the winner in the Best Editing category was Sound Of MetalRenowned director Ang Lee was awarded with the BAFTA Fellowship awardIndian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas was among the presenters this year along with Sophie Cookson Phoebe Dynevor Chiwetel Ejiofor Hugh Grant Richard E Grant Tom Hiddleston Felicity Jones Jonathan Pryce Rose Byrne Anna Kendrick and Renee Zellweger amongst othersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever