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Tuesday 16 February 2016

‘The Revenant’ and DiCaprio are winners at BAFTA film awards

JILL LAWLESS Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, left, actor Leonardo Di Caprio, right, with the Best Film and Best Actor award for the film ‘The
Associated Press Revenant’ presented by actor Tom Cruise, centre, backstage at the BAFTA 2016 film awards at the Royal Opera House in London,
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016.
film industry showered Val-
entine’s Day love on “The Associated Press
Revenant” Sunday, award-
ing the endurance epic Danish Girl,” Cate Blanch- rise and fall of singer Amy Boyega won the Rising Star achievement award, the
five prizes, including best ett for “Carol,” Maggie Winehouse. award — decided by pub- BAFTA fellowship.
picture and best actor, at Smith for “The Lady in the George Miller’s dystopian lic vote — and dedicated it A group called Creatives of
the British Academy Film Van” and Saoirse Ronan for thrill ride “Mad Max: Fury to “all the young dreamers Colour Network organized
Awards. “Brooklyn.” Road” took four prizes: ed- who are hard-working, who a protest beside the red
Leonardo DiCaprio ce- Supporting performer prizes iting, production design, are determined and who carpet against a lack of
mented his Oscar-favorite went to Mark Rylance, a costume design, and hair quite frankly are amaz- racial diversity in show busi-
status by taking the best- soft-spoken Soviet agent in and makeup. ing.” ‘’Star Wars: The Force ness.
actor trophy for playing a “Bridge of Spies,” and Kate Two leading Oscar con- Awakens” won the BAFTA
bear-battling fur trapper Winslet, an Apple execu- tenders also won awards: for visual effects. Demonstrators rallied under
in a brutally wild American tive in “Steve Jobs.” “Spotlight,” the drama The black comedy anthol- the hashtag #baftablack-
West. Alejandro G. Inarritu Winslet dedicated the prize about newspaper report- ogy “Wild Tales,” written out, and distributed leaf-
was named best director to “all those young women ers investigating sex abuses and directed by Argentine lets declaring the awards
for what he called a “hu- who doubt themselves,” re- in the Catholic Church, for Damian Szifron, won for “male, pale and stale.”
man and tender story,” calling that she once had original screenplay, and non-English language film. The head of the British film
and “The Revenant” also been told to go for “the fat- financial-crisis dramedy Famed Italian film compos- academy said she support-
won prizes for cinematog- girl parts.” “The Big Short” for adapted er Ennio Morricone, 87, re- ed the protesters’ aims.
raphy and sound. “Look at me now!” Winslet screenplay. ceived the music award for “Our industry isn’t diverse
DiCaprio, who has been said. On a crisp, cool London his score to Quentin Taran- enough, so the pool of peo-
nominated three times be- “The Revenant” beat sev- winter evening, hundreds tino’s “The Hateful Eight.” ple to draw award winners
fore at the British awards eral hotly tipped awards of fans gathered to watch The movie awards season from isn’t diverse enough,”
without winning, said in contenders, including Ste- the stars arrive at the Royal has been dominated by chief executive Amanda
his acceptance speech ven Spielberg’s Cold War Opera House. Among the debate about why the film Berry told the Daily Tele-
that he was “absolutely thriller “Bridge of Spies” and arrivals were nominees Di- industry remains dominat- graph newspaper.
humbled” to beat “The Todd Haynes’ lesbian ro- Caprio, Mark Ruffalo, Fass- ed by white men. All the Like Hollywood’s Academy
Martian” star Matt Damon, mance “Carol.” Each had bender, Blanchett, Spiel- acting nominees for the Os- of Motion Picture Arts and
“Trumbo’’’s Bryan Crans- nine BAFTA nominations, berg, Winslet, and “Star cars both this year and last Sciences, the British film
ton, Michael Fassbender but “Bridge of Spies” won Wars” action hero John have been white. academy says it will work to
for “Steve Jobs,” and Eddie only for Rylance’s perfor- Boyega. The BAFTAs are slightly more make sure its 6,500 voting
Redmayne for “The Danish mance, while “Carol” was Inside the plush auditorium, diverse, with two black ac- members become a more
Girl.” shut out. actor-comedian Stephen tors nominated — Boyega diverse group.
He cited the influence on Fry hosted a ceremony and Idris Elba, a supporting- On the red carpet, Boyega
his work of British actors Irish emigrant saga “Brook- that included a Valen- actor contender for “Beasts said he was glad the issue
including Tom Courtney, lyn” was named best Brit- tine’s-themed kiss-cam of No Nation.” Pioneering was being aired.
Peter O’Toole, Daniel Day ish film, a distinct category, stunt which saw seatmates black American actor Sid- “I just think a larger con-
Lewis and his “Revenant” while the documentary including DiCaprio and ney Poitier — the first black versation is being had and
co-star Tom Hardy, and prize went to “Amy,” a Maggie Smith smooch on- best-actor Oscar winner, in I think that’s a very, very
sent thanks and greetings powerful portrait of the screen. 1963 — received a lifetime positive thing,” he said.q
to his mother, whose birth-
day fell on Sunday.
The British awards, known
as BAFTAs, are considered
a portent of success at Hol-
lywood’s Feb. 28 Academy
Awards. “The Revenant”
has earned DiCaprio his
sixth Oscar nomination —
and, many believe, his best
shot at finally winning.
DiCaprio said it was out of
his hands, but expressed
pride in what he called
“not just a film, but an epic
journey we all went on.”
“We put our heart and soul
into this movie ... It’s up to
the world now and voters
to decide,” he said at a
post-ceremony news con-
ference.
The best-actress trophy
went to Brie Larson as a
mother trying to shield her
son from a terrible reality in
“Room.” She won out over
Alicia Vikander for “The