Winners of the 2018 British Academy Film Awards are revealed on Sunday, Feb. 18 in a ceremony at Royal Albert Hall in London. The 71st annual BAFTAS hosted by Joanna Lumley (“Absolutely Fabulous”) is likely to be a preview of next month’s Oscars. Final voting for the 90th annual Academy Awards begins on Tuesday (Feb. 20).
As at the Oscars, “The Shape of Water” leads all films here with 12 nominations. “Darkest Hour” and “Three Billboards” are tied for second place with nine nominations each. “Blade Runner 2049” and “Dunkirk” are in contention for eight apiece, “I, Tonya” is up for five and both “Call Me by Your Name” and “Phantom Thread” vie in four races.
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Our exclusive BAFTA odds are predicting that “Three Billboards” will be the big winner, taking home five of the top awards: Best Picture, Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Best Supporting Actor (Sam Rockwell), Best Original Screenplay (Martin McDonagh) and Best British Film. We expect “The Shape of Water” to win three BAFTAs: Best Director (Guillermo Del Toro), Best Production Design and Best Score. Two films — “Darkest Hour” and “Dunkirk” — will win two apiece. The former will claim Best Actor (Gary Oldman) and Best Makeup and Hair while the latter will win Best Film Editing and Best Sound. “I, Tonya” will take Supporting Actress (Allison Janney), “Call Me by Your Name” is tapped for Adapted Screenplay and “Phantom Thread” should have Costume Design sewn up.
To arrive at these BAFTA winner odds, we canvassed expert journalists who cover film awards, our in-house team of editors, site users who scored the best predicting these winners in the past and thousands of readers like you. Be sure to make your BAFTA predictions so that studio executives and top name stars can see how their films are faring in our odds.
BEST PICTURE
“Call Me by Your Name”
“Darkest Hour”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
BEST DIRECTOR
Denis Villeneuve, “Blade Runner 2049”
Luca Guadagnino, “Call Me by Your Name”
Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
BEST ACTOR
Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”
Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
Jamie Bell, “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”
BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening, “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”
Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Hugh Grant, “Paddington 2”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”
Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Kristin Scott Thomas, “Darkest Hour”
Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“Get Out”
“I, Tonya”
“Lady Bird”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Call Me by Your Name”
“The Death of Stalin”
“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”
“Molly’s Game”
“Paddington 2”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Blade Runner 2049”, Roger Deakins
“Darkest Hour”, Bruno Delbonnel
“Dunkirk”, Hoyte van Hoytema
“The Shape of Water”, Dan Laustsen
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, Ben Davis
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“Beauty and the Beast,” Jacqueline Durran
“Darkest Hour”, Jacqueline Durran
“I, Tonya,” Jennifer Johnson
“Phantom Thread,” Mark Bridges
“The Shape of Water”, Luis Sequeira
BEST FILM EDITING
“Baby Driver,” Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
“Blade Runner 2049”, Joe Walker
“Dunkirk”, Lee Smith
“The Shape of Water”, Sidney Wolinsky
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, Jon Gregory
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BEST MAKE UP & HAIR
“Blade Runner 2049”, Donald Mowat, Kerry Warn
“Darkest Hour”, David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji
“I, Tonya,” Deborah La Mia Denaver, Adruitha Lee
“Victoria & Abdul,” Daniel Phillips
“Wonder,” Naomi Bakstad, Robert A. Pandini, Arjen Tuiten
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Beauty and the Beast,” Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
“Blade Runner 2049”, Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
“Darkest Hour”, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
“Dunkirk”, Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
“The Shape of Water,” Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, Shane Vieau
BEST SCORE
“Blade Runner 2049”, Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer
“Darkest Hour”, Dario Marianelli
“Dunkirk”, Hans Zimmer
“Phantom Thread,” Jonny Greenwood
“The Shape of Water”, Alexandre Desplat
BEST SOUND
“Baby Driver,” Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater
“Blade Runner 2049”, Ron Bartlett, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini, Mac Ruth
“Dunkirk”, Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten
“The Shape of Water”, Christian Cooke, Glen Gauthier, Nathan Robitaille, Brad Zoern
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
“Blade Runner 2049”, Gerd Nefzer, John Nelson
“Dunkirk”, Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson
“The Shape of Water”, Dennis Berardi, Trey Harrell, Kevin Scott
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,”
“War for the Planet of the Apes,”
BEST ANIMATED FILM
“Coco” Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
“Loving Vincent” Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Ivan Mactaggart
“My Life as a Courgette” Claude Barras, Max Karli
BEST DOCUMENTARY
“City of Ghosts” Matthew Heineman
“I Am Not Your Negro” Raoul Peck
“Icarus” Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan
“An Inconvenient Sequel” Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
“Jane” Brett Morgen
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Elle” Paul Verhoeven, Saïd Ben Saïd
“First They Killed My Father” Angelina Jolie, Rithy Panh
“The Handmaiden” Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim
“Loveless” Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky
“The Salesman” Asghar Farhadi, Alexandre Mallet-Guy
BEST BRITISH FILM
“Darkest Hour”
“The Death of Stalin”
“God’s Own Country”
“Lady Macbeth”
“Paddington 2”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
BEST DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
“The Ghoul” Gareth Tunley (Writer/Director/Producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (Producers)
“I Am Not a Witch” Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director), Emily Morgan (Producer)
“Jawbone” Johnny Harris (Writer/Producer), Thomas Napper (Director)
“Kingdom of Us” Lucy Cohen (Director)
“Lady Macbeth” Alice Birch (Writer), William Oldroyd (Director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (Producer)
BEST BRITISH ANIMATED SHORT
“Have Heart,” Will Anderson
“Mamoon,” Ben Steer
“Poles Apart,” Paloma Baeza, Ser En Low
BEST BRITISH LIVE-ACTION SHORT
“Aamir,” Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone, Oliver Shuster
“Cowboy Dave,” Colin O’Toole, Jonas Mortensen
“A Drowning Man,” Mahdi Fleifel, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Patrick Campbell
“Work,” Aneil Karia, Scott O’Donnell
“Wren Boys,” Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon, John Fitzpatrick
RISING STAR AWARD (previously announced)
Timothee Chalamet
Daniel Kaluuya
Josh O’Connor
Florence Pugh
Tessa Thompson
