CHANGE JUST MIGHT BE IN THE WIND
TRAGICOMIC royal drama The Favourite and Mexican family memoir Roma split the honours with multiple wins each at Sunday’s British Academy Film Awards — victories that suggest a wind of change may be blowing through the movie industry.
The Favourite won seven trophies including best British film and best actor for OIivia Colman, who plays Britain’s 18th century Queen Anne in the female-centric drama.
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, which centres on the nanny to a middle-class Mexico City family, took prizes for best picture, director, cinema- tography and d foreignlanguage film.
Winners relished the symbolism of their victories.
“Thank you for celebrating our female-dominated minated movie about t women in power,” said The Favourite writer Deborah Davis, who won the original screenplay award alongside Australian co-writer Tony McNamara.
Another Australian, Fiona Crombie, Cro won a aB BAFTA for production p design d for The F Favourite. Cuaron thanked Roma’s ba backer, Net Netflix, for havin having the courage to support “a black and white film about a domestic worker” that is not in English. He said the extent to which the film has been embraced “in an age where fear and anger are proposed to divide us means the world to me”.
Prince William, and his wife, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge — wearing a white, off-the-shoulder Alexander McQueen dress — joined Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Timothee Chalamet and other film stars for the black-tie ceremony at Royal Albert Hall.