The Vatican thriller "Conclave" by German director Edward Berger won the award for best film at the 78th British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards in London tonight.
The films competing for that category were "Complete Stranger", "Anora", "The Brutalist" and "Emilija Perez".
American Brady Corbett won the award for best director tonight for the film "The Brutalist," a three-hour story about an architect who survived the Holocaust, played by Adrien Brody.
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Brody won the award for Best Actor, and the BAFTA for Best Actress went to actress Miki Maddison for her role in the film "Anora."
The French musical "Emilie Perez", which was one of the favorites, won two awards - for best foreign film, and for best supporting actress, which went to actress Zoe Saldana.
The BAFTA awards, as well as the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Golden Globe awards, are often reliable indicators of who could win the prestigious American Oscar that will be this year awarded March 3 in Los Angeles.
BAFTA was founded in 1947 as the British Film Academy. Its founders were a number of famous film artists, including David Lean, Carol Reed, Alexander Korda and Laurence Olivier. The organization's aim was to strengthen the film industry, which had weakened after World War II.
In 1958, the Academy merged with the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, and in 1976, it finally became BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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