BAFTA Film Awards 2022: winners, host, nominees and everything we know

BAFTA 2022
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The BAFTA Film Awards 2022 is where we get to celebrate some of the biggest achievements in film from the past year. It's one of the most important stops in the Awards calendar, heading towards the big one — the Oscars on March 28.

From the biggest blockbusters to independent shorts, there's lots in store for film fans keen to see what this year's winning line-up will look like.

As well as the awards, the evening includes a celebration of James Bond's 60th anniversary along with an exclusive performance from Shirley Bassey and her orchestra, as well as a special performance from CODA's Emilia Jones, so there's plenty to entertain us throughout the evening.

Here's what you need to know about the BAFTA Film Awards 2022...

When are the BAFTA Film Awards? What time are they on?

The 2022 BAFTAs ceremony takes place on Sunday 13 March.

In the UK: the ceremony is broadcast on BBC One.  The on-air broadcast is two hours long, taking place between 7 pm and 9 pm and, as usual, it will be available on-demand afterward, via BBC iPlayer.
In the US and Canada: viewers can watch via Britbox. For further information about global transmission, check out our guide on how you can watch the BAFTAs.
Red carpet coverage: was live-streamed and is available globally on the BAFTA YouTube channel.

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Who is hosting the BAFTA Film Awards?

Rebel Wilson BAFTA host 2022

Rebel Wilson is set to host this year's ceremony. (Image credit: ©Darcy Hemley, 2022)

Recently, it was confirmed that Bridesmaids actress and comedian Rebel Wilson would host the BAFTA awards ceremony this year. She previously presented the Best Director BAFTA award in 2020, so she's no stranger to presenting duties!

Rebel says: "I'm very honored to be hosting the awards, it's going to be so much fun! I'll just be there to hang out with Dame Judi Dench, and together we'll try and bond with Daniel Craig. Everybody's going to love it."

BAFTA Film Awards 2022 — winners in full

The wait is finally over, as this year's BAFTA 2022 winners have been announced. There were some great films nominated for this year's BAFTAs including The Power of the DogDuneTitane, and No Time to Die along with critically-acclaimed films up for Outstanding British Film including Ali & Ava, Boiling Point and Belfast — as always it was a tough competition!

An additional category, always hotly contested is the EE Rising Star award — voted on by the public — which celebrates some of the upcoming talent in the industry.

Best Film

  • Belfast
  • Don’t Look Up
  • Dune
  • Licorice Pizza
  • WINNER — The Power of the Dog

Outstanding British Film

  • After Love
  • Ali & Ava
  • WINNER — Belfast
  • Boiling Point
  • Cyrano
  • Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
  • House of Gucci
  • Last Night in Soho
  • No Time To Die
  • Passing

Best Director

  • Aleem Khan - After Love
  • Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
  • Audrey Diwan - Happening
  • Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
  • WINNER — Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
  • Julia Ducournau - Titane

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

  • After Love
  • Boiling Point
  • WINNER — The Harder They Fall (Jeymes Samuel)
  • Keyboard Fantasies
  • Passing

Best Supporting Actress

  • Caitríona Balfe - Belfast
  • Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter
  • WINNER — Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
  • Ruth Negga - Passing
  • Ann Dowd - Mass
  • Annjanue Ellis - King Richard

Best Supporting Actor

  • Mike Faist - West Side Story
  • Ciarán Hinds - Belfast
  • WINNER —Troy Kotsur - CODA
  • Woody Norman - C’mon C’mon
  • Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog

Leading Actress

  • Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
  • Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza
  • Emilia Jones - CODA
  • Renata Reinsve - The Worst Person in the World
  • WINNER — Joanna Scanlan - After Love
  • Tessa Thompson - Passing

Leading Actor

  • Adeel Akhtar - Ali & Ava
  • Mahershala Ali - Swansong
  • Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - Don’t Look Up
  • Stephen Graham - Boiling Point
  • WINNER — Will Smith - King Richard

EE Rising Star Award

  • Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
  • Harris Dickinson - Beach Rats, The King's Man
  • WINNER — Lashana Lynch - No Time To Die
  • Millicent Simmonds - A Quiet Place Part II
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog

Best Casting

  • Boiling Point
  • Dune
  • The Hand of God
  • King Richard
  • WINNER — West Side Story (Cindy Tolan)

Best Documentary

  • Becoming Cousteau
  • Cow
  • Flee
  • The Rescue
  • WINNER — Summer of Soul (Or When the Revolution Could Not be Televised)

Best Film Not in the English Language

  • WINNER — Drive My Car
  • The Hand of God
  • Parallel Mothers
  • Petite Maman
  • The Worst Person in the World

Best Original Score

  • Being the Ricardos
  • Don’t Look Up
  • WINNER — Dune (Hans Zimmer)
  • The French Dispatch
  • The Power of the Dog

Best Editing

  • Belfast
  • Dune
  • Licorice Pizza
  • WINNER — No Time To Die (Tom Cross, Elliott Graham)
  • Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 

Best Special Visual Effects

  • WINNER — Dune
  • Free Guy
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife
  • The Matrix Resurrections
  • No Time to Die

Best Sound

  • WINNER — Dune
  • Last Night in Soho
  • No Time to Die
  • A Quiet Place Part II
  • West Side Story

Best Cinematography

  • WINNER — Dune
  • Nightmare Alley
  • No Time To Die
  • The Power of the Dog
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Original Screenplay

  • Aaron Sorkin - Being the Riccardos
  • Kenneth Branagh - Belfast
  • Adam McKay - Don't Look Up
  • WINNER — Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
  • Zach Baylin - King Richard

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • WINNER — Sian Hader - CODA
  • Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
  • Denis Villenueve - Dune
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Lost Daughter
  • Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog

Best Makeup and Hair

  • Cruella
  • Cyrano
  • Dune
  • WINNER — The Eyes of Tammy Faye
  • House of Gucci

Best Costume Design

  • WINNER — Cruella
  • Cyrano
  • Dune
  • The French Dispatch
  • Nightmare Alley

Production Design

  • Cyrano
  • WINNER — Dune
  • The French Dispatch
  • Nightmare Alley
  • West Side Story

Best Animated Film

  • WINNER — Encanto
  • Flee
  • Luca
  • The Mitchells vs the Machines

Best British Short Animation

  • Affairs of the Art
  • WINNER — Do Not Feed the Pigeons (Vladimir Krasilnikov, Jordi Morera, Antonin Niclass)
  • Night of the Living Dread

Best British Short Film

  • WINNER — The Black Cop - Cherish Oteka
  • Femme
  • The Palace
  • Stuffed
  • Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee

Check our new movies in 2022 guide for all the latest films coming out.

Lucy Buglass
Senior Staff Writer

Lucy joined the WhatToWatch.com team in 2021, where she writes series guides for must-watch programmes, reviews and the latest TV news. Originally from Northumberland, she graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in Film Studies and moved to London to begin a career writing about entertainment.

She is a Rotten Tomatoes approved film critic and has a huge passion for cinema. She especially loves horror, thriller and anything crime-related. Her favourite TV programmes include Inside No 9, American Horror Story, Stranger Things and Black Mirror but she is also partial to a quiz show or a bit of Say Yes to the Dress