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BAFTA Film Awards 2022 Winners: The Full List

The 75th EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) have arrived and they have honored the best films of 2021 and the people who helped make them so special.

There were 25 categories in the 2022 BAFTAs and Dune was the biggest winner of the night with victories in the Best Film, Original Score, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound, and Special Visual Effects.

The Power of Dog took home the awards for Best Film and Best Director, and CODA and West Side Story were the only two other films to win multiple awards.

Other highlights include Will Smith winning Leading Actor, Joanna Scanlan winning Leading Actrees, Lashana Lynch winning the EE Rising Star Award (Voted for by the Public), Drive My Car winning Film Not in the English Language, Encanto winning Animated Film, and many more.

The complete list of 2022 BAFTA Film Awards winners are as follows;

Best Film

Belfast
Don't Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog - WINNER

Best Director

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

Leading Actor

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

Leading Actress

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

Supporting Actor

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

Supporting Actress

Caitriona Balfe - Belfast
Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose - West Side Story - WINNER
Ann Dowd - Mass
Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard
Ruth Negga - Passing

Best Original Screenplay

Being The Ricardos
Belfast
Don't Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza - WINNER

Best Adapted Screenplay

CODA - WINNER
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog

Best Original Score

Being the Ricardos
Don't Look Up
Dune - WINNER
The French Dispatch
The Power of the Dog

Best Cinematography

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

Best Costume Design

Cruella - WINNER
Cyrano
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley

Best Editing

Belfast
Dune
Licorice Pizza
No Time To Die - WINNER
Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best Production Design

Cyrano
Dune - WINNER
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Hair and Makeup

Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye - WINNER
House of Gucci

Best Sound

Dune - WINNER
Last Night In Soho
No Time To Die
A Quiet Place Part II
West Side Story

Best Special Visual Effects

Dune - WINNER
Free Guy
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time To Die

Best Casting

Boiling Point
Dune
The Hand of God
King Richard
West Side Story - WINNER

Outstanding British Film

After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast - WINNER
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die
Passing

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

After Love - Aleem Khan (writer/director)
Boiling Point - James Cummings (writer), Hester Ruoff (producer)
The Harder They Fall - Jeymes Samuel (Writer/Director) - WINNER
Keyboard Fantasies - Posy Dixon (writer/director), Liv Proctor (producer)
Passing - Rebecca Hall (writer/director)

Film Not in the English Language

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

Best Documentary

Becoming Cousteau
Cow
Flee
The Rescue
Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - WINNER

Best Animated Film

Encanto - WINNER
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs The Machines

Best British Short Film

The Black Cop - WINNER
Femme
The Palace
Stuffed
Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee

Best British Short Animation

Affairs of the Art
Do Not Feed the Pigeons - WINNER
Night of the Living Dread

EE Rising Star (Voted For By the Public)

Ariana DeBose
Harris Dickinson
Lashana Lynch - WINNER
Millicent Simmonds
Kodi Smit-McPhee

On April 7, the BAFTA Game Awards ceremony will take place and It Takes Two is going into the show with nine nominations, the most of any other game.

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The Batman Has Once Again Won the Domestic Weekend Box Office With $66 Million in Ticket Sales

The Batman has once again won the domestic weekend box office with ticket sales of $66 million. Internationally, it added another $66.6 million to help make its global total reach $463.2 million.

As reported by Variety, The Batman saw a 41% decline from its opening weekend, which is a strong number when compared to other comic book films, including The Suicide Squad, Eternals, Black Widow, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Those films and others like it usually fall in the 53%-71% range.

The Batman is the highest-grossing movie of 2022 and the second-highest grossing movie in the pandemic era behind Spider-Man: No Way Home's $792 million domestic performance.

Speaking of Spider-Man: No Way Home, it placed #5 with $4.07 million and extended its streak in the top five at the domestic weekend box office to 13 weeks.

The Tom Holland-led Uncharted film placed second with $9.2 million, bringing its domestic total to $113 million. Globally, Uncharted is nearing $300 million.

In a rarity for a live cinema event, the concert film BTS Permission to Dance on Stage: Seoul placed third with $7 million in ticket sales. Considering it only played in around 800 theaters compared to The Batman's 4,417 North American screens, that is a great performance. Channing Tatum's Dog landed at #4 with $5.3 million.

In our The Batman review, we said, "Matt Reeves’ violent, thrilling, darkly beautiful take on The Batman more than justifies its place in the franchise’s canon."

For more, check out our explainer of the ending, when you'll be able to watch it on HBO Max, and what secrets The Batman ARG has revealed so far.

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EA, Gearbox, and Microsoft Sign Open Letter Opposing Texas’ Anti-Trans Bill

Following Texas Governor Greg Abbott's order in February 2022 that called for child protective services to investigate families of transgender children who were receiving gender-affirming healthcare for child abuse, 65 companies have signed a letter asking for Abbot to abandon these anti-LGBTQ+ efforts.

As reported by Kotaku, these 65 companies - a list that includes Electronic Arts, Gearbox Entertainment, and Microsoft - signed the letter that was organized by the LGBTQ+ organization the Human Rights Campaign and was posted in the Friday edition of the Dallas Morning News as a full-page advertisement.

The ad copy was shared by Rebecca Marques, the Texas director of HRC, on Twitter.

This will run in the Dallas Morning News this morning. #ProtectTransKids #txlege pic.twitter.com/rviiklLbJr
— Rebecca Marques (@_RebeccaMarques) March 11, 2022

"Our companies do business, create jobs, and serve customers in Texas," the letter reads. "We are committed to building inclusive environments where our employees can thrive inside and outside of the workplace. For years we have stood to ensure LGBTQ+ people - our employees, customers, and their families - are safe and welcomed in the communities where we do business.

"The recent attempt to criminalize a parent for helping their transgender child access medically necessary, age-appropriate healthcare in the state of Texas goes against the values of our companies. This policy creates fear for employees and their families, especially those with transgender children, who might now be faced with choosing to provide the best possible medical care for their children but risk having those children removed by child protective services for doing so. It is only one of several efforts discriminating against transgender youth that are advancing across the country.

"We call on our public leaders - in Texas and across the country - to abandon efforts to write discrimination into law and policy. It's not just wrong, it has an impact on our employees, our customers, their families, and our work."

EA, Microsoft, and Gearbox are members of the pro-LGBTQ business network Texas Competes and Gearbox itself has previously taken a stand against a previous bill that proposed banning transgender youth from participating in sports.

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EA, Gearbox, and Microsoft Sign Open Letter Opposing Texas’ Anti-Trans Bill

Following Texas Governor Greg Abbott's order in February 2022 that called for child protective services to investigate families of transgender children who were receiving gender-affirming healthcare for child abuse, 65 companies have signed a letter asking for Abbot to abandon these anti-LGBTQ+ efforts.

As reported by Kotaku, these 65 companies - a list that includes Electronic Arts, Gearbox Entertainment, and Microsoft - signed the letter that was organized by the LGBTQ+ organization the Human Rights Campaign and was posted in the Friday edition of the Dallas Morning News as a full-page advertisement.

The ad copy was shared by Rebecca Marques, the Texas director of HRC, on Twitter.

This will run in the Dallas Morning News this morning. #ProtectTransKids #txlege pic.twitter.com/rviiklLbJr
— Rebecca Marques (@_RebeccaMarques) March 11, 2022

"Our companies do business, create jobs, and serve customers in Texas," the letter reads. "We are committed to building inclusive environments where our employees can thrive inside and outside of the workplace. For years we have stood to ensure LGBTQ+ people - our employees, customers, and their families - are safe and welcomed in the communities where we do business.

"The recent attempt to criminalize a parent for helping their transgender child access medically necessary, age-appropriate healthcare in the state of Texas goes against the values of our companies. This policy creates fear for employees and their families, especially those with transgender children, who might now be faced with choosing to provide the best possible medical care for their children but risk having those children removed by child protective services for doing so. It is only one of several efforts discriminating against transgender youth that are advancing across the country.

"We call on our public leaders - in Texas and across the country - to abandon efforts to write discrimination into law and policy. It's not just wrong, it has an impact on our employees, our customers, their families, and our work."

EA, Microsoft, and Gearbox are members of the pro-LGBTQ business network Texas Competes and Gearbox itself has previously taken a stand against a previous bill that proposed banning transgender youth from participating in sports.

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Perfect Dark Game Director Dan Neuburger Seemingly Leaves The Initiative

Perfect Dark game director Dan Neuburger has seemingly left The Initiative after working with the company for nearly four years.

As reported by VGC, ResetERA user Klobrille noticed the change on Neuburger's LinkedIn profile that shows February 2022 was his last month at The Initiative. Furthermore, his profile page says that he is
"open to work" immediately and is looking for a position as a game director, creative director, or design director.

Neuburger had worked at Tomb Raider's Crystal Dynamics for over 12 years before his time with The Initiative - the same studio that has teamed up with The Initiative to help finish development on the reboot of Perfect Dark.

This isn't the first high-level departure from The Initiative, as the company's former design director Drew Murray announced that he was leaving the company in February 2021 and would be returning to his old studio Insomniac Games.

Perfect Dark was revealed at The Game Awards 2020 and is set to be a first-person shooter with an "eco-sci-fi" that is "aiming to deliver a secret agent thriller set in a near-future world."

The Initiative itself was announced at E3 2018 as Microsoft's first-ever 'AAAA' studio that would be "challenging themselves to do new things (and old things) in new ways."

Perfect Dark, a franchise that began on the N64 in 2000, currently has no release date.

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Perfect Dark Game Director Dan Neuburger Seemingly Leaves The Initiative

Perfect Dark game director Dan Neuburger has seemingly left The Initiative after working with the company for nearly four years.

As reported by VGC, ResetERA user Klobrille noticed the change on Neuburger's LinkedIn profile that shows February 2022 was his last month at The Initiative. Furthermore, his profile page says that he is
"open to work" immediately and is looking for a position as a game director, creative director, or design director.

Neuburger had worked at Tomb Raider's Crystal Dynamics for over 12 years before his time with The Initiative - the same studio that has teamed up with The Initiative to help finish development on the reboot of Perfect Dark.

This isn't the first high-level departure from The Initiative, as the company's former design director Drew Murray announced that he was leaving the company in February 2021 and would be returning to his old studio Insomniac Games.

Perfect Dark was revealed at The Game Awards 2020 and is set to be a first-person shooter with an "eco-sci-fi" that is "aiming to deliver a secret agent thriller set in a near-future world."

The Initiative itself was announced at E3 2018 as Microsoft's first-ever 'AAAA' studio that would be "challenging themselves to do new things (and old things) in new ways."

Perfect Dark, a franchise that began on the N64 in 2000, currently has no release date.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

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Reggie Fils-Aimé Isn’t a Believer in the ‘Current Definition’ of Facebook’s Metaverse Vision

Former Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé has questioned the "current definition" of Facebook's metaverse vision, saying that "Facebook itself is not an innovative company."

Speaking to Bloomberg's Emily Chang during SXSW, Fils-Aimé shared his thoughts on the current state of the so-called metaverse and discussed why he doesn't believe Facebook is currently on the right track to lead the way.

"Facebook itself is not an innovative company,” Fils-Aimé said. “They have either acquired interesting things like Oculus and Instagram, or they’ve been a fast follower of people’s ideas. I don’t think their current definition will be successful.”

Instead, Fils-Aimé thinks this digital future so many are striving towards will be led by "smaller companies that are really innovating" and companies like Epic Games who are doing "really compelling" things.

Fils-Aimé also talked about how he believes that more acquisitions by gaming companies are on the way following Microsoft's "fantastic purchase" of Activision Blizzard and how the games industry still has a long way to go in terms of diversity.

"This is a global industry touching 3 billion people across the world; it’s a $200 billion business,” Fils-Aimé said. “The representation in the game and in leadership is not at all where it needs to be.”

Lastly, he shed some light on his time on the board of GameStop and shared some criticism towards the company's management and plan for the future. Fils-Aime left the board in early 2021.

"There has not been an articulated strategy. Leadership says we don’t want to articulate our strategy because they don’t want it to be stolen,” he said. “To me that was not acceptable.”

For more on Fils-Aimé, who is set to release a book chronicling his career called 'Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo' in May 2022, check out the eight best Reggie Fils-Aimé moments of all time, why the Switch's success made it "easy" for him to retire, and how he had to "politely decline" an offer to work with Kanye West on a game.