David Farnor | On 11, Feb 2019

Roma made movie history last night, when it won Best Film at the 2019 BAFTAs, becoming the first streaming film to be given the top prize by the British Academy Film Awards.

Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white Mexican masterpiece – read our five-star review here – bagged the top two prizes, Best Film and Best Director, placing the intimate epic in pole position to do the same at the Oscars later this month. It also won Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Cinematography, converting an impressive four of its record seven nominations.

Roma’s reign was matched only by one other film: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, which ruled over the remaining categories to take home the most prizes on the night. The period romp walked away with a regal seven wins, including Best British Film, Best Supporting Actress for Rachel Weisz, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design and Best Production Design.

“We’re having an amazing night, aren’t we?” said Olivia Colman, who took home a deserved Best Actress gong for her role in the 18th century comedy. “We are going to get so pissed later.”

The controversial Bohemian Rhapsody won two awards, including Best Actor for Rami Malek’s portrayal of Freddie Mercury, while Mahershala Ali in Green Book trumped Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? to win Best Supporting Actor.

Letitia Wright, the scene-stealing star of Black Panther, won the Rising Star award, voted for the by the public, while Outstanding British Debut went to Beast.

While The Favourite dominated most of the proceedings, though, 2019 marks a year when things have changed significantly in the movie landscape, with not only Beast available to stream on Amazon Prime and the short film winners (73 Cows and Roughhouse) available to watch on Curzon Home Cinema, but the Best Film winner itself available to watch instantly around the world at any time.

Cuaron thanked Netflix in his speech for having the “faith and courage to get behind a black-and-white film about a domestic worker, subtitled from Spanish, and bring it to audiences around the world”.

Read on for the full list of 2019 BAFTA winners and where you can see them on VOD. (A full list of nominees and where they’re available on-demand is here.)

BEST FILM

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez
Watch on Netflix

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

BEAST Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)
Watch on Amazon Prime

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez
Watch on Netflix

DOCUMENTARY

FREE SOLO Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

ANIMATED FILM

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

DIRECTOR

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
Watch on Netflix

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

THE FAVOURITE Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott
Buy/Rent on VOD

LEADING ACTRESS

OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

LEADING ACTOR

RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody
Buy on VOD

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

SUPPORTING ACTOR

MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

ORIGINAL MUSIC

A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson
Buy/Rent on VOD

CINEMATOGRAPHY

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
Watch on Netflix

EDITING

VICE Hank Corwin
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

PRODUCTION DESIGN

THE FAVOURITE Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

COSTUME DESIGN

THE FAVOURITE Sandy Powell
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

MAKE UP & HAIR

THE FAVOURITE Nadia Stacey
Currently unavailable on UK VOD

SOUND

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst
Buy on VOD

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

BLACK PANTHER Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick
Watch on Sky Cinema / NOW

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

ROUGHHOUSE Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom
Buy on Curzon Home Cinema

BRITISH SHORT FILM

73 COWS Alex Lockwood
Buy on Curzon Home Cinema

EE RISING STAR AWARD

LETITIA WRIGHT
See full list of films available on VOD

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