Swiss-Austrian filmmaker wins Bafta for Conclave movie
Bafta: Papal thriller "Conclave" wins best film award
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The papal thriller Conclave, by Austrian-Swiss filmmaker Edward Berger, won Best Picture at Sunday's Bafta film awards. The film beat out Un Parfait inconnu, Anora, Emilia Perez and The Brutalist.
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American Brady Corbet won Best Director for his film The Brutalist, a three-hour epic about a Holocaust architect played by Adrien Brody, who won Best Actor.
Mikey Madison, 25, won for her role as a stripper in director Sean Baker’s New York thriller Anora.
French director Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez won two awards, including Best Non-English Language Film, in the midst of a controversy over former tweets by its lead actress, Karla Sofía Gascón.
Zoe Saldana won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a lawyer in this musical comedy about the gender transition of a Mexican drug trafficker. The film was nominated in 11 categories.
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