Cate Blanchett has won the best actress gong at the British Academy Film Awards while antiwar German movie All Quiet on the Western Front won seven prizes, including best picture, building the somber drama's momentum as awards season rolls toward its climax at next month's Oscars . Its other trophies included adapted screenplay, cinematography, best score, best sound and best film not in English. (Getty)Banshees also won for McDonagh's original screenplay, and awards for Kerry Condon as best supporting actress and Barry Keoghan for best supporting actor. The prizes — officially the EE BAFTA Film Awards — are Britain's equivalent of Hollywood's Academy Awards and will be watched closely for hints of who may win at the Oscars on March 12. He features in Navalny , a film about jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny that won the best documentary BAFTA.
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