Kiwi editor John Gilbert wins BAFTA for Hacksaw Ridge

John Gilbert has won the 2017 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best Editing, for his work on Hacksaw Ridge.

The New Zealander previously edited The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, which also scored him BAFTA and Oscar nominations, but the Mel Gibson war epic is his first win at the prestigious UK film awards.

Gilbert says he is "very excited" by the win, but wishes Hacksaw Ridge picked up more trophies.

"Filmmaking is a team effort and everyone else did fabulous work which enabled me to look good - especially Mel Gibson and Andrew Garfield," he says.

Gilbert didn't attend the ceremony and is currently in Los Angeles working on The Professor and the Madman.

Weta Digital has added another trophy to its cabinet as well, picking up the BAFTA for Best Visual Effects.

La La Land led the pack of nominees at this year's BAFTA awards and picked up five, while Ken Loach's powerful I, Daniel Blake was named Best British Film after already winning the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Emma Stone was named Best Actress while Casey Affleck beat her co-star Ryan Gosling for Best Actress, but La La Land also picked up the major honours of Best Director and Best Film.

A favourite from the 2016 New Zealand Film Festival has also been recognised - Under the Shadow, the creepy Iran-set horror won Oustanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.

The BAFTAs is one of the last major award shows in the lead-up to the Oscars, which take place in a fortnight.

The full list of nominees and winners is below:

Best Film:
Arrival - Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, David Linde, Aaron Ryder
I, Daniel Blake - Rebecca O'Brien
WINNER: La La Land - Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
Manchester By The Sea - Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Walsh
Moonlight - Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski

Leading Actress:
Amy Adams - Arrival
Emily Blunt - The Girl on the Train
WINNER: Emma Stone - La La Land
Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
Natalie Portman - Jackie

Director:
Arrival - Denis Villeneuve
I, Daniel Blake - Ken Loach
WINNER: La La Land - Damien Chazelle
Manchester By The Sea - Kenneth Lonergan
Nocturnal Animals - Tom Ford

Leading Actor:
Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge
WINNER: Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nocturnal Animals
Ryan Gosling - La La Land
Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic

Cinematography:
Arrival - Bradford Young
Hell Or High Water - Giles Nuttgens
WINNER: La La Land - Linus Sandgren
Lion - Greig Fraser
Nocturnal Animals - Seamus McGarvey

Original Screenplay:
Hell Or High Water - Taylor Sheridan
I, Daniel Blake - Paul Laverty
La La Land - Damien Chazelle
WINNER: Manchester By The Sea - Kenneth Lonergan
Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

Supporting Actor:
Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Nocturnal Animals
WINNER: Dev Patel - Lion
Hugh Grant - Florence Foster Jenkins
Jeff Bridges - Hell or High Water
Mahershala Ali - Moonlight

Oustanding debut by a British writer, director or producer:
The Girl With All the Gifts - Mike Carey (writer), Camille Gatin (producer)
The Hard Stop: George Amponsah (writer/director/producer), Dionne Walker (writer/producer)
Notes on Blindness: Peter Middleton (writer/director/producer), James Spinney (writer/director), Jo-Jo Ellison (producer)
The Pass: John Donnelly (writer), Ben A Williams (director)
WINNER: Under the Shadow: Babak Anvari (writer/director), Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan Toh (producers)

Special visual effects:
Arrival - Louis Morin
Doctor Strange - Richard Bluff, Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them - Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz, David Watkins
WINNER: The Jungle Book - Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Neil Corbould, Hal Hickel, Mohen Leo, John Knoll, Nigel Sumner

Animated Film:
Finding Dory - Andrew Stanton
WINNER: Kubo And The Two Strings - Travis Knight
Moana - Ron Clements, John Musker
Zootropolis - Byron Howard, Rich Moore

Supporting Actress:
Hayley Squires - I, Daniel Blake
Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea
Naomie Harris - Moonlight
Nicole Kidman - Lion
WINNER: Viola Davis - Fences

Adapted Screenplay:
Arrival - Eric Heisserer
Hacksaw Ridge - Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight
Hidden Figures - Theodore Melfi, Allison Schroeder
WINNER: Lion - Luke Davies
Nocturnal Animals - Tom Ford

Film not in the English language:
Dheepan - Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux
Julieta - Pedro Almodovar
Mustang - Deniz Gamze Erguven, Charles Gillibert
WINNER: Son Of Saul - Laszlo Nemes, Gabor Sipos
Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski

Documentary:
WINNER: 13th - Ava DuVernay
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years - Ron Howard
The Eagle Huntress - Otto Bell, Stacey Reiss
Notes on Blindness - Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Weiner - Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg

Production Design:
Doctor Strange - John Bush, Charles Wood
WINNER: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them - Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
Hail, Caesar! - Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
La La Land - Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, David Wasco
Nocturnal Animals - Shane Valentino, Meg Everist

Editing:
Arrival - Joe Walker
WINNER: Hacksaw Ridge - John Gilbert
La La Land - Tom Cross
Manchester By The Sea - Jennifer Lame
Nocturnal Animals - Joan Sobel

British short film:
Consumed - Richard John Seymour
WINNER: Home - Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Daniel Mulloy, Scott O'Donnell
Mouth Of Hell - Bart Gavigan, Samir Mehanovic, Ailie Smith, Michael Wilson
The Party - Farah Abushwesha, Emmet Fleming, Andrea Harkin, Conor MacNeill
Standby - Charlotte Regan, Jack Hannon

British short animation:
The Alan Dimension - Jac Clinch, Jonathan Harbottle, Millie Marsh
WINNER: A Love Story - Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King
Tough - Jennifer Zheng

Sound:
WINNER: Arrival - Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariepy Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare
Deepwater Horizon - Mike Prestwood Smith, Dror Mohar, Wylie Stateman, David Wyman
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them - Niv Adiri, Glenn Freemantle, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Ian Tapp
Hacksaw Ridge - Peter Grace, Robert Mackenzie, Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright
La La Land - Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Steve A. Morrow, Andy Nelson

Costume Design:
Allied - Joanna Johnston
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them - Colleen Atwood
Florence Foster Jenkins - Consolata Boyle
WINNER: Jackie - Madeline Fontaine
La La Land - Mary Zophres

Make-up and hair:
Doctor Strange
WINNER: Florence Foster Jenkins
Hacksaw Ridge
Nocturnal Animals
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Original Music:
Arrival - Johann Johannsson
Jackie - Mica Levi
WINNER: La La Land - Justin Hurwitz
Lion - Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka
Nocturnal Animals - Abel Korzeniowski

EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public):
Anya Taylor-Joy
Laia Costa
Lucas Hedges
Ruth Negga
WINNER: Tom Holland

Outstanding British Film:
American Honey - Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Pouya Shahbazian, Jay Van Hoy
Denial - Mick Jackson, Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff, David Hare
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them - David Yates, JK Rowling, David Heyman, Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram
WINNER: I, Daniel Blake - Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien, Paul Laverty
Notes On Blindness - Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison
Under The Shadow - Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan Toh

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