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Baftas 2021: Prince Philip and Dame Barbara Windsor honoured as ‘in memoriam’ pays tribute to stars lost in past year
The Baftas 2021 awards ceremony has paid tribute to stars lost in the past year during the ‘in memoriam’ segment, honouring individuals including Prince Philip, Dame Barbara Windsor, Chadwick Boseman and Cicely Tyson.
On Friday April 9, the royal family announced that the Queen’s husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, had died aged 99 at Windsor Castle.
Prince Philip, who was the first president of Bafta from 1959 to 1965, was honoured at the beginning of the Bafta Film Awards ceremony on Sunday evening by co-presenters Edith Bowman and Dermot O’Leary, in addition to being included in the ‘in memoriam’ tribute.
Former EastEnders star Dame Barbara, who died in December 2020 at the age of 83 after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, was honoured in the montage.
Several people watching the Baftas shared their sadness over seeing Black Panther star Chadwick appear, who died in August 2020 at the age of 43 after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
Hollywood icon Cicely, who died in January 2021 at 96 years old, was also featured in the tribute, with one viewer tweeting that seeing her and Chadwick ‘hit me like a ton of bricks’.
Also included in the montage was James Bond star Sir Sean Connery, who died in October 2020 aged 90.
In addition, The Sound of Music star Christopher Plummer appeared, who died in February this year at the age of 91.
Other stars featured in the ‘in memoriam’ were Irrfan Khan, who died in April 2020 aged 53; Kirk Douglas, who died in February 2020 at the age of 103; and Max Von Sydow, who died in March last year at 90.
The segment also honoured Barbara Jefford, who died in September 2020 at 90 years old; Nikita Pearl Waligwa, who died in February 2020 at the age of 15; and Dame Olivia de Havilland, who died in July 2020 aged 104.
Here is the full list of individuals honoured in the Baftas 2021 ‘in memoriam’:
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Bafta president 1959-1965
- Ennio Morricone, composer
- Sir Sean Connery, actor
- George Segal, actor
- Michael Chapman, cinematographer
- Allen Daviau, cinematographer
- Bertrand Tavernier, director/writer/producer
- Barbara Jefford OBE, actress
- Irrfan Khan, actor
- Nikita Pearl Waligwa, actress
- Pamela Mann-Francis, continuity supervisor
- Ben Cross, actor
- Sir Ian Holm CBE, actor
- Yaphet Kotto, actor
- Trevor Green, distributor
- Frank Pierce, distributor
- Cicely Tyson, actress
- Hilary Heath, actress/producer/executive
- Paul Heller, producer
- David Prowse MBE, actor
- Michael Lonsdale, actor
- Dame Barbara Windsor DBE, actress
- Peter Lamont, production designer
- Bill Gavin, executive
- Robert Mitchell, distributor
- Dame Olivia De Havilland DBE, actress
- Michael Apted CMG, director/producer
- John Fraser, actor
- Chadwick Boseman, actor
- Joel Schumacher, director
- Brian Dennehy, actor
- Wilford Brimley, actor
- Sir Alan Parker CBE, director/writer
- Sue Bruce-Smith, executive
- Arthur Wooster, cinematographer
- Giuseppe Rotunno, cinematographer
- Michael Wolf Snyder, sound mixer
- Max Von Sydow, actor
- Rishi Kapoor, actor
- Sir Ronald Harwood CBE, writer
- Kirk Douglas, actor
- Akberto Grimaldi, producer
- Larry McMurtry, writer
- Christopher Plummer, actor
A number of people watching the Baftas expressed how much this year’s ‘in memoriam’ segment impacted them, with one person tweeting: ‘The #BAFTAs memoriam segment punches me in the gut and kicks me when I’m down every year. Heartbreaking.’
‘Such an elegant wonderful in memoriam segment there, we’ve lost so many legends in the last 12 months #BAFTAs,’ another said.
‘The In Memoriam section of things like #BAFTAs is so important. Paying final respects and goodbyes to those that have made their marks on British and world cinema is the least any of these ceremonies can do,’ someone else wrote.
Baftas 2021 winners
Best animated film
Soul
Best adapted screenplay
The Father
Best editing
Sound of Metal
Best film not in the English language
Another Round
Best cinematography
Nomadland
Best supporting actress
Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari)
Best original screenplay
Promising Young Woman
Best supporting actor
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Remi Weeks (His House)
Best documentary
My Octopus Teacher
Original score
Soul
Outstanding British film
Promising Young Woman
EE Rising Star
Bukky Bakray
Fellowship
Ang Lee
Best director
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Best actor
Sir Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Best film
Nomadland
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