2018 BAFTA Winners: 'Three Billboards' Takes Best Film, But Guillermo Del Toro Wins Best Director

This past weekend, our friends across the pond doled out the British equivalent of the Oscars with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, or the BAFTAs. The honors sometimes serve as a prognosticator of what might unfold at the Academy Awards, and since the awards for Best Film and Best Director ended up being split across two different movies, that makes the Oscar race all the more interesting.

The 2018 BAFTAs handed out last night gave Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri the top prize for Best Film, but it wasn't director Martin McDonagh who ended up winning Best Director. Instead that honor went to The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro. Could this be a preview of how the Oscars will go down next month?

Get the full list of the 2018 BAFTA winners below.

Guillermo del Toro winning Best Director isn't a surprise. After all, he already won the Golden Globe and the Directors Guild of America award, and those are two of the biggest awards that usually predict who goes home with the Oscar. But what is a surprise is that another split has unfolded in one of the major awards ceremonies.

The Golden Globes also handed out Best Director to Guillermo del Toro, and they gave Best Motion Picture Drama to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. It sounds like some of the major industry organizations want to recognize the incredible work that Guillermo del Toro put in to make The Shape of Water such a riveting immersive tale on such a small budget, but they find Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to be the more pressing, socially conscious film that is perfect for this time.

One sleight against Three Billboards maybe winning Best Picture is that the film will be up against four more nominees at the Oscars, including the much buzzed about Get Out. Furthermore, even though Three Billboards feels like an American tale, it's very much a British production, and the BAFTAs tend to favor those kind of projects at their awards.

Even though Three Billboards won Best Film at the BAFTAs, the British awards and the Oscars haven't matched on Best Picture since 12 Years a Slave took both top prizes back in 2013. Though to be fair, they did match up the previous four years in a row before that. However, last year alone only half of the winners that have crossover categories at the Oscars lined up with the same winners. So don't use this as a guarantee that Three Billboards will win Best Picture.

Anyway, check out the full list of 2018 BAFTA winners below.

Best FilmCall Me by Your NameDarkest HourDunkirkThe Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriOutstanding British FilmDarkest HourThe Death of StalinGod's Own CountryLady MacbethPaddington 2Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest Director

Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049

Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water

Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Actress

Annette Bening, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Jamie Bell, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name

Best Supporting ActressAllison Janney, I, Tonya

Kristin Scott Thomas, Darkest Hour

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actor

Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World

Hugh Grant, Paddington 2

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original ScreenplayGet OutI, TonyaLady BirdThe Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest Adapted ScreenplayCall Me by Your NameThe Death of StalinFilm Stars Don't Die in LiverpoolMolly's GamePaddington 2Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or ProducerThe Ghoul – Gareth Tunley (writer/director/producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (producers)I Am Not a Witch – Rungano Nyoni (writer/director), Emily Morgan (Producer)Jawbone – Johnny Harris (writer/producer), Thomas Napper (director)Kingdom of Us – Lucy Cohen (director)Lady Macbeth – Alice Birch (writer), William Oldroyd (director), Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly (producer)Best Film Not in the English LanguageElleFirst They Killed My FatherThe HandmaidenLovelessThe SalesmanBest DocumentaryCity of GhostsI Am Not Your NegroIcarusAn Inconvenient SequelJaneBest Animated FilmCocoLoving VincentMy Life as a CourgetteBest Original MusicBlade Runner 2049Darkest HourDunkirkPhantom ThreadThe Shape of WaterBest CinematographyBlade Runner 2049Darkest HourDunkirkThe Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest EditingBaby DriverBlade Runner 2049DunkirkThe Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest Production DesignBeauty and the BeastBlade Runner 2049Darkest HourDunkirkThe Shape of WaterBest Costume DesignBeauty and the BeastDarkest HourI, TonyaPhantom ThreadThe Shape of WaterBest Make Up & HairBlade Runner 2049Darkest HourI, TonyaVictoria & AbdulWonderBest SoundBaby DriverBlade Runner 2049DunkirkThe Shape of WaterStar Wars: The Last JediBest Special Visual EffectsBlade Runner 2049DunkirkThe Shape of WaterStar Wars: The Last JediWar for the Planet of the ApesBest British Short AnimationHave HeartMamoonPoles ApartBest British Short FilmAamirCowboy DaveA Drowning ManWorkWren BoysEE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)Daniel Kaluuya

Florence Pugh

Josh O'Connor

Tessa Thompson

Timothée Chalamet

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That's all for the 2018 BAFTA winners. See who ends up taking home the Oscars on March 5 on ABC.