One Battle After Another wins multiple BAFTAs including Sean Penn for best supporting actor in huge Oscars boost: Live updates
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One Battle After Another has scooped multiple BAFTA awards tonight in a major boost ahead of the Oscars next month.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson won best director and adapted screenplay while the Leonardo DiCaprio film also found success in the best editing and cinematography categories.
Sean Penn was also awarded best supporting actor with British star Wunmi Mosaku winning the female award for her role in Vampire hit Sinners.
Described as a bellwether ahead of next month’s Academy Awards , One Battle After Another led the nominations with 14 nods, with Sinners, Hamnet and Marty Supreme following close behind.
Hamnet, helmed by Chloe Zhao, has broken the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in BAFTA history, with 11.
The BAFTA Film Awards is hosted by Alan Cumming at the Royal Festival Hall on February 22 and will air on BBC One at 7pm.
Follow live updates from the BAFTAs below
Paul Thomas Anderson wins Best Director
It’s definitely been his night.
Paul Thomas Anderson has added the best director award to the shedload picked up by One Battle After Another.
Will surely be the bookies’ strong favourites heading into the Oscars.
Presented the award by Kate Hudson, Anderson gives special thanks to Leo DiCaprio during the speech, telling the crowd: ‘Leo asks you all the right questions’.
WINNER – Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Robert Aramayo wins BAFTA Rising Star Award
I Swear star Robert Aramayo has won the BAFTA Rising Star award.
Taking to the stage after being presented the honour by Aimee Lou Wood and David Jonsson, he says he’s not written a speech and thanks his two families – his actual one and his ‘I Swear’ one.
Referring to Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, on whom I Swear is based, he said:
John Davidson is the most remarkable person I’ve ever met and he believes there is so much more we need to learn about Tourette’s. In the words of the film, they need support and understanding.
WINNER – Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
BAFTA honours late film stars including Val Kilmer and Robert Redford
BAFTA has paid tribute to all those in the film industry who have died recently in the awards In Memoriam section
Jessie Ware is performing The Way We Were during the segment as a montage pays tribute to figures from across the film world
Names shown on screen included Diane Keaton, Terence Stamp, Catherine O’Hara, Gene Hackman, Pauline Collins, Brigitte Bardot, Udo Kier, Graham Greene, Val Kilmer and Robert Redford.
Hamnet wins Outstanding British Film
Hamnet has won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film in a crowded category of 10 nominations.
It marks the first award of the night for the film directed by Chloe Zhao, who had broken the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in BAFTA history, with 11.
Producer Sam Mendes accepts the award and describes the film as ‘an act of faith’.
WINNER – Hamnet
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Die My Love
H Is for Hawk
I Swear
Mr Burton
Pillion
Steve
Sentimental Value wins Best Film Not in the English Language
The BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language has gone to Sentimental Value.
The Norwegian film tells the story of two sisters who reunite with their estranged father, a Hollywood director.
Accepting the award, director Joachim Trier (pictured) says the award is the first time a film from Norway has won a BAFTA.
WINNER – Sentimental Value
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Sirāt
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Meanwhile, Frankenstein won the Bafta for best costume.
One Battle After Another wins Best Adapted Screenplay
Benicio del Toro, Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio
A good night for One Battle After Another just got even better as director Paul Thomas Anderson wins the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
It’s a huge boost for the film as it heads to the Oscars next month.
Meanwhile, motor-racing film F1 took home the award for best sound, while Sinners won best original score.
WINNER – Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Tom Basden and Tim Key – The Ballad of Wallis Island
Harry Lighton – Pillion
Will Tracy – Bugonia
Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
One Battle After Another wins Best Cinematography
It’s proving to be a successful night for One Battle After Another as Paul Thomas Anderson’s film wins a third award for Best Cinematography.
And it could get even better with Leonardo DiCaprio up for best actor.
WINNER – One Battle After Another
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Train Dreams
Zootropolis 2 wins Best Animated film
Zootropolis 2 has won Best Animated film as we reach the climax of tonight’s awards.
Co-writer Jared Bush (pictured right) spoke about the need to tell stories that champion our differences because the “world needs these stories right now”.
WINNER – Zootropolis 2
Elio
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
One Battle After Another wins Best Editing
One Battle After Another has notched up another win in the Best Editing category.
It follows Sean Penn winning best supporting actor.
WINNER – One Battle After Another
F1
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Meanwhile, I Swear, about Scottish Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, won the Best Casting prize.
WINNER – I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Picturehouse executive wins BAFTA for outstanding contribution to cinema
The outstanding British contribution to cinema was presented to creative director of Picturehouse, Clare Binns.
Accepting the prize, she joked:
I’ve been advised to keep it short, which is advice I’d like to extend to filmmakers.
She added:
What we need above all is unselfish vision, vision which isn’t guided by straight commerce.
BAFTA winner wins award for outstanding debut and tells audience ‘Free Palestine’
My Father’s Shadow has won the BAFTA award for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer.
Accepting the award, director Akinola Davies Jr said:
I appreciate the jury for this honour and what it means for the children of the diaspora. To all those whose parents migrated for a better life for their children, those under occupation, dictatorship, persecution, and those experiencing genocide: you matter.
Your stories matter more than ever. Your dreams are an act of resistance.To those watching at home, archive your loved ones, archive your stories yesterday, today and forever. For Nigeria, for London, the Congo, for Sudan. Free Palestine, thank you.
Bemused Hollywood stars handed British snacks
We’ve had a very entertaining interlude here at Royal Festival Hall as Hollywood A-listers were handed some very British snacks to enjoy at the ceremony.
Leonardo DiCaprio was treated to a Hobnob Flapjack, while Kylie Jenner was handed a Jammy Dodger.
Timothee Chalamet was given his (probably) first packet of Scampi Fries while Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale received Twiglets.
And Emma Stone was gifted the classic staple of Hula Hoops.
Brilliant!
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