Baftas 2024 - as it happened: Oppenheimer wins big at star-studded movie awards ceremony
Host David Tennant led the high-profile event honouring the best films, actors and directors of the past year
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The Baftas 2024 have taken place, with the biggest film stars in the world in attendance at a ceremony that honoured the best movies and actors of the last year.
Hollywood actors, including Emma Stone, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, were present at the ceremony, which took place at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday (18 February).
The winners were named exactly one month after the nominated films, actors, directors and writers were revealed by former EE Rising Star nominees Naomi Ackie and Kingsley Ben-Adir during a live press conference.
This year’s Baftas, which aired on BBC One, were presented by actor David Tennant. This marked the Scottish actor’s first TV appearance since returning for a series of Doctor Who specials in 2023.
Films in contention at this year’s ceremony included Oppenheimer, which swept the board at both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards earlier this month, as well as its rival blockbuster Barbie, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things, starring Stone.
Find all of the Bafta 2024 updates – as they happened – below
David Tennant’s opening monologue
Not the greatest opening monologue from David Tennant, we can’t lie. The jokes were played far too safe.
Best Original Screenplay
The first award, presented by Andy Serkis, is Original Screenplay. The nominees are:
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Maestro
Past Lives
And the winner is...
Best Original Screenplay goes to Anatomy of a Fall, written by couple Justine Triet and Arthur Harari.
Triet says the script was so close to the bone, Harari has asked her if she recorded them in her kitchen without telling him. Harari also said that he’s concerned his life will become like the storyline depicted in Anatomy of a Fall and wants everyone in the audience to know he’s actually very happy with his life at the moment.
Cue laughs from the film’s lead star, Sandra Hüller.
Best Special Visual Effects goes to Poor Things – the second-most nominated film of the evening behind Oppenheimer.
Could this be a start of a sweep for the Yorgos Lanthimos film?
A rapturous response for All of Us Strangers star Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, who are here to host Best Animates Film.
Let’s not forget: Scott was snubbed for his lead role in the film despite it being more deserving than practically every other nomineee.
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boy and the Heron WINNER
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sophie Ellis-Bextor performs ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’
After becoming a viral sensation due to Saltburn, “Murder on the Dancfeloor” is performed by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Not before David Tennant introduces the song with Saltburn actor Rosamund Pike, saying there’s not much he can say about Saltburn pre-watershed. “But I’m not pre-watershed,” Pike responds.
David Beckham is in the building
David Beckham is in town to present Outstanding Debut by a British writer, director or producer.
Blue Bag Life
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Earth Mama WINNER
How To Have Sex
Is There Anybody Out There?
Let’s hear it for the casting directors
The next award is for the most crucial aspect of filmmaking that doesn’t get enough credit – casting!
All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers WINNER
How to Have Sex
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer’s sweep (probably) begins
Oppenheimer has just won it’s first award of what will probably be many – and that for Best Editing:
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer WINNER
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
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