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
And the winner for British Short Animation goes to... Crab Day WINNER
Visible Mending
Wild Summon
In Memoriam
Hannah Waddingham is now performing “Time After Time” during the In Memoriam segment, which pays tribute to those the industry has lost over the past year.
Names featured include: Jane Birkin, Glynis Johns, film critic Derek Malcolm, Julian Sands, Richard Roundtree, William Friedkin, Terence Davies, Tina Turner, Norman Jewison, Glenda Jackson, Chaim Topol, Tom Wilkinson, Carl Weathers, Ryan O’Neal, Harry Belafonte, Piper Laurie, Alan Arkin and Michael Gambon.
Outstanding British Film goes to one of the best films of this century...
All of Us Strangers
How to Have Sex
Napoleon
The Old Oak
Poor Things
Rye Lane
Saltburn
Scrapper
Wonka
The Zone of Interest WINNER
Best Costume Design goes to...
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things WINNER
Best Make Up and Hair goes to...
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things WINNER
(Sorry to Bradley Cooper...)
Hugh Grant steals the entire ceremony by mocking the French Oompa Loompa video that went viral at the end of last year.
He will never not be a legend.
Best Director goes to Christopher Nolan... obviously
Andrew Haigh – All of Us Strangers
Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall
Alexander Payne –The Holdovers
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer WINNER
Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest
His first Bafta!! How he didn’t win one for Tenet, I’ll never know.
Bafta Fellowship
This year’s Bafta Fellowship – an award given recognition of “outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image” (their words, not ours) – goes to Samantha Morton.
Past recipients include Julie Walters, Helen Mirren, Mike Leigh, Sidney Poitier, Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott.
Jack O’Connell and Emma Mackey are here to present the Rising Star Award – the only category voted for by the public.
The trophy went to:
Phoebe Dynevor
Ayo Edebiri
Jacob Elordi
Mia McKenna-Bruce WINNER
Sophie Wilde
And the Best Actor winner is...
Last year’s Best Actress winner Cate Blanchett is here to present Best Actor, whiuch is essentially a Cillian vs Paul two-horse race.
And the winner is...
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer WINNER
Teo Yoo – Past Lives
This makes next month’s Oscar race very, very tight.
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