And that concludes the 2016 Baftas (which actually finished two hours ago, but whatever). What has tonight taught us? We’ll have to wait until the Oscars to find out.
Fortunately, they’re taking place exactly two weeks from now. Unfortunately, I’ve drawn the short straw and I’ll be doing the all-night soul-sapping hellride that is the Oscars live blog as well. So see you there, if you like tuxedos and hate sleep. Derrr!
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And that’s everything. But wait! Stephen Fry needs to talk at length about the terrifying concept of human mortality. Well done for winning your trophies everyone! Have a fun evening!
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WIN! Best film – The Revenant
This might get me sacked, because it’s not a very fashionable choice around here, but I’m thrilled that The Revenant won. I’ve never seen a film like it in my life, and I see about 15 films like all the other nominees every single year. Also, Iñárritu does a hell of an acceptance speech.
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Hooray! Here’s Tom Cruise to present best film. I think it’s Tom Cruise, at least – if I squint, he looks a bit like Jim Davidson – but let’s give Stephen Fry the benefit of the doubt. We know what a temper he’s got on him.
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Leo thanked his mother. That Oscar must be his now, surely.
WIN! Best actor – Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Finally. Apparently he wanted to win this quite badly. If you wanted to read Peter Bradshaw’s reaction to this win, by the way – presumably written in the future and brought to you here by supernatural forces – it’s here:
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WIN! Best actress – Brie Larson, Room
Once again, a really strong crowd this year, but well done Bafta for picking the only nominee who isn’t actually there tonight. Instead, Room’s director, Lenny Abrahamson, is there on her behalf. And he’s just complimenting her to high heaven. This is a great tactic to all would-be awards nominees: don’t go to the ceremony – people will be nicer to you.
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I guarantee there’ll be a Vine of Iñárritu attempting to say “Domhnall Gleeson” doing the rounds before long. There had better be, at least, because he sounded like he was vomiting up a shed.
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Also, well done to Stanley Tucci for not making a hamfisted crack about Mexicans when presenting this award, and saving dozens of news outlets several precious minutes of pretend outrage in the process.
WIN! Best director – Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Also, WIN! Best ferociously grumpy loser: Ridley Scott, The Martian.
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Stephen Fry has now stopped tweeting. More on this breaking news as we get it.
Best director now, presented by Stanley Tucci, who can now be found knelt under a table at the afterparty, screaming obscenities at Siri for not expressing total praise at his performance tonight.
Sustained applause, and rightly so.
Meanwhile, back at the Baftas:
The brother of a bafta nominee was once vaguely rude to me.
— paul (@tapedecklee) February 14, 2016
Sadly, Poitier isn’t there to accept the award. But Jamie Foxx is presenting it to him at home. His daughter is describing him in the most touching terms, as a man and a father as well as an actor. Poitier’s acceptance award is full of depth and dramatic pauses and if this isn’t the absolute highlight of the evening I don’t know what is.
Christ, what a man he is. I bet he isn’t currently sitting in a backstage cubicle screaming at strangers on the internet like SOME people.
WIN! Fellowship recipient – Sir Sidney Poitier
Right. Thank God. A bit of class at last. Clips from Poitier’s classic films, dripping with a gravitas rarely seen these days, interspersed with testimonials from Oprah Winfrey herself. I could watch an hour of this, frankly. You know, so long as I didn’t have to liveblog it as well.
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WIN! Best film not in the English language – Wild Tales
Again, the director looks very happy with his trophy. Obviously by now he’s probably used it to decapitate a security guard because someone said something mean to him on the internet, but for now, well done him.
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Here’s Carrie Fisher! She’ll liven things up, won’t she? She’ll … oh God, no, she’s just made an off-colour Irish joke. Tell you what, the wheels are really falling off this evening, aren’t they? And this is the edited version, too. I wonder what happened in the unedited version. I wonder how many people died.
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WIN! Best original screenplay – Spotlight
Tom McCarthy looks thrilled with his win, but who knows – maybe he’s on Twitter right now, raging at anonymous strangers. That seems to be the way the evening’s going.
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Anyway, back to the awards. Best original screenplay now, presented by Cuba Gooding Jr, who apparently still exists.
Look, it’s ridiculously hard to follow this any more. There’s Stephen Fry in the present, looking moderately pleased with his work, but we now know that Stephen Fry in the future is a purple-faced rage-machine, hell-bent on destroying the internet as we know it with all the blunt force trauma Twitter will allow. How am I supposed to live with this dichotomy? It’s maddening. This is exactly why they banned time travel in the future.
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Derrr.
Oh boy. Fry’s just retweeting praise now. This is DEFCON One. If you’ve got a tin helmet at home, it might be best to bung it on now.
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This live blog will now be dedicated to the sight of Future Stephen Fry losing his mind with rage at the internet. What’s he going to do next? All-caps swearing? The gun emoji? A Periscope of him smashing up a branch of Carphone Warehouse? I for one cannot wait to see what happens.
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Outstanding British contribution to film has been won by Angels Costumes, incidentally. Not that it matters, because Stephen Fry just tweeted this as well:
Will all you sanctimonious fuckers fuck the fuck off Jenny Beavan is a friend and joshing is legitimate. Christ I want to leave the planet
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) February 14, 2016
Earlier, Stephen Fry described the woman who won the award for best costume design as “a bag lady”. And now, tweeting from the future, his response to some apparent criticism:
So just a word to the tragic figures who think calling Jenny Bevan a bag lady was an insult. She's a dear friend and she got it. Derrr
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) February 14, 2016
Derrr!
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WIN! Best adapted screenplay – The Big Short
Anyway, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay. Adam McKay has grown a moustache, with mixed results: he looks like he’s stolen a toddler’s eyebrows and hung them underneath his nose. But hey, congratulations.
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Poor Stephen Fry. He looked genuinely beaten up by the death montage, but then immediately had to introduce Angela Bassett with the words “And now, from the upcoming London Is Falling…”. It was such a tonal handbrake turn that I was worried his spleen was going to pop.
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It feels weird to critique an In Memoriam section, but this is beautifully done. It’s dignified and full of restraint. Meanwhile, at the Oscars, we’ll have Lady Gaga leading everyone in a singalong of Wind Beneath My Wings and we’ll all feel dirty. Well done Baftas.
WIN! Outstanding debut by British writer, director or producer – Naji Abu Nowar, Theeb
And good for them. However, it’s time for the evening’s In Memoriam section. It’s as touching as ever, but it’s going to go on for ages. This is because of 90% of all famous people died this year. Settle in, folks.
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Now, we’re all pretending that this is happening live, and that nobody knows who’s going to win anything. However, in a genuine feat of impossible mysticism, here’s a round-up of all the big winners of the night, including the ones that definitely haven’t been announced yet.
Dakota Johnson, presenting best debut, just told everyone that she’s wearing tweed underpants. I don’t know why I’m telling you this. It’s probably because you’re the internet, and you get off on that sort of thing. Look, it’s either this or a GIF of a sneezing cat.
WIN! Best costume design – Mad Max: Fury Road
Oh, I’m kidding. I liked the Mad Max costume design.
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Best costume design now. This is going to be close. Will it be the sumptuous Carol, the sumptuous Danish Girl, the sumptuous Cinderella, the sumptuous Brooklyn, or Mad Max, where everyone was dressed as Ben from EastEnders in that scene where he sang a Lady Gaga song?
WIN! Best supporting actress – Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
A dark horse, maybe, because this was an insanely strong category. But Winslet is absolutely nailing this acceptance speech. She’s funny. She’s charming. She’s got everyone in the auditorium eating from the palm of her … oh.
Sat here now! Kate Winslet making a tedious speech as predictable as ever https://t.co/XJ0qFMcTa7
— Sean McAllister (@mcallisterfilms) February 14, 2016
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I love liveblogging edited prerecorded awards shows, by the way, because my favourite thing in the world is just writing down a load of names as quickly as I can for two hours for money.
Incidentally, Amy won best documentary earlier. Amy’s dad hasn’t taken it especially well...
Please don't congratulate me on the Amy film winning BAFTA. This is a one dimensional, miserable and misleading portrayal of Amy.
— mitch winehouse (@mitchwinehouse) February 14, 2016
Asif knows
WIN! Best animated film – Inside Out
And rightly so, because Inside Out is the most delightful thing to be released in the last year, and it probably should have been nominated for best film.
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Eddie Izzard’s presenting the best animation award now. He blinks twice, then says the words “pig” and “monkey” and “banjo” over and over again, because he is Eddie Izzard and those are the only three words he knows.
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WIN! Best supporting actor – Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
This category is basically Bad Haircuts Plaintively Yelling, which makes Rylance’s win all the more sweet. Spielberg accepts the prize on behalf of Rylance, and reads a note from the actor. This is particularly good news because otherwise he’d have just described his route from his seat to the stage in tedious detail.
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Rebel does racism! Rebel does penises! Rebel does the “transgender face” joke – which, it has to be said, actually goes down really well with the audience – and then says she wants to sleep with everyone. And that’s it: your daily dose of outrage. Use it wisely, The Internet, because these things only come round every 15 seconds.
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Now for best supporting actor. More importantly, now for Rebel Wilson to say something off-handed specifically to get Twitter’s knickers in a twist.
WIN! EE Rising Star – John Boyega
Oh, Boyega won! I mean, obviously I knew that because this award was handed out a full two hours ago, and I pretended that I didn’t know because I wanted to try and inject some drama into this live blog.
But still, I’m glad he won. I don’t think there’s an actor on the face of the earth who’s looked as thrilled to be doing his job this year.
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I’m a massive snob, obviously, so I don’t care about this award at all. Unless John Boyega wins, obviously. He’s great.
It’s the EE Rising Star award now. This is the only award voted for by the public, which either makes it more or less valuable than the others, depending on how snobby and metropolitan-elitey you are.
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WIN! Best special visual effects – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
I’m 80% sure this was just for Adam Driver’s hair, but whatever.
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Next presenters: Doctor Who and Khaleesi off Game of Thrones. That sound you can hear is Tumblr having a stroke.
She hasn’t noticed that her earring has come off yet. This is Judy Finnegan’s bra all over again.
WIN! Outstanding British film – Brooklyn
A surprisingly strong field, but Brooklyn comes out on top. This, eagle-eyed viewers will notice, is where Julie Walters lost her earring. It wasn’t actually attached to her face when she stood up to collect it. It’s probably still on her seat. Somewhere in London right now, an usher is making plans to quit their job and buy themselves a gold-plated jetski.
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Right! Brilliant! Some awards! Kate Winslet and Idris Elba are presenting the awaard for outstanding British film. Their shtick? Saying that they’re proud to present the award tonight. Classic.
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And now just a bunch of clips from films. Just a bunch of clips from films.
Not a whole lot of jokes in this monologue, really. It’s essentially Stephen Fry pointing at an actor, then semi-successfully attempting to access the main plot-points of their films, then just sort of nodding and moving on. “Spotlight!” he said a second ago, “You can’t really make many jokes about that, can you?” This is pretty much the tone of the evening so far.
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Well this is awful. Fry’s unveiled a Bafta Kiss Cam, where he’s forcing the world’s most acclaimed actors to get off with each other in front of everyone. It is excruciating. The widely reported Fassbender-Vikander refusal hasn’t made the edit, for some reason. Funny that.
This is less an opening monologue and more a lovely chat with someone’s grandpa. Fry’s a little more hesitant than he usually is and, while he’s doing a decent job, he is making me want to eat a ton of Werther’s Originals.
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Fry is talking through all the big films. One of which I’m pretty sure he referred to as Star Wars: The Force Finally Woke Up. Which is a much better title in retrospect, of course.
Stephen Fry, tonight’s host, walks out on stage and immediately uses a string of multi-syllable words that I’m sure were just slipped into the script to make my live blog much more difficult to write than it needs to be.
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Bryan Cranston just referred to the Baftas as “the pinnacle of awards season,” which is such an ostentatious lie that I’m surprised his face didn’t spontaneously burst into flames.
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The actual awards are starting now
OK. Well done for making it this far, but here come the actual awards. Elba’s here, Winslet’s here, DiCaprio’s here. Rebel Wilson’s here, and ready to only say sensible things that don’t offend anybody.
I’m bored of this now. Let’s switch over to BBC One and get ready for the ceremony itself. Goodbye ancient dead Victorian ghost-child! Congratulations on making the most of a genuinely horrible job!
Steven Spielberg is talking to the Phantom Interviewer now, and he’s basically just detailing the route he took to get to Covent Garden. I think Steven Spielberg might be my dad.
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Someone on the red carpet just screamed at an actress “PLEASE! I’ve been waiting here ALL DAY for you!” which is pretty much exactly why all red carpets should be banned forever.
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This dead Victorian ghost girl is starting to grow on me. I’m now fully rooting for her. I hope all the celebrities she talks to offer her a half-formed platitude, so that her dead 150-year-old heart fleetingly feels a moment of warmth.
There was just a clip of Eddie Redmayne signing autograph after autograph on the red carpet. If you never get to receive Eddie Redmayne’s autograph, I think it looks more or less like a fish skeleton drawn on a frosted windscreen by a drunk man’s nose.
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The gist of this show, if you haven’t been able to get to a television, is that the majority of people who’ve been nominated for things are excited for being nominated for the things that they’ve been nominated for. Hope that helps.
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She’s talking to Michael Fassbender now. He just said something relatively nice to her. And she’s going to take that to her grave, that instantly forgotten semi-compliment. Because this is what it’s like to be a journalist. Pity us, won’t you.
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Incidentally, if you don’t have the benefit of watching a literal 19th-century ghoul shouting at people about their dresses, here’s our red carpet gallery. It’s probably better, to be honest.
This bit now, where the ghost basically just yells a series of increasingly desperate platitudes at celebrities as they obliviously run past her, is exactly what it’s like to be a journalist. I guess what I’m trying to say is that you should never be a journalist.
I’ve spent time on the Baftas red carpet before. It’s great. It’s basically a lot of runners frantically consulting clipboards full of photos, screaming “WHO’S THAT? ARE THEY FAMOUS? NO? DON’T BOTHER THEN” in earshot of the people they’re talking about.
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OH GOOD! A THEME! Tonight, the haunted visage of this ghost lady will be asking exclusively romance-based questions on the red carpet. This is because it’s Valentine’s Day, and also because it’s fun to watch things through your fingers while you squeeze your sphincter so tight that you think it might explode.
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The red carpet show appears to be hosted by a Victorian ghost. I hope she doesn’t scare the celebrities too much.
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It’s weird, liveblogging a show when you already know what’s going to happen. I’m trying to script a brutal takedown of Rebel Wilson for her “transgender face” line. But the pressure’s got to me. I might just end up writing “Rebel Wilson is rubbish” or something. That’ll do … won’t it?
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That means you all have to turn over to BBC Three, by the way. Partly because it’s going off the air this week and you’ll miss it, and partly because the next 30 minutes of this live blog will be unintelligible gibberish if you don’t.
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So that’s what’s going to happen. In 10 minutes I’ll liveblog BBC Three’s red carpet show, and then we’ll all sit through the main ceremony together, united by our collective self-deception about the identity of the winners. That sounds like fun, doesn’t it?
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As with the rest of this year’s award season, no clear frontrunners have emerged so far. This means that any one of about four films could steam to glory tonight. Which will it be? Nobody knows. Well, I mean everybody knows, because the show isn’t going out live and all the winners have already been tweeted to high heaven. But let’s try to forget about that, because awards ceremonies aren’t about the winners, are they? They’re about the haircuts and the speeches and, ideally, absolute brevity at all costs. And the winners that we already know, obviously.
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Hello there. Stuart Heritage here, Ben Lee’s disappointing sequel. Over the next two and a half hours, I’ll be your guide as the great and good of Hollywood once again realise that they’ve dressed incredibly inappropriately for February in the UK. WATCH! As Brie Larson hugs herself for warmth. LAUGH! As Jennifer Jason Leigh’s teeth audibly chatter through a banal red carpet interview with a glossy showbiz magazine. GASP! As Dame Maggie Smith clubs a taxi driver to death and wears his body like an expensive fur.
So I am now handing over to Stuart Heritage, who has the more enviable task of sharing the winners with you as the TV transmission airs. He will hopefully provide further updates as to the whereabouts of Julie Walters’ earring.
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So about those Rebel Wilson quotes...
MISSING!
BREAKING: Julie Walters has lost one of her diamond earrings and it is worth “the same price” as her house.
Here are Peter Bradshaw’s predictions for this year’s ceremony, and the non-nominees he thinks were unfairly overlooked:
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If you want to go ahead and spoil the TV transmission later then you can check out who has won what so far here:
This is probably not going to go down too well...
Rebel Wilson jokes with BAFTA crowd she's already "been practicing her transgender face" in hopes for winning a BAFTA next year. #EEBAFTAs
— Diana Lodderhose (@DianaL_Variety) February 14, 2016
Oh and here’s awkward visual proof of Fassbender and Vikander having absolutely none of that kiss cam business:
dear bafta THE HELL XDDDD#EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/NdhWNOmOJD
— раскольникова (@__moire___) February 14, 2016
The glamour continues...
Thrilled to be asked to be providing our ipower cordless lighting range for the BAFTA afte… https://t.co/59h7AtDvko pic.twitter.com/lozdKgjtwB
— iPowerLighting (@iPowerLighting) February 14, 2016
How bad must the British Airways pitch have been...
We're red carpet ready. Proud to be the official airline to the @BAFTA Awards #AATeam #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/aMK2X5A99k
— American Airlines (@AmericanAir) February 14, 2016
In other awards news, the nerdy offshoot of the Oscars took place last night, rewarding the very best in science and tech:
Bafta CEO Amanda Berry: “We recognised a number of years ago our industry is not very diverse and therefore the pool of people we can call upon to give lectures or be our nominees or winners is not very diverse. So what we have done is set up 15 new talent initiatives and mentoring schemes and scholarships and made diversity an absolute priority.” More here:
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Harsh but not the worst idea:
#BAFTA should be like school raffles - if you're not there to pick up your prize, they should move onto the next best...
— Matt Newman (@montynewms) February 14, 2016
This year’s official Bafta brochures are rather pretty:
Have a look at this year's official #EEBAFTAs brochures: https://t.co/imDITCIxF6 pic.twitter.com/hAb6KBCeYl
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 12, 2016
The celebrities confusing Twitter:
We've just spotted a celeb, but we have no idea who it is. Any idea who she is? #asktwitter #BAFTA pic.twitter.com/C0KRwk1LAl
— James Galpin (@jimjam_arch) February 14, 2016
who is she..... i don't know her ..... https://t.co/KZZ4GeuNNw
— willa (@eviIbag) February 14, 2016
The Bafta kiss cam already sounds like a horribly awkward idea …
BAFTA host Stephen Fry does Kiss Cam at ceremony - Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander won't do it.... #EEBAFTAs
— Diana Lodderhose (@DianaL_Variety) February 14, 2016
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Oh and here’s that Maggie and Leo kiss if you’re into that kind of thing:
Love the #BAFTA #KissCam 💕💕 #LeonardoDiCaprio #maggiesmith pic.twitter.com/cAxXIuGQig
— Jessica Chelsea (@theCocoaChelsea) February 14, 2016
Here’s a sneak peek at the stage, which looks like a health and safety hazard:
And we are off... #BAFTA #angels175 pic.twitter.com/YICjpi3ixj
— Jeremy Angel (@jeremyangel) February 14, 2016
Idris was right, love is in the air tonight:
#MaggieSmith plants a big #ValentinesDay kiss on #LeonardoDiCaprio at @stephenfry 's behest @BAFTA #filmawards
— Baz Bamigboye (@BazBam) February 14, 2016
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Unsurprisingly, diversity has been a hot topic on the red carpet and here’s what the stars have had to say:
Taking a look at the odds for tonight’s winners, here are the bookies’ favourites, according to William Hill:
The Revenant for best film
Leonardo DiCaprio for best actor
Brie Larson for best actress
Mark Rylance for best supporting actor
Rooney Mara for best supporting actress
So, as mentioned, if you want to avoid spoilers and follow along with the TV transmission (with a two hour-ish time delay), stay here. But if you want to see the winners as they happen, this will be updating as soon as each award is announced:
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Here’s Idris Elba, up for best supporting actor for Beasts of No Nation.
He has said on the red carpet that “love is in the air” tonight. He got some of the loudest cheers from the crowd.
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It really begins!
The Baftas are about to start in REAL LIFE but the BBC won’t be transmitting the ceremony until 9pm which means that news of the winners will be up elsewhere on the site but we will be following the action on TV. No spoilers. Promise.
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Ridley Scott: just happy to be nominated
Bafta’s official red carpet stream has now been made private. The award for Worst Stream of Anything Ever has already been won.
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This is what happens when you’re too eager to get a good seat:
Empty room except two.. And strange lights #bafta #coventgarden by privategg pic.twitter.com/fVD92Kve9y
— WearEasy (@WearEasyco) February 14, 2016
Cuba Gooding Jr has been speaking about diversity: “When you think of awards shows, it’s at the end of the chain. If you want to talk about diversity, it has to start at executive levels. Look at the Baftas: it’s a rainbow coalition of people represented in TV and film in England and they get that right here, because it reflects society.”
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Zoë Ball is getting everyone to do “Welcome to the Baftas” idents to camera and it’s all very awkward. Looking forward to her asking Rooney Mara for one.
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Best supporting actress nominee Rooney Mara has arrived. She recently had this to say about the awards season: “Sometimes it feels like you’re celebrating the same person’s birthday for months on end.”
And here’s the guy behind the diversity protest at tonight’s awards:
"Lights, camera, action; we want diversity and satisfaction" #BaftaBlackout expose the #BAFTA's 'whitewash'. pic.twitter.com/hGFLzou2ng
— Chidi Ejimofo (@Nytspider) February 14, 2016
Kate Winslet, who is up for best supporting actress for Steve Jobs, has also arrived.
Again, her interviews have been drowned out by fans screaming “LEO!”
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Even the BBC’s standard Bafta red carpet presenter is having issues with the live stream...
Anyone else having problems with the @BAFTA live stream? Xx
— edith bowman (@edibow) February 14, 2016
Eddie Redmayne is interviewed as fans chant “Leo!” so loudly that it’s hard to hear what he’s saying. DiCaprio has been tipped to beat him to best actor later, for The Revenant.
Here’s Leo hugging Cuba Gooding Jr though:
.@LeoDiCaprio and @CubaGoodingJr are happy to see each other at the #EEBAFTAs! https://t.co/V1zcqJDOTg
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 14, 2016
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Julianne Moore, who won best actress last year for Still Alice is on the red carpet. Her latest film, Freeheld, was touted as a potential contender before anyone actually saw it. Here’s our one-star review from Toronto.
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Dakota Johnson on the red carpet, being asked: “Does it feel like the end of a long road or the beginning of the start of a long road?”
Spielberg! He’s up for best director tonight for Bridge of Spies. There were some very polite fans calling “Mr Spielberg!” as he walked past.
Emilia Clarke is being quizzed on the red carpet. Update: Game of Thrones has changed her life. More to come.
In case you’re after a stream that doesn’t keep breaking every three seconds, the BBC also have this.
In news that would have been more exciting in 1996, Cuba Gooding Jr has arrived!
Here’s a quote from Sacha Baron Cohen from the red carpet: “I’m here to give the award for the best white actress. I hear many Caucasians were nominated. I have no desire to win any awards with Grimsby, which was why we cast two African Americans.”
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Here’s Julie Walters, up for best supporting actress for her role in Brooklyn. Her character is also getting a spin-off BBC show. If you have seen Brooklyn, this may not come as good news:
Not sure if he’ll have time to answer this …
@LeoDiCaprio are you going to #BAFTA ?
— duarda (@dicapriei) February 14, 2016
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And here’s Matt Smith, who has just been talking to Zoe Ball about his role in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a film that is unlikely to be featuring in next year’s awards race...
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And this E! tweet has now been understandably deleted...
Hollywood A-listers, the country’s least favourite budget airline is behind you!
Best of luck to those involved in the #BAFTA awards tonight! https://t.co/8d98y5Cho5 pic.twitter.com/NOOXGfmn7R
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) February 14, 2016
Bafta goodie bags are a little less nuts than the Oscar ones (no clitoral injections).
There’s a free trip to Auckland and some marmalade. Full details here.
Bryan Cranston is up for best actor tonight for his role in Trumbo. Zoe Ball asked him how important this role was for him but the feed cut out AGAIN before we heard the answer. We are guessing he said “very” or “extremely”
BEWARE
If it's not freezing cold and pissing rain at the @BAFTA Awards that's all the proof I need of global climate change.
— Steven Gaydos (@HighSierraMan) February 14, 2016
And here’s press-ignoring but fan-embracing Cate Blanchett on the red carpet. She is up for best actress tonight but might lose out to Saoirse Ronan, her Hanna co-star:
According to YouTube comments on the world’s worst feed, Dakota Johnson is kind of a big deal. Every other fan is screaming DAKOTA or DAAKOTAAAA and it’s a similar story on Twitter...
Waiting for Dakota to arrive at the BAFTA's red carpet like pic.twitter.com/Iamg1wfgNQ
— Mrs. Johnson (@dakotasamor) February 14, 2016
CATE BLANCHETT UPDATE
Cate Blanchett walked straight past all the press and went straight to the fans ❤️ #BAFTAs #RedCarpet
— BBC Three (@bbcthree) February 14, 2016
Julie Walters, Bryan Cranston, Matt Smith and Michael Fassbender have all also arrived but thanks to the worst stream in the world, we are only able to see and hear the odd flash. Here is Fassbender, lolling at his own autograph!
Saoirse Ronan has also arrived and she’s up for best actress for her role in Brooklyn. We’re expecting her name to be mispronounced at least once tonight. During the Globe nominations, Dennis Quaid called her Shisha. Here she is:
Here’s John Boyega, who has a 6am pick up time for Star Wars tomorrow. He already looks slightly tired...
Alicia Vikander, who has two nominations tonight, has also arrived. She has nominations for both Ex Machina and The Danish Girl.
Double nominee Alicia Vikander arrives on the red carpet! #EEBAFTAs https://t.co/lRkmP8W2PC
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) February 14, 2016
In case you need a reminder, the full list of nominees is here. Carol and Bridge of Spies are in the lead:
In case you’re not watching, here’s an idea of how the Bafta red carpet live stream is looking:
John Boyega just told Zoe Ball that he starts filming the next Star Wars episode TOMORROW. Which means he’ll probably be on the Shloer tonight.
He’s already said that it will be “much darker” than The Force Awakens but then pretty much anyone who is hyping a sequel seems to say that …
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Last night saw the Writers Guild of America announce their annual awards and the major winners were Spotlight and The Big Short, for original and adapted screenplays respectively. Both are up for Baftas tonight. The full list of winners is here.
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The feed appears to be breaking quite a bit. As it’s sponsored by EE, it’s not the best advert for their 4G service …
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John Boyega is signing autographs and posing for pictures. He’s up for the Bafta rising star award, voted for by the public, and is likely to win given the Star Wars fanbase. Other nominees include Bel Powley and Dakota Johnson.
You can watch the action from the red carpet right here:
Mark Ruffalo is ON THE WAY
It begins!
Welcome to this year’s Bafta live blog! I’m Benjamin Lee and I’ll be taking you through the initial part of the night and then Stuart Heritage will take over from 8:15pm BST. As there is a nearly two-hour delay between the ceremony and its transmission, we will be following the TV timings on the blog but news will be available elsewhere … No spoilers here, we promise.
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