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:00:21. > :00:27.Hello and welcome back to London's oil Albert Hall where the British

:00:28. > :00:31.Academy film awards are just concluding another ceremony for

:00:32. > :00:37.another year. In the presence of a host of celebrities and the Duke and

:00:38. > :00:45.Duchess of Cambridge. La La Land has done pretty well tonight. It was a

:00:46. > :00:48.love letter to Los Angeles, not perhaps the clean sweep we expected.

:00:49. > :00:54.Jason Solomons has been watching with me. It garnered so many

:00:55. > :00:59.nominations, it has performed well but not swept the board. 11

:01:00. > :01:04.nominations, it was led to believe it might be going for a record,

:01:05. > :01:08.eight or nine would have put it up there with the highest ever Bafta

:01:09. > :01:16.awards, but early on it was performing very well. By the end it

:01:17. > :01:27.did, it won five Baftas. Emma Stone for best actress, best director for

:01:28. > :01:30.Damien Chouly El, and best actor. It is an escapist musical? It is the

:01:31. > :01:34.film at the moment that is giving people a lift, a bit of sunshine in

:01:35. > :01:39.an ever darkening world is how it has been pitched. And that is

:01:40. > :01:44.interesting because for people who haven't seen it, it is so Los

:01:45. > :01:48.Angeles, so Hollywood, steeped in that world, and I think we were

:01:49. > :01:51.interested to see whether the British Academy, a different set of

:01:52. > :01:57.voters from the Academy Awards in the states, from the Golden Globe

:01:58. > :02:03.is, might not be quite as in thrall to that as an American judge might

:02:04. > :02:08.be. Indeed, but it turns out that the charm of the leads, Ryan Gosling

:02:09. > :02:13.and Emma Stone, and the craft of it all, it won for cinematography,

:02:14. > :02:17.those memorable shots of dancing on the freeware, the levitating people

:02:18. > :02:24.in the Griffith Observatory, the texture of the film, it has kind of

:02:25. > :02:26.one people over, and also the music which is rather an interesting

:02:27. > :02:31.score, because it is not an old-fashioned musical. People think

:02:32. > :02:35.they are seeing singing in the rain, but it isn't that, it is a modern

:02:36. > :02:41.musical, young indyref2 and that happens to have singing and dancing.

:02:42. > :02:49.Yes if you go expecting an outer night musical, might be

:02:50. > :02:57.disappointed. And let's talk about Ben Affleck's brother Casey, he was

:02:58. > :03:03.so well known, but that is becoming turned around. Yes, maybe now Ben

:03:04. > :03:08.Affleck will be known as the less well-known older brother. He is this

:03:09. > :03:16.frozen janitor from Boston who has to gently thought as he read the --

:03:17. > :03:25.reintegrate himself into his all live in Manchester By The Sea. This

:03:26. > :03:29.was a very moving speech, and he said this is why he acts, he isn't

:03:30. > :03:33.as talented as the guys doing animation or the acrobats, if I was

:03:34. > :03:39.more talented, I might do that, but I act. And that was a very well

:03:40. > :03:43.delivered speech, and I think it warned people to him, because it is

:03:44. > :03:48.not a warm performance, rather chilling one. He is not a likeable

:03:49. > :03:52.character in it. It is one of those films that you really appreciate and

:03:53. > :03:56.the script is good and the cinematography, but you don't warm

:03:57. > :04:01.to his character at all. It is the opposite to La La Land, it is grim

:04:02. > :04:06.and frozen and cold, but the screenwriter and director, Kenneth

:04:07. > :04:12.Lonergan, won for original screenplay as well. And we might see

:04:13. > :04:17.those screen awards repeated at the Oscars. It is almost literary in its

:04:18. > :04:21.execution, it has different phases. The real action of the film is

:04:22. > :04:26.buried in the past, and we find that out halfway through the film what

:04:27. > :04:29.that was, so it is very well structured and it might almost be

:04:30. > :04:33.French. That is a good way of putting it. You mentioned it picked

:04:34. > :04:39.up the award for original screenplay, adapted screenplay went

:04:40. > :04:42.to Lion, possibly some surprise but it is picked up a couple of awards

:04:43. > :04:48.and is a popular choice when Dev Patel picked up the acting award in

:04:49. > :04:55.a strong category. Absolutely, you can see the people filing out now,

:04:56. > :04:59.the ceremony is over. Lion picked up two awards, that is currently out in

:05:00. > :05:04.UK cinemas, and it is a global story about a kid from Calcutta who is

:05:05. > :05:09.taken off the streets and adopted by Nicole Kidman in Tasmania, he grows

:05:10. > :05:14.up to become Dev Patel, and this was a very well received win. Bafta feel

:05:15. > :05:24.some ownership over him, he is the boy who grew up in British TV, he is

:05:25. > :05:28.just from down the road, and we kind of feel that we own him in some way.

:05:29. > :05:33.He said it is a film about family, and his family were here in the

:05:34. > :05:36.audience, and it was a very warm moment, and sometimes you realise

:05:37. > :05:42.that the Baftas is quite a small club, and I think he is the poster

:05:43. > :05:47.boy tonight. It means a big British star is born with Dev Patel, he has

:05:48. > :05:51.been around a long time but he is only 25, a lot of good performances

:05:52. > :05:56.to come. Even younger than I thought! And what is so striking,

:05:57. > :06:02.Luke Davis picking up that award for the screenplay for Lion. And also

:06:03. > :06:05.the little boy who is in the first half of the film, who plays the

:06:06. > :06:08.young Dev Patel, and the film you could argue is worth seeing just

:06:09. > :06:15.him, it is quite extraordinary what they achieve with someone so young.

:06:16. > :06:20.He was six when they first put him in the film. He was cast off the

:06:21. > :06:26.streets in India, they saw 2500 children and they found a gem. Not

:06:27. > :06:30.nominated, possibly unfairly, because if he had been, it would

:06:31. > :06:36.have been unfair not to give it to him. A few years ago at the Baftas

:06:37. > :06:41.when Jamie bell, little Billy Elliot, Peter Russell Crowe to the

:06:42. > :06:44.best actor prize. But the film did very well, it is a tear-jerker about

:06:45. > :06:49.people trying to find their family and find their sense of belonging,

:06:50. > :06:55.so it takes many boxes for many people, but able cry in different

:06:56. > :07:01.places, in the start, at the end. I think I cried at all of it! One of

:07:02. > :07:05.the things that sets the British Academy Awards parties we have a

:07:06. > :07:08.separate category for Best British film, and I should not the fact that

:07:09. > :07:15.most of your predictions are coming tonight, and indeed, the Ken Loach

:07:16. > :07:20.film, I Daniel Blake took the award, an extraordinary film maker still

:07:21. > :07:25.working at the age of 80. Yes, he won outstanding British film for I

:07:26. > :07:30.Daniel Blake. I should have put some money on this! The very first award

:07:31. > :07:34.they give out here is outstanding British film, and it went to Ken

:07:35. > :07:47.Loach who has been doing this for 50 years, 50 years, such a titan of the

:07:48. > :07:52.British film industry, and Cathy Come Home was a famous TV movie, so

:07:53. > :07:57.it is extraordinary that he is still doing it, it is still relevant, and

:07:58. > :08:03.that is the point. It is relevant and hard-hitting, and a shocking

:08:04. > :08:09.film, as Cathy Come Home was, sad because the politics of the country

:08:10. > :08:13.have not moved on enough. All of the award ceremonies in America have

:08:14. > :08:18.been making speeches against Donald Trump and stuff, have we been

:08:19. > :08:23.thinking that we might get that here? Ken Loach gave a searing

:08:24. > :08:28.indictment of the divide that separates the country between the

:08:29. > :08:31.haves and the have nots. And he said the film-makers in this room,

:08:32. > :08:35.despite the glitz and glamour, they know that they have to be on the

:08:36. > :08:38.side of the people, and that is very important for film-makers to tell

:08:39. > :08:42.stories that are relevant, and he is right, because if audiences don't

:08:43. > :08:49.come, the film makers don't make the money, so they have to go for it. It

:08:50. > :08:52.did hit home. So it thoroughly deserves that, and it is the

:08:53. > :09:00.outstanding British film of the year, it won in Cannes last year.

:09:01. > :09:03.I'm delighted that award, sorry for the others that were up against it,

:09:04. > :09:09.but it is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon in. We talked a lot about

:09:10. > :09:12.the winners, but interesting to just pick-up on what we were discussing

:09:13. > :09:17.out on the red carpet a couple of hours ago. Nothing at all for

:09:18. > :09:20.Moonlight, which surely is one of the best films of the season, but

:09:21. > :09:25.sadly nothing tonight. One of the stories to emerge from tonight is a

:09:26. > :09:28.complete shutout for Moonlight, which I think was one of my

:09:29. > :09:34.favourite film is going in, and many people's favourites to come out of

:09:35. > :09:38.the UK yet. It is a favourite at the Oscars and here. And I really

:09:39. > :09:42.thought it would get some. There was a point when it seemed every film

:09:43. > :09:45.that was nominated were getting something, 15 films had got

:09:46. > :09:49.something, and I said, but not Moonlight yet, and I realised it was

:09:50. > :09:56.going to be the film that suffered. Nothing to Naomi Harris, nothing for

:09:57. > :10:00.the texture of the performances. It was shutout, and I feel that that is

:10:01. > :10:05.going to create some waves. I think it is a real shame because it is

:10:06. > :10:08.such a beautiful film. Bafta had a chance to reward it somewhere and it

:10:09. > :10:12.seems to have missed that opportunity, and people will be

:10:13. > :10:15.noting that in America, they might accuse Bafta of some kind of

:10:16. > :10:22.institutional racism, I'm not saying that that is true, because of course

:10:23. > :10:27.via the Davis and Dev Patel won, but it was seen as a real flag bearer

:10:28. > :10:33.for the diversity debate which is occupied the British can and the

:10:34. > :10:41.Oscar academy. And you mentioned Viola Davis, she has won for Fences

:10:42. > :10:45.by Denzel Washington, a fabulous actress, always gives a great

:10:46. > :10:48.performance, but there were others in that category we might have

:10:49. > :10:52.thought might come through, Naomi Harris possibly Haley Squires, a

:10:53. > :10:56.searing performance again in the Ken Loach film. Yes, and I always think

:10:57. > :11:01.the Bafta audience tend to go for the homegirl the homeboy, they tend

:11:02. > :11:04.to vote for the person closer to home, it is unusual for them to go

:11:05. > :11:11.for an American actress ahead of them. Perhaps the most interesting

:11:12. > :11:15.category out there, Haley Squires is terrific in I Daniel Blake, you feel

:11:16. > :11:21.the cold and hunger affecting her. And Naomi Harris in such a short

:11:22. > :11:23.time in that film, Moonlight, gives a beautiful performance as a mother

:11:24. > :11:30.struggling with crack addiction and trying to love her child, but Viola

:11:31. > :11:36.Davis, you see the picture of her crying, she does snotty crying

:11:37. > :11:43.better than any other actress on the planet. I am fond of Fences, people

:11:44. > :11:48.said it was theatrical and it is a adaptation of a performance that

:11:49. > :11:51.already won her a Tony award. It is almost a film record of that

:11:52. > :11:54.performance, but there is something with the cameras, doing the

:11:55. > :11:58.close-up, doing the performance again, and it is hard to argue with

:11:59. > :12:02.except you might have thought, we are Bafta, we should have awarded it

:12:03. > :12:06.to a Brit, but that is me being parochial. Oney of the other things

:12:07. > :12:12.that Bafta does a little differently, the category of rising

:12:13. > :12:15.star, and that is voted for by the public, a panel chooses the short

:12:16. > :12:22.list but then the public are able to vote for who they want. And when Tom

:12:23. > :12:26.Holland stood up and accepted the award, I thought, my goodness, are

:12:27. > :12:31.you only 20? With that poise and confidence. He has played Billy

:12:32. > :12:33.Elliot on the London West End stage, maybe that is partly where that

:12:34. > :12:38.comes from, but what did you make of that? I said on the red carpet

:12:39. > :12:41.earlier that it is the person who always ends up in the biggest film,

:12:42. > :12:48.always ends up winning, because the public vote, they haven't seen this,

:12:49. > :12:52.he is Spiderman in the forthcoming Spiderman movie, we had a taster of

:12:53. > :12:58.him in the Captain America movie earlier this year, last year, and so

:12:59. > :13:03.those Spiderman fan boys are voting away on their phones saying, Tom

:13:04. > :13:07.Holland, he is a great little actor, only 20, seemed kind of think, are

:13:08. > :13:14.you allowed up at this time? Shouldn't you be in bed? But he is

:13:15. > :13:19.20. He is the son of Radio 4 comic and pundit Dominic Holland, and he

:13:20. > :13:25.has been around acting on the London stage, but Spiderman as a whole

:13:26. > :13:29.other level. These things are not easy to do, and he owns a massive

:13:30. > :13:34.blockbuster like that, and I think he could be Spiderman 434 films,

:13:35. > :13:37.which would make him one of the biggest stars on the planet, so he

:13:38. > :13:41.probably is a rising star that we will hear much more than next

:13:42. > :13:50.decade. And by then he will still only be 30! On the stage giving the

:13:51. > :13:54.Curzon chain, she said I got a Bafta award in 1978 for promising

:13:55. > :14:01.newcomer, who knew I would be back so soon, she said sometimes it takes

:14:02. > :14:04.a while to repay that. It is getting very noisy here, but let's have a

:14:05. > :14:08.quick thought about the fellowship, because this is awarded this year by

:14:09. > :14:13.Prince William, presented by Prince William, to someone you particularly

:14:14. > :14:17.revere, I know. Yes, I am a massive fan of tonight's recipient, Mel

:14:18. > :14:26.books, with films like the Producers and Young Frankenstein and tap back

:14:27. > :14:31.blazing Saddles, the zany comic films, Young Frankenstein played by

:14:32. > :14:38.Marty Feldman and the wonderful Gene Wilder and his performances, the

:14:39. > :14:40.ultimate showbiz show in the Producers, which then became a

:14:41. > :14:47.musical and then a film of the musical. We forget Mel Brooks made

:14:48. > :14:54.the Elephant Man, he produced that. He has been a Titan for many years,

:14:55. > :14:59.grew up in 50s stand that American Jewish humour and was great to see

:15:00. > :15:03.him on the Bafta stage tonight, he has still got it, that Brooklyn

:15:04. > :15:07.twang going on, and it was great to see that gruffness, but also

:15:08. > :15:11.elegance. I think on a night when the Baftas were not the most

:15:12. > :15:16.exciting, a little bit of zaniness and humour was brought by him, it is

:15:17. > :15:20.a fantastic award for him, and him receiving it from Prince William,

:15:21. > :15:26.when he satirises royals many times in his history of the world films,

:15:27. > :15:30.to see him getting an award from one is something he probably never dream

:15:31. > :15:33.of. Jason Solomons, many thanks as ever. The Baftas are over for

:15:34. > :15:38.another year, but awards ceremony season is not. We are still a couple

:15:39. > :15:41.of weeks away from the Oscars, so let's see whether voters at the

:15:42. > :15:45.Academy reflect the sort of results we have seen here tonight at the

:15:46. > :15:48.British Academy film awards. You can find the full list of all the

:15:49. > :15:53.winners on the BBC website of course, and lots of photos from the

:15:54. > :16:00.red carpet as well. But from a very noisy well but Hall in London, phone

:16:01. > :16:03.app, for this year, it is goodbye. -- from a very noisy while Albert

:16:04. > :16:18.Hall in London, for now, goodbye. America and Japan have strongly

:16:19. > :16:25.condemned North Korea, for test-firing a ballistic missile,

:16:26. > :16:29.the first since Donald Trump