0:00:20 > 0:00:23Hello. Welcome to the Royal Albert Hall in
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Hello. Welcome to the Royal Albert Hall in London. We are about to
0:00:26 > 0:00:31bring you the results of the British Academy film awards which have taken
0:00:31 > 0:00:38place here tonight. There has been quite a striking move in the results
0:00:38 > 0:00:40tonight because Martin McDonagh's film Three Billboards Outside
0:00:40 > 0:00:46Ebbing, Missouri has unusually, in our recollection, taking the award
0:00:46 > 0:00:52for Best film and Best British film. Some very interesting revelations.
0:00:52 > 0:00:58Let's discuss all of tonight's events with Jason Solomons who was
0:00:58 > 0:01:01with me on the red carpet earlier and has been watching the ceremony.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05We have been racking our brains and we certainly can't remember a time
0:01:05 > 0:01:13where the same film wins both categories.It's very unusual. They
0:01:13 > 0:01:15invented that formats are the British film did not miss out they
0:01:15 > 0:01:21got own line-up. We have had Atonement, and then the best film
0:01:21 > 0:01:26going to an American one. Sky full a few years ago. The main film usually
0:01:26 > 0:01:34goes to a Hollywood film. I'm usually a film about small-town
0:01:34 > 0:01:38America are produced here and with London Irish director has carried
0:01:38 > 0:01:42off best outstanding British film and Best film in Three Billboards
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Outside Ebbing, Missouri. It is extremely unusual and I am slightly
0:01:45 > 0:01:49surprised because I thought it was a film that divided people but it has
0:01:49 > 0:01:54united the BAFTAs. It is a very divisive, deliberately so,
0:01:54 > 0:01:58controversial film. It's one of the edgiest most indie films they have
0:01:58 > 0:02:05ever voted their best picture.It is striking. Martin McDonagh not just
0:02:05 > 0:02:09the right, a prolific playwright as well as a screenwriter. He has taken
0:02:09 > 0:02:13the award for screenplay, he directed it as well. We spoke to him
0:02:13 > 0:02:21on the red carpet earlier. How was its juggling all the
0:02:21 > 0:02:27elements of pain, anger, and incredibly document?Writing wise
0:02:27 > 0:02:33it's most of my stuff like that.-- incredibly dark humour.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37That stuff is natural for me but when you cast the best actors around
0:02:37 > 0:02:42and let them get on with it, they take care of that for you.Where did
0:02:42 > 0:02:47the inspiration come from?I saw something similar to what we see on
0:02:47 > 0:02:51our billboards 20 years ago when I was going to the southern states of
0:02:51 > 0:02:56America, it stuck in my mind. I thought of a really angry mother who
0:02:56 > 0:03:03might have goes up, what story would develop from there.Of course the
0:03:03 > 0:03:07part was written with Frances McDormand in mind. Could you imagine
0:03:07 > 0:03:13anyone else in that role?If she had said no, we would have been screwed.
0:03:13 > 0:03:19She's perfect. An offstage she is perfect for the part. She has so
0:03:19 > 0:03:27much integrity and intelligence, and range and rage. She is just perfect.
0:03:27 > 0:03:33Especially in a year like this, a Me Too and times a year, it's great to
0:03:33 > 0:03:37have someone like that who is so brilliant and strong. Such an
0:03:37 > 0:03:45ambassador for all these issues. Martin McDonagh paying tribute to
0:03:45 > 0:03:49his leading lady Frances McDormand who perhaps no surprise to the award
0:03:49 > 0:03:54here tonight for best actress. We would have been very surprised had
0:03:54 > 0:04:00she not taken that award.Whilst it is a fantastic performance and a
0:04:00 > 0:04:06fantastically written role, this character of Mildred Hayes, it also
0:04:06 > 0:04:11a woman who takes politics into her own hands, stands no nonsense from
0:04:11 > 0:04:13anyone though they use a rather strong a word in the acceptance
0:04:13 > 0:04:22speech earlier. In this year, a year, particularly tonight, female
0:04:22 > 0:04:25empowerment, there is no more powerful a figure than Mildred Hayes
0:04:25 > 0:04:30as embodied by Frances McDormand. An apt choice. It's that performance
0:04:30 > 0:04:35and element of this film that has powered to success. I loved the
0:04:35 > 0:04:39film, hilarious, very moving, with a fantastic performance for a female
0:04:39 > 0:04:47role. Tick boxes as well as billboards.I enjoyed it hugely bats
0:04:47 > 0:04:54against expectation which is the sign of a remarkable film. Martin
0:04:54 > 0:04:59McDonagh made reference to Time's Up, we can't talk about the BAFTAs
0:04:59 > 0:05:02without referencing that. Frances McDormand was practically the only
0:05:02 > 0:05:06person we saw tonight who was not wearing black in solidarity. I
0:05:06 > 0:05:11should stress she reference that immediately in her acceptance
0:05:11 > 0:05:14speech, she did not like to be told what to do but she said she stood
0:05:14 > 0:05:18wholeheartedly behind the movement. It has been an interesting evening
0:05:18 > 0:05:23with a political undertone. Certainly on the red carpet there
0:05:23 > 0:05:26was the political undertone, the ceremony was less political than it
0:05:26 > 0:05:31was hosted by a woman, Joanna Lumley, for the first time in its
0:05:31 > 0:05:36history. There is a subtle shift. The evening went by without many
0:05:36 > 0:05:41hitches or huge surprises or statements, but in its subtlety and
0:05:41 > 0:05:44the award for free billboards and Frances McDormand have meant there
0:05:44 > 0:05:52has been a shift. People have taken note and the laziness which
0:05:52 > 0:05:55previously BAFTA may have been accused for, stories of white
0:05:55 > 0:06:00privileged men and all that, time is certainly up on that. Three
0:06:00 > 0:06:03billboards is not that type of movie. It is equal opportunities
0:06:03 > 0:06:11offensive but it is equal.Sam Rockwell took the award for Best
0:06:11 > 0:06:17supporting actor, a very positively received award in the hall. We will
0:06:17 > 0:06:23stay with acting. We say we would not have been surprised had Frances
0:06:23 > 0:06:31McDormand 's walked away with that award, the same for Gary Oldman and
0:06:31 > 0:06:38Winston Churchill.Yes, he thanked Winston Churchill in his speech.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42This stand that he took against the march of Hitler and the speeches he
0:06:42 > 0:06:47gave in that movie have been so well received by everyone here, he has
0:06:47 > 0:06:50been getting standing ovations in cinemas up and down the land for
0:06:50 > 0:06:53those speeches. That has really struck a chord this year. There is a
0:06:53 > 0:07:00freedom there, a unity that those speeches have brought. It's a
0:07:00 > 0:07:04fantastic performance from Gary Oldman. I always think doing
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Churchill, it's a bit of a town. Everyone has their favourite
0:07:07 > 0:07:13Churchill in a way. The casting of Gary Oldman when that was announced,
0:07:13 > 0:07:15people were flabbergasted. How could this guy who has been Dracula, the
0:07:15 > 0:07:22guy who was in Lyon, a punk in Sid vicious, how could he play Winston
0:07:22 > 0:07:30Churchill? He plays it with the same maverick spirit, a defiant spirit.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Of all the actors of the last 30 years from that generation that came
0:07:33 > 0:07:37up in 80s he is the one flying the flag for working-class actors in
0:07:37 > 0:07:41Britain and always has done. I think it's an inspirational win finally,
0:07:41 > 0:07:47his first win in all those years as an actor at BAFTA.Let's turn to
0:07:47 > 0:07:50best supporting actress, we were saying that's a strong category. I
0:07:50 > 0:07:56was rooting for a favourite British actress of mine, Leslie Mandell in
0:07:56 > 0:08:01Phantom thread but it went to Allison Janney who I must say is
0:08:01 > 0:08:05sensational insight on you. It is her film as far as I'm concerned.I
0:08:05 > 0:08:12am a big fan.-- who is sensational in I Tania.
0:08:12 > 0:08:18She is one of the tallest people who has ever won the award. She said she
0:08:18 > 0:08:23came to rather here for a two-week summer cause and that inspired her
0:08:23 > 0:08:27with the gift of the theatre and to get onto because she is on, so it
0:08:27 > 0:08:34really means something she is awarded here. She plays Tonya
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Harding's mother, this hard-bitten, hard smoking, parrots loving mother
0:08:37 > 0:08:42who has given up what she feels her life and her heart for her
0:08:42 > 0:08:46daughter's success on the ice rink. An embittered performance, not full
0:08:46 > 0:08:51of love but it has been shown love tonight. A lot of goodwill for
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Allison Janney for all the good work she has done over the years
0:08:54 > 0:08:59including her brilliant CJ in the West Wing, with Aaron Sorkin tonight
0:08:59 > 0:09:05here to clap when she won.We must talk about a young man we spoke
0:09:05 > 0:09:11about a lot on the red carpet a fewer hours ago, a wonderful warm
0:09:11 > 0:09:15reception when it was announced that Daniel Kaluuya, a young man from
0:09:15 > 0:09:19north London, had taken the rising Star award, the only award here at
0:09:19 > 0:09:27the BAFTAs voted for by the public. He has had an astonishing rise. An
0:09:27 > 0:09:30astonishing career already, he is 29, 30?
0:09:33 > 0:09:39A very positive results.He said I'm a product of arts funding in this
0:09:39 > 0:09:43country, he has benefited from grants, worked his way up from a
0:09:43 > 0:09:47School of theatre where we know many actors have cut their and gone on to
0:09:47 > 0:09:52be in is for example but he went on to the Royal Court in theatre, roles
0:09:52 > 0:09:57in Skins on Channel 4, and has really grown. The performance he is
0:09:57 > 0:10:03nominated for here is Get Out, an extraordinary American film also
0:10:03 > 0:10:08nominated for Best actor at the Oscars. He is also in Black Panther
0:10:08 > 0:10:12which we should say is tearing up the box office as we speak, people
0:10:12 > 0:10:15crowding to see this incredible watershed moment black superhero
0:10:15 > 0:10:18movie where he plays a fine role. He is representing a new face of
0:10:18 > 0:10:24Britain. Abroad, in Hollywood and here as well. The fact he is winning
0:10:24 > 0:10:29a prize, he is aware of this, it's inspirational for a lot of young
0:10:29 > 0:10:34black children to see him there, I can do this too. He has spoken to me
0:10:34 > 0:10:38about how he wanted to see that, and now it's incumbent upon him to do
0:10:38 > 0:10:43so. He thanked his mum and his sister and his mum cried. I now use
0:10:43 > 0:10:47it to me, his American accent is not bad either but apparently his mum
0:10:47 > 0:10:54also thinks it's nearly there. Getting there! She is his worst and
0:10:54 > 0:10:58best critic. A great rising Star award. He was a real delight and you
0:10:58 > 0:11:03can tell he will be a real favourite. Are there things, films
0:11:03 > 0:11:07that missed out tonight perhaps we might have thought might do a bit
0:11:07 > 0:11:12better? I'm thinking perhaps of Dunkirk.I thought the British crowd
0:11:12 > 0:11:15would rally behind that, the home bank there with Christopher Nolan,
0:11:15 > 0:11:20who has been a great director for Britain over many years, of course
0:11:20 > 0:11:30doing the. Night Trilogy, bringing Blockbuster ethics. Then at the very
0:11:30 > 0:11:35British story of Dunkirk. It got a nod for sound but in terms of the
0:11:35 > 0:11:37direction, Christopher Nolan marshals a whole army and brings it
0:11:37 > 0:11:42all together. I thought that might get recognised. Buatsi has been
0:11:42 > 0:11:47unlucky to come up against another Churchill movie. -- perhaps he has
0:11:47 > 0:11:53been unlucky. In the end, three billboards, it's more of a nod to
0:11:53 > 0:11:58the modern than the classic heritage British cinema. In a sense, I feel
0:11:58 > 0:12:02he is slightly out of time with the period. I thought Dunkirk would have
0:12:02 > 0:12:06got better at the Oscars, I am delighted for the outstanding
0:12:06 > 0:12:15British debut which I should mention as well, which went to I am not a
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Which, her family came from Zambia, she told the story about witches in
0:12:18 > 0:12:25Zambia who have been cast out of their town. Female empowerment. We
0:12:25 > 0:12:28see those diverse stories which people make a lot of noise about, we
0:12:28 > 0:12:32are seeing them all to do into the choices the BAFTA membership are
0:12:32 > 0:12:37making. People are listening, time is up.A quick thought because we
0:12:37 > 0:12:42have not mentioned best director. Guillermo Del Toro for the Shape of
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Water, again tier strong e-mail central performances, excellent
0:12:46 > 0:12:53performances. -- two strong female performances. Sally Hawkins plays a
0:12:53 > 0:13:01mute woman, again that's a curious one. Shape of Water winning best
0:13:01 > 0:13:05director but three billboards taking the other categories.If you say all
0:13:05 > 0:13:10the surprises and disappointments, Shape of Water coming and had the
0:13:10 > 0:13:14surge behind it, 12 nominations, sheep of water has been reduced to a
0:13:14 > 0:13:18bit of a trickle, only winning three. But everyone for Guillermo
0:13:18 > 0:13:22Del Toro and as you say it's a strange and curious film company of
0:13:22 > 0:13:28this director's vision, all his fantasy elements, a mute cleaner
0:13:28 > 0:13:35having a love affair with an aquatic creature.An everyday story!It is
0:13:35 > 0:13:40an odd one. Ultimately two oddball BAFTA to get a handle on but the
0:13:40 > 0:13:43production design was definitely rewarding, just deserved. And the
0:13:43 > 0:13:48music is well rewarded. Sally Hawkins can count herself unlucky,
0:13:48 > 0:13:52coming up against a force of nature in Frances McDormand. The Shape of
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Water will be a bit bedraggled and wet as it leads to might, with its
0:13:56 > 0:14:01tail slightly between its legs, if fishes have tails, if they do? This
0:14:01 > 0:14:07one doesn't...It's very hard to tell what that creature has, to be
0:14:07 > 0:14:11honest? All very peculiar. Fokine award season watches, we wait to see
0:14:11 > 0:14:17whether a film written by a Brit, directed by a Brit about small-town
0:14:17 > 0:14:22America will do well at the Oscars. If the BAFTAs are a marker of what
0:14:22 > 0:14:27happens on much the fourth in the Oscars, Oscar votes starts tomorrow.
0:14:27 > 0:14:32The positioning of the BAFTAs is interesting. Oscar voters will take
0:14:32 > 0:14:37note. BAFTA voters represent quite a watch of Oscar voters, about 100 who
0:14:37 > 0:14:42also vote at the Oscars. Will that mean Three Billboards has a cleaner
0:14:42 > 0:14:47run? Or is there room for a novel surprise yet? Don't forget Lady Bird
0:14:47 > 0:14:52is still my little pic to comment at the last minute. It didn't feature
0:14:52 > 0:14:56here apart from its for Saoirse Ronan but Lady Bird is my pick
0:14:56 > 0:15:02still.It could still happen. Good to have you here tonight. Thank you
0:15:02 > 0:15:06very much. That is all from the while Albert Hall here in central
0:15:06 > 0:15:10London. If you detect the hubbub that is because everyone is making
0:15:10 > 0:15:15their way down the grand staircases here, the ceremony is over and the
0:15:15 > 0:15:19Fellowship awarded to Ridley Scott, that is it from the British Academy
0:15:19 > 0:15:23film awards for another year. Thanks for being with us.