The Results BBC News: The Baftas

Hello. Welcome to the Royal Albert

Hall in

Hello. Welcome to the Royal Albert

Hall in London. We are about to

bring you the results of the British

Academy film awards which have taken

place here tonight. There has been

quite a striking move in the results

tonight because Martin McDonagh's

film Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri has unusually, in

our recollection, taking the award

for Best film and Best British film.

Some very interesting revelations.

Let's discuss all of tonight's

events with Jason Solomons who was

with me on the red carpet earlier

and has been watching the ceremony.

We have been racking our brains and

we certainly can't remember a time

where the same film wins both

categories.

It's very unusual. They

invented that formats are the

British film did not miss out they

got own line-up. We have had

Atonement, and then the best film

going to an American one. Sky full a

few years ago. The main film usually

goes to a Hollywood film. I'm

usually a film about small-town

America are produced here and with

London Irish director has carried

off best outstanding British film

and Best film in Three Billboards

Outside Ebbing, Missouri. It is

extremely unusual and I am slightly

surprised because I thought it was a

film that divided people but it has

united the BAFTAs. It is a very

divisive, deliberately so,

controversial film. It's one of the

edgiest most indie films they have

ever voted their best picture.

It is

striking. Martin McDonagh not just

the right, a prolific playwright as

well as a screenwriter. He has taken

the award for screenplay, he

directed it as well. We spoke to him

on the red carpet earlier.

How was its juggling all the

elements of pain, anger, and

incredibly document?

Writing wise

it's most of my stuff like that.

--

incredibly dark humour.

That stuff is natural for me but

when you cast the best actors around

and let them get on with it, they

take care of that for you.

Where did

the inspiration come from?

I saw

something similar to what we see on

our billboards 20 years ago when I

was going to the southern states of

America, it stuck in my mind. I

thought of a really angry mother who

might have goes up, what story would

develop from there.

Of course the

part was written with Frances

McDormand in mind. Could you imagine

anyone else in that role?

If she had

said no, we would have been screwed.

She's perfect. An offstage she is

perfect for the part. She has so

much integrity and intelligence, and

range and rage. She is just perfect.

Especially in a year like this, a Me

Too and times a year, it's great to

have someone like that who is so

brilliant and strong. Such an

ambassador for all these issues.

Martin McDonagh paying tribute to

his leading lady Frances McDormand

who perhaps no surprise to the award

here tonight for best actress. We

would have been very surprised had

she not taken that award.

Whilst it

is a fantastic performance and a

fantastically written role, this

character of Mildred Hayes, it also

a woman who takes politics into her

own hands, stands no nonsense from

anyone though they use a rather

strong a word in the acceptance

speech earlier. In this year, a

year, particularly tonight, female

empowerment, there is no more

powerful a figure than Mildred Hayes

as embodied by Frances McDormand. An

apt choice. It's that performance

and element of this film that has

powered to success. I loved the

film, hilarious, very moving, with a

fantastic performance for a female

role. Tick boxes as well as

billboards.

I enjoyed it hugely bats

against expectation which is the

sign of a remarkable film. Martin

McDonagh made reference to Time's

Up, we can't talk about the BAFTAs

without referencing that. Frances

McDormand was practically the only

person we saw tonight who was not

wearing black in solidarity. I

should stress she reference that

immediately in her acceptance

speech, she did not like to be told

what to do but she said she stood

wholeheartedly behind the movement.

It has been an interesting evening

with a political undertone.

Certainly on the red carpet there

was the political undertone, the

ceremony was less political than it

was hosted by a woman, Joanna

Lumley, for the first time in its

history. There is a subtle shift.

The evening went by without many

hitches or huge surprises or

statements, but in its subtlety and

the award for free billboards and

Frances McDormand have meant there

has been a shift. People have taken

note and the laziness which

previously BAFTA may have been

accused for, stories of white

privileged men and all that, time is

certainly up on that. Three

billboards is not that type of

movie. It is equal opportunities

offensive but it is equal.

Sam

Rockwell took the award for Best

supporting actor, a very positively

received award in the hall. We will

stay with acting. We say we would

not have been surprised had Frances

McDormand 's walked away with that

award, the same for Gary Oldman and

Winston Churchill.

Yes, he thanked

Winston Churchill in his speech.

This stand that he took against the

march of Hitler and the speeches he

gave in that movie have been so well

received by everyone here, he has

been getting standing ovations in

cinemas up and down the land for

those speeches. That has really

struck a chord this year. There is a

freedom there, a unity that those

speeches have brought. It's a

fantastic performance from Gary

Oldman. I always think doing

Churchill, it's a bit of a town.

Everyone has their favourite

Churchill in a way. The casting of

Gary Oldman when that was announced,

people were flabbergasted. How could

this guy who has been Dracula, the

guy who was in Lyon, a punk in Sid

vicious, how could he play Winston

Churchill? He plays it with the same

maverick spirit, a defiant spirit.

Of all the actors of the last 30

years from that generation that came

up in 80s he is the one flying the

flag for working-class actors in

Britain and always has done. I think

it's an inspirational win finally,

his first win in all those years as

an actor at BAFTA.

Let's turn to

best supporting actress, we were

saying that's a strong category. I

was rooting for a favourite British

actress of mine, Leslie Mandell in

Phantom thread but it went to

Allison Janney who I must say is

sensational insight on you. It is

her film as far as I'm concerned.

I

am a big fan.

-- who is sensational

in I Tania.

She is one of the tallest people who

has ever won the award. She said she

came to rather here for a two-week

summer cause and that inspired her

with the gift of the theatre and to

get onto because she is on, so it

really means something she is

awarded here. She plays Tonya

Harding's mother, this hard-bitten,

hard smoking, parrots loving mother

who has given up what she feels her

life and her heart for her

daughter's success on the ice rink.

An embittered performance, not full

of love but it has been shown love

tonight. A lot of goodwill for

Allison Janney for all the good work

she has done over the years

including her brilliant CJ in the

West Wing, with Aaron Sorkin tonight

here to clap when she won.

We must

talk about a young man we spoke

about a lot on the red carpet a

fewer hours ago, a wonderful warm

reception when it was announced that

Daniel Kaluuya, a young man from

north London, had taken the rising

Star award, the only award here at

the BAFTAs voted for by the public.

He has had an astonishing rise. An

astonishing career already, he is

29, 30?

A very positive results.

He said I'm

a product of arts funding in this

country, he has benefited from

grants, worked his way up from a

School of theatre where we know many

actors have cut their and gone on to

be in is for example but he went on

to the Royal Court in theatre, roles

in Skins on Channel 4, and has

really grown. The performance he is

nominated for here is Get Out, an

extraordinary American film also

nominated for Best actor at the

Oscars. He is also in Black Panther

which we should say is tearing up

the box office as we speak, people

crowding to see this incredible

watershed moment black superhero

movie where he plays a fine role. He

is representing a new face of

Britain. Abroad, in Hollywood and

here as well. The fact he is winning

a prize, he is aware of this, it's

inspirational for a lot of young

black children to see him there, I

can do this too. He has spoken to me

about how he wanted to see that, and

now it's incumbent upon him to do

so. He thanked his mum and his

sister and his mum cried. I now use

it to me, his American accent is not

bad either but apparently his mum

also thinks it's nearly there.

Getting there! She is his worst and

best critic. A great rising Star

award. He was a real delight and you

can tell he will be a real

favourite. Are there things, films

that missed out tonight perhaps we

might have thought might do a bit

better? I'm thinking perhaps of

Dunkirk.

I thought the British crowd

would rally behind that, the home

bank there with Christopher Nolan,

who has been a great director for

Britain over many years, of course

doing the. Night Trilogy, bringing

Blockbuster ethics. Then at the very

British story of Dunkirk. It got a

nod for sound but in terms of the

direction, Christopher Nolan

marshals a whole army and brings it

all together. I thought that might

get recognised. Buatsi has been

unlucky to come up against another

Churchill movie. -- perhaps he has

been unlucky. In the end, three

billboards, it's more of a nod to

the modern than the classic heritage

British cinema. In a sense, I feel

he is slightly out of time with the

period. I thought Dunkirk would have

got better at the Oscars, I am

delighted for the outstanding

British debut which I should mention

as well, which went to I am not a

Which, her family came from Zambia,

she told the story about witches in

Zambia who have been cast out of

their town. Female empowerment. We

see those diverse stories which

people make a lot of noise about, we

are seeing them all to do into the

choices the BAFTA membership are

making. People are listening, time

is up.

A quick thought because we

have not mentioned best director.

Guillermo Del Toro for the Shape of

Water, again tier strong e-mail

central performances, excellent

performances. -- two strong female

performances. Sally Hawkins plays a

mute woman, again that's a curious

one. Shape of Water winning best

director but three billboards taking

the other categories.

If you say all

the surprises and disappointments,

Shape of Water coming and had the

surge behind it, 12 nominations,

sheep of water has been reduced to a

bit of a trickle, only winning

three. But everyone for Guillermo

Del Toro and as you say it's a

strange and curious film company of

this director's vision, all his

fantasy elements, a mute cleaner

having a love affair with an aquatic

creature.

An everyday story!

It is

an odd one. Ultimately two oddball

BAFTA to get a handle on but the

production design was definitely

rewarding, just deserved. And the

music is well rewarded. Sally

Hawkins can count herself unlucky,

coming up against a force of nature

in Frances McDormand. The Shape of

Water will be a bit bedraggled and

wet as it leads to might, with its

tail slightly between its legs, if

fishes have tails, if they do? This

one doesn't...

It's very hard to

tell what that creature has, to be

honest? All very peculiar. Fokine

award season watches, we wait to see

whether a film written by a Brit,

directed by a Brit about small-town

America will do well at the Oscars.

If the BAFTAs are a marker of what

happens on much the fourth in the

Oscars, Oscar votes starts tomorrow.

The positioning of the BAFTAs is

interesting. Oscar voters will take

note. BAFTA voters represent quite a

watch of Oscar voters, about 100 who

also vote at the Oscars. Will that

mean Three Billboards has a cleaner

run? Or is there room for a novel

surprise yet? Don't forget Lady Bird

is still my little pic to comment at

the last minute. It didn't feature

here apart from its for Saoirse

Ronan but Lady Bird is my pick

still.

It could still happen. Good

to have you here tonight. Thank you

very much. That is all from the

while Albert Hall here in central

London. If you detect the hubbub

that is because everyone is making

their way down the grand staircases

here, the ceremony is over and the

Fellowship awarded to Ridley Scott,

that is it from the British Academy

film awards for another year. Thanks

for being with us.