2018 The British Academy Film Awards

This programme contains flashing

images and strong language from the

start.

Darling, I've got some news.

They've asked me to host

the BAFTAs - what you think?

You goddamn asshole,

I'm in the middle of my

goddamn Easter dinner.

Sorry, kids.

Bad time, I've got you.

Sorry, kids!

Very early for an Easter dinner...

Darling, it's Joanna.

Hi.

How are you?

I'm good.

I just wanted to...

I miss you.

Well, umm...

I miss you too.

Listen, I was just calling to tell

you that I'm hosting the BAFTAs.

Now look, I know you

wanted the job but...

You never say anything.

I'm saying something now.

That's wonderful news.

Well, you could sound a bit more

pleased for me, darling.

WHISPERS: What's

wrong with everyone?

ON PHONE: Now look, I'm sorry, I've

got another call coming through.

I'm going to have to go.

Hello?

Mrs Starling?

How did you get this number?

--

this is Stalin.

I want a recording of

tonight's performance.

Look, if you miss it,

you'll just have to watch it

on iPlayer like everyone else.

Winnie, darling, how are you?

Oh, I'm in fine fettle.

Fine fettle.

Listen, I'm hosting

the BAFTAs this year.

What do you think of this -

Royal Albert Hall, top of the show.

Me, arriving in a chariot pulled

by a team of horses?

Horses?

Horses.

You did say "A team of horses"?

No, you're right, it's a bad idea.

Thanks for your time, darling.

Hugh, it's Joanna.

What a lovely surprise,

I was beginning to think

you had lost my number.

Never!

Look, I'll keep it brief.

I'm hosting the BAFTAs, and I

wondered if you wanted to come?

Well, what wonderful news.

Yes, yes!

Where does one go?

The Royal Albert Hall,

so get your lovely little

backside down there, pronto.

Thank you, darling.

I've never had any complaints

about Mr and Mrs Bottycheek.

Right, that's everyone.

Time to get ready.

PHONE RINGS

Winnie, what is it now?

We need a name

for this operation.

I've already got it

covered, darling.

It's the British

Academy Film Awards.

Good evening from London's Royal

Albert Hall for the EE British

Academy Film Awards. Today we

welcome royalty, film stars,

directors and producers and assorted

members of the catering staff to the

biggest night in British film and

Duke won't miss a cough or sneeze,

and embarrassing wardrobe

malfunction, as we will be there

from the moment they set foot on the

glorious red carpet to the moment

they take home or not the

prestigious BAFTA mask. Enjoy the

show.

In terms of tonight, have you had

the chance to watch many other bills

this year?

Lots of them because I've

been voting.

Any favourites?

Yeah,

such good films this year, it's

amazing, Call Me By Your Name.

I

love The Shape of Water. I thought

it was amazing.

The Shape of Water

but I might be biased because the

director is a very good friend.

I,

Tania, love it, terrific.

Darkest

hour is great, there are so many

good films.

I loved Dunkirk. Don't

even get me going. You have 15

minutes.

I'm a big fan of three Bill

Burns and Lady Bird, I loved it.

Best of luck, get in!

It's crazy, isn't it? I've never

done something as mental as this but

I'm loving it. It is so glamorous. I

am a proper BAFTA watcher every year

so this is really exciting to me.

It's really exciting, I've never

been to the BAFTAs before.

It is

loud in here! Maggie Lieu I'm so

excited to be. You always get

butterflies in the belly.

There is

still a lot of integrity connected

with the BAFTAs which means a lot to

us.

The lights and the glamour and

the smiles and laughter, it's

wonderful.

It's great. Is Bono here?

Congratulations.

Thank you very

much.

Had any chance to watch any of

the films this year?

Almost all of

them.

How does it feel to get the

nomination?

It's amazing, almost too

good to be true when something like

this happen and then do have one of

your best friends have made it

possible for you, it's a pretty

special moment.

Such a terrific

film, when you are burning it, did

you have that moment when you knew

you were doing something special?

Weaver like we made

Weaver like we made a good movie, we

did not know if anyone with it but

without like we made a good movie.

It's amazing and it's all bags do

Guillermo del Toro, I'm only here

because of the greatness of others.

So, the stars are inside and a

hubbub level has reached critical.

Shortly we will be handing over to

the mistress of ceremonies, the

marvellous Joanna Lumley but first

we kick off with an awe-inspiring

display, of strength, flexible as he

and the ability to squeeze into the

tiniest of costumes, with a bespoke

performance inspired by tonight's

most nominated film, The Shape of

Water, we are delighted to welcome

Cirque du Soleil.

Cirque du Soleil. This is OVO.

Enjoy.

APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

They are a bit heavier than I

thought they were.

That is your

queue.

Hang on. So sweet, OK, there

we are, fixed.

we are, fixed. Lipstick, please.

Thanks.

Gorgeous. Here we go.

Ladies and

gentlemen, these welcome your host

for this evening, the superb

Juanelie Meijer!

CHEERING AND

APPLAUSE

-- Joanna Lumley.

Hello your Royal Highnesses,

my Lords, ladies

and gentlemen and everyone at home,

a very warm welcome to the

EE British Academy Film

Awards, BAFTA's annual

celebration of excellence in film.

Thank you to Cirque Du Soleil's OVO

for their enchanting

performance paying tribute

to The Shape of Water.

APPLAUSE

We are coming to you

from the ravishing Royal

Albert Hall, bursting

at the seams with history,

and a place that,

exactly 100 years ago,

hosted an historic event

celebrating the first

group of British women

being given the vote.

A century ago, the

suffragettes laid the

groundwork for the kind

of dogged resistance

and powerful protest

that is carried forward today

with the Time's Up

movement, and with it the

determination to eradicate

the inequality and

abuse of women all over the world.

APPLAUSE

So tonight we salute

all the talented, creative

and inspirational individuals

who have enriched

our lives through

their stellar work.

And this evening is about

celebrating every aspect of film -

including those who work

tirelessly behind the

scenes, the hard-working

crews who bring every

single production to the screen.

This ceremony is not just

about the famous people.

But anyway, let's have a look

at the famous people

here tonight.

The inimitable Gary Oldman is here.

APPLAUSE

Gary's performance as Winston

Churchill in Darkest Hour

is the latest addition

to an already phenomenal

body of work.

Gary's unique ability

to transform himself and become

utterly unrecognisable

was evident in the other roles

he played this year -

Yoda, Wonder Woman and Lego Batman.

We have the incomparable

Sally Hawkins, who

starred in a highly

complex morality tale that

examined the nature

of alienation, loneliness and

integration with human civilization.

My favourite scene

was when she helped

Paddington with that

chase on the train.

Marvellous.

The tour de force that is

Frances McDormand is

with us.

APPLAUSE

She's one of a select

band of actresses

who've won an Oscar,

an Emmy, a Tony and a

Golden Globe and in

Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri, she delivers

a performance that's

nothing short of a masterclass.

APPLAUSE

Daniel Kaluuya, star

of the jaw-dropping Get Out is here.

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In some of the film's

most memorable moments,

Daniel is controlled

by other people and trapped

in a chair, powerless to move.

A skill that will come in handy

tonight, because I am

afraid to say, no one gets

a comfort break till we

are done here.

Know, rules are rules but lovely to

see you anyway, Daniel.

The captivating Annette

Bening is with us.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Annette gave such

a complex and touching

performance in Film Stars

Don't Die in Liverpool -

brilliant film, brilliant title

and the reason all of

tonight's nominees have

been househunting on

Merseyside, because

Film Stars Don't Die In

Liverpool.

Sir Daniel Day-Lewis

joins us tonight.

APPLAUSE

Daniel is nominated

for Phantom Thread and his

performance as dressmaker

Reynolds Woodcock.

In preparation, Daniel

actually learnt to sew to

haute couture standard.

I know what you're

thinking and you're right,

he did make my outfit

for this evening.

Thank you, darling.

Betty Jackson would be very proud of

you.

The hardest-working

woman in Hollywood...

And many of them are working, is the

glorious and spectacular Angelina

Jolie.

Actress.

Director.

Writer.

Mother.

Humanitarian.

There is literally nothing

this woman can't do.

Since she arrived tonight,

she's already carpeted the foyer

and knocked up 400

portions of risotto

for the after-show dinner.

It's marvellous to have you here,

sweetheart. The exceedingly charming

Hugh Grant is in the building.

Fresh from his scene-stealing

performance in Paddington 2.

Quite how Hugh managed to portray

a vain and egocentric actor is

beyond me.

Don't know how you did it

darling, remarkable stuff.

Good luck to you all -

and to every single one of

our nominees this evening -

in one sense, you're

all winners tonight.

And in another sense,

if you believe that, you'll

believe anything.

But one thing is certain

- it has been a truly

extraordinary year of cinema.

Don't take my word for it though,

just look at this breathtaking

whistle-stop tour of

the last 12 months in the

cinematic universe.

Actors are some of the most evil,

devious people on the planet.

I have no money to spare.

Don't lie.

It's rude.

# Stick out your tongue,

let me take your temperature...

Hi, Georgie.

# If you ain't having no fun,

must be something wrong with ya

# Let me take your fingerprints,

pay your way and now you're in

# And better seal your lips

so that'll be the end of ya

# Come and find your

love at the heartland

# Heartland

# Ain't not them you're looking for

# You've had enough

but you wanted more

# Come and lose yourself

at the heartland

# Heartland

# You'll forget who you were before

# Give it up, you can have it

all in the heartland

# 'Cause when you're

lost in the dark night

# No need to feel so low

# Tired of being alone

# Twenty-four-seven all the way

# Why are you standing in the cold

# Here's a place you wanna go...

Call me by your name

and I'll call you by mine.

# Come and find your

love at the heartland

# Heartland

# Ain't not them you're

looking for

# You've had enough

but you wanted more

# Come and lose yourself

at the heartland

# Heartland

# You'll forget who you were before

# Give it up, you can have it

all in the heartland...

Be...

Be what?

Be yourself.

# Come and lose yourself

at the heartland

# Heartland

# You'll forget who you were before

# Give it up, you can

have it all...#.

I love you!

I love you, too.

APPLAUSE

You simply have to go

and see all of those films,

otherwise your life will

be utterly worthless.

Right, let's start giving out

some of those beautiful

Baftas shall we?

And we start with the

award for Outstanding

British Film, in honour

of Alexander Korda.

And who better to kick the evening

off than the hottest actress

on the planet?

Soon to be seen in Red Sparrow, it's

the ravishing Jennifer Lawrence.

Hi, that was a bit much but thank

you, Joanna. It's an honour to

present the first Bafta award of the

evening. British film is a

remarkable force in the world of

cinema and these nominees are.

Exception. In these intriguing tales

we see a determined mother avenging

her daughter's disappearance. The

touching and politic depiction of

what it means to be a gay man in an

isolated community. I young woman

stifled by her Loveless marriage to

a bitter man twice her age. The

thrilling true story of one of

Britain's great leaders, the chaos

that erupts after Soviet dictators,

dictator's final days. And a bare in

search of the perfect present for

his beloved aunt. It's truly been a

brilliant year for British cinema.

Here are the nominees for

Outstanding British Film.

Paddington 2.

Oh, Paddington - you've made

an old bear so very happy.

This is perfect.

You shouldn't have come.

I'm not the answer.

I know, I needed to see you.

I know you do.

I thought if I could see you,

and talk to you, I could make

things better, you know?

Hey, there.

You know who threw that can?

What can?

How about you, sweetheart?

You know who threw that can?

No, I didn't really see...

Aah!

Through hell and high

water, I will follow you.

To the cross, to the prison...

BOTH: To the grave, to the sky.

I'd rather stop you breathing

than have you doubt how I feel.

How many more dictators must

be wooed, appeased -

good God, given immense privileges -

before we learn?

You cannot reason with a tiger

when your head is in its mouth!

What are you doing to my

father, you jackals?

Murderers, you're killers!

Your father is dead...

You are dividing the spoils,

leave his brain alone!

How old are you?

I'm...

Old.

You're not old!

You're not even a person!

You're a testicle!

You're made mostly of hair!

Here it is!

And the first Bafta

of the evening goes to,

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,

Missouri.

APPLAUSE

I'm half Irish so I'm not allowed to

make a speech for this one so I will

hand you over to Graham.

Good

evening, thank you to have --

Bafta., our film has been played

worldwide. Those films are great

that we just watched up there. We

finished this film about a year ago,

it's the story of a woman taking on

the establishment and the status

quo. It seems more timely now than

we ever could have imagined then.

Last month's Time's Up movement

started in the US and now in the UK

and tectonic shifts are starting to

take place. It turns out meaningful

change can happen very quickly if we

put our minds to it. That's good not

just for the film industry but for

everyone. Some quick thank you is

from Pete, Martin and myself, Tuwai

financiers, FilmFour, part of

Channel 4, who supports strong,

interesting film makers, Fox

Searchlight in the US doing that,

thank you for supporting our vision.

We have a wonderful crew in the US

and UK. The film is a collaboration

of many people and their brilliant

ideas are on the screen with

Martin's. Thank you to our cast,

Francis, Sam, Clark, Woody Harrelson

could not be here tonight but

perfect experience. Thank you Tim

Martin. He's a brilliant and unique

talent and a great friend to all of

us. Thank you, Martin.

APPLAUSE

Our second award of the night

is for EE Rising Star,

in honour of Mary Selway.

To present it, two women who've had

a year best described as

aquatic - one of them

was on thin ice in I, Tonya,

while the other helped

to hide a giant fish

man in The Shape Of Water.

Please welcome my niece Margot

Robbie and the awesome

Octavia Spencer.

The EE Rising Star Award identifies

new talent in the acting profession,

it is also the only award voted for

by the British public.

The first

recipient was James McAvoy in 2006

and since then winners have included

Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Will

Poulter, John Boyega and Tom

Holland, which tells us that the

British public would make pretty

excellent casting directors.

Let's

see this year's nominations.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are not

the kinky sex family, dawg.

Daniel Kaluuya.

Get out!

Yo!

You're all I've got.

I'm not going to leave

here without you.

Ah no, it's cool.

Florence Pugh.

There.

Very fine indeed.

Her breath stinks.

You have wasted quite enough

of my husband's good

time and good money.

I shall be keeping

an eye on you gentlemen.

Timothee Chalamet.

You told me to keep driving.

That's weird, you shake hands.

Yeah.

You trying to get me to like her?

What would be the harm in that?

OK, hands up who did fuck

all work over the back.

Josh O'Connor.

I am coming back.

But I'm coming back and I want

it to be different.

Tessa Thompson.

Before you say anything might

I remind you that I sat

through A Birth of a Nation,

Gone with the Wind and Tarantino

Week - without protest.

If I'm going to die,

well, it may as well be

driving my sword through the heart

of that murderous hag.

Good.

Yeah...

And 2018's Rising Star is,

Daniel Kaluuya.

APPLAUSE

Evening. London city, hello.

CHEERING

I've gone blank. Thank you... Tessa,

Tim, Josh, and Florence, I'd like to

thank the people for voting for us

all and texting and calling and

going on the Internet. I appreciate

that and I'm happy and I feel so

privileged to be in you dice'

company. Thanks. I'm a product of

arts funding within the United

Kingdom -- in you guys' company. I'd

like to thank the people that

financially support that. Obviously

mainstream arts but also grass

roots, I'd like to thank my acting

teachers, Michael Palmer, weekend

arts college Hollie Hughes. I'd like

to thank... Who else? I've been

about. I'd like to thank

about. I'd like to thank also Connor

McGovern and Sam Fox at troika.

Thank you for letting me think I can

think differently and allowing me

the space to do that.

the space to do that. There is a

countdown. I wasn't supposed to say

that. Break all the rules! I'd like

to thank Sam for giving me an

American agent, Carl Cohen, Andrew

Curlin, I'd like to thank my

friends, I thank you for supporting

me and I hope I support you as much

as I feel supported by you. I'd like

to thank my sister, Critch and my

mum. My mum is the reason...

APPLAUSE

Mum, you are the reason I started,

you are the reason I'm here and the

reason I keep going, do you

understand? Thank you for

everything. This award is yours.

Love, peace, let's get it.

Time for Adapted Screenplay

now, or as we in the

industry call it, "making

a book into a film".

To present it, an actress

who sparkled in Beauty And

The Beast and a man

who includes swashbuckling

and elf-ing on his CV,

it's Gugu Mbatha-Raw and

Orlando Bloom.

-- a woman who was stunning in A

Wrinkle In Time.

The source material

for the films nominated in this

category are as diverse

as they are fascinating.

Among them are a French

graphic novel, a British

memoir, an American novel,

a true-crime story

and a classic children's book.

It's the talent and imagination

of these incredible

writers that has brought

these adaptations to life

on screen.

So, here are the nominations.

Hey, have you seen the movie

Saturday Night Fever?

Err, yeah - I've seen it.

Actually, I saw it three times.

Oh, so you like disco dancing?

Oh, God.

Umm...

I like drunk dancing.

Be very careful what you say next...

Who?

Beria.

I'm going to have to

report this conversation.

Threatening to do harm,

or obstruct any member of Presidium

in the process of...

Look at your fucking face!

HE LAUGHS.

Is it better to speak, or to die?

I've never had the courage to ask

a question like that.

I doubt that.

Why do you keep breaking

eye contact with me?

I'm looking right at you.

You think I should do it?

You've got to let me

keep you out of prison.

You've seen what's

on those hard drives...

Yeah, yeah...

It's a lot more than a little...

Yeah, yeah, but complete immunity.

All right?

You'll get all your money back.

You'll be the first defendant

to walk out of a court room better

off than when you walked in.

Careers will be ruined.

What are you doing?

Talking to the nice men.

Nice men?

Mary, we can't trust these people.

I mean, look at them.

Talk about rogues' gallery.

Hideous.

And as for that bearded

baboon in the middle,

he's hardly got two brain cells

to rub together.

We can still hear you, Mr Brown.

APPLAUSE

And the Bafta goes to, Call Me By

Your Name, James Ivory.

APPLAUSE

Thank you so much.

Well... Thank you, I thank everyone

here tonight, and especially the

Academy for giving me this award. It

means a lot to me. I've been here

before but never all by myself and

never for having written a

screenplay. So... I just also wanted

to say that a film like this depends

on a lot of people. But first of

all, it depends on the actors and it

is a wonderful thing, we were a

wonderfully lucky group to have had

the actors that we had to with

tonight, some of them. And I was

lucky to be chosen for this by Luca

Guadagnino. I need not have been.

Other people could have done it,

probably. Finally, thanks, all of

you. It is like a hiccup of nature

that I am standing here, really, in

a way, so thank you very much, and

Sony pictures for what they have

done for the film.

APPLAUSE

Next, we have the award

for Supporting Actor.

To hand it over is an

actress whose work spans

everything from 12 Years A Slave

to Star Wars and Black

Panther, but every film

this lady

does carries a message.

And that message is always,

"She's a terrific actress".

It's the peerless Lupita Nyong'o.

APPLAUSE

Good evening.

One of the thrills of acting is

finding that perfect connection with

another performer, each enhancing

the other's choices and nuances.

These five actors achieve that

remarkable synergy. Let's see them

at work.

Now, then, I suppose

you know who I am.

Oh, yes.

You're a very famous actor.

Oh, pooh!

Or used to be.

Now you do dog food commercials.

CROWD CHUCKLES.

A man has to eat.

What?

Dog food?

CROWD LAUGHS.

There's something else, Mildred.

I got cancer.

I'm dying.

I know it.

Huh?

Hey, hey!

All right.

Charlie Coachman of

Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

You can't take that.

That's my licence.

I'm going to call your name

into the County Sheriff.

Now you get the fuck out of here.

I knew it from the very first moment

I visited this place.

I remember every stone as clearly

as if I'd just come from the store

with a packet of smokes.

I have never felt at home anywhere

on earth till I came here.

You do not call an officer

of the law a fucking prick

in his own station house,

Mrs Hayes.

Or anywhere, actually.

What's with the new attitude, Dixon?

Your momma been coaching you?

No, my momma...

Didn't do that.

And the Bafta goes to... Sam

Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri APPLAUSE

Thank you. Oh, wow. Wow. I'm humbled

to be among my fellow nominees.

These are all amazing actors and...

This has been a real magical journey

for me. I've been a journeyman actor

my whole life. I never dream I'd be

standing here in London on stage

celebrating with all of you tonight,

this incredible movie. I am standing

here as a result of many people who

believed in me over the years and

sometimes when I didn't even believe

in me. I want to thank Fox

Searchlight, the entire cast, the

deeply, Woody Harrelson, Clarke

Peters, Andy Martin. There's a quote

and it might have been Alan Rickman,

there are no great actors, only

great roles. It might have been Alan

McGlone but that is certainly the

case with a Martin McDonagh script.

He's annoyingly handsome to be as

talented a writer-director as he is.

I'm so proud to have worked with him

and grateful, three times, you have

changed my life. Thank you, Martin,

I love you. I think as we engage in

this long overdue discussion about

women in the workplace, I also stand

on the shoulders of women, strong,

intelligent, righteous women, who

have made my life complete. Fran,

you are the rock that this film and

every film...

APPLAUSE

Every film you are a part of relies.

You make me proud to be an actor.

Ann Leslie, my life is full because

of you. -- and Leslie. Your

compassion, intellect and talent and

most importantly, your love. I'm

very lucky to be had tonight. Thank

you to the British Academy. This is

for my pal Alan Rickman. I'll see

you at the bar. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

Production Design now and to present

it are two dazzling actors.

This year, one of them will be seen

as Tom Cruise's leading lady

in the latest Mission Impossible,

and the other plays a cook in First

World War epic, Journey's End.

See if you can guess

which one's which.

It's Rebecca Ferguson

and Toby Jones.

If you can imagine it and if you can

visualise it, in these production

designers can make it happen.

The

production designer will look at the

script, examine it and ask the

critical question," how the hell do

you expect me to build that on this

budget?" But production designers

are supremely resourceful. Here are

the nominees.

And the Bafta goes to... The Shape

of Water. Paul Austerberry, Jeff

Melvin, Shane Vieau.

Wow. The little movie that good.

Thank you, Basta. Thank you,

Guillermo del Toro, for your passion

and originality and your creativity

to dream up this world that we all

helped shape. Thank you to Miles

Dale and David Greenbank and

everyone and Sony... I mean, Fox

Searchlight! A little bit of

nervousness, here. Thank you to my

art director, Nigel Church, the

great our department and

construction team we had in Toronto.

Thank you to Dan for lensing it so

beautifully, we would not be here if

it did not look so nice, and thank

you to my collaborators, Shane and

Jeff.

Thank you, Sheila, Alex,

Sarah. Thank you, Bafta, Miles, Dan

Bunn Mike Riddle being a genius,

Paul and Shane.

Guillermo, you are

the benchmark that we all strive to

be. Thank you so much for letting us

be part of this film. Thank you.

Thank you to my parents who are

watching in Mexico!

APPLAUSE

Lovely and I hope you saw that

Rebecca and I were doing a little

twin breasts thing. It's because we

are nearly the same age!

LAUGHTER

Special Visual Effects

is the next award.

To present it are two British actors

who worked their socks off in 2017.

She wrote and directed

her first feature film,

The Party's Just Begun,

while he spent his time

with a new American spy organisation

helping elite security agents

save the world.

Well, it's nice to be

busy, isn't it?

Please welcome the star of Jumanji

Karen Gillan and soon to be seen in

Robin Hood, Taron Egerton.

The teams working in visual effects

are constantly passing milestones,

most recently the appearance

of a virtual Peter Cushing

in Rogue One, a technical

achievement to which we can only

react by saying...

Back off, eggheads!

You geeks!

You can make animals if you like,

fine, and inanimate objects

are totally OK, but if you carry

on trying to take actors' jobs,

we're going to track you down

and give you a taste

of what you fear most.

Natural light.

I couldn't agree more, Karen.

Visual Effects Teams,

we are here both to honour your

incredible work and to beg

you please not to take our jobs.

The nominations are...

And the Bafta goes to,

Blade Runner 2049.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

Thank you. Thank you, Bafta, for

this amazing award. The making of

this film was really a true labour

of love.

of love. Thank you for your

intensity and dedication, it is seen

in every frame of the film,

especially the visual effects, thank

you Ridley Scott for the original

Blade Runner and the inspiration

that it provided to all of us. Thank

you to the amazing crews in Budapest

and in Los Angeles and everyone at

one brothers, Sony, especially

Brodrick Johnson. Thank you to Roger

and James Dickens's beautiful work.

Joel Walker. Genus Gerstner. Carole

Murphy. Paul Lambert. Rich Hoover.

Richard Clegg, Gerd Nefzer, and

talented artists who made this work

at double negative, frame store,

UPP, Tomic fiction... The best

special effects are not about the

amount of technical detail that are

in a shot, it's about how it makes

you feel emotionally and you guys

have made us feel really great

tonight. So thank you.

APPLAUSE

Now we move on to the award

for Outstanding Debut,

in honour of Carl Foreman.

To give us the awards,

we have two English actresses who've

To give us the awards,

we have two English actresses.

Please welcome Lily James

and Gemma Arterton.

We would just like to thank you all

for standing up for justice and

equality tonight.

Yes. And now back

to business.

The BAFTA for Outstanding Debut

By A British Writer,

Actor Or Producer recognises

film-makers who have

arrived with fully-formed

distinctive voices.

Past recipients include

Paddy Considine, Chris Morris

and Lynne Ramsey, so the recipient

will be joining illustrious company.

And this year's nominations are...

In a remote Zambian village,

nine-year-old Shula is exiled

to a camp for witches

after being accused of having

supernatural powers.

Shula must choose whether to

accept her fate or risk

the consequences of freedom.

I just want to get better.

Former detective Chris goes

undercover as the patient

of a murder suspect's therapist.

But as his therapy sessions

continue, the lines between fantasy

and reality blur and Chris begins

to question whether it

is all in his head.

Former youth boxing champion Jimmy

faces the fight of his life

as he battles with alcoholism.

If I find any booze in here...

Well, I won't mind...

I'm sorry, are you talking or me?

But when he turns to friends at his

childhood boxing club for help,

he finds himself back in the ring,

risking it all for

another shot at glory.

Tell you what, most kids don't

have a dad like mine.

I'm so lucky.

Paul Shanks killed himself in 2007,

leaving behind his wife Vicky

and their seven children.

This documentary film follows

the family as they struggle

with their loss and attempt to plot

a course for a brighter future.

I want to hug you, please.

Where's your husband?

Wherever you put him.

In 19th-century England,

Catherine gives in to desire

when she embarks on a dangerous

affair with a worker

on her husband's estate.

But as her passion grows,

so does a morbid determination

to stop at nothing to get

what she wants.

And the Bafta goes to, I am not that

which, Rungano Nyoni and Emily

Morgan.

APPLAUSE

--

I am Not a Witch.

Congratulations.

We are not prepared so I just want

to say thank you to Bafta, the jury.

It's really unexpected. I know

everyone says that but really it is.

And also my husband, Gabriel, my mum

and dad for being the most

supportive parents you could ask

for. My little niece. I'm now

pulling things from the air! Who

else? The cast and the crew. And

also I want to say this, all of the

people that said yes to me who are

BFI, FilmFour, film Cymru, without

your guys' support we wouldn't have

been able to make this film. And all

the people that said no, frankly,

because it really spurred me on.

LAUGHTER

Rungano Nyoni said most of it.

Our

distributor

distributor Curzon and my family and

friends who are always there for me

and everybody in the industry that

supported us along the way and the

NFTS, a huge thank you. And finally,

Time's Up.

APPLAUSE

Ah, they've left

their envelope behind.

Could be awkward -

we don't want any mix-ups later.

Can someone get rid of this?

Lovely, a little bit over the top

even for the Bafta is.

Thank you, OVO!

Next, we have the award

for Supporting Actress.

To announce the winner

is a phenomenal American

actor whose next project

in Wes Anderson's Isle Of Dogs,

where he plays the leader

of a pack of talking dogs.

He's been out for a walk,

we've towelled him down

and if he's good tonight,

he gets a biscuit.

It's the obedient Bryan Cranston.

Thank you.

The Royal Albert Hall!

OK, we get it, you're classy,

Britain. I mean, The Royal Albert

Hall, Joanna Lumley. We have

nominated films about Churchill and

Dunkirk, accent on the second

syllable, which makes me wonder why

isn't it Churchill? We have the Duke

and Duchess. The only way this

evening could get any more British

if suddenly a Tardis suddenly

materialised and Jane Austen popped

out holding a corgi and apologising

for the sleet. This is a very

spectacular and impressive evening,

which is how I would describe the

performances of the five women in

the Supporting Actress category.

Very impressive and spectacular!

These women have delivered

extraordinary interpretations

of their characters,

each one clearly worthy

of receiving a BAFTA,

yet only one them will take it home.

Let's have a look at the work

of these supremely talented women.

You think Sonja Henie's

mother loved her?

Poor fucking you.

I didn't stay home making

Apple Brown Bettys.

No, I made you a champion...

Knowing you'd hate me for it.

That's the sacrifice a mother makes.

I wish I'd had a mother

like me instead of nice.

He's shouted at you.

Did he shout at you?

No.

He can be an awful brute!

I make too many mistakes.

I think you are nervous and he has

a knack for drawing out the very

worst in those who are trying

to help him the most.

No, it's not him, it's me.

He's...

He's a man, like any other!

If you're tired, we can sit down.

I'm not tired.

Oh, OK, I just couldn't tell

because you're dragging your feet.

Well, I just couldn't tell.

Why didn't you just

say pick up your feet?

I didn't know if you were tired.

You're being passive aggressive.

No, I wasn't.

You are so infuriating!

Please stop yelling.

I'm not yelling.

Oh, it's perfect!

Do you love it?

Don't turn it on me.

I don't want your cloud on my head.

Oh shut up, Cyril.

You can shut right up.

Don't pick a fight with me.

You certainly won't come out alive.

I'll go right through you,

and it will be you who ends up

on the floor, understood?

Mm-hm.

Mm-hm.

Ooooh!

Never trust a man!

Even when he looks flat down there!

And the Bafta goes to... Allison

Janney, I, Tonya.

APPLAUSE

CHEERING

I could simply murder a glass of

water right now. I want to thank

BAFTA and drop a I've perpetrated

for the last 30 years. I did not

invite graduate from the Royal

Academy of dramatic arts but I did

attend a two-week summer programme

which is probably the reason I'm

standing here right now. It is

certainly the reason I fell in love

with London and the theatre. This

means a great deal to me and I want

to thank the entire team of I,

Tonya, who are here tonight, you are

extraordinary, Craig and Margo, I

love you, to my team, some of whom I

here Kevin and Karen. I want to

thank Leon in 30 West and AI for

supporting this on from the

beginning and last but not least I

want to thank my dear friend Steven

Rogers who wrote I, Tonya, this

beautiful movie, and he insisted I

was the only actress to play this

role and you've given me a gift I

will never forget, my friend. I love

you. Cheers.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen,

while the last 12

months has seen some

extraordinary work being

produced, we've also had

to say goodbye to far

too many friends and

colleagues who illuminated

the world of film.

As we paid tribute to them, playing

for us, we have the sublime musical

gifts of the ludicrously

gifts of the ludicrously talented...

Kanneh-Mason family.

Thank you very much,

a pleasant good evening to you.

You look like a great audience.

Don't look so scared, little boy.

I'm going to drink your blood.

Julien...

Je t'ai recherche partout.

Ta-da!

Yeah!

That was good.

Pity about poor Catherine, though.

Tick tock, tick tock.

HE LAUGHS MANIACALLY.

He loved her more than...

he ever thought possible.

You're a super girl,

you know that, don't you?

Hope you enjoyed the show.

Good night.

APPLAUSE.

They are absent but not forgotten.

Thank you to the wonderful

Sheku and his

extraordinarily talented siblings.

What a family.

And there are two more of them at

home! Sound is the next award and to

hand it over, we've got to

sensational British actors who

despite being snapped up by

Hollywood, don't mind rolling up

their sleeves and presenting a

Bafta.

It's Sam Claflin and Will Poulter.

Sound designers are notorious

for their attention to detail.

The sound in the films nominated

this year involved recording

air-raid sirens in a desert,

creating a special "rain"

microphone and finding just

the right goat for the voice

of a Star Wars creature.

All perfectly mixed to fill

an auditorium with layers

of emotion and tension...

And then some of you watch

films on a tiny iPad!

Let's see the nominations.

They're coming.

Shut the door.

And the Bafta goes to... Dunkirk.

APPLAUSE

We'd like to thank the British

Academy for this vote of confidence.

Also Warner Brothers, Burbank, and

wore the brothers UK -- Warner

Brothers UK. To our director,

Christopher Nolan, who entrusted the

sound team to sonically

sound team to sonically weave

together the 3-D tapestry of this

film. Thank you, Chris.

APPLAUSE

It also marks --

this movie is a

timeline and this movie also marked

a timeline in my life. This was my

207th film.

APPLAUSE

It also... Also my retirement film.

Thank you so very, very much.

APPLAUSE

Thank you, Chris, Emma, lead,

everybody at Warner Brothers. I have

to thank my children, Luciano and

Devon, your dreams are as important

to me as they are due. Thank you for

taking dreams seriously. -- as they

are to you.

Thank you, Bafta, Chris,

Emma, the wonderful team in Burbank

my family, love you, Sue and Sam.

APPLAUSE

To present the award for original

screenplay are two British actors

who first worked together back

in 2002 on About A Boy.

They enjoyed it so much that they've

waited just 16 short years to do it

again in the upcoming film

The Favourite.

It's Nicholas Hoult

and Rachel Weisz.

It's a very special moment

for actors when we turn the pages

of an original screenplay.

Our minds immediately

fill with questions.

"How can I do justice

to this writing?"

"How did the writer

dream up this world?"

But you count how many lines you've

got to, right?

Yes of course, that's

more important, you're completely

right!

Let's see the nominations

for Original Screenplay.

I look in the mirror and the only

thing I recognise are these eyes

and this old man's face.

You know, sometimes

I think I was either born

too early or too late for my life.

Maybe we're both just relics.

My name is Lady Bird.

Well, actually, it's not

and it's ridiculous.

Your name is Christine.

Call me Lady Bird like

you said you would.

You know, you should

just go to city College.

With your work ethic,

just go to city college,

then to jail, and then back to city

college and then maybe you'd learn

to pull yourself up and not expect

everybody to make every...

Why did you drill

a hole through poor

Fat Geoffrey's thumbnail?

That did not happen.

His hand slipped.

He drilled a hole

through his own self.

Did he say I did it?

Well, I guess it's his word

against mine, then, huh?

Kind of like in all those rape

cases you hear about.

Except, this time,

the chick ain't losing.

It ain't really about winning

or losing, though, is it, Mildred?

I didn't get to meet

you actually up close.

I'm Chris.

I know who you are.

She's lovely, isn't she?

Rose?

Yeah, she is.

One of a kind.

Top of the line.

A real doggone keeper!

Right.

I can see that shiner

through your make-up, you know.

Yeah, I fell on the ice yesterday.

I don't know, Tonnie.

I would never be with somebody

who fucking hit me.

You hit dad.

That's different.

And the Bafta goes to Three

Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

APPLAUSE

Jesus... It was truly an honour to

be nominated alongside Jordan and

Stephen and Guillermo and Greta and

it's been great to get to know you

guys over the last few weeks in this

craziness. Thank you for your

brilliant films. I'd like to thank

my news Sam Rockwell for his

brilliance. I love you and let's do

it again, Sam. To Woody Harrelson

too, wherever he may be tonight.

What I think we are most proud of

about this film, especially in this

Time's Up year is it is a film about

a woman who refuses to

a woman who refuses to take any shit

anymore against another woman who

also refuses to take any shit

anymore. I'd like to thank Frances

McDormand for her performance that

is as unapologetic as it was

fearsome, and I love you and let's

do it again too. And thanks to John

Gregory, Ben Davis, FilmFour, Fox

Searchlight and thanks to Bafta.

APPLAUSE

Leading Actor now and to present it

is an astonishingly classy actress.

I rather hoped I'd be filling the

role tonight but there we go. It's

the scintillating and glorious Salma

Hayek.

In this very important and

historical year for women I am here

on this legendary stage to celebrate

men...

LAUGHTER

It is my pleasure to be the one to

present the nominations for the

Leading Actor award.

This is an extraordinary collection

of actors at the very

top of their game and

emerging talent who are

already producing world-class work.

Here are the nominations...

How do you feel now?

I can't move.

You can't move.

I can't move.

Why can't I move?

You're paralysed, just

like that day when

you did nothing.

You did nothing.

Mr Wolfcock, what is it?

I'd like the dress back.

Ms Rose is sleeping.

Well that's got nothing

to do with the dress.

Can you go and get

it for me, please?

She's sleeping.

In the dress?

I don't know what

you want me to say.

You can start with the truth.

For fuck sake, it's cancer.

What are you doing?

Reading my music.

No you're not.

Thinking, then.

Yeah?

About what?

It's private.

We shall fight on the beaches.

We shall fight on

the landing grounds.

We shall fight in the fields

and in the streets.

We shall fight in the hills.

We shall never surrender!

CHEERING

And the winner is Frances

McDormand... No, just kidding!

LAUGHTER

The Bafta goes to Gary Oldman for

the Darkest Hour.

APPLAUSE

Thank you, Bafta, for this

tremendous honour. I salute my

fellow nominees for your

fellow nominees for your beautiful

work and Leslie too. This is made

all the more special because I can

share it with my family tonight who

I hear. My three sons Alfie,

Gulliver, Charlie, and my beautiful

wife Gisele and my extended family.

Without your support, without your

help, without your faith in me I

would not be standing here. Joe

Gray, you lead with, you lead the

charge with such integrity and

energy and passion. You hand-picked

an armada of talent. I love you,

Kristin. I love you, really. You

have a singular vision and a huge

heart and they were never more on

display than in this beautiful film.

I'd like to thank Eric Fellner, Tim

Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten,

Douglas Urbanski, and Piotr

Trochowski, Donna Langley and my

wonderful

wonderful make-up team, Dave, Lucy,

Yvan Mayeur, and last but not least,

Winston Churchill, the man himself

in those dark on certain days in

1940 he held the line for honour,

for integrity and freedom for his

nation and the world. So I thank

you, Sir Winston. I thank you, the

Churchill family. And, of course,

once again, Bafta. I am so grateful

for this incredible honour. Thank

you.

APPLAUSE

Now it is time for Leading Actress

and to present it is an actor who

won Bafta four years ago for his

outstanding performance in 12 Years

A Slave. He has buckets of charisma,

bags of intensity

A Slave. He has buckets of charisma,

bags of intensity, to

It's Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Good evening.

It is hard to imagine five more

involving and demanding

roles than the five

in

this year's nominations

for Leading Actress.

Let's see the nominations.

How come you came up here out

of nowhere looking so pretty?

You ain't trying to make me

believe in reincarnation

or something, are you?

Because you're pretty,

but you ain't her.

She got killed.

Now she's dead forever.

People make so much noise

in the movies but it's

really not a big thing.

You can totally be quiet during it.

Was it amazing, though?

I wanted it so badly, but then,

I found that when it happened,

I, I really liked dry

humping much more!

I'm just too old for you.

That's what you're saying.

No, no, I'm sorry,

I shouldn't have...

No, no, well...

I'll tell you something.

You're wrong.

When he looks at me,

the way he looks at me...

He doesn't know what I lack.

Or how...

I am incomplete.

Well, you know what?

If you can come up with $5,000

for a costume for me,

then I won't have to make one.

Till then, just stay out of my face.

Maybe you're just not

as good as you think.

Maybe you should pick another sport.

Suck my dick!

and the Bafta goes to Frances

McDormand, Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri.

APPLAUSE

Thank you, British film people. As

Martin said I have a little trouble

with compliance.

LAUGHTER

But I want you to know that I stand

in for solidarity with my sisters

tonight in black. And I also want to

say that... I'm going black. But I

also want to say that I appreciate a

well-organised act of civil

disobedience. And I'm thrilled that

activists all over the world have

been inspired by the set decoration

of the Three Billboards in Martin's

film and taken to the streets and

let it be a part of the positive

public discourse that is happening.

And I want to thank Blueprint

productions and FilmFour and Fox

Searchlight for carefully

shepherding Martin's films,

Guillermo's films, because not only

are they entertaining but they

encourage a longer and broader

cultural conversation. So, you know,

when I was a young actor in drama

school I was told that I was not

naturally gifted and I would have to

work at it. And so I did.

APPLAUSE

And along the way I was very

fortunate to collaborate with

film-makers, who started writing

roles with me in mind, Jill and

Ethan Coen, Jamie Anderson command

now Martin McDonagh, and I am deeply

grateful to them for helping me

realise my hidden potential -- Joel

Coen. Who would have thought that

Marge Gunderson would have grown up

to be Mildred Hayes? Power to the

people.

APPLAUSE

Best Director is our next

award, in honour of Sir

David Lean.

To present it are an actress

who shone brightly in

Moonlight

And will be seen in Rampage later

this year.

And the only man

in

history whose CV includes

the Royal Shakespeare

Company and the Emoji movie.

It's Naomie Harris and

Sir Patrick Stewart.

To produce great work

as a film director requires a

combination of very rare talents.

The ability to create and maintain

entire worlds, the technical

knowledge of every

aspect of a production.

And, the rarest talent of all,

the ability to spend prolonged

periods of time in

the company of actors.

All of the nominees have

produced incredible

pieces of cinema.

Let's see them at work.

EXPLOSIONS

What did you say to me?

What is she saying?

I...

I didn't catch it.

I had your job.

I was good at it.

It was simpler then.

Why are you making it complicated?

Why don't you just

answer the question?

What question?

I didn't figure you

as one for bullshit.

Yeah, I'm nervous.

I know I smelled something.

Let her go!

Ooh, umm, I kind of need

to use the bathroom,

but if it's inconvenient...

Actually, it is

inconvenient, isn't it?

I can see it's inconvenient.

I can hold it.

And the BAFTA goes to... The Shape

of Water, Guillermo del Toro.

APPLAUSE

Thank you, thank you, BAFTA. Thank

you Fox Searchlight for all the

support and four yesterday. It was

really useful, so much black

pudding! The shadow of English

culture has loomed large in my life,

giving me inspiration. Painters,

writers, cinema, and I have made no

secret of saying how important was

the legacy of power line Pressburger

in this movie, in making it, --

Powell and Pressburger. Classicists

like Noel Coward and Terence but

also, Sally, the miracle that is

Sally Hawkins and myself...

CHEERING

AND APPLAUSE

Who made it a point to study two of

the greats, as a director and actor,

Charlie Chaplin, and the magnificent

minimalist, Stan Laurel, who did so

much with so little. But the most

important figure from the English

legacy is, incredibly for me, a

teenager by the name of Mary

Shelley. She has remained a figure

as important in my life as her

famous family and so many times,

when I want to give up, think about

giving up, when people tell me

dreaming of the movies and the

stories I dream is impossible, I

think of her because she picked up

the plight of Callaghan and she gave

weight to the burden of Prometheus

and she gave voice and presence to

the invisible and showed me that

sometimes to talk about monsters, we

need to fabricate monsters of our

own, and parables do that for us.

Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE

The moment has arrived

to find out the winner of

the prestigious Best Film.

And to present this coveted Golden

mask is a British actor who needs no

introduction. OK, maybe just a tiny

little introduction. It is the