The 2024 Baftas are fully underway with Oppenheimer already ruling the night with a handful of wins, and a stunning performance from woman of the moment Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
The annual British Academy Film Awards ceremony saw the Hollywood elite descend on London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday afternoon, with scene-stealing outfits aplenty from the likes of Poor Things star Emma Stone, Barbie’s Margot Robbie and Oppenheimer’s Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh.
The Bafta film awards this year are being hosted by former Doctor Who actor David Tennant and will feature performances by Ellis-Bextor as well as Hannah Waddingham, with the ceremony airing on BBC One and Player from 7pm on Sunday.
But the show kicked off a few hours before the broadcast, with the first winners already announced.
Kicking off the night, French legal drama Anatomy Of A Fall was awarded the best original screenplay prize, followed by Poor Things picking up an early gong for special visual effects.
Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s epic blockbuster about the father of the atomic bomb, is the favourite with 13 nominations, and it won the first of those for cinematography.
Robert Downey Jr picked up Oppenheimer’s second accolade of the night, best supporting actor for his role as Lewis Strauss.
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Collecting the gong, he joked he was going to tell the story of ‘the entirety of my life in 20 seconds’, to the amused audience.
Gesturing to director Nolan and joking about his Marvel career, he said: ‘Recently that dude suggested I attempt an understated approach as a last-ditch effort to resurrect my dwindling credibility.’
A third prize went to Oppenheimer for composer Ludwig Goransson for original score.
The second major acting award of the evening went to Da’Vine Joy Randolph for best supporting actress for her role in The Holdovers, opposite Paul Giamatti.
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The American actress, who plays Mary Lamb, the head of the kitchen at a private school whose son has died during the Vietnam War, paid tribute to Giamatti, saying that she ‘cries every time’ she says his name.
The Boy and the Heron won the best animated film award, although filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki was not at the ceremony so the award was collected by presenters and All Of Us Strangers co-stars Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott.
Drama film Earth Mama was honoured with the Bafta for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, and The Zone Of Interest – Jonathan Glazer’s brutal but beautiful Auschwitz drama – won the Bafta for film not in the English language.
Ellis-Bextor, who has enjoyed a massive revival in recent months thanks to her 2000s pop hit Murder On The Dancefloor being featured in Saltburn, gave a stunning rendition of the song in one of the first live performances of the evening.
Shortly before the ceremony kicked off, the Prince of Wales was the last arrival on the red carpet, waving and smiling to onlookers as he entered the venue wearing a blue velvet blazer and black trousers with a shirt and bow tie.
William, the president of Bafta, is a frequent guest at the annual gala but his attendance was only confirmed this week and was a surprise to some due to King Charles’ cancer diagnosis and his wife the Princess of Wales’ recent hospitalisation.
The current awards season has been shrouded in controversy as Barbie’s Greta Gerwig was missing from the best director category at the Baftas as well as the Oscars.
However, Gerwig – who is nominated for best original screenplay for Barbie – was at the Baftas on Sunday along with lead star Robbie, who is up for best leading actress for her portrayal of the beloved doll with a penchant for pink.
Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in the feminist comedy feature and is nominated in the best supporting actor category, was also in attendance.
Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy, Maestro’s Bradley Cooper and Poor Things’ Emma Stone were among the other big-name arrivals on the red carpet, along with British TV icon Emily Atack, who looked sensational with her growing baby bump on show in a white gown, and Fool Me Once actress Michelle Keegan.
Oppenheimer leads the way with 13 nods, followed by Poor Things with 11 while Killers of a Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest shared nine each.
Irish actor Murphy, who is nominated for best actor for playing theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic Oppenheimer, was wearing a dark outfit at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Murphy is facing competition for best leading actor from fellow Irishman Barry Keoghan, who took on the role of a student at Oxford in high-society thriller Saltburn.
Cooper is nominated in the same category for Maestro along with Colman Domingo for Rustin, Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers and Teo Yoo for Past Lives.
Robbie is up for best leading actress for Barbie alongside Fantasia Barrino for The Color Purple, Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall, Carey Mulligan for Maestro, Vivian Oparah for Rye Lane and Emma Stone for Poor Things.
There are also nine nominations each for Martin Scorsese’s western Killers Of The Flower Moon and Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust film The Zone Of Interest, as well as three nods each for How To Have Sex and Past Lives.
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