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Hosted by a sparking David Tennant, The BAFTA ceremonial was packed pinch Hollywood A-listers, warming up ahead of adjacent month's Oscars.
Atomic explosive epic Oppenheimer was The large hitter of The nighttime winning 7 gongs, Frankenstein-inspired Poor Things bagged 5 and unsettling Holocaust play The Zone Of Interest took three.
The show featured philharmonic performances from Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Hannah Waddingham, arsenic good arsenic a drama skit from Nick Mohammed's change ego Mr Swallow. Plus, location was a astonishment quality from Michael Sheen's dog'.
'Bark Ruffalo'
First-time big David Tennant opened The show pinch a sketch featuring appearances from Michael Sheen, Georgia Tennant, Stanley Tucci, Himesh Patel, Tom Hiddleston and Dame Judi Dench.
The pre-filmed skit saw Tennant doing his champion to find a canine sitter for Sheen's canine "Bark Ruffalo", but without success.
He past brought retired into The assemblage a fluffy achromatic canine and handed it to Sheen who was sitting in The beforehand row, on pinch The warning: "Never activity pinch animals aliases Michael Sheen".
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As it turned out, Bark Ruffalo was not Sheen's real-life pet pooch but The shape prima Lilliput The Maltese, who has almost a 4th of a cardinal Instagram followers.
Murder On The Dance Floor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed her 2001 deed Murder On The Dancefloor in The first portion of The show.
Its resurgence in The charts is acknowledgment to its inclusion in The closing moments of psychological thriller Saltburn - accompanied in The movie by a creation that near small to The imagination, performed by The movie's prima Barry Keoghan.
A viral deed - it's earned Ellis-Bextor chat show appearances and plentifulness of buzz in The US.
With bluish oculus shadow, a voluminous dress and a big of backing dancers, she commanded The stage, and took The assemblage backmost to The early noughties.
A performance, her Blue Peter presenter mum - Janet Ellis - would person been proud of.
'The walls we take not to look behind'
Accepting The grant for champion movie not in The English language, The Zone Of Interest shaper James Wilson paid tribute to each those battling to past in zones of conflict, namechecking Gaza, Yemen, Mariupol and Israel.
The Jonathan Glazer movie, group during The Holocaust, tells The fictional communicative of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss building his dream location adjacent to The attraction campy pinch his woman Hedwig.
While not showing The horrors of warfare directly, The themes are beforehand and centre, reminding america of The suffering inflicted by quality conflict.
After namechecking The workplace bosses down The film, Wilson said: "A friend wrote maine aft seeing The movie The different time that he couldn't extremity reasoning astir The walls we conception in our lives which we take not to look behind.
"Those walls aren't caller from earlier aliases during aliases since The Holocaust, and it seems stark correct now that we should attraction astir guiltless group being killed in Gaza aliases Yemen in The aforesaid measurement deliberation astir guiltless group killed in Mariupol aliases in Israel.
"Thank you for recognising a movie that asks you to deliberation in those spaces."
His governmental connection drew a ample information of applause from The audience.
'Resurrect my dwindling credibility'
Bagging The grant for champion support character for his domiciled arsenic Lewis Strauss, caput of The Atomic Energy Commission in Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr gave a whistle-stop circuit of his profession in astir 30-seconds.
Collecting The trophy, The Iron Man prima paid tribute to Christopher Nolan, saying: "Recently that dude suggested I effort an understated attack arsenic a last-ditch effort to resurrect my dwindling credibility."
He besides said he owes The grant to Oppenheimer shaper Emma Thomas and The film's prima Cillian Murphy, arsenic good arsenic "British influence".
The victor of champion adapted screenplay, Cord Jefferson, besides adopted a British accent for his presenting duties later in The night, handing retired The champion accumulation creation award, won by Poor Things.
'You are truthful handsome'
Accepting her grant for champion supporting character for her domiciled in '70s nostalgia fest The Holdovers, Da'vine Joy Randolph joked that it had each been worthy acknowledgment to The bully looks of The award's presenter, Chiwetel Ejiofor.
"You are truthful handsome," she told The British star, earlier explaining why it was truthful typical for her to beryllium backmost in London, The metropolis she sewage her large break in erstwhile performing in West End philharmonic Ghost.
She said it was a "full circle moment", earlier paying tribute to The Holdovers lead prima Paul Giamatti who she said, "makes maine outcry each clip I look astatine him".
She said The triumph was "a beautiful reminder" of really a story, "about a small family coming together", has rippled astir The world.
She besides paid tribute to her Holdovers character, Mary, who she said would "never [have] sewage a chance to deterioration specified a beautiful gown", arsenic her peach and achromatic evening dress.
Her triumph seems apt to foreshadow a wide predicted champion supporting character triumph astatine The Oscars adjacent month.
In Memoriam
The 'In Memoriam' conception of The show was accompanied by a moving rendition of Time After Time, sung by Ted Lasso prima Hannah Waddingham.
Dressed in black, she paid tribute to The movie manufacture greats we've mislaid complete The past year.
The compilation of precocious surface stars included Harry Potter character Michael Gambon and Creed movie seasoned Carl Weathers.
'Most of these films are frankly excessively long'
Hugh Grant channelled his soul Oompa Loompa to coming The grant for champion director.
Spoken to The hit of The songs The diminutive Roald Dahl characters are celebrated for, he intoned:
"Oompa Loompa diddly dee, and now The champion head category.
"Oompa Loompa dumpity dong, astir of these films were frankly excessively long.
"Oompa Loompa diddly da, but present for immoderate logic The nominees are."
And The prestigious prize was won by…
Christopher Nolan yet bags champion director
Despite being Britain's astir successful film-maker, until coming Christopher Nolan had ne'er won a BAFTA for his directing.
Accepting his grant for atomic explosive epic Oppenheimer, he joked that his relative Jonathan, The co-creator of TV bid Westworld, had beaten him to this occurrence - not because he'd ever won a BAFTA - but because he was portion of The "snowflake chorus in The Nutcracker connected The Royal Festival Hall" shape galore years ago.
He besides paid tribute to his prima Cillian Murphy and added to those who backed The film: "Thank you for taking connected thing dark."
Samantha Morton
Taking The prestigious BAFTA Fellow prize, character Samantha Morton said her triumph was "nothing short of a miracle".
The 46-year-old prima told The audience: "When I first saw Ken Loach's Kes connected a immense telly that was wheeled into my schoolroom I was everlastingly changed.
"Seeing poorness and group for illustration maine connected The screen, I recognised myself - practice matters."
She said she would show her younger self: "You matter, don't springiness up, The stories we tell, they person The powerfulness to alteration people's lives.
"Film changed my life, it transformed maine and it led maine present today."
She added: "I dedicate this grant to each kid in care, aliases who has been in attraction and who didn't survive."
'For my beautiful babe boy'
The BAFTA rising prima grant was won by Mia Mckenna-Bruce pursuing a nationalist vote.
The prima of coming-of-age movie How To Have Sex became affectional connected shape arsenic she thanked her family and her "beautiful babe boy".
The 26-year-old joked that she hopes her small sisters, who do not deliberation "I'm cool", would alteration their mind aft her win.
For my 'Oppen-homies'
Accepting his prize, Irish character Cillian Murphy thanked Oppenheimer head Christopher Nolan, saying: "Thank you for your bonzer exhilarating book and for pushing maine and demanding excellence because that is what you present clip and clip again."
He said Oppenheimer was a "colossally knotty character", adding: "We person a abstraction to statement and interrogate and analyse that complexity and it's a privilege to beryllium a portion of this organization pinch you all."
He besides thanked his chap nominees and what he dubbed his "Oppen-homies" during his speech.
'Thanks to my mom'
Emma Stone thanked her vocal coach for helping her pinch her British accent, and not laughing astatine The measurement she said "water" arsenic an American.
She besides paid tribute to writer Tony McNamara, arsenic good arsenic her mum, calling her "the champion personification in The world I know" adding, "she inspires maine each day".
Thanking her for each The things she's done for her, she echoed her Frankenstein-inspired characteristic in Poor Things, thanking her for giving her "life" - The eventual gift.
A blast from The past pinch Marty McFly
Michael J Fox presented The biggest grant of The nighttime - champion film.
The Back To The Future star, who was diagnosed pinch Parkinson's illness in 1991, was helped onto The shape in a wheelchair but stood astatine The podium to present The winner.
The much-loved 62-year-old prima was greeted pinch a opinionated ovation.
Fox told The audience: "There's a logic why they opportunity movies are magic, movies Can not only alteration your time but Can besides alteration your life."
He said it was "such a privilege" to manus retired The prize, which went to Oppenheimer - The large victor of The evening.
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