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Martin McDonagh wins best original screenplay
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For The Banshees of Inisherin. Sadly uncatapulted, McDonagh has to actually clamber up onstage and accept it. Luckily he’s brief, so Alison Hammond gets another chance to sit on a sofa and shout at Dame Helen Mirren about the Queen.
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Now for best original screenplay, which they should just catapult at Martin McDonagh from the stage to free up some more time for those rubbish One Show bits.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio wins best animated feature
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Guillermo del Toro accepts the award, and makes a brief but heartfelt plea for animation to be taken seriously. It’s a convincing argument, but Marcel the Shell With Shoes On probably should have won.
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More Bafta Does The One Show now. This time Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan discuss their wins, and Condon very deliberately doesn’t mention the off-screen mix-up. Condon says she’s going out to party, Keoghan says he wants to go home to his son. He’s winning me over, this chap.
Charlotte Wells wins outstanding British debut
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For Aftersun. And, well, duh. There is a parallel universe – a better one – where Aftersun won everything going, and not just the debut prize. Wells seems slightly overwhelmed by the award, but takes time to mention the Turkish earthquake and mentions her father, which is apt. She’ll be back again in years to come, over and over, I’m sure.
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Anya Taylor-Joy (dressed as Sassy Teacher and Sexy C-3PO respectively) are here to present outstanding British debut. They make a Sir Patrick Stewart joke and he blanks them, which doesn’t bode well for all the dick jokes I made about him earlier.
All Quiet on the Western Front wins best cinematography
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Another award for All Quiet, and so soon. This is looking more and more like the runaway winner. James Friend hasn’t written a speech and seems genuinely shocked to have won. You would be too if you’d just beaten Roger Deakins, I guess.
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Cynthia Erivo and Eugene Levy are presenting best cinematography. And Levy is good. He’s getting more laughs than anyone else so far. Which is probably a bad thing, since it invariably means that he’ll have to host next year’s ceremony now. The old Rebel Wilson trap. Schoolboy error.
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Hammond isn’t getting a word in, because Emma Thompson has taken the whole segment in her hands and run with it. Alison Hammond has been rendered mute by the sheer power of Thompson. This is unprecedented.
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Meanwhile, co-host Alison Hammond is backstage, interviewing Emma Thompson and Austin Butler. Which is great, because I’ve always wondered what the Baftas would be like if they were more like The One Show.
Barry Keoghan wins best supporting actor
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A weird category this, since Keoghan was up against his Banshees of Inisherin co-star Brendan Gleeson. And Keoghan probably won it on the strength of a single scene, albeit the best scene of the entire film.
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Dame Helen Mirren is here now, and this is something obviously very important, because there is a piano playing underneath while she talks. She’s talking about the Queen’s contribution to Bafta, which is something that was probably necessary to include. That said, the piano part does sound a bit like the long theme tune that EastEnders uses on special occasions.
