BAFTAs 2024: Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal cosy as much as Emma Stone

An evening of celebration ended with the same old flurry of high-profile departures following the star-studded 76th annual BAFTA Awards on Sunday night. 

Celebs scattered throughout London to get pleasure from lavish afterparties hosted by Vogue, Netflix and Universal. 

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal cosied as much as pal Emma Stone at Netflix’s afterparty on the Chiltern Firehouse.

Meanwhile, Kate Beckinsale and Kaia Gerber introduced the glamour as they attended the British Vogue And Tiffany & Co. trend And movie get together.

Florence Pugh stayed true to type on Sunday evening and celebrated the BAFTAs by attending the Universal and Netflix afterparties.

The Dune star, 28, appeared unbelievable as she hopped from the Universal get together held on the Nomad lodge in Covent Garden, earlier than skipping off to the Netflix bash on the Chiltern Firehouse.

Dua Lipa and her new boyfriend Callum Turner appeared besotted with one another as they left Vogue get together. 

The singer, 28, and the actor, 34, held arms as they walked in direction of their ready automotive after partying the night away on the star-studded bash. 

The greatest evening in British movie returned with actor David Tennant as host and an array of visitor presenters available to ship awards all through the evening.

Prince William attended the ceremony in London solo as his spouse Kate Middleton continues her restoration from final month’s stomach surgical procedure.

Oppenheimer received Best Film in addition to sweeping the board within the main classes on the EE BAFTA Film Awards at The Royal Festival Hall .

The epic biographical thriller led the wins with seven gongs, together with Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr. and Best Director for Christopher Nolan. It had essentially the most nominations with 13.

Murphy, 47 – who performs the titular function in Nolan’s atomic bomb saga – picked up the prize on the prestigious awards ceremony.

He triumphed towards Bradley Cooper for Maestro, Colman Domingo for Rustin, Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, Barry Keoghan for Saltburn and Teo Yoo for Past Lives.

Accepting the trophy, he stated: ‘Oh boy, holy moly, thanks very, very a lot BAFTA.’

He paid tribute to ‘essentially the most dynamic, kindest producer-director partnership in Hollywood: Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas, thanks for seeing one thing in me that I in all probability did not see in myself.’

The Irish actor stated to Nolan: ‘Thank for all the time pushing me and demanding excellence as a result of that’s what you ship time and time once more.’

Nolan additionally acknowledged his ‘fellow nominees and my Oppenhomies’, including: ‘I do know it is a cliche to say, however I’m in awe of you.’

He stated J Robert Oppenheimer was a ‘colossally knotty character’, including: ‘We have an area to debate and interrogate and examine that complexity and it is a privilege to be part of this group with you all.

Downey Jr, 58, additionally collected a BAFTA for his function as Lewis Strauss within the Hollywood blockbuster, which has swept the board throughout the 2024 awards season.

He admitted he owes the award to Nolan, producer Emma Thomas and main man Murphy, in addition to ‘British affect’.

Gesturing to Nolan, he stated: ‘Recently that dude steered I try an understated method as a final ditch effort to resurrect my dwindling credibility.’

Downey Jr’s win set a brand new document for the longest hole between wins by any performer because it comes 31 years after his earlier BAFTA, for the 1993 movie Chaplin.

The earlier document was 27 years, set by Sir Anthony Hopkins in 2021 when he received the award for greatest actor for The Father, practically three many years after his 1994 win for Shadowlands.

Nolan received the Best Director BAFTA for Oppenheimer, his epic story of how the nuclear bomb was created.

Before accepting the award from actor Hugh Grant, Nolan hugged Murphy.

Nolan joked that his brother ‘beat him up right here’ by being in a refrain of a manufacturing 40 years in the past.

Nolan has beforehand misplaced out regardless of quite a few business successes resembling Inception and The Dark Knight, the UK-born filmmaker received out towards Jonathan Glazer [The Zone of Interest], Justine Triet [Anatomy of a Fall], Alexander Payne [The Holdovers], Bradley Cooper [Maestro] and Andrew Haigh [All of Us Strangers].

He paid tribute to Murphy and added to those that backed the movie: ‘Thank you for taking over one thing darkish’.

The director additionally acknowledged the efforts of nuclear disarmament organisations to deliver peace.

Oppenheimer swept up within the huge identify classes, nevertheless it was intently adopted by the surreal black comedy Poor Things.

It marked 5 awards for the movie, as Emma Stone collected the Best Actress gong for her flip as Bella Baxter.

Accepting her award, she stated: ‘Since we’re in London, I wish to begin by thanking dialect coach. She praised him for not laughing at her when he taught her find out how to say ‘water’.

‘I actually wished to thank my mum, as a result of she’s the perfect individual I do know. Without her none of this is able to exist, together with my life, so thanks for that Mum.’

The American actress stated she was ‘in awe’ of all the crew behind the movie, the place she performs the a part of a girl who’s reanimated and implanted with the mind of a child.

She paid tribute to the writers for arising with the road ‘I need to go punch that child’ in a memorable dinner scene, and likewise hailed director Yorgos Lanthimos for ‘our friendship and the reward of Bella’.

Also thanking her mom, Stone stated: ‘She form of made me consider this loopy concept that I can do one thing like this.’

Meanwhile, Da’Vine Joy Randolph topped victorious within the Best Supporting Actress class for her half in The Holdovers as she continues her march to Oscars glory.

Randolph took to the stage and advised Chiwetel Ejiofor, who was presenting the award, ‘you’re so good-looking’ – prompting laughter from the viewers.

On a extra critical observe, she stated: ‘Thank you for trusting me with this stunning character.

Becoming emotional, she stated with the ability to ‘put on this stunning robe, standing on the stage in London, shouldn’t be a duty I take frivolously’.

Randolph performs college cook dinner Mary within the movie set at a boarding college within the early Nineteen Seventies.

Next up, Director Jonathan Glazer and producer James Wilson’s The Zone Of Interest received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film.

Wilson advised the viewers they have been ‘surprised’ the movie had received three awards throughout the ceremony, and whereas it was shot in Poland, the crew who made it was assembled from the UK.

The evening kicked off with French authorized drama Anatomy Of A Fall profitable the Original Screenplay award after premiering in Cannes again in May.

Collecting the award, co-writer and director Justine Triet, stated: ‘The final time I I used to be in London, a girl stated to me: ‘After I noticed your film I known as my ex and advised him to see it to grasp why I dumped him.’

‘Someone else stated ‘Did you place a mic in my kitchen?’

Gesturing to her co-writer and accomplice Arthur Harari, Triet stated ‘I wish to make an announcement tonight: it is a fiction and we’re moderately high-quality.’

Harari referred to the plot of the courtroom drama when he joked that he had just lately discovered himself close to a window in an attic.

He added: ‘I need this room as my witness, if one thing occurs to me, I beloved insulating that attic and I’m fairly comfortable tonight.’

Next up, Poor Things has received the BAFTA for particular visible results.

VFX supervisor Simon Hughes stated receiving the particular visible results BAFTA for the the movie was a profession spotlight.

‘It’s the height of my profession, completely for me. And to have it occur on such a singular movie like that is only a actual eye-opener, it has been such a surreal and such a rewarding expertise.’

Following this, drama movie Earth Mama was honoured with the BAFTA excellent debut by a British author, director or producer, offered by David Beckham.

Director Savanah Leaf was sobbing as she took to the stage to be offered with the award for her story of a pregnant single mom.

Leaf stated ‘that is loopy’, including: ‘Our lead had by no means acted earlier than and she or he poured her coronary heart into this and she or he was so fearless.’

The director was given the award alongside Irish producers Shirley O’Connor and Medb Riordan.

The Zone Of Interest received the BAFTA for a movie not within the English language.

Director Jonathan Glazer stated it was ‘an out of physique expertise’ to win the award as he paid tribute to his collaborators.

Producer James Wilson thanked Glazer for his ‘virtuosity and his friendship’.

He continued: ‘Walls aren’t new from earlier than or because the Holocaust and it appears stark proper now that we should always care about harmless folks being killed in Gaza or Yemen or Mariupol or Israel.’

He added: ‘Thank your for recognising a movie that asks us to suppose in these areas.’

The BAFTA for Casting was awarded to Susan Shopmaker for personal school-set The Holdovers, whereas the enhancing award has gone to Jennifer Lame for Second World War biopic Oppenheimer.

Comedy drama American Fiction has received Best Adapted Screenplay.

American author and former Gawker journalist Cord Jefferson stated profitable a BAFTA was ‘surreal’, and that he had his speech written for him as a result of he didn’t suppose he would wish it.

Jefferson stated in a ‘risk-averse business’, he’s grateful for his movie – a couple of novelist who spoofs the ‘black style’ of books, which turns into a ruse he has to take care of – was made.

The Boy And The Heron received the Best Animated Film Bafta.

Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki was not on the ceremony so the award was collected by presenters Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott.

The Documentary BAFTA went to twenty Days In Mariupol, which highlights the work of Associated Press journalists within the besieged Ukrainian metropolis throughout the Russian invasion.

Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov stated: ‘This shouldn’t be about us’, that is concerning the nation invaded by Russia and the bombed metropolis they filmed in was simply ‘a logo of all the things that has occurred’.

‘Thank you for empowering our voice, and let’s maintain combating,’ he added.

Composer Ludwig Goransson received the BAFTA for Original Score for Oppenheimer whereas Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers scooped the honour for greatest sound for Holocaust movie The Zone Of Interest.

The BAFTA for Production Design went to Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek for surreal comedy Poor Things, a couple of lady who’s reanimated and begins a brand new life.

It was beforehand introduced the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema would go to programmer and archivist June Givanni, founding father of the Pan African Film Archive, who collected the prize throughout the ceremony from Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh.

Northern Ireland actor James Martin, from Oscar-winning movie An Irish Goodbye, offered the British quick movie Bafta to Yasmin Afifi and Elizabeth Rufai for Jellyfish And Lobster, a story about care house residents.

Accepting the prize, Afifi stated the movie was about aged individuals who discover the ‘magic of their remaining days’, earlier than wiping tears away from her face.

Egyptian actor Sayed Badreya, who seems within the movie, received down on his knees and prayed on stage.

The British Short Animation BAFTA was offered to Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek and Aleksandra Sykulak for Crab Day, a couple of father and son in a fishing group.

Stringer thanked his dad and mom in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and stated the movie was about ‘standing up for your self, it doesn’t matter what the world thinks of you’.

Poor Things received two extra BAFTAs for greatest costume design, and make-up and hair.

Samantha Morton collected the BAFTA Fellowship from producer David Heyman, who she labored with on Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.

There have been tributes from her Minority Report co-star Tom Cruise, in addition to collaborators Susan Lynch, Molly Windsor and Daniel Mays, whereas Heyman described her as a ‘uncommon breed and true artist’.

Morton was visibly emotional and overwhelmed as she stated: ‘This is nothing wanting a miracle. When I first noticed Ken Loach’s Kes on an enormous telly that was wheeled into my classroom I used to be endlessly modified.

‘Seeing poverty and folks like me on the display, I recognised myself – illustration issues.’

She stated she would inform her youthful self: ‘You matter, do not surrender, the tales we inform, they’ve the ability to vary folks’s lives.

‘Film modified my life, it remodeled me and it led me right here at present.’

She added: ‘I dedicate this award to each youngster in care, or who has been in care and who did not survive.’

The BAFTA Rising Star award was received by Mia Mckenna-Bruce following a public vote.

The star of coming-of-age movie How To Have Sex appeared emotional on stage as she thanked her household and her ‘stunning child boy’.

The 26-year-old joked that she hopes her little sisters, who don’t suppose ‘I’m cool’, will change their thoughts after her win.

Margot Robbie, Emily Blunt, Emma Stone and Florence Pugh have been among the many star-studded arrivals earlier within the night on the glitzy purple carpet.