Michael J Fox obtained a standing ovation from the celebs in attendance on the 2024 British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, as he took to the stage in a wheelchair.
The actor, 62, who has battled Parkinson’s since 1991, appeared on the ceremony to current the award for Best Film to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Michael’s movie Still: A Michael J Fox Story was additionally nominated for the Documentary prize, however misplaced out to 20 Days In Mariupol.
After arriving on the stage in a wheelchair, Michael made his method to the rostrum to announce the winner of Best Film, incomes a massively heat reception from the star-studded viewers in London’s Royal Festival Hall.
The Back To The Future star beforehand walked the pink carpet along with his glamorous spouse Tracy Pollan.
Michael J Fox obtained a standing ovation from the celebs in attendance on the 2024 British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, as he took to the stage in a wheelchair
Michael was 29 in 1991 when he was identified with Parkinson’s illness, and went public with the knowledge in 1998.
In the autumn of 2000, he launched The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, which ‘is devoted to discovering a remedy for Parkinson’s illness by means of an aggressively funded analysis agenda and to making sure the event of improved therapies for these residing with Parkinson’s at the moment.’
According to the muse, it has raised greater than $1.75 billion for the trigger.
Oppenheimer gained Best Film in addition to sweeping the board in main classes on the BAFTA Film Awards at The Royal Festival Hall.
The epic biographical thriller swept the board 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 probably the most nominations with 13.
The largest night time in British movie returned with actor David Tennant as host, with an array of visitor presenters available to ship awards all through the night time.
Cillian, 47, – who performs the titular function in Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb saga – picked up the prize on the prestigious British awards ceremony.
He triumphed in opposition to Bradley Cooper for Maestro, Colman Domingo for Rustin, Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, Barry Keoghan for Saltburn and Teo Yoo for Past Lives.
The actor who has battled Parkinson’s since 1991, appeared on the ceremony to current the award for Best Film to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
After arriving on the stage in a wheelchair, Michael made his method to the rostrum to announce the winner of Best Film
Accepting the trophy he stated: ‘Oh boy, holy moly, thanks very, very a lot Bafta.’
He paid tribute to ‘probably the most dynamic, kindest producer-director partnership in Hollywood: Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas, thanks for seeing one thing in me that I most likely 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.’
He 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, referred to as the daddy of the atomic bomb, 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 neighborhood with you all
Robert, 58, collected a BAFTA for his function as Lewis Strauss in Hollywood blockbuster Oppenheimer, which has swept the board throughout awards season.
Robert admitted he owes the award to the movie’s director Nolan, producer Emma Thomas and main man Cillian Murphy, in addition to ‘British affect’.
Gesturing to Nolan, he stated: ‘Recently that dude urged I try an understated strategy as a final ditch effort to resurrect my dwindling credibility.’
Robert’s win set a brand new file for the longest hole between wins by any performer.
His award, for the movie Oppenheimer, comes 31 years after his earlier BAFTA, for the 1993 movie Chaplin.
The Back To The Future star beforehand walked the pink carpet along with his glamorous spouse Tracy Pollan
The earlier file was 27 years, set by Sir Anthony Hopkins in 2021 when he gained the award for finest actor for The Father, almost three a long time after his 1994 win for Shadowlands.
Nolan gained 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 his Irish star Cillian Murphy who performed physicist J Robert Oppenheimer.
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 industrial successes reminiscent of Inception and The Dark Knight, the UK-born filmmaker gained out in opposition to 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 convey peace.
Oppenheimer swept up within the massive title classes, nevertheless it was carefully adopted by the surreal black comedy Poor Things.
It marked 5 awards for the movie, as Emma Stone collected the gong for her flip as Bella Baxter.
Accepting her award, she stated: ‘Since we’re in London, I need to begin by thanking dialect coach. She praised him for not laughing at her when he taught her methods to say ‘water’.
‘I actually needed to thank my mum, as a result of she’s one of the best individual I do know. Without her none of this may exist, together with my life, so thanks for that Mum.’
Meanwhile, Da’Vine was topped victorious within the Best Supporting Actress class for her half in The Holdovers as she continues her march to Oscars glory.
She took to the stage and instructed the presenter ‘you’re so good-looking’ – prompting laughter from the viewers.
‘Thank you for trusting me with this lovely character,’ she says.
Becoming emotional, she says that with the ability to ‘put on this lovely robe, standing on the stage in London, will not be a duty I take calmly’.
Randolph performs college cook dinner Mary within the movie set at a boarding college within the early Nineteen Seventies.
Director Jonathan Glazer and producer James Wilson’s The Zone Of Interest gained the BAFTA for excellent British movie.
Wilson instructed the viewers they had been ‘surprised’ the movie had gained three awards in the course of the ceremony, and whereas it was shot in Poland, the workforce who made it was assembled from the UK.
The night time 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 referred to as my ex and instructed him to see it to grasp why I dumped him.’
‘Someone else stated ‘Did you set a mic in my kitchen?’
Gesturing to her co-writer and associate Arthur Harari, Triet stated ‘I wish to make an announcement tonight: it is a fiction and we’re fairly fantastic.’
Harari referred to the plot of the courtroom drama when he joked that he had 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 liked insulating that attic and I’m fairly glad tonight.’
Next up, black comedy Poor Things gained the BAFTA for particular visible results.
Following this, drama movie Earth Mama was honoured with the BAFTA excellent debut by a British author, director or producer, offered by David Beckham.
The director was given the award alongside Irish producers Shirley O’Connor and Medb Riordan.
The Zone Of Interest gained the BAFTA for a movie not within the English language.
Comedy drama American Fiction gained finest tailored screenplay on the Bafta movie awards ceremony.
Composer Ludwig Goransson gained the BAFTA for unique rating for epic biopic Oppenheimer whereas Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers scooped the honour for finest sound for Holocaust movie The Zone Of Interest.
The Bafta for manufacturing design went to Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek for surreal comedy Poor Things, a few girl who’s reanimated and begins a brand new life.
It was beforehand introduced the BAFTA for excellent British contribution to cinema would go to programmer and archivist June Givanni, founding father of the Pan African Film Archive, who collected the prize in the course of 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.
Samantha Morton collected the BAFTA Fellowship from producer David Heyman, who she labored with on Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.
The BAFTA Rising Star award was gained 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 ‘lovely child boy’.