Damien chouly el, and best actor. It is an escapist musical . It is the film at the moment that is giving people a lift, a bit of sunshine in an ever darkening world is how it has been pitched. And that is interesting because for people who havent seen it, it is so los angeles, so hollywood, steeped in that world, and i think we were interested to see whether the British Academy, a different set of voters from the Academy Awards in the states, from the golden globe is, might not be quite as in thrall to that as an american judge might be. Indeed, but it turns out that the charm of the leads, ryan gosling and emma stone, and the craft of it all, it won for cinematography, those memorable shots of dancing on the freeware, the levitating people in the griffith observatory, the texture of the film, it has kind of one people over, and also the music which is rather an interesting score, because it is not an Old Fashioned musical. Score, because it is not an Old Fashioned musical. People score, because it is not an Old Fashioned musical. People think they are seeing singing in the rain, but it isnt that, it is a modern musical, Young Indyref2 and that happens to have singing and dancing. Yes if you go expecting an outer night musical, might be disappointed. And lets talk about ben afflecks brother casey, he was so ben afflecks brother casey, he was so well known, but that is becoming turned around. Yes, maybe now ben affleck will be known as the less well known older brother. He is this frozen janitor from boston who well known older brother. He is this frozenjanitorfrom boston who has to ge Ntly Frozenjanitorfrom boston who has to gently thought as he read the reintegrate himself into his all Live In Manchester by the sea. This was a very moving speech, and he said this is why he acts, he isnt as talented as the guys doing animation or the acrobats, if i was more talented, i might do that, but i act. And that was a very well delivered speech, and i think it warned people to him, because it is not a warm performance, rather chilling one. He is not a likeable character in it. It is one of those films that you really appreciate and the script is good and the cinematography, but you dont warm to his character at all. It is the opposite to la la land, it is grim and frozen and cold, but the screenwriter and director, kenneth lonergan, won for original screenplay as well. And we might see those screen awards repeated at the oscars. It is almost literary in its execution, it has different phases. The real action of the film is buried in the past, and we find that out halfway through the film what that was, so it is very well structured and it might almost be french. That is a good way of putting it. You mentioned it picked up putting it. You mentioned it picked up the award for original screenplay, adapted screenplay went to lion, possibly some surprise but it is picked up a Couple Of Awards and isa it is picked up a Couple Of Awards and is a popular choice when dev patel picked up the acting award in a strong category. Absolutely, you can see the people filing out now, the ceremony is over. Lion picked up two awards, that is currently out in uk cinemas, and it is a global story about a kid from calcutta who is taken off the streets and adopted by Nicole Kidman in tasmania, he grows up Nicole Kidman in tasmania, he grows up to become dev patel, and this was a very well received win. Bafta feel some ownership over him, he is the boy who grew up in british tv, he is just from down the road, and we kind of feel that we own him in some way. He said it is a film about family, and his family were here in the audience, and it was a very warm moment, and sometimes you realise that the baftas is quite a small club, andi that the baftas is quite a small club, and i think he is the poster boy tonight. It means a Big British Star is born with dev patel, he has been around a long time but he is only 25, a lot of good performances to come. Even younger than i thought and what is so striking, luke davis picking up that award for the screenplay for lion. And also the screenplay for lion. And also the little boy who is in the first half of the film, who plays the young dev patel, and the film you could argue is worth seeing just him, it is quite extraordinary what they achieve with someone so young. He was six when they first put him in the film. He was cast off the streets in india, they saw 2500 children and they found a gem. Not nominated, possibly unfairly, because if he had been, it would have been unfair not to give it to him. Afew have been unfair not to give it to him. A few years ago at the baftas whenjamie him. A few years ago at the baftas when jamie bell, him. A few years ago at the baftas whenjamie bell, little billy elliot, Peter Russell crowe to the best actor prize. But the film did very well, it is a tear jerker about people trying to find their family and find their sense of belonging, so and find their sense of belonging, so it takes many boxes for many people, but able cry in different places, in the start, at the end. People, but able cry in different places, in the start, at the endlj think i cried at all of it one of the things that sets the british Academy Awards parties we have a separate category for best british film, and separate category for best british film, and i should not the fact that most of your predictions are coming tonight, and indeed, the ken loach film, i daniel blake took the award, an extraordinary film maker still working at the age of 80. Yes, He Won Outstanding british film for i daniel blake. I should have put some money on this the very first award they give out here is outstanding british film, and it went to ken loach who has been doing this for 50 yea rs, 50 yea rs, loach who has been doing this for 50 years, 50 years, such a titan of the british film industry, and Cathy Come Home was a famous tv movie, so it is extraordinary that he is still doing it, it is still relevant, and thatis doing it, it is still relevant, and that is the point. It is relevant and hard hitting, and a shocking film, as Cathy Come Home was, sad because the politics of the country have not moved on enough. All of the Award Ceremonies in america have been making speeches against donald trump and stuff, have we been thinking that we might get that here . Ken loach gave a searing indictment of the divide that separates the country between the haves and the have nots. And he said the film makers in this room, despite the glitz and glamour, they know that they have to be on the side of the people, and that is very important for film makers to tell stories that are relevant, and he is right, because if audiences dont come, the film makers dont make the money, so they have to go for it. It did hit home. So it thoroughly deserves that, and it is the outstanding british film of the year, it won in cannes last year. Im delighted that award, sorry for the others that were up against it, but it is a once in a lifetime phenomenon in. We talked a lot about the winners, but interesting to just pick up on what we were discussing out on the red carpet a couple of hours ago. Nothing at all for moonlight, which surely is one of the best films of the season, but sadly nothing tonight. One of the stories to emerge from tonight is a Com Plete Stories to emerge from tonight is a complete shutout for moonlight, which i think was one of my favourite film is going in, and many peoples favourites to come out of the uk yet. It is a favourite at the oscars and here. And i really thought it would get some. There was a point when it seemed every film that was nominated were getting something, 15 films had got something, 15 films had got something, and i said, but not moonlight yet, and i realised it was going to be the film that suffered. Nothing to naomi harris, nothing for the texture of the performances. It was shutout, and ifeel that the texture of the performances. It was shutout, and i feel that that is going to create some waves. I think it isa going to create some waves. I think it is a real shame because it is such a beautiful film. It is a real shame because it is such a beautifulfilm. Bafta had a chance to reward it somewhere and it seems to have missed that opportunity, and people will be noting that in america, they might accuse bafta of some kind of institutional racism, im not saying that that is true, because of course via the davis and dev patel won, but it was seen as a real flag bearer for the Diversity Debate which is occupied the british can and the oscar academy. And you mentioned viola davis, she has won for fences by denzel washington, a fabulous actress, always gives a great performance, but there were others in that category we might have thought might come through, naomi harris possibly Haley Squires, a searing performance again in the ken loach film. Yes, and i always think the bafta audience tend to go for the bafta audience tend to go for the homegirl the homeboy, they tend to vote for the person closer to home, it is unusualfor to vote for the person closer to home, it is unusual for them to go foran home, it is unusual for them to go for an american actress ahead of them. Perhaps the most interesting category out there, Haley Squires is terrific in i daniel blake, you feel the cold and hunger affecting her. And naomi harris in such a short time in that film, moonlight, gives a beautiful performance as a mother struggling with crack addiction and trying to love her child, but viola davis, you see the picture of her crying, she does snotty crying better than any other actress on the planet. I am fond of fences, people said it was theatrical and it is a adaptation of a performance that already won her a tony award. It is almost a film record of that performance, but there is something with the cameras, doing the close up, doing the performance again, and it is hard to argue with except you might have thought, we are except you might have thought, we a re bafta, we except you might have thought, we are bafta, we should have awarded it toa are bafta, we should have awarded it to a brit, but that is me being parochial. Oney of the other things that bafta does a little differently, the category of rising star, and that is voted for by the public, a panel chooses the short list but then the public are able to vote for who they want. And when tom holland stood up and accepted the award, i thought, holland stood up and accepted the award, ithought, my holland stood up and accepted the award, i thought, my goodness, holland stood up and accepted the award, ithought, my goodness, are you only 20 . With that poise and confidence. He has played billy elliot on the London West End stage, maybe that is partly where that comes from, but what did you make of that . I said on the red carpet earlier that it is the person who a lwa ys earlier that it is the person who always ends up in the biggest film, a lwa ys always ends up in the biggest film, always ends up in the biggest film, always ends up in the biggest film, always ends up winning, because the public vote, they havent seen this, he is spiderman in the forthcoming spiderman movie, we had a taster of him in the Captain America movie earlier this year, last year, and so those spiderman fan boys are voting away on their phones saying, tom holland, he is a great little actor, only 20, seemed kind of think, are you allowed up at this time . Shouldnt you be in bed . But he is 20. He is the son of radio 4 comic and pundit dominic holland, and he has been around acting on the london stage, but spiderman as a whole other level. These things are not easy to do, and he owns a massive blockbuster like that, and i think he could be spiderman 434 films, which would make him one of the biggest stars on the planet, so he probably is a rising star that we will hear much more than next decade. And by then he will still only be 30 on the stage giving the cu rzon only be 30 on the stage giving the curzon chain, she said i got a bafta award in 1978 for promising newcomer, who knew i would be back so soon, she said sometimes it takes a while to repay that. It is getting very noisy here, but lets have a quick thought about the fellowship, because this is awarded this year by prince william, presented by prince william, to someone you particularly revere, i know. Yes, i am a massive fan of tonights recipient, mel books, with films like the producers and Young Frankenstein and tap back blazing saddles, the zany comic films, Young Frankenstein played by Marty Feldman and the wonderful gene wilder and his performances, the ultimate showbiz show in the producers, which then became a musical and then a film of the musical. We forget mel brooks made the elephant man, he produced that. He has been a titan for many years, grew up in 50s stand that American Jewish humour and was great to see him on the bafta stage tonight, he has still got it, that Brooklyn Twa Ng has still got it, that brooklyn twang going on, and it was great to see that gruffness, but also elegance. I think on a night when the baftas were not the most exciting, a little bit of zaniness and humour was brought by him, it is and humour was brought by him, it is a fantastic award for him, and him receiving it from prince william, when he satirises royals many times in his History Of The World films, to see him getting an award from one is something he probably never dream of. Jason solomons, many thanks as ever. The baftas are over for another year, but Awards Ceremony Seasonis another year, but awards ceremony season is not. We are still a couple of weeks away from the oscars, so lets see whether voters at the academy reflect the sort of results we have seen here tonight at the British Academy film awards. You can find the full list of all the winners on the bbc website of course, and lots of photos from the red carpet as well. But from a very noisy well but hall in london, phone app, for this year, it is goodbye
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