Conclave took the big prize at the Bafta Awards Ceremony, picking up the best film award
The drama won four awards, as did The Brutalist - including a best actor prize for Adrien Brody
Mikey Madison was recognised with a best actress award for her role in Anora
Zoe Saldana won best supporting actress for her role in Emilia Pérez, while Kieran Culkin picked up the gong for best supporting actor for his part in Real Pain
We'll be bringing you all the latest reaction to the biggest night in British cinema
And with that, we're bringing our live coverage of this year's Baftas to a close.
It was a star-studded evening at the Royal Festival Hall, as cinema's biggest stars gathered to celebrate a stellar year in film.
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Katie Razzall
Culture editor
Image source, Getty ImagesAnora’s Mikey Madison caused an upset in the best actress category, beating the likes of Demi Moore
If the Baftas is an indicator of what might happen at the Academy Awards next month, then this ceremony leaves that race wide open.
Last year, Oppenheimer cleaned up in London in the top categories - winning best film, best director and best cinematographer, as well as best actor - and went on to Oscar glory.
This year we have Conclave awarded best film, but The Brutalist given best director and best cinematography.
The upset in the best actress category - Anora’s Mikey Madison over The Substance’s Demi Moore - might be repeated in Los Angeles.
But Hollywood loves a fairy tale ending and although Madison’s has that - a fairly unknown but very talented actress wowing on screen as a sex worker - Moore’s story may still be more enchanting.
At 62, many will feel she deserves the best actress Oscar - but that race is now less open and shut than it was before the Baftas.
Noor Nanji
BBC News Culture reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Best Actress award went to relative unknown Mikey Madison
Mikey Madison winning Best Actress is the story of the night, for me.
She was relatively unknown before her role in the 2024 film Anora - and now she’s seeing off competition from the likes of Demi Moore, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Cynthia Erivo.
This is exactly the type of rags to riches story that awards ceremonies love - and the film itself celebrates.
In terms of snubs, it was not a good night for A Complete Unknown - the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet. It was nominated for six awards, but walked away empty handed.
Otherwise, the awards were shared around fairly equally - which leaves the race to the Oscars wide open.
Steven McIntosh
Reporting from the Bafta Awards Ceremony
Image source, Getty ImagesEdward Berger has enjoyed success at the Baftas for a second time thanks to Conclave, just a few years after he was recognised for All Quiet on the Western Front
Conclave won best British film as well as best film, the first to take the top two prizes since 1917 - the film, not the year.
"I am so humbled and so grateful to be welcomed here so openly with such warmth and open arms," the German director says of the UK. "Basically, I just want to live here, I’m never going to leave."
He likens the cast of Conclave, which includes Stanley Tucci, Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossallini, to an orchestra.
"No-one really knows [why a cast works so well], but you have a hunch, so there's a lot of discussion - we put pictures up on the wall and it just felt like a good combination.
"They were all believable cardinals, all different nationalities and accents, it just felt they were all different instruments in a big musical piece."
Steven McIntosh
Reporting from the Bafta Award Ceremony
Image source, Getty ImagesBackstage, best actress winner Mikey Madison recalls her appearance on The Graham Norton Show recently, where fellow guest Robert De Niro gave her some dubious advice.
"I was on a talk show and he told me not to write a speech and I thought, I should probably listen to him.
"And there are so many people I forgot to thank."
Madison praises director Sean Baker for giving her "a chance to play a leading role, to play a complex, interesting character, and play someone so different from myself".
She concludes: "I don’t know if I’ll ever fully grasp the magnitude of being in a room like that, full of my idols, incredible creatives who I admire so much."
Noor Nanji
Reporting from the Bafta Award Ceremony
Image source, ReutersSean Baker and Samantha Quan, who picked up the casting award for Anora, told BBC News they knew Mikey Madison was right for the role very early on.
“She was incredible, she had the brains and the attitude I needed,” Baker told BBC News.
The pair came out of the ceremony just after Take That performed Greatest Day, which was used in the film. Baker said the song had been chosen randomly.
“Sam [Quan] was scrolling through Spotify and said, 'how about this one?',” he tells me.
“We didn’t expect it to become the Anora anthem,” Quan added. “I almost died today [to hear the song]… it was so surreal”.
Steven McIntosh
Reporting from the Bafta Award Ceremony
Image source, Getty ImagesIn the winners' room backstage, best actor winner Adrien Brody is hungry.
"I haven't eaten anything yet, so I’m not sure how I’m feeling, but I feel a lot of love and I’m so happy to be here," he says.
He is asked about the surge his career has enjoyed thanks to The Brutalist, more than two decades after his last awards run for The Pianist.
"The beauty of being an actor is that any life experience, and there have been many since that wonderful film, anything you’ve experienced is so valuable in shaping a sense of understanding," he reflects.
"So the moments of triumph, loss, complexity along your path, they give you an ability to represent those more truthfully and authentically in your work.
"I’m just so grateful to have had this meaningful opportunity come my way, I’ve been yearning for this for a long time.
"I’ve been working very hard. It’s not for a lack of hard work, but there are so many magical things that have to happen for a film to achieve greatness and I’m so happy that all of those things conspired on The Brutalist."
And with that, he's off to have some supper.
Andre Rhoden-Paul
Reporting from the Bafta Awards Ceremony
Conclave, which follows the intrigue and tensions at the Vatican as cardinals elect a new Pope, had been frontrunner to win big - and it did.
Ralph Fiennes didn't quite clinch the best actor prize, which went to Adrien Brody for his depiction of a visionary architect in The Brutalist.
The Brutalist also took home four awards, including best director.
Meanwhile in the top female category, Anora's Mikey Madison took leading actress - seeing off competition from Wicked's Cynthia Erivo, Substance's Demi Moore and Emilia Perez's Karla Sofia Gascon.
And it was Zoe Saldana who beat co-star Selena Gomez and Wicked's Ariana Grande to the supporting actress prize.
Now the drama shifts to the Academy Awards next month. Who will win Oscars is the question on everyone's lips.
Noor Nanji
Reporting from the Bafta Award Ceremony
Image source, Getty ImagesCorbet won Best Director for The Brutalist, which is over three-and-a-half hours long
The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet, who won the Bafta for best director, tells us he was “very touched” by the award.
“It was a difficult film to get off the ground,” he says. “It’s a lot to process.”
He confirms the film’s budget was $10m (£7.9m) and says that was achieved by being “very responsible”.
“Small sacrifices for the greater good,” he adds.
Asked about the three-and-a-half hour film's intermission, he says: "I think they are necessary. If a movie is longer than two-and-a-half hours, I think it’s nice to have a break."
So what does he do during an intermission? “For me personally, I usually have a panic attack,” he says. “Others use it to smoke, make love, whatever it is.”
Noor Nanji
Reporting from Bafta Awards Ceremony
Image source, Getty ImagesMikey Madison dedicated her award to sex workers
Mikey Madison tells BBC News she was “not expecting” to win the best actress award, adding that she was “very, very shocked”.
“It’s so humbling as I’m nominated among such incredible actresses,” she goes on. “I never thought something like this would happen to me.”
She describes Anora as “a really interesting story about humanity and human nature,” and about the type of communities who “don’t often get to have films written about them”.
On her decision to dedicate her award to sex workers, she says meeting that community as part of the film was an “incredible” experience.
“They deserve respect and they don’t often get it."
Image source, EPAPicking up his best actor gong for The Brutalist, Adrien Brody says "England has felt like home" to him during his career.
"For everyone who has rooted for me along the way, I am so thankful," he says.
"Thank you to my wonderful, beautiful girlfriend Georgina Chapman, if it wasn't for my wonderful parents, and you, I wouldn't be here."
Noor Nanji
Reporting from the Bafta Award Ceremony
Image source, EPAWarwick Davis, who has just won the Bafta Fellowship Award, told BBC News that his win was “surreal”.
“I’m amongst these huge stars, I don’t feel worthy to be honest," he says backstage.
"I’m just Warwick Davis, who enjoys what he does - I don’t expect any accolade.”
He says he will always treasure the award and it will sit alongside his collection of Star Wars merchandise.
“I’ll make sure every Zoom meeting I do, I’ll have this now in the background.”
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesLee Sandales and Nathan Crowley arrive in the winners' room, fresh from winning best production design for Wicked.
"We had to do Wicked, but we also had to show the audience what it’s like to be in Oz, that was my exciting moment, by far," reflects Crowley.
Asked about Shiz, the film's school, he says: "It was by far the hardest set to make - and we created problems for ourselves.
"We decided we wanted people to arrive at Shiz by water, because of the romance of the waterways."
Sandales recalls: "Shiz was the biggest set I’ve ever seen in my life. You could take a boat from one side of the set and sail it to the other side.
"It felt like you were standing in a real place, and it was amazing.
Asked if there are any Easter eggs in the film fans might not have spotted, he adds: "There are hints to Wicked: Part Two in it, but that's spoilers."
Katie Razzall
Culture editor
For the actors, winning puts them on the map.
With Adrian Brody winning best actor for the Brutalist - and if he then goes on to scoop the Oscar - he will be back in a position he hasn’t been in since 2003 when he won the Best Actor Oscar for The Pianist.
Demi Moore has had a long career, but as she said herself in her Golden Globes speech, she was written off as a “popcorn actress”.
She is in the limelight at the age of 62 in a way she has never been before after her nomination for The Substance.
Winning awards may raise your profile, but you need to capitalise on it - and that’s not always guaranteed: you only have to look at reviews for action comedy Love Hurts, out now.
It stars Ariana Debose, Oscars best supporting actress in 2022 for West Side Story, and Ke Huy Quan, best supporting actor in 2023 for Everything Everywhere All At Once. It’s a turkey, say many of the critics, with some referencing the Oscars “curse”: you win one, it kills your career.
Noor Nanji
BBC News Culture reporter
Image source, EPAAardman Animations' Nick Park, left, and Merlin Crossingham, with apparent Wallace and Gromit fan Camila Cabello
The Wallace and Gromit team have been celebrating their big wins - accompanied by figurines of their famous creations.
Nick Park, the filmmaker and animator who created the claymation characters, tells BBC News: “It’s amazing, it’s wonderful, the competition is so strong as well... so that means even more.
"I created the characters at film school… to think it’s come on to this, is quite incredible."
Andre Rhoden-Paul
Reporting from the Bafta awards ceremony
SPOILER WARNING
It's time for the final and the most anticipated award of the night - the Bafta for best film.
If you're watching on TV and don't want a spoiler, look away now.
Presented by actor Mark Hamill, the award goes to Conclave.
Edward Berger, the film's director, arrives on stage with the film's cast to applause. He says: "Thank you very much. We are deeply humbled. This is such a big, big honour."
Tessa Ross, the film's producer, adds: "I think all of us feel so grateful for the journey that we've been on. It's been a long one."
The papal drama starring Ralph Fiennes has now won four Bafta awards, and beat Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown and Emilia Perez for the top prize.
We'll continue to you bring the latest interviews with the biggest stars and award winners - stick with us.
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesZoe Saldana continues her awards season sweep of the best supporting actress category with another win at Bafta, despite the recent controversies faced by her film Emilia Pérez.
Backstage, she reflects on her biggest number in the Spanish-language musical, El Mal.
"Not getting in my own way was the challenge," she says of shooting it. "Sometimes you can become very heady about something and overthink it.
"You need to trust the process. Rehearsing the dance was about reconnecting with a part of me I had missed so much.
"Dusting off all those cobwebs and jumping into the unknown was what needed to happen."
Asked about the importance of performing in Spanish, she replies: "It's my first language, I was spoken to first, sung to first, in Spanish.
"We love we live, we fight, we work, in Spanish. And my art has [previously] only lived in a very English way.
"So that yearning to connect my culture with my art was very meaningful to me."
SPOILER WARNING
We're now onto the Bafta award for leading actress which has gone to Mikey Madison for her role in comedy-drama Anora.
Madison appears surprised at her win, admitting: "I really wasn't expecting this, I probably should have listened to my publicist and written a speech."
She goes on to thank her mother, who she says has driven her to hundreds of auditions. She adds that she wants to recognise the sex worker community.
"I see you, you deserve respect and human decency. I will always be a friend and ally," she says.
Image source, ReutersAndre Rhoden-Paul
Reporting from the Bafta awards ceremony
SPOILER WARNING
We're now onto one of the biggest of the night - leading actor - which is being presented by Pamela Anderson.
The winner is Adrien Brody for The Brutalist. He beat Timothee Chalamet, Colman Domingo, Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Grant and Sebastian Stan to the award.
He tells the Bafta audience: "This film is really about this pursuit of leaving something meaningful."
He also thanks the British public for embracing his "creative endeavours" and the cast of the film.
'I didn't believe it': Warwick Davis on receiving Bafta fellowship
Actor Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter, is presenting the fellowship award to Warwick Davis.
He tells the audience Warwick taught him important lessons while on the set of Harry Potter and describes him as a "tireless advocate".
Warwick now walks on stage to accept the award to a standing ovation.
"I'm going to keep this short, it's been a long night", he jokes, before thanking his mother, "his first agent", and his "wonderful wife Sammie", who died last year.
We caught up with him on the red carpet earlier - you can watch a clip of that above.
As a reminder, we're covering the ceremony in real-time, which is two hours ahead of the televised version.
