The next category is animated film. The nominees are:

• The Boy and the Heron
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
• Elemental
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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And the winner is Poor Things.

Next up is special visual effects. The nominees are:

• The Creator
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Napoleon
• Poor Things

Justine Triet and her partner Arthur Harari pick up the first award of the night for French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall, which tells the story of a writer accused of her husband's murder.

It's been nominated in several other categories tonight, including best actress for Sandra Hüller, and the big one - best film.

And the winner is Anatomy of a Fall.

The first category of the evening is original screenplay. The nominees are:

• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Maestro
• Past Lives

Noor Nanji
Culture reporter at the Baftas

Proceedings have kicked off in London, with the great and the good of film and television in attendance.

David Tennant has kicked off the ceremony.

The Doctor Who star came out carrying a dog and wearing a kilt.

He noted it had been a “tumultuous” year for the industry, plagued by writers' and actors' strikes.

He also acknowledged how hard it was for judges to make a decision, comparing their task to “choosing a favourite child”.

We spoke to Paul Mescal on the red carpet - he's nominated for his role in All of Us Strangers.

He tells BBC News who he is really excited to see on the red carpet.

While we're waiting to hear who's won the first awards of the evening, here's a bit more from the red carpet a little earlier.

Teo Yoo, who is nominated in the best actor category for the film Past Lives, told Lizo he's happy that the Korean concept of inyeon is being introduced Western audiences.

The concept and the film is about relationships that form over many liftetimes, and Yoo said audiences have "surrendered to the power of that belief philosophy and that's the power of cinema".

Yoo added that working on the film changed him as an actor and how he approaches his work.

With the red carpet schmoozing now over, we turn to the main event - the Baftas ceremony.

The awards show itself isn't being live-streamed, but fear not - our reporters are there and will be providing live text updates on who the winners are.

Stay with us for more updates.

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Here’s a look at all the first-timers that could win the outstanding debut award:

• Lisa Selby (director), Rebecca Lloyd-Evans (director), Alex Fry (director) – Blue Bag Life
• Christopher Sharp (director) [also directed by Moses Bwayo] – Bobi Wine: The People’s President
• Savanah Leaf (writer, director, producer), Shirley O'Connor (producer), Medb Riordan (producer) – Earth Mama
• Molly Manning Walker (writer, director) – How to Have Sex
• Ella Glendining (director) – Is There Anybody Out There?

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We've just spotted the president of Bafta - better known as the Prince of Wales - arriving on the carpet.

He is expected to meet with the category winners after the ceremony to congratulate them, personally.

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Da'Vine Joy Randolph who stars in The Holdovers tells Lizo Mzimba what first attracted her to the script.

"The authenticity, the realness of this woman and how she's able to continue to push through," she says.

Randolph is nominated as best supporting actress tonight and says the film's seven Bafta nominations is "huge for an independent film".

She tells Lizo The Holdovers "is really special".

Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, who are nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress for their roles as composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia in Maestro, have made their way down the red carpet.

Cooper, who also directed the film, said the music "is the actual guiding light of the whole film because it's scored to [Bernstein's] music".

He also paid tribute to Mulligan, saying: "It was always joyful, every time I got excited to do a scene with her. It was just effortless."

On bringing the relatively unknown Felicia to life, Mulligan said it "wouldn't have been possible" without the help of the Bernstein family, and said: "I felt like they couldn't have been more generous".

Cooper learned to compose for the film and described it as "incredible" and an "experience of a lifetime" working with the London Symphony Orchestra on it.

Acting royalty Richard E Grant stopped by for a chat earlier, reflecting on his role in Saltburn and hosting last year's Baftas.

Speaking about the success of Saltburn, he says: "We are astonished, and we are all going to be dancing nude [when Sophie Ellis Bextor performs Murder on the Dancefloor, which famously features in the film]."

"You’re going to see a 66-year-old man exposing his vegetables."

On presenting the awards last year, "It was a huge honour and a privilege to do it" but "they have to have a new [host] every year, otherwise it’s like ‘uh, them again’".

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Some film fans were left disappointed after Margot Robbie missed the cut for best actress at the Oscars but the Barbie star has a chance (albeit a slim one) at the Baftas in the same category.

No hair and make-up nomination for Barbie though. A travesty!

And actress Lily Gladstone isn’t the only one to have missed out for Killers of the Flower Moon - veteran star director Martin Scorsese isn’t nominated for best director.

Next up on the red carpet is Paul Mescal, star of last year's Aftersun who returns with a best supporting actor nomination for his role in All of Us Strangers.

Asked about his string of successes, which began with the BBC's adaptation of Normal People in 2020, he says: "I haven’t got used to it yet. The best thing about this is that it gets a load of people into a room that love film."

On Andrew Scott's performance, he says "I love him as a human being" and "I feel that the performance that everyone is seeing from him, I got to see it from like inches in front of his face".

He adds that he thinks it was “one of the great modern performances”.

The BBC's Colin Patterson then mentions that Mescal appeared to become star struck at seeing David Beckham, with the actor agreeing, adding he was "one of my granddad’s favourite footballers".

More stars have been walking the red carpet including the actor Cillian Murphy - star of Oppenheimer, which has been nominated in 13 categories.

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Claire Foy, who is at the awards this year for her role in All of Us Strangers, has been speaking to our correspondents on the red carpet.

Its director Andrew Haigh filmed in his own childhood home as part of the process.

"I thought he was mad, was the main thing I was thinking," says Foy, adding that the process could be seen as triggering, but that the director "wears it very lightly".

"It never felt like you were in his past, it felt like a film we were all making together."

She says it was "quite difficult" to watch her friend Andrew Scott giving such an emotional performance, and adds: "The final scene I lost it completely."

Fantasia Barrino, nominated for Best Actress for her role as Celie in The Color Purple, says she "keeps pinching herself" and is "tripping in a good way".

She says she know her grandmother is looking down from heaven saying "look at my girl".

One of the film's producers is Oprah Winfrey, and Barrino said the star checks on her outfit choices for awards season "which makes me feel so good because she's just very humble and nice and normal like we are, and I love that".

And as for the future, Barrino hinted that she would be interested in playing American singer and actress Patti LaBelle in any upcoming movie biopic.