Baftas 2018 ceremony as it happened: Three Billboards clears up as Time's Up proves running theme throughout

Three Billboards and Gary Oldman score success at the Bafta Awards

Awards season arrived to UK shores this Sunday, as the Baftas honoured the last year in film - and what a truly spectacular one it was.

While Guillermo del Toro's aquatic romance The Shape of Water, garnered 12 nods, the most of any film this year, it was actually Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri which walked away the night's big winner with five awards in total: Best Film, Best British Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor.

The ceremony also carried on the Time's Up conversation, with attendees continuing the show of solidarity by wearing black on the red carpet from the Golden Globes, with many others bringing along activists. You can read our coverage of the ceremony as it happened below.

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Key Points

• Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri conquers the night with five awards 
• The red carpet was dominated by the Time's Up movement, as attendees wore black in solidarity
• Joanna Lumley's opening monologue compared the Time's Up and women's suffrage
• Protestors stormed the red carpet wearing 'Time's Up Theresa' t-shirts

[18 February 2018 22:58 · clarisse.loughrey]

And some of the winners they didn't think were important enough to televise, including Best Score for Shape of Water, Best Make-up and Hair for Darkest Hour, Best Costume Design for Phantom Thread, and Best Animated film for Coco.

You can read the full list here