Baftas 2024 - as it happened: Oppenheimer wins big at star-studded movie awards ceremony
Host David Tennant led the high-profile event honouring the best films, actors and directors of the past year
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Your support makes all the difference.The Baftas 2024 have taken place, with the biggest film stars in the world in attendance at a ceremony that honoured the best movies and actors of the last year.
Hollywood actors, including Emma Stone, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, were present at the ceremony, which took place at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday (18 February).
The winners were named exactly one month after the nominated films, actors, directors and writers were revealed by former EE Rising Star nominees Naomi Ackie and Kingsley Ben-Adir during a live press conference.
This year’s Baftas, which aired on BBC One, were presented by actor David Tennant. This marked the Scottish actor’s first TV appearance since returning for a series of Doctor Who specials in 2023.
Films in contention at this year’s ceremony included Oppenheimer, which swept the board at both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards earlier this month, as well as its rival blockbuster Barbie, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things, starring Stone.
Find all of the Bafta 2024 updates – as they happened – below
Baftas 2024: When and how to watch the ceremony
Find out everything you need to know about tonight’s ceremony, here:
When and how to watch the 2024 Baftas
77th annual British Academy Film Awards will be hosted by David Tennant
Read our interview with EE rising star nominee, ‘Talk to Me’ star Sophie Wilde
Sophie Wilde on her breakout role in Talk To Me: ‘I don’t mind being a scream queen’
The 26-year-old Sydney native led the biggest horror movie of last year, earning herself a Bafta EE Rising Star nod in the process. Speaking from New York, where she’s currently on set with ‘queen’ Nicole Kidman, she tells Annabel Nugent about her dream roles – and her own terrifying tale
Rising Star nominees
The only Baftas category voted for by the public is the Rising Star award, nominees for which include Saltburn actor Jacob Elordi as well as The Bear star Ayo Edebiri, whose film credits include Theatre Camp and Bottoms.
Previous winners include Emma Mackey, Letitia Wright, Tom Holland and Daniel Kaluuya.
Jacob Elordi and Ayo Edebiri lead Bafta Rising Star nominees
Public voted award will be announced at 2024 Bafta Film Awards in February
Why David Tennant is the perfect choice for Baftas host
The Doctor Who actor is following in the footsteps of Richard E Grant and Alison Hammond by taking the reins at the Bafta Film Awards today.
Here is why the smart and eccentric star, who is nicely indifferent about awards shows, might be the answer to the prayers of a scrambling ceremony.
David Tennant is nicely indifferent about awards shows – he’s perfect for the Baftas
The ‘Doctor Who’ star is this weekend following in the footsteps of Richard E Grant, Alison Hammond and (shudders) Ariana DeBose by taking the reins at the Bafta Film Awards. He might be the answer to the prayers of a scrambling ceremony, writes Adam White
Baftas timing reminder
This is a post to remind that you that the Baftas are not televised live at 7pm GMT on BBC One. The broadcast is edited down, with the actual ceremony kicking off at 4pm GMT at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
The Independent will be present at the event, and will be recapping events – as they take place – so this blog will be revealing the winners hours before they’re revealed on TV.
For details on how to watch, click here.
When and how to watch the 2024 Baftas
77th annual British Academy Film Awards will be hosted by David Tennant
Our interview with Best Supporting Actress nominee Danielle Brooks
Over the past year, The Independent has interviewed several Hollywood stars who went on to receive Bafta nominations.
Our most recent was Danielle Brooks, who has been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for The Colour Purple.
Read the full interview here:
Oscar nominee Danielle Brooks: ‘I would have made The Color Purple for $2’
The Oscar and Bafta nominee for ‘The Color Purple’ speaks to Nicole Vassell about getting so into character that she needed a chiropractor, and why she didn’t have ‘the luxury’ of challenging her salary while starring in ‘Orange Is the New Black’
Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy interview
Oppenheimer is expected to be the big winner at this year’s baftas – and Ocsars – ceremony.
In July, The Independent sat down with both Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy to discuss the film, which went on to become one of the former’s most bankable hits.
If (when) he wins today, that will – somehow – mark Nolan’s first ever Bafta win.
Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy on Oppenheimer: ‘There’s nothing bigger’
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The best film nominated?
Perhaps the best film nominated at the Baftas this year is Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, a haunting, if formally marvellous, drama about a family living on the outskirts of Auschwitz.
The Independent spoke about the film with Sandra Hüller, who has been Bafta nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in the film – and also Best Actress for her performance in courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall – alongside her co-star Christian Friedel.
‘Ghosts are with us’: The Zone of Interest stars on making a radical Holocaust film
Louis Chilton speaks to Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, the stars of Jonathan Glazer’s challenging new arthouse film set in a Nazi’s family home outside Auschwitz
Saltburn fever continues
As well as racking up five Bafta nominations (at least four too many in this writer’s humble opinion), Saltburn fever will take over this year’s Baftas ceremony thanks to a performance from Sophie Ellis Bextor.
The singer will be performing her 2001 hit “Murder on the Dancefloor”, which has experienced one hell of a second wind thanks to a climactic scene in Emerald Fennell’s film.
Fennell and the film’s stars Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike and Maestro nominee Carey Mulligan will all be dancing along – we’re assuming fully clothed – in the audience.
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Who will present awards at the ceremony?
Alongside all the nominees, Cate Blanchett, David Beckham, Dua Lipa, Idris Elba, Hugh Grant and Gillian Anderson are among the most recent Bafta presenters confirmed.
Also presenting will be Andrew Scott – despite the fact he was criminally snubbed for All of Us Strangers – Bryce Dallas Howard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Daryl McCormack, Keegan-Michael Key, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lily Collins, Marisa Abela, Rebecca Ferguson, Sheila Atim and Taylor Russell.
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