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• Argo was the night's big winner, scooping Best Film and Best Director for Ben Affleck • Daniel Day Lewis won Best Actor for Lincoln, while Amour star Emmanuelle Riva was named Best Actress • Skyfall was crowned Outstanding British Film and Sir Alan Parker was presented with the Bafta Fellowship
23.27 So that's it for the 2013 Baftas and this liveblog.
A great evening of mainly monochrome frocks and very few shocks. It was a night for deserved winners and likeable, non-irritating acceptance speeches. Stephen Fry was as fabulous as ever. Argo was the big winner. I wonder if the knock-on effect will be felt by its near-namesake Argos on the high street tomorrow? And will tonight's winners be a pointer towards the Oscars in a fortnight's time? Thanks for your company, Tweets, emails and comments. I'd also like to thank Bafta, my agent (who doesn't strictly exist) and George Clooney, just so the camera have another excuse to zoom in on him. Goodnight.
23.18 Last words tonight from the estimable Robbie Collin, the Telegraph's chief film critic...
Great to see the first Bafta of the evening, Outstanding British Film, go to Skyfall. First Bafta for the series since From Russia With Love won best cinematography and Casino Royale got best sound. I got four out of six right on my predictions and am dee-LIGHTed about one of the two I got wrong.
23.11 A few more of your Tweets...
@lizjarvisuk Alan Parker came to give a talk at my primary school when I was a kid and spoke to me at length about acting. Such a kind man
@curu I met Alan Parker once because he's a GENUINE FAN of Horrible Histories. Amazing.
@TVKev It never makes sense when the Best Film isn't directed by the Best Director, so all cool on the Argo front.
23.05 This just in from Telegraph corespondent Katherine Rushton, at the after-show party...
After the ceremony, all the Bafta attendees piled onto coaches to be ferried to the Grosvenor House Hotel, which feels rather like an A-list school trip. But once we're at the Grosvenor, all that changes. The room is spectacularly decked out, including props on the tables that reference each of the films. I'm on a table with a Les Miserables theme, adorned with torn flags and barricades. Quentin Tarantino seems to be unofficial man of the night and can barely make it through the hordes for all the congratulations.
22.59 Stephen Fry ends on an inspiring speech, incorporating a couple of rather risque gags. Stay with us for swift round-up, a few more Tweets and some late-night gossip...
22.58 Superb, witty and sincere speech from Sir Alan. You're fired! Oops, sorry, wrong Sir Alan.
22.56 The final Bafta of the night now and it's the British Academy Fellowship, presented by Kevin Spacey, which deservedly goes to...
The great Sir Alan Parker. Preceded by a great montage of his fine work, from Fame to Bugsy Malone to Angel Heart, The Wall, Midnight Express and The Commitments. Quite the CV. Somebody alert Linked In.
22.52 A few more of your Tweets...
@digitalspy Do you think they tried to get Matt Damon to present Ben Affleck's award but had to swiftly rewrite it for Jeremy Renner like the Bourne Legacy?
@hrwright Christ almighty, who did SJP's parting? Moses?
22.49 And the Bafta goes to...
Argo. Another chance to admire the facial hair and talent of Ben Affleck. And, as a special bonus, George Clooney. Neatly-trimmed beards and endearing speeches all round.
22.45 Now for thie biggie: Best Film, presented by Samuel L Jackson - star of the seminal Snakes On A Plane, as both he and Stephen Fry remind us.
22.43 And the Bafta goes to...
Daniel Day Lewis for Linked In. Sorry, Lincoln. The runaway bookies' favourite but no less deserving for it. Amusing speech about how he "stayed in character as himself for the last 55 years". Charmingly good-humoured from a man not renowned for his levity.
22.40 And the next award is for Best Actor, presented by Sarah Jessica Parker from Sex & The City 2. And some marginally less awful things.
22.39 And the Bafta goes to...
Emmanuelle Riva for Amour, richly deserved recogntion for the 85-year-old icon who can't be there tonight.
22.37 We're in the home stretch now. The next award is for Best Leading Actress, presented by Jeremy Renner who seems to be gently flirting with dear old Stephen Fry, the scamp.
22.33 And the Bafta goes to...
Ben Affleck for Argo. The actor-turned-director delivers a lovely, throat-tightening speech full of sincere thank yous and wondrous whiskers, expressing gratitude for being given "a second act" in his career.
22.30 And we're onto the business end of proceedings, with the award for Best Director, presented by Sir Ian Of McGandalf.
22.29 A few more of your Tweets...
@tneenan If Hathaway thanked Victor Hugo, will Bigelow have to thank Bin Laden?
@gregjmchugh Tessa Ross: incredible speech. Brilliantly articulate and heartfelt. LUVERLY.
@jonronson Ah, god bless Tessa Ross. She is so great.
22.26 And the unwieldy paperweight goes to...
Searching for Sugarman, the magnificent story of 70s rocker Rodriguez. Thoroughly recommend it, if you've not had the pleasure.
22.23 A sombre, moving interlude. And we're onto the award for Best Documentary, to be presented by Henry Cavill (the new Superman) and Martin Freeman (Dr Watson from The Office with large hairy Hobbit feet). Annoyingly over-sincere intro from Cavill there.
22.21 Pray silence for the montage of talent we've lost in the past year...
22.20 Onto the award for Rising Star, presented by John C Reilly and Sarah Silverman with a slightly excruciating attempt at comedy. But hey, at least no "I think I speak for both of us when I say..." bit. And the golden deathmask goes to...
Juno Temple, who's sporting another monochrome frock. A lot of it about tonight, he said, sounding a bit like Trinny and Susannah or Eve Pollard commentating on Royal Ascot. Temple gives a luvvie-ish acceptance speech that would have been worthy of Gwyneth Paltrow, had there been more weeping, yoga and flax oil.
22.14 Next award is Best Film Not In The English Language. And after some clips of an extraordinary clutch of nominees, the Bafta goes to...
Michael Haneke for Amour. Richly deserved but will it be followed later by a Best Actress gong for 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva?
22.09 Great gag from Stephen Fry, who thought he'd been invited to star in the new film by Steven Spielberg but it turned out to be an email from Linked In. A couple more Tweets...
@thewritertype Stephen Fry should win a Bafta for Best Presenter's Speech Not In The English Language That Anyone Else Speaks
@arenaflowers Daniel Day Lewis is unrecognisable without his beard! Oh hang on, that's Judi Dench
22.07 The next award is for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema, presented by Danny Boyle - who can do no wrong in my eyes since last summer. And the Bafta goes to...
Tessa Ross, Head Of Film And Drama at Film4, welcomed by a brilliant montage of British films that she's been involved with. Great, courteous and sincere speech from one of the unsung heroes of British film. Well, unsung until now. Also lots of glowing words for Channel 4 being broadcast on the BBC, which is nice.
21.59 And the Bafta goes to...
Silver Linings Playbook. Or as it was known here in the UK due to the poster design, Silver Linings and then Playbook in tiny font.
21.57 Next is the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, introduced slightly awkwardly by Simon Pegg and Jennifer Garner. It seems to be a rule tonight that one of each presenting duo has to say: "I think I speak for both of us when I say..."
21.55 A couple more of your Tweets...
@gary_bainbridge It's a shame that the CGI they did on Daniel Craig's muscles wasn't recognised by Bafta. They can't be real. He was Geordie on Our Friends In The North
@peatworrier BREAKING: a drunken Kermit "kicks off" at the Baftas, flippering an unsuspecting Damian Lewis 15 bruising times in the readies
21.53 And the Bafta goes to...
Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables. The gamine-cropped actress atoned for her frankly dreadful accent in One Day with this tear-jerking performance. Great frock, sweetly starry-eyed about George Clooney and a breathless speech, calling Victor Hugo "honey" and saying she wishes she could be holding Eddie Redmayne's hair back.
21.49 Next gong is Best Supporting Actress, to be presented by some average-looking bloke named George Clooney, who gets quite the flirtatious build-up from Stephen Fry, the devil.
21.47 Meanwhile, the Bafta for best visual effects goes to...
Life Of Pi. Grrrr. Collect five Esso Tiger Tokens and a pack of Frosties as your reward.
21.46 A few more Tweets...
@zx_spectrum_30 The spirits of Samantha Fox and Mick Fleetwood live on. Britain still scared to show an awards ceremony live
@jamiesout If these stars just checked their Twitter feed, they'd know whether they won an hour ago and could be in the bar getting hammered.
@martinwolfenden There was a new Muppets film? Why was I not told? WHYYYYY?
21.41 And the Bafta goes to...
The Imposter, the extraordinary docu-drama about stolen identity. In a lovely little nervous speech, director Bart Layton remarks, "Oh wow, first a pee next to Samuel L Jackson and now this."
21.36 Next gong is Outstanding British Debut, presented by Billy Connolly, who strides on-stage to the strains of The Proclaimers and says he's about to "present a stranger with a death-mask on a stick".
21.34 Next award tonight is Best Supporting Actor, presented by the fragrant Jennifer Lawrence in an off-white jewel-embellished gown. And the Bafta goes to...
Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained. Sweet, stumbling and rather emotional speech paying tribute to Taranatino, "you silver-penned devil you".
21.29 Time for a few of your Tweets...
@eddychemical Aah, the veritable gift at the altar: Paloma Faith doing an INXS cover.
@stuartdredge It's the Lidl Bjork!
@katie_khan Emeli Sande heard crying somewhere in Scotland as Paloma Faith takes the stage
@fliceverett Stephen Fry seems to be morphing into Brian Blessed
21.24 And the winner is...
Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained. Could've done his tie up and run a brush through his hair. Sweetly nervy speech, though.
21.22 Next gong is Best Original Screenplay, presented by the mighty Sally Field - who breaks the news of Eddie Redmayne's "gastric issues" to a nervous-looking crowd of starlets, some of whom probably have eating disorders already.
21.20 The award is accepted by director Sam Mendes, the film's producers and other selected suits. Dame Judi Dench seems to be staying in her seat, for some reason. Daniel Craig nowhere to be seen, sadly. Picture him in tiny powder blue swimming trunks instead, ladies.
21.19 And the Bafta for Outstanding British Film goes to...
Skyfall. The Bond movie has been largely snubbed by the Oscars but clocks up the franchise's first win of a major Bafta gong in 50 years. I wonder if that means Les Miserables will win the big one later tonight, Best Film?
21.16 First award is Outstanding British Film - likely to be slugged out by Skyfall and Les Miserables.
21.14 The TV audience, Stephen Fry tell us, is "as welcome as George Clooney at a hen party". Crinkly grin from the silver-bearded sex god in response.
21.12 Thank God that's over. On with the show.
21.10 Quick gag about Tom Cruise's Scientology "faith" and it's into a montage of the past year in film, soundtracked by a performance from drastically over-dressed, hamster-faced diva Paloma Faith.
21.07 Boris Johnson compared to Batman there. One of them is rather better at zipwire stunts, however.
21.05 Textbook Fry speech, crammed with wordplay, near-the-knuckle mickey-taking and loveable silliness. He jokes about Helena Bonham Carter's drunken singing and his scenes from The Hobbit movie being cut.
21.03 "I've got a strong feeling I'm not the only actor to come here with a beard," quips Stephen.
21.02 First glimpse of that much-talked-about Helen Mirren pink rinse. Lots of beards, even more raindrops on camera lenses. And here's our host: Dame Stephen Of Fry.
21.01 Quick montage of red carpet footage. It's like the Paralympics opening cermeony out there, there's so many umbrellas.
21.00 Take some Brasso to your baubles, it's Bafta O'Clock!
20.57 Wipe those Call The Midwife-induced tears from your eyes. It's three minutes until showtime on BBC One.
20.53 So far there seems to be no joke to rival this one from last year's film awards season...
A War Horse walks into a bar. The barman asks, "Why the long film?"
20.50 So of the five nominees for Best Film - Argo, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Miserables and Life Of Pi - how many have you seen? I've seen all five, at least twice. NB: this is a lie.
20.45 Fifteen minues until showtime on BBC One. Just long enough to charge your glasses, plump your sofa cushions and get a dictionary to hand for Stephen Fry's opening monologue.
20.38 With poor Eddie Redmayne's food poisoning/norovirus one of the night's talking points, a Tweet just in...
@DanielMaier I hear Eddie Redmayne is cleaning up at the Barftas
20.30 Half an hour until showtime on BBC One. If you're watching the TV coverage like us and don't want to know who won, I'd advise you stay off Twitter, where spoilers are flying around like horsemeat in a supermarket. As comedian Lee Kern just noted...
@lee_kern Everyone at the Baftas seems to be having a brilliant time staring at the keypads of their phones.
20.24 George Clooney just swaggered on-stage to present an award and my sources tell me that "you can practically smell the oestrogen wafting through the auditorium". It's very similar when I walk into Telegraph Towers.
20.20 Forty minutes until showtime on BBC One. Let's hope Trevor Nelson isn't providing punditry and Emeli Sande doesn't turn up to sing, like every other major event on the Beeb this past year. I won't mind if Clare Balding does the post-match interviews, though.
20.12 Aww, that's sweet. Hearing that Anne Hathaway and Andrea Riseborough were sharing a coat on the red carpet earlier - taking it in turns to wrap up warm, then dash out from underneath a brolly to pose for the paparazzi.
20.07 Remember there's no spoliers here, despite the ceremony progressing at the moment. But remember how I mentioned earlier on that Eddie Redmayne was rather poorly? Well, someone on-stage has just announced that he's "puking his guts up backstage" and that "whatever he's got spreads like wildfire". Yikes. I'm as much of a doctor as Gillian McKeith but it sounds like norovirus to me.
20.00 One hour until the ceremony on BBC One. Here's what the Telegraph's chief film critic Robbie Collin predicted earlier today in the "big six" categories:
Once more with feeling, my Bafta predictions. Best film: Argo. Best director: Ben Affleck. Best actor: Daniel Day Lewis. Best actress: Jessica Chastain. Best supporting actor: Tommy Lee Jones. Best supporting actress: Anne Hathaway.
19.56 This sounds like a joke but isn't: apparently, on the Graham Norton show last week, Helen Mirren was overheard asking Perri from Little Mix about her wash-in pink hair. And lo and behold, she's got a pink rinse on the red carpet tonight.
19.52 The lovely Stephen Fry being interviewed on BBC Three. As verbose as ever, fruitily witty and hosting tonight's gong show for the seventh time. Not bad for a bloke who starred in Spice World, the Spice Girls movie.
19.45 One of our sources inside the ceremony, Eleanor Rushton, has been trendspotting: "From Paloma Faith's shimmying choir of vampires to the stage decorations to the myriad ruffley, velvety, glittery black gowns, there's a definite flavour of the gothic in here tonight." Let's all light some patchouli oil joss sticks and drink some snakebite to get in the mood, shall we?
19.39 BBC Three are currently showing funny moments from previous Baftas shows. Anyone would think that tonight's soggy red carpet interviews weren't all that fascinating. As if to prove that point, they cut to a chat with Martin Freeman. And as we've just learnt on the E! channel, actors trying to look brainy by talking about the Best Documentary category don't exactly make TV gold.
19.35 Another missive just in from Telegraph showbiz reporter Hannah Furness...
Earlier on the red carpet, Billy Connolly told me that he won't be attending any aftershow parties for fear of rogue journalists: "You can't stare at anyone's tits without the flashbulbs going off."
19.30 Just starting on BBC Three now, Edith Bowman is presenting highlights from the red carpet. More frock talk, umbrella-wielding and awkward interviews ahoy!
19.27 More fashion hits: Thandie Newton in black lacy Louis Vuitton and Jennifer Garner in monochrome.
19.25 There's a lot of beards at this year's Baftas. Host Stephen Fry is still sporting his Malvolio face-furr, Ben Affleck is looking luxuriantly hairy, Hugh Jackman too and Joaquin Phoenix looks especially dashing with his whiskers. As for the ladies, lace and beaded embellishments are dominating the gowns. Smalltalk-wise, it's all about the weather. As ever.
19.21 As it snows outside the Royal Opera House, word from inside on the Paloma Faith performance, courtesy of our correspondent Katherine Rushton...
Paloma Faith is so sparkly, I can't look directly at her. She's taken to the stage in a silver sequinned sheath dress, accessorised with a Cleopatra-inspired head-dress, razor-straight eyebrows and a sausagey fringe (official term?). Pretty decent singing too!
19.15 Inside the ceremony, they're currently "enjoying" a live performance by jazz-pop chipmunk Paloma Faith, whose elaborate hairdo resembles a fancy loaf from The Great Brititsh Bake-Off. Or as Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin describes it, "a pile of croissants".
19.12 The E! coverage seems to comprise of Dermot/Caroline asking everyone "Who are you wearing tonight?", then looking confused and trying to cut them off when they start droning on about the Best Documentary category. Highbrow stuff.
19.10 Time for a few of your tweets about the coverage so far...
@NorthNorfolkDig If The Hobbit wins anything tonight, the acceptance speech will be split into three separate parts
@MissilePanda Who is doing this coverage on BBC News? Annoying bint
@banalyst EE Baftas? Is that the Yorkshire Baftas? Should be called the Yaftas
19.05 The red carpet coverage is currently being repeated on the E! channel - an absolute must-watch if you enjoy cringingly awkward interviews conducted by Dermot O'Leary or Caroine Flack. And let's face it, who doesn't?
19.03 British actress Zawe Ashton - of Misfits and Dreams Of A Life cult fame - just rushed in late looking like, according to Telegraph reporter Eleanor Rushton, "the very sleekest of cat burglars in a black appliqued dress with fearsome cropped hair".
19.02 In case you're wondering, the Baftas are sponsored by EE the mobile provider. Not to be confused with EastEnders or poet Mr Cummings.
18.59 I wonder if any Les Miserables winners tonight will sing their acceptance speech? Perhaps even in French? No, that would be going too far.
18.55 The ceremony itself is due to get underway in around five minutes. Don't worry, there'll be no spoilers here - this blog will be building up, rounding up all the news and gossip, and following BBC Three's red carpet highlights at 7.30pm, before the main action on BBC One at 9pm. So stay with us over the next few hours for the biggest night in British film. And umbrella sales.
18.50 Ladies on the red carpet were being told to keep moving and not let their dresses trail in the soapy swamp. The brave ones still removed their coats to pose for the paparazzi, though. Pelting rain won't stop the poseurs.
18.49 The Telegraph fashion mavens reckon that best dressed honours so far are going to Marion Cotillard for her bright yellow, scultural strapless dress and Helen Mirren, who's sporting cropped, pink-dyed hair. Who needs a purple rinse?
18.46 Another Telegraph reporter at the rainy frontline is Katherine Rushton. Here's her thoughts from the Royal Opera House...
Event sponsor EE, the mobile operator, has been handing out much-needed umbrellas. Folks in front of me reckon EE Baftas sounds decidedly northern. In other freebie news, all Bafta guests have been given a chic box of designer chocolates to sustain them through the ceremony.
18.41 Teen favourite Eddie Redmayne, of Birdsong, Les Mis and Burberry ad fame, has also arrived. He's feeling very poorly, apparently. I know a few females who wouldn't mind dabbing at his freckly brow with a flannel.
18.39 Tonight's host Stephen Fry, looking very svelte, arrived at 6.02pm and zoomed down the red carpet, looking like he might be slightly behind schedule. Tick tock, Stevie, darling.
18.38 Judi Dench on the red carpet right now, one of two of our thespian dames nominated tonight - the other, of course, being Queen Helen Of Mirren.
18.35 More from our lady under the umbrella, showbiz correspondent Hannah Furness...
A silver-haired George Clooney got the biggest scream of the night as he shook hands with fans. "Oh my God, he touched me!" screamed one woman. Someone near me added scathingly: "He looks like Santa"
18.33 The BBC coverage of the red carpet (on BBC News channel right now) is rather creaking at the edges, with lots of awkward pauses and clunky handovers. Where's Alan Partridge when you need him?
18.30 Lots of shivering starlets arriving. Marion Cotillard couldn't get up the red carpet quick enough. Gemma Arterton looked half-naked in a lacy dress.
18.18 Remember a few years ago when it rained and the red carpet began to foam? Well, it's not quite as bad this year but there are a few soapy suds appearing. They don't have to deal with this stuff at the sunny Oscars.
18.16 The heart-throbs are arriving now: George Clooney, Ben Affleck and Bradley Cooper are all eliciting high-pitched screams and hormonal yelps from behind the railings.
18.10 Telegraph showbiz correspondent Hannah Furness is down on the red carpet, getting rather damp, but here's the first of her despatches from the frontline...
The stars are arriving on the red carpet, where they're battling valiantly with heavy rain and even some snow. Some very high heels are navigating a slippery carpet, while fans and competition winners scream at anyone in a ballgown. Hugh Jackman's arrived, grinning wildly at his enthusiastic reception, and spent a long time chatting to fans and reporters. Jackman also shared the best piece of advice he's ever been given.. "Don't drink paint," he says. "Seriously, it'll kill you."
18.00 Good evening all, I'm Michael - your liveblogger for tonight's Baftas. The red carpet arrivals are live on BBC News and the E! channel right now, there's red carpet highlights on BBC Three at 7.30pm, then the ceremony on BBC One at 9pm. We'll be accompanying you through the TV coverage only, so don't worry - there'll be no spoilers here from inside the awards. So please join me and join in too - let me know your thoughts, predictions and reactions by emailing me on michael.hogan@telegraph.co.uk, tweeting me @michaelhogan or leaving comments at the bottom of this blog. I'll do my best to keep an eye on them and report the highlights. It's soggy out there so you're much better off indoors watching on TV. So pour yourself a glass of something warming and see you on the sofa.
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