Hamnet star Jessie Buckley has been crowned Best Actress at this year’s BAFTAs.

• Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
• Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
• Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
• Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
• Emma Stone – Bugonia

I Swear star Robert Aramayo has won the Best Actor BAFTA just minutes after receiving the Rising Star prize on an unforgettable night for the 33-year-old from Hull.

Robert says in speech ‘I absolutely can’t believe this. I honestly can’t believe that I have won this award’.

• WINNER – Robert Aramayo – I Swear
• Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
• Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
• Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
• Jesse Plemons – Bugonia

Prince William has bestowed the BAFTA fellowship – the highest award offered by BAFTA – to Dame Donna Langley.

Dame Donna is the chief content officer of NBCUniversal.

William comments on ‘her determination’ and ‘commitment’ and describes her as ‘a shining light’ to all those starting out in the creative industries.

It’s definitely been his night.

Paul Thomas Anderson has added the best director award to the shedload picked up by One Battle After Another.

Will surely be the bookies’ strong favourites heading into the Oscars.

Presented the award by Kate Hudson, Anderson gives special thanks to Leo DiCaprio during the speech, telling the crowd: ‘Leo asks you all the right questions’.

He dedicated his award to his assistant director, Adam Somner, who died in November 2024 after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and to whom the film is also dedicated.

• WINNER – Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
• Ryan Coogler – Sinners
• Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia
• Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
• Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
• Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

I Swear star Robert Aramayo has won the BAFTA Rising Star award.

Taking to the stage after being presented the honour by Aimee Lou Wood and David Jonsson, he says he’s not written a speech and thanks his two families – his actual one and his ‘I Swear’ one.

Referring to Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, on whom I Swear is based, he said:

John Davidson is the most remarkable person I’ve ever met and he believes there is so much more we need to learn about Tourette’s. In the words of the film, they need support and understanding.

• WINNER – Robert Aramayo
• Miles Caton
• Chase Infiniti
• Archie Madekwe
• Posy Sterling

BAFTA has paid tribute to all those in the film industry who have died recently in the awards In Memoriam section

Jessie Ware is performing The Way We Were during the segment as a montage pays tribute to figures from across the film world

Names shown on screen included Diane Keaton, Terence Stamp, Catherine O’Hara, Gene Hackman, Pauline Collins, Brigitte Bardot, Udo Kier, Graham Greene, Val Kilmer and Robert Redford.

Hamnet has won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film in a crowded category of 10 nominations.

It marks the first award of the night for the film directed by Chloe Zhao, who had broken the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in BAFTA history, with 11.

Producer Sam Mendes accepts the award and describes the film as ‘an act of faith’.

• WINNER – Hamnet
• 28 Years Later
• The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
• Die My Love
• H Is for Hawk
• I Swear
• Mr Burton
• Pillion
• Steve

The BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language has gone to Sentimental Value.

The Norwegian film tells the story of two sisters who reunite with their estranged father, a Hollywood director.

Accepting the award, director Joachim Trier (pictured) says the award is the first time a film from Norway has won a BAFTA.

• WINNER – Sentimental Value
• It Was Just an Accident
• The Secret Agent
• Sirāt
• The Voice of Hind Rajab

Meanwhile, Frankenstein won the Bafta for best costume.

Benicio del Toro, Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio

A good night for One Battle After Another just got even better as director Paul Thomas Anderson wins the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

It’s a huge boost for the film as it heads to the Oscars next month.

Meanwhile, motor-racing film F1 took home the award for best sound, while Sinners won best original score.

• WINNER – Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
• Tom Basden and Tim Key – The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Harry Lighton – Pillion
• Will Tracy – Bugonia
• Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet

It’s proving to be a successful night for One Battle After Another as Paul Thomas Anderson’s film wins a third award for Best Cinematography.

And it could get even better with Leonardo DiCaprio up for best actor.

• WINNER – One Battle After Another
• Frankenstein
• Marty Supreme
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

Zootropolis 2 has won Best Animated film as we reach the climax of tonight’s awards.

Co-writer Jared Bush (pictured right) spoke about the need to tell stories that champion our differences because the “world needs these stories right now”.

• WINNER – Zootropolis 2
• Elio
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

One Battle After Another has notched up another win in the Best Editing category.

It follows Sean Penn winning best supporting actor.

• WINNER – One Battle After Another
• F1
• A House of Dynamite
• Marty Supreme
• Sinners

Meanwhile, I Swear, about Scottish Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, won the Best Casting prize.

• WINNER –  I Swear
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners